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  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  classes, attend the first lectures, and choose which ones to drop. There isn ... try to explain: Pre-registration opens very early, and regular ... months before the first day of classes. Pre-registration is not as

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  when it came time to choose where to enroll, MIT snuck up to first place ... (MIT '17!!) is sitting to my right, underlining passages from her AP US ... suspicion that Lisa and I actually share a consciousness. Anyway, I wanted to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  who are first-generation to college, students from a variety of ... have fielded numerous calls and emails soliciting advice on how to ... . When the questions began, I will admit to being a little perplexed by

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  of mentioning this to a dinner table-ful of MIT students, who crisply ... Question #12 on your 18.03 problem set, which happens to use a lot of ... Faulkner parser, but as of right now, I feel like I need to run MATLAB before

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  According to my hit counter as well as by raw comment count, my entry ... young for TMNT?), I decided to profile my endlessly put-upon boyfriend ... today, and I was planning to write about tests. But Laura beat me to it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  ="87002" /] again, first pic credit goes to Joonho Pros the cafeteria is right ... since it's my last semester, I've been trying to spend more time ... 'll soon be graduating from!! to try to get myself out of my room more, I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  going to do. I was going to dive in head first, I was going to take the ... that first taste of intrinsic change, using the time at home to reflect ... 's very easy to get caught up in the daily metronome of life, especially

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  finding out how to go places through MIT, email me. Here's your first hint ... To the class of 2016 - My name is Jess, and I graduated in 2010 ... improbably old. According to science (and by science I am obviously referring

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  someone to discuss the first ep with LOL so if you want to watch it hehe ... first u should watch it to satisfy me i feel like the games are like ... against a single player that chose to deviate in the very first round. One

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  couple of reasons. First: some version of this is going to be true for ... right was grilled chicken tenderloins. My goal was to decide which I would have for dinner. I looked to the left, and the right, and back again

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blog Entry: Recession Edition At MIT, your spoon is too big.

  

  . One spoonful of corn chowder was allotted to each resident, provided ... first spoonful of soup, the cooks gave permission for seconds. Unfortunately, nearly everyone was so satiated by the first spoonful of chowder

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 21, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  The first and most important rule of improv is this: don't negate. To negate in improv is to break the flow of absurdity and belief that animates the sketch. When the Roadrunner points out to Wile E Coyote that he

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  RSI experience had offered me the first chance I had ever had to be ... is in the first place—is it the continuity of dorm culture, or is it to ... I: Exposition. To be able to tell this story in full, we must start

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  applications. And to connect our lives to the life of you, the reader. The ... will continue to grow and become yourself, that this is not the end of a ... hard to hear, especially when we seem to be coming from a position of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  -Conner is first divided into Burton and Conner side, and then from there, into floors - from Burton 1 to Burton 5, and from Conner 2 to Conner 5 (Conner 1 ... culture, and while there is clearly no objective way for one to claim one

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  the Zurich airport to the student house first. And when you take the ... first I wasn't quite sure what to do with my newfound Free Time, a ... the slides—throwback to 18.06. This 18-letter word

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  create yourself” , I think the first step is to know yourself - so well ... So drastic and inevitable, the leap from high school to college seems like the perfect opportunity to change yourself and become the person you

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  place to share and publish their first works). Many Delta chapters have an ... , and Kenneth ‘19, to talk about their experiences as members of historically Black Greek letter organizations. My goal is to illustrate that

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a while, it's not that uncommon to wander MIT's campus and find ... belonged to Ralph J. Slutz '38, was painted with the phrase "TECH IS

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  comparing myself to others. When I first heard about the amazing things my ... to connect high school students from those backgrounds with top ... to go to college?” There it was again, the dreaded question high

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024