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• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is an Incomplete Grade? ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire situations

  

    ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire ... credit limit of 57 units. I used that opportunity to explore Course 1 in a ... /A-? Short Answer An Incomplete grade is an option in certain situations where

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Summer Reading List The exciting hobby that I never have time for during the school year...

  

  ’ve been trying to diversify my reading, in every sense of the word I can ... or if I was just ignoring them. I would get so engrossed in books that ... summer I was back home in Colorado, and also traveled a bit, which meant I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 5, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  Ranking Every Class I Took at MIT it's that time

  

  at MIT where I can genuinely say I’ve had a positive experience in it ... 'm leaving! So I can say whatever I want! Raaaraaaaa nothing matters rAaaaaaaa **class that I cried in/cried over/broke down over S Tier (Favorite Classes

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Jhumpa Lahiri visited MIT today! ...and all of Cambridge (it seemed) wanted to see her!

  

  and I have a class in the Longwood Medical Area (a 15-minute drive from ... books signed. Sadly, I found out about it too late and I was in class ... There are only a few authors whom I feel very strongly about, let

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  A Texan’s Guide to Surviving a Boston Winter it's possible

  

  ’m smiling in this picture or squinting because i can’t see through my foggy ... . To the point where it feels like I never left for winter break at all ... , I’m also wearing Merino wool socks in this picture. Merino wool comes

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 9, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  contradictions too much, not enough

  

  professor a couple weeks in advance to be like, "hey dude, i don't think i can ... to? good question. right now, i'm sitting on my chair in a weird ... , "please love yourself," and i'm like, "well, i'm in it already and i feel

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poems Robert Creeley today.

  

  into the pace of one while the other is in my head. Where “I Know a Man ... couldn't make just in my head, and I find the poem unusually compelling ... that's you, man, or me. I make it as I can, I pick up, I go faster than

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Climb Every Mountain: a Guest Blog Post by Davie R. ‘12 Davie R.: MOTH HUNTER.

  

  ’m an alum of French House. I graduated in 2012 with a double major in Math (combinatorics) and Music (opera singing). I then spent a year in ... . It started with butterflies and dragonflies, but eventually I fell in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 28, 2014
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at CSAIL

  

  , then all I can remind you is that success is not always a straight line ... of very recently, I'm an incoming Ph.D. student at MIT CSAIL where I ... starting startups to revolutionize education. I got to fall deeply in love

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  hike the desert pretend i am a lifestyle blogger

  

  ,[/annotation] I vowed to go hiking. Tucson is gorgeous; and, importantly, in Tucson ... the city is from nature. In Tucson, no matter where you live, you are at ... asphalt path. I’ve nearly run over rattlesnakes more times than I can count

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  The Lessons I’ve Learned and it only took three full semesters and a summer

  

  there were in fact parts where I should've gotten partial credit. Now, if ... other end of the spectrum where I did all of my psets entirely by myself ... . This semester, having learned from my freshman year mistakes, I worked in

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2018 Transfer Decisions Are Now Live may the 4th be with you

  

  to MIT), I know that this process can be a difficult experience. For ... decision at apply.mitadmissions.org—the same site where you submitted your application. You will log in using the same email and password used to create

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  with Prajna and Jyotsna and since I can't talk about that in moderation ... hard to choose in places where productivity is so highly valued. I am ... activities. before sophomore fall, I chose classes I was interested in and I

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Discover Exercise and Wellness FPOP a wholesome college experience

  

  substance abuse, where I learned that one can earn $30 for a 1.5-hour ... can't get into an FPOP, what can I get into an MIT?” I figured DEW was ... ’ve failed the swim test in front of an awkward crowd. Then I’d delay it until

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 21, 2017
• Blog / Events

  science bowl we ran! a competition! virtually!

  

  I feel like I’ve been involved in science bowl forever. In 8th grade ... can, [annotation note='speaking of buzzing in, RIP to Alex Trebek, who ... (I was more of a math person at that point), dragged in my physics

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • November 16, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes from the Road: NorCal, Netherlands, Nick Cannon, and Nerd Camp where I've been, what I've been doing

  

  vigorous vacations. In fact, I'm nominally on vacation right this minute, but ... few days back in Boston, I flew to San Francisco to present about maker ... in the Bay Area, including Danny, Jess, and Rachel, who I got BBQ with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Congratulations! You have been named… Time Magazine's Person of the Year!

  

  . Seriously. I've been writing some form of a blog since I was in the 8th grade ... presidential campaign. I highly recommend this book to anyone- no matter where ... yourself rolling your eyes every once in awhile (I know I did), but even

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Trip to India ...to the slum children who smiled at me even though it seems that they have…

  

  know where I’ll be in 30 years or where you’ll be, but ... Anne Liu and I spent January 7th through January 17th in India on a ... trip, we placed our faith in ad hoc planning. Anne and I left our hotel

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Events

  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  I love to play with big weird words, so writing in Up-Goer Five makes ... mad when I do different games where the game-problems have not been ... why the story did a good job. But I will not tell you all of it here in

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Episode 4: A New Hope Addressing the concerns of undecided students.

  

  good for that, though I've only eaten at Lobdell once or twice in the ... , where I think I could get more of a literature-based, "Dead Poets' Society ... more students to attend), and in that spirit, I must say that MIT is not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 23, 2006