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  First Midterm of The Semester Here I go...

  

  I have about 30 minutes before the first midterm of the semester. I ... always had eggs before a big exam. It's become one of my pre-exam routines. I missed dining hours this morning so I'm at Anna's Taqueria because I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 1, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Another post from Marilee A note from Dean Marilee Jones.

  

  "Whaaat? The letters were postmarked when?" by Marilee Jones, Dean of Admissions at MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The decisions are in the mail They're on their way...

  

  The postman departs with the last of the decision letters, at 1:52pm EST.

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a hell week do not try at home

  

  experience a lot of stress and snap at people you care about and wonder what in ... , i went to not one but two P.E. classes because it was the last day of ... thursday evening section of CMS.307 coincided with a 6.867 exam, so i had to

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 27, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So you think you want to be a doctor: Pre-med at MIT

  

  Does the smell of latex make you smile? Think Grey's Anatomy is the ... -thorasic surgeon like Dr. Burke or Chief of Surgery like Dr. Webber? (do NOT, I ... out with McDreamy...there are plenty of Patrick Dempseys in the business

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 19, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  work expands to fill the space available

  

  ! that's the least number of classes i've ever taken in mit, and the least number of classes i can take while maintaining full-time status, which is a requirement of being on an f1 visa. in theory, i should have less work to do

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ABCs of Senior Year friends, jobz, cats, "eight-oh-two"... + AMA!

  

  : spelled with a “z” at the end to feel more casual. There’s a whole other set of ... : aka Course 9, my new minor, because everyone should take at least one class ... own 31 different teas, mostly decaf. I also currently own 6 flavors of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 23, 2017
• FAQ / First-year application

  I’m taking college classes, do I apply for transfer admission?

  school and completed at least one year of college. If you're still in high school, you're considered a first-year applicant regardless of how many classes you've taken at the university level.
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of Senior Haus "find where you thrive"

  

  Last Friday night at around 2 am I finally got around to visiting the "Murals of Senior Haus" exhibit in the Wiesner Student Art Gallery in the second floor of the student center. This exhibit was put together by

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 8, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  ZOMG CPW! The greatest shopping list ever.

  

  Here is what I bought at Shaw's (the local grocery store) last night: 7 cartons of ice cream* 3 jars of fudge 3 jars of caramel 3 cans of whipped cream 2 jars of sprinkles 2 jars of cherries 3 boxes of brownie mix

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hogwarts Institute of Technology Except we have 11 houses instead of 4.

  

  officially my favorite hack ever of my time at MIT thus far. It may not be the ... EXCITED WHEN I SAW THIS HACK YESTERDAY. For those of you who may not have known, I am a *gigantic* Harry Potter nerd. I am one of those people who

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2015
• Blog / Hacks

  50 Years of NASA One small hack for MIT, one giant leap for NASA.

  

  a hack! For those of you just tuning in, a "hack" at MIT is clever, elegant, and anonymous prank, designed to amuse and catch the attention of ... 'd expect, hacking is one of MIT's most celebrated traditions, and the actual

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story of Tonight (more like 730 nights ago)

  

  refreshing sense of anticipation and excitement. I took a look around at the ... years later. And to think that I now have 19 years of life to look back at ... application. In the span of a lifetime, two years is really not that long. And

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Weekend of Hacking three events, one weekend

  

  Planet, we look at three large hackathons of the fall season. Hackathons are a plenty at MIT all throughout the year, but the weekend of Oct 3 ... You're flipping through the TV channels, bored out of your mind

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 24, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Seasons of Spam Next up: a Nostalgic entry about my frosh year. After Finals. Maybe.

  

  cans of Red Bull. In tooling, in frats, in lectures, in hacks. In ten ... spam. Seasons of spam Seasons of spam Ten thousand thirty-two hundred ... thousand thirty-two hundred eighty semi-hours How do you measure the life of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Second Day of Class Course shopping and such.

  

  I'll remember to look at (like on the wall, or in my pocket most of ... double the colors of the rainbow. In a class that I was in today, a ... slightly, her calendar almost resembles the pointillist works of Seurat

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tale of the Midnight Tool! Simulcast in 1337 for our viewers at home!

  

  fact. But what makes it so hard? it's just maths right? Sort of. Here at ... pth derivative of x^p is p!, thus, the p+q derivative is 0, because at p ... As some of you may have noticed, the world didn't end on Wednesday

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Children of Eden, seek for your garden. You and your children to come, someday to come home.

  

  've spared you the trouble of reading something you really wouldn't have wanted ... dinner at Uno's afterward. And here I am at 4:30 AM writing this post, but

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Joy of Building a chronicle of my failed attempts to create things that work

  

  several pieces of paper. This really hurt my brain at first. It took awhile ... . It was a fear of being wrong that came at the price of making progress ... left before Demo Day, frustrated and tired of staring at code, we banged

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 3, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  The swing of things MIT happenings.

  

  projects are all happening at once, and lots of people are pretty hosed ... students. The unveiling of the Brass Rat (at an event called Ring Premiere ... It’s mid-October, which means that life at MIT is crazy right now

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 16, 2006