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  Mandatory: MIT Mid Year Report What you need to know.

  

  . Next, there is a simple text box. This is the best place for any new ... the MYR is February 15th. How do I fill out the grades section?   ... concept of "midyear grades." This is okay. You can ignore the text boxes and

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two answers on a Saturday night Because SNL's a rerun and we just finished our movie from Netflix

  

  most you can do is two majors and two minors. How easy/difficult a double is depends on several factors. 1. How much AP/transfer credit you ... know how to do is stick their noses in books and that older doctors dread

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^n

  

  way, 6.001 is much like MIT as a whole: a problem solving, analytical ... riots, but it is a place where students believe in working for change in ... Interpretation of Computer Programs, is taught in a language called Scheme, which

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 3, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Second Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  basis and I do it because it is an absolute blast. Without going too much ... a few bulleted descriptions of each one. Is this excessive? Should I ... , but how you answer it. If you just say "I job shadow a pediatrician" the

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 28, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  swatches of MIT collected like paint chips

  

  giant glass box full of sand, and a fume hood where they test low ... is an openness here, a freedom to learn, to try new things, get trained ... in machine shops. And there is so much more to learn, so many projects

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A Part II Why the Media Lab is cool. Bonus: A great "You Know You Go to MIT…

  

  , but I am confused about your title "Tecker." My son is on a trip with ... personal blog, which is how Ben first "met" me last year. So when he created ... is a great question, because it lets me showcase some more cool things

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Interview with a Mystery Hunt Winner An interview with Kat '10, a member of Palindrome, last year's winning team and this…

  

  . My favorite thing about going to a place like MIT is that you tend to ... course obliged, because she is just that cool. "How did you get involved ... School Math teacher, who is a part of the NPL and also started a mystery

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  8 / Fresh start A month of eating and sleeping and other fun things

  

  all, my meals. Below is a collection of my attempts to put together ... learned how to set type, design a layout, and print our work on a handmade ... Championships, and here is the group of us at MJM after our "sendoff," aka a mock

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 3, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  Impulsive Decisions as expected, have consequences

  

  is a LOT of work to be done. But how could this be! It's Christmas ... ?) to this apparent cruise control on the school side is a burgeoning urge ... Global Initiative, which is a very new project aiming to connect MIT

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 25, 2011
• Blog / Summer

  feelings from the summer I wish I could describe more accurately partially inspired by ducks, newburyport

  

  common feeling; one that feels like riding a stationary bike, which is, you ... , and, yes, having a "favorite art museum" is incredibly pretentious but ... art museums at all, and how much we have changed in the past three or

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 5, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  A Major Crisis haha get it..cause..yeah,

  

  the city. And now that I've chosen a university that is quite a ways ... blog, but also as a reminder for myself that this is what I'm thinking at ... why this is such a big question, MIT's course 6 is probably the most

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  halfway across the world moving to russia for the semester

  

  ’t think I had a good reason to come as it is that I don’t know how to ... college is just some more boxes on a screen and I’m asking myself, did I ... every vacation here as a child, I wonder how much of the warmth and

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Schnitzer Prize Winners! [by Ken Haggerty '11] Buildings with eyes, a drum for the people, and a house…

  

  " (right) by Richard The (G). (Photos provided by Richard The) Richard is a graduate student at the MIT Media Lab and is a part of an art collective ... . The piece allowed an observer to look into a box which would then

  • by ARTalk
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  (beginnings in which I say hello, and explain that unclosed parenthesis.

  

  . That's a difficult question for me to answer, because there's so much I ... years, because I don't. They**** say MIT's like a box of chocolates, or Schrödinger's cat, or a box of chocolate Schrödinger's cats, in you never know

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT IS … reflections of a bright sunday afternoon

  

  filled with SO MUCH LIFE. I’ve turned in a total of 15 problem sets. I ... most meaningful way possible. It’s crying without care about how much you ... , soaking in the last few glimpses of blue sky (oh no, winter is coming), it

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • October 22, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exercises in Style with apologies to queneau

  

  It's been—checks watch—two weeks since I last posted, which is a week ... its plastic contents up and down in a discordant symphony? How can one ... by the jerky flight of a plastic box in a metal box in a metal box in a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Process of Psetting And the technicals of technicals

  

  appropriate to blog about their culture. Q: What is a pset, and how to do you spell it? A: A “pset” is short for “problem set”, and it is the most ... reputable sources agree on the definition of a pset, there is high variance

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reactors are my friends. Four things you would never expect to find in a real MIT laboratory.

  

  stopwatches and a binder clip is a little too much Macgyvering when we have, you ... into oil. How do you turn a turkey into oil? Well, Chester, according to ... Maillard reaction. This is a non-enzymatic browning reaction which is usually

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  Bad Ideas events I went to (another late IAP post) i can’t believe ellie beat me to the punch

  

  much milk as you possibly can. Casein (a protein found in milk) binds to ... . Basically, anything within reason. The default fight is a wrestling match ... showed new people how to make them as they came in. I don’t how much we

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 8, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Creating the MIT-verse behind the scenes of this year’s pi day video!

  

  of how there are so many dimensions to MIT. Angela: what is this work ... man again this year. Angela: Karthik is a legitimate genius. We put ... 's not a singular organ. Angela: how about my left lung? it's probably

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • March 10, 2022