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  To ASE Or Not To ASE preparing academically for freshman year

  

  .111[/annotation] is known to have a much lower pass rate than tests like [annotation ... , and if so, how many? In my opinion (which is not fact and not the only ... , what I think is more important is how they answered--instead of answering

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Happy May! Everything I owed you...

  

  over a month!) Well, here it is: Starting from pretty much the first ... How NOT to be a MIT Student (aka. my daily dose of stupidity) *sets ... out, is National Reply Date. It had been a pleasure sharing what I know

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Google RISE Global Summit and some thoughts on STEM outreach.

  

  RISE (Roots In Science and Engineering) and is an example of how ... (surely "in" is no more important than "and"?) In a nutshell, Google grants ... hypothesis is that most of them don't make it a priority in their work lives

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m just curious as to why you keep invoking William Faulkner. "MIT is so charmingly nerdy" entries #12 and 35.

  

  me to thinking about quiz bowl. I was thinking about how much fun I had ... the work of William Faulkner is set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County. 3. The third-largest city in Ireland is called "Limerick." ...and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  See, I Am! (CI-M) Communication-intensive economics research. (If that sentence doesn't make you want to read this entry, I…

  

  went in it, but additionally learned a lot about the process of economics ... . First, we had a pun in our title. (Also, note the colon. Do we get +20 for ... gibberish, but it's still impressive-looking. Below is a non

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  then and now a reflection on the very bad

  

  things can change in the span of a year. I can't help but think of how much ... . In a car ride to my dad's place, he asked me "Why would you say shit ... long in too much detail. To this day, when I think back on it, I can

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Onto the next world! a stupidly long metaphor

  

  that I've come so far, that a personality could change so much in the ... what home is to me in such a short amount of time. When I think of home ... In this past semester, the definition of "home" changed a lot for me

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  decisions, decisions why are there so many of them

  

  ", and how it's natural for us to tell people things in a way that makes it ... decisions and let the little things in life pass you by. how would one even ... / been in a class with every 14-1 and 14-2 in my year.']exceptionally rare

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 9, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  leaving home, coming home I jump from the train, I ride off alone // help me hold onto you

  

  ." I could get all linguisticy about how meaning is not conveyed just ... semester, there was not so much time for feelings. I carved out a few hours ... came up with is like this: if you have a phone with a bunch of apps

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 25, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aeroastro privilege all-expenses-paid tour to seattle and los angeles

  

  Being a major in Course 16 (Aeronautics and Astronautics, or Aero ... camp" known as Unified Engineering, smiling in front of a 747 at the ... how big the 747 is until you realize that this was the plane selected to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 10, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  advisor, stands in front of a blank board; he is grinning, hunched over, and ... doors. MIT CENTER FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS is printed on each in small ... holding a real cup of coffee. Sho Yaida is beaming as he holds a crying baby

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pursuing multiple fields

  

  's a question) if you could tell me how easy it is to double major in two ... unit" in some area other than physics Now, this is ideal for a double ... Institute Requirements (GIRs). For reference, a "normal" courseload is 48

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Al Kwon ‘08: Researching drug delivery Al Kwon, a Junior majoring in Biology, talks about some of his really exciting work…

  

  pending patents and is in the National Inventors Hall of Fame for his ... learn a greater deal in lab than in classes. I think UROP has been an ... studies on the bench top and in vivo animal experiments. M: How did you

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  CPW, making a decision, and saying yes/no The clock to May 1 is ticking.

  

  Now that CPW has come to a close, the Class of 2013 is starting to come together quickly. The national reply date of May 1 is rapidly ... bloggers via hidden messages in the comments was a joke). For those of you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Having Survived Rejection (guest post) About receiving a rejection letter from the 'Tvte.

  

  This is a guest post by someone--Michael T. (UMD '19)--whose college ... where I felt I was meant to go, imagining how I’d install a WiFi enabled ... floor did compsci, or that most of my friends were in a completely

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Blog] CourseRoad! A simple way to make your four year plan!

  

  Danny B. '15 is an 8-Flex/6-3 major with aspirations in both fields ... of software to help MIT life in some way. Without much else to do, I ... majors is even more so. And therein lay a major problem: working out when

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 25, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  07/07/07 Speaking of numbers: the number seven in particular, brought to you by the birthday of…

  

  Center) to build an In-N-Out, which in my humble opinion is a VERY SAD ... out, though, that you need a reservation in order to go skydiving, and ... pizza was excellent. We very much needed a little break from all the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 9, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  regrets about college and the pandemic

  

  than gratitude” is a refrain commonly attributed to anne frank, but ... unknown origin aside, this observation about regret is ubiquitous. it’s a ... online for over a year i’d have spent more time at in-person club meetings

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 30, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Why We Blacked Out The Blogs and joined the SOPA strike

  

  - because of a particular policy ecology in which it lives. That ecology is ... . It is a bad bill, which if enacted would become bad law: bad law with ... latest battle in a war which began when the Internet began an age of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Hey VMars fans Wallace is Course 2!

  

  that in a country like Pakistan there isn't much opportunities for ... score highly in critical reading as I had anticipated. Is there a way MIT ... on paper. Um...I have never heard of such a thing. 505 words is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2006