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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Chancellor? What’s a Chancellor? What does the Chancellor do and how does that affect student life?

  

  , and a department that is top ranked in Computer Science, in Computer ... (okay, there is probably a formal specification somewhere in the depths of ... should a residence-based educational experience look like in a world of You

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a major road to trouble exploring interests as a baby beaver

  

  can be attributed to how course selection in college is a double ... of the content interesting, which I would say is a good thing. In ... taking a small discovery class in Econ, which is known as 14.009. Though I

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What I’m Up To distractions

  

  feature calm task-based game Minecraft - got a project in the works :o ... friends in the Sims T_T Stardew Valley - super relaxing farming-based game ... Entertainment movies I made a Discord server to keep in touch with my friends. We

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Champagne, pistols, and my new UROP blogging in a power outage. that's hardcore. though anna beat me to it.

  

  you may know, legend says there is always a light on in the Green ... .  My research group is working on a siRNA-based treatment of liver cancer ... 't know, Independent Activities Period is a month-long vacation in January

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  US News & World Report… Just Save Your Wrist Watch. If I were to create a minority-based ranking of colleges, here are some of the…

  

  were to create a minority-based ranking of colleges, here are some of the questions that I'd ask: How diverse is a campus? What is the climate on ... ? Can I get ethnic food? Is there a decent radio station?) How do

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back in MD Summary of the end of the year, and a look ahead to the summer.

  

  Where in the world is Melis? Clues: laundry is free, my room is a ... .e. turbulent). In the 2nd to last round, the kids who got eliminated started to ... ), where I am working in the National Human Genome Research Institute. More

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 5, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of a Second Semester MIT Student first week impressions

  

  .08, Joe Steinmeyer, is a pretty chillaxed, funny guy who gave a pretty ... + taking the class in a room full of people who basically already know what ... we are all in a relatively intensive discussion based class but we

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 7, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  On schools & context

  

  as a parent of a child who goes to a high school where no one has ... , while others simply do not." There are a lot of questions in there, but the first thing I need to say is that our process is individual-based

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 23, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Psets from hell Sometimes learning can be painful

  

  apologies. =( So here it is, a long overdue update about everyone's favorite ... good at math. I was practically a math prodigy back in the day. Like back ... just wanted to talk to my mom about putting me in a gifted program

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On the Scattering of Senior House or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Acknowledge the Bomb

  

  addition, MacGregor historically is not a top choice in the freshman housing ... There’s been a decent amount of turbulence in the past couple of ... “dorm culture” was a thing. I wasn’t (and still am not) in any MIT 2020

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 12, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s First Annual Q&A Kidding about the annual part. Catching up with my blog comments... finally!

  

  have a better chance of getting in. But based on self-selection and a ... . The country is in a state of terrible disaster and trauma and we need a ... regarding my essay to MIT. Basically I want to tell you how being in a small

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] Those Kids in Uniform Everything you didn't ask to know about ROTC

  

  (Course 6-3) and I’m a sophomore cadet in Air Force ROTC.  ROTC is an ... MIT. In the Air Force, being a good “wingman” is something highly valued ... does not interest me all that much. My dream job in the Air Force is a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester customary end-of-semester blog post: sophomore spring edition

  

  , right in time for the creation of a new batch of competency-based ... I’m huddled in an office chair in a tiny box-studio in Lexington, MA ... minutes away. Getting to MIT is a “commute” now. The bus chugs through the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Melancholia [by Faye '11] A beautiful movie about the end of the world.

  

  that I would have had to wait half an hour to get in. Seeing a smaller ... out of the MFA in a silent, dream-like stupor of which only a movie as ... , Antichrist) based the idea for his newest movie from a depressive episode he

  • by ARTalk
  • November 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science is apparently not for the easily-frustrated Stories of woe from the lab

  

  Although most of the time I coast through my days in lab in a whirlwind of science glee, I have to admit that every once in a while, the lab ... gotten a nice result, but my postdoc Albert asked me to run the samples in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Friends, Part 1 a cross-registration love story

  

  home. In the Spring of 2019, a Harvard student named Denisse C. '22 ... roots in [annotation note="Vietnam, Iran, Mexico, Russia, China, and ... ="366"] lunch at Orinoco in September[/caption] Even though Harvard is so

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 28, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learn Coding Before School Starts you've got one month left. go!

  

  learned SQL to store the user's data online in a MySQL table so they can log ... starts somewhere.\n") print("There's a key difference in the times when I ... guides on coding. Pick a language and pick a tutorial, preferably a project-based

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  things that make noises for those lost

  

  march is a rough month. you are lost, not only in a pile of things to see and things to do, but probably also in a pile of emotions you can ... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA in your head. this is fear. a close cousin to anxiety, but not

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • March 15, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Beat the heat in the Z Center Pictures of the MIT gym

  

  filled up, to avoid being spotted and identified as the creepy girl who is ... . There's also a huge indoor track field, but I couldn't get in because I ... a big area called the Rockwell Cage: This list is by no means

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  mid semester check-in all about my classes

  

  one of the first classes in algebra so it is a prerequisite for a lot of ... ’t like big class sizes and I did not have a great experience in [annotation ... it is an algorithms class, I would enjoy it more than 6.009.  In the

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 22, 2022