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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eyes Wide a scandalous, unintentionally-devoid-of-meaning recent history

  

  open, because that is how you make friends in college. I met with my ... commonly known here as Reg Day. Morale is at a local maximum. Provisions are ... told me that, why yes, it is, in fact rather “difficult”... Sweet! (He

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 8, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  The Parent’s Guide to CPW ...it's not just for Prefrosh!!

  

  , all the time" and to a large extent our office is that way too. We ... enjoy the weekend with us. Each one of us in the Admissions Office has a ... ago. A great place to find a parent to talk to would be in the Parent

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 6, 2010
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do letters of recommendation have to be submitted in the MIT application portal?

  Our preference is for recommenders to use our application portal to ... through a third-party service other than the MIT application portal ... how the recommender intends to submit their materials, because it will
• Blog / Athletics

  the Big Rocks are calling and I must go MITOC winter school!!

  

  know everything about how to not die in the Big Rocks when it's really ... seen this much soft ice before in my life. It falls from the sky not ... I thought about writing about walking on Big Rocks in the cold after

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Food, Folks, and Fun…..but definitely not mcdonald’s Quinton makes friends at the Muslim Student Association

  

  dorm on Thursday. While the prospect of a free dinner is typically ... , and staff as humanly possible in order to get a full taste of the true ... Studies who has already authored several books and is in the process of

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 1, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Come Visit! I promise we'll be nice.

  

  roommates (Jeanne '13) discovered that she'd be hosting a prefrosh. In quick ... ). And then we played host! In the course of 24 hours, our visitor got a ... again! There's always something going on at MIT, so any time is a good

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  what are we to do? we are not helpless in the face of injustice.

  

  engineering and in sloan business school, and a visiting student from germany who is only here for the summer, who talked about how shocked he was at ... --especially in a position of such great voice and influence--especially as a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where are you going, where have you been? (Part I) Academics.

  

  other college in the country, right?".   A few months ago I was ... friends and bonfires in true collegiate style. Wow, sounds perfect, like a ... learn in college, anyhow?" By his account she is an intelligent girl with

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 27, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Hello, Layover (Part Two) Electric Boog-a-loo.

  

  hell of a lightning storm in Fort Lauderdale, closing the runway for an ... seconds. My luck in airports is notoriously crappy. To celebrate, I went to ... want to throw a heavy glass object every time I see it, which is often

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 23, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paper Planes You ask, I answer

  

  order’. How can I indicate that someone else is providing the fee? A: Just ... !!!!! Fun, right? This is how MIT students make a paper airplane (I found ... this blog, shoot me an e-mail and I will try to get it answered in a Q&A

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 18, 2009
• Blog / Events

  The Stuff of MIT Legend I'm about to tell you a super cool story. It happened two years ago, but…

  

  with once saying, "The trick to education is to teach people in such a ... 's worthy of a blog entry, even if I'm 2 years late in posting it. Yesterday ... is a huge project that encourages dozens of MIT students to teach

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 1 The answers to your recent questions.

  

  ://mit-admissions.org/rsvp/session_link.asp. At the Sacramento meeting, say hi to Stu for me! Vivek asked, "is a freshman assigned a particular discipline he is to major in or it is decided ... in a HS setting. How would you recommend that I display these sort of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Parliamo Italiano! And some other languages too.

  

  so close to each other that I often forget which is which. A perfect example: the word "and" in Spanish is "y" (pronounced like a long E), while the word "and" in Italian is "e" (pronounced like a long A). You can

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blinky Lights (Part I) An example of how I go about building things.

  

  ? I should also warn people at the beginning that this is a long post. I ... cool project. In my advising seminar last year (6.070 - it's a great ... 'm working with in my banner photo, because that actually happens to be a

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 21, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  ¿Cómo se dice…? La única cosa que he aprendido en la clase de español.(Blame Google Translator if that…

  

  actually know how to pronounce it. The nice compromise I've come up with is ... after work. Time not at work is usually spent sleeping. I write in the ... in high school? How many hours per week? How many weeks per year

  • by Snively '11
  • June 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Fall 06 The inside scoop on all 54 units I am taking this semester

  

  thing I have: A copy of Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room on DVD 21F ... class In addition, I am advising the freshmen seminar 14.A03: Economics ... its regulation. How do you read the mutual fund section of a financial

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 8, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I would like to find an astronomer to talk to No admissions. Just good writing.

  

  certainly not forgotten. I've got a blog post in the works about how to write ... so this subject is both fresh in my mind and timely for yours as the ... the same reasons TNC did in his post: because it's a shocking reminder

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT announces new College of Computing coordinating the teaching, research, and ethics of AI across all programs of study

  

  ? A: In general, MIT students are part of the school or college that is ... . He wrote: This new College is our strategic response to a global ... . To state the obvious, AI in particular is reshaping geopolitics, our

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  By the numbers Who needs words to talk?

  

  campus in under 6 digits (usually 5) is pretty distinctive. Here’s how the ... immersed in the MIT culture. I am certainly a full-blooded MIT student, and ... rumors- at MIT, everything is given a number. Classes, buildings, trees

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Pardon my French! Join me as I cross the English Channel and dodge oncoming traffic on the Champs-Elysees.

  

  is only a twenty-minute endeavor. Ah, Paris. Pretty typical ... rain and a strong breeze while waiting in line -- luckily I was under a ... my ticket validated for the next day and hopped in a taxi bound for my

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 19, 2005