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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Year (In Numbers) This belated post was written in English and with numbers, the Institvte's nth language

  

  .   Whew. If you got this far, take a breather. That's what I did ... Throughout my 5-ish months as a blogger for the Institvte, I ... - but somehow, I've left out the classes I've taken as a freshman. Let me

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 13, 2011
• Blog / Events

  beautiful moments i think too much

  

  are young, i felt like i regressed a few years that night, in that way ... next to a friend i know's been busy recently, napping peacefully, and ... time i spent a whole day bouncing on and off trains with a friend, two

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Amsterdesk Time is on my side, it's on my side now.

  

  because it gives me a captive environment in which I basically have nothing ... , Benjamin Franklin!). What should I do? Work three hours? Work only two hours ... looking for a challenge. So, anyway, I'm working desk from 12-2 AM tonight

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  want to hear. Should I consider answering in a more conventional ... have studied a foreign language... the only languages I studied in high ... Spanish in a local school. But the course will end by July, 2006. So should

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 2 Hearing Amazônia

  

  us the theatre would be pink, I imagined a muted pink that blends in ... they’d be performing a few hours before the concert, but I never would ... the US), and the mall also had a mini rainforest in the center. I even

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 1, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  Keep Holy the Month of IAP For It Is a Time of Rest

  

  keep a list in my head of what topics I want to blog about. But I think ... adventures in EE), I didn't do much this IAP, so I should be able to just knock ... less accomplished that, with a few exceptions. So, "what I did for IAP

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 15, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  New MIT Viewbook Is a viewbook as useful to you as it might have been for my (pre-internet)…

  

  applicants? What can a viewbook offer you that the web cannot? Thanks in ... from beginning to end. We'll choose a firm in the next few days, and the ... on the current viewbook I would love to hear them. What do you like or

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Saying Yes (or No) Decision time is upon the Class of 2014. How to choose?

  

  (s) before enrolling at MIT (for a gap year, military service, or other reason ... :00pm Boston time (EDT). Check your email for web link and password. What ... CPW is over. The May 3 reply date is quickly approaching. What to do

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42: The Answer to Our Changing Educational Needs a school with no teachers, no schedules, and no rankings

  

  curriculum, they always have a say on what courses should be added. As the ... . Last week, I attended a fascinating xTalk by Lou Guenier ... to a remote Buddhist monastery in the Himalayas. In a place without

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Documents Due Monday important information to make your application complete

  

  processing all mail, hand-checked all filing cabinets, scoured all of our faxes and emails, and loaded everything into our system. If you are a prospective member of the Class of 2016, this would be a mighty good time to log

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 26, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Some Time in New York City I'm not much of a man by the light of day, but by night I'm…

  

  ICE 15 minutes before the deadline, I was indeed a little bit ready for ... ." Seriously, what is wrong with you? Anyway, we were in a huge gigantic hurry to ... DID YOU KNOW? A long time ago, before the Fleet Center was built

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Wednesday, 12/16/15, at 6:28PM ET

  

  I've stopped watching Tom Brady catch a double-reverse pass long ... verify that you will receive a decision on the 16th, you should visit decisions.mit.edu and log in with your MyMIT username and password. I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I need a fix ‘cause I’m goin’ down Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love a 40%.

  

  putrescent 54/100 in 18.701, a class which I dropped one day before the final ... know. Because "Yay! A 33 in 6.003 that I took in 38-101 before UROP!" is ... hour, and since then I've never actually failed a test in an MIT class

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT’s COVID-19 precautions and their impact on admissions relevant news and next steps (updated 4/14); new blog posts below 👇🏼

  

  , and if your school, as a condition of your enrollment in an AP course ... updates from us! April 3rd, 2020 Prospective students In our last update, I ... warrant, so you should check back there as things continue to develop. Of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 6, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hi, I’m New Here The requisite introduction.

  

  idea of what I want to do with my life, also known as a double major in ... for built-in excuses for not knowing what's going on!) I was born in ... , acting in plays and musicals for two years before I switched to the dark

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday a detailed documentation

  

  double check myself every time I speak in this class. It’s a new experience ... .” Here’s a quote from it I love the most: "What most people don’t seem to ... wake up from a too long (but absolutely satisfying) nap. In my dreams, I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 27, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  last minute application panic for the procrastinators

  

  ’ve wanted to check out, or read a novel that isn’t assigned, or throw an ... Congratulations! If you’re reading this post, you should probably be ... , please watch this calming .gif of a cat: Take a deep breath. Mmm

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 22, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  play dough

  

  I'm a very Type A person, I'd say. I tend to need to be in control of ... room looks like a mess, but in reality it is my organized mess. I know ... out beforehand. In art, she'd grab random colors and I'd ask her "What

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: an interdisciplinary collaboration A day in the life of MIT research... on the Internet. A story of how…

  

  IAP, and I have funding from a professor in the Biological Engineering ... think they've got a high chance of taking off. I agreed to meet him in the ... academic players in science and technology. For example, I recall a very

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Fixing a trapeze! then hanging upside-down on it

  

  where the pieces were. Before covid hit, I studied in a bookstore where a ... One time in Boston, my roommates and I were studying outside near ... psets and played around in it, demonstrating in a general sense the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 29, 2020