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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I went to a motorcycle festival don’t worry, parents, I didn't see other MIT kids there

  

  shops and how I exist within them. I was at the moto fest with a white guy who I’d taught how to weld, a nice student, good at taking criticism ... onto a corner of the world that is full of your people. You didn’t even

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 23, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Moms We stand on the shoulders of giants....!!

  

  around campus, but for many students, family is still a huge part of their ... , for being a mom who is uncannily right (almost) all the time. Happy ... Oluwa A. ‘20 My mom is a HUGE part of why I'm currently surviving MIT

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 3

  

  EVERYTHING then make a decision?" The first thing I glance at is the ... making a decision. random person, "Hrm, not sure if this is the place to ... is a perfectly reasonable questions. You should be in touch with the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’m Teaching This Fall spoiler alert: a social history of the internet

  

  classes offered this fall...and realizing how much I wanted to take a bunch ... description: There is often a tendency to consider technical systems as 'purely ... primary deliverable for the class is a term paper on a topic of the student

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Happily ever after I don't believe in fairy tales, but real life isn't bad either.

  

  what they do and how they cause disease, and 3) a mouse neurobiology lab ... who was very interested is the CEO of a company which designs unmanned ... company is a really good fit for him personality-wise and in terms of his

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Part 3 Helping the Class of 2010 with their decisions.

  

  good a time as any to the students who are still undecided: How can we ... back from MIT is the music. Classical guitar has been a part of my life ... -to-faculty ratio is 7:1, and I never felt like just a statistic at MIT. Don't expect

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Beginnings Roses and Thorns

  

  after a 20-hour flight, badly jetlagged and starving (plane food is not ... public transportation is rather slow and unreliable so the subway is a ... FPOP was a Duck Tour which is basically a tour of Boston on a bus which

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 16, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Some Saturday Thoughts a meandering, journal-type blag post

  

  Venting, which I often feel like is a) a little depressing, and also b) not ... write a peppy post about personalities (which is still on the way for a ... advance by how meandering and rambl-y this post is about to be. Last night

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  The long view days, months, years

  

  that not much was different. That he sometimes felt like a child acting ... thought of them as cool people. He talked about how much he'd been learning ... months or years and decades? Is six hours a lot of time? Nine days? A

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice for the Incoming Froshies You've accepted your offer to MIT! Now what?

  

  . The reason why this is how it is and the way it has always be done is ... my next point... Pass/No Record is NOT an excuse to get a C- in every ... a transcript, but it is not true when it comes to challenging yourself

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 13, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  November Questions Omnibus 1 As usual, Q & A.

  

  ) considered? If yes, how would you evaluate them? The grading scheme is ... -US grading systems. In fact, your system (O/A Levels) is probably the grading ... 't find information on it there. This is a program I'd like to write about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 1) two trains, twelve states, 540 pictures, one Speaker of the House election, and more!

  

  once every two or three hours, but, in what is perhaps not a great omen ... ’s nobody sitting next to me, which is a bonus. There’s also an outlet on the ... …it’s certainly a lot. Not much to talk about at the moment, since we’re still in

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I Never Thought I Would Join a Sorority ...but here I am?

  

  Ayomide F. ‘18 from the Pi Day video is president of, btw) was bringing on a ... , a career or academic club, and yes, all the greek life too--is still ... To all of you who are wondering how in the world you will navigate

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Collective Apprehension Seems like my last entry freaked everyone out. No worries guys! You can do it!…

  

  a pretty cool tour of the reactor and learned how to decontaminate ... the explanation of what a derivative is. 2) I'm exactly the other way ... . No they don't. 2) No comment. 3) Physics is so much better than math

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Accepting criticism please criticize this blog post

  

  move it to a different file. No one says, this is a very personal blog ... read all of it. No matter how many "it's a wonderful post" or "I loved it ... need still feels present. Is it really a need to be seen and appreciated

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Take 1.618: Film at MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] There are very few things for which I would get up…

  

  a career in art. SP.785, or Digital Video Post Production, is a small ... -world equivalent to an Athena cluster. The class is conducted as a discussion of film ... truth of "a picture is worth a thousand words." What I also got out of

  • by ARTalk
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  More at Home At thirty thousand feet, thousands of miles away.

  

  the Museum of Islamic Art, whose building is as much a work of art as ... doubt the IAP trip was a major draw for students, but I am also very much ... country is most famous for – and so registering for 4S.10 was a no

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Events

  (Paint)Ballin’ Hey, if you're already hosed, you might as well have a good reason for it

  

  constituted, at some point, a hell week. But dead week is on a whole new level ... From May 9th to May 13th (a Friday, naturally), MIT students endured that little piece of hell known as dead week. Yes, dead week. How aptly

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 19, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Chasing Success idk what that means anymore.

  

  ." I'm not sure if this is a result of simply M A T U R I N G or spending ... closely tied to simply becoming and becoming is indeed a process that is ... with my family is. And so, by tweaking what I consider a job well done

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 5, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  On schools & context

  

  public school might have equal stats, more activities, and a much lower ... is to summarize a student's qualifications within context. We also ... A while back, I asked for parent questions and received exactly one

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 23, 2005