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• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Passing along some e-mails, and my responses to them.

  

  university." There are a lot of very, very good universities, that are just as ... batch of them here, and I think that the time has come to do so again. A ... , citing a lack of interviewers in my region. Will this adversely affect my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  zOMG Zambia!

  

  - University of Zambia Disacare - wheelchair center IDE - International ... So Development Lab (D-Lab), one of my classes this term, announced who is going on which trip this January. I got my first choice country

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 12, 2006
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How did the blogs get started?

  Ben Jones, The Blogfather, started the MIT Blogs in 2004. The idea behind the blogs was to open a window into the lives of MIT students: what they do, think, and feel. MIT was one of the first universities to have
• Blog / How to Human

  Interning Remotely my verdict is that it definitely could be worse

  

  . Although I would not have believed this for a second had I heard of it ~4 months ago, when I was struggling to the end of the jobs season without an internship offer in hand despite [annotation note="i even went to this weekly

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2020
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What’s the School of Science like?

  % of the content of our universe? How does our brain—a complex system of ... The six departments in the MIT School of Science are consistently ... ; Mathematics; and Physics. Members of our community study deep philosophical
• Blog / Events

  [Joint Post] Avoiding Sunstroke Solar Cars, Solar Stories, Solar Blogs

  

  behind the University of Kentucky, making 239 laps around the track. For ... but silent. The shrill call of cicadas offered a sense of solidarity ... , I did a thing. And it was a pretty cool thing to be a part of if I do

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 1, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  .) (Or, actually, since last week, when a friend of mine from Tufts said I ... more productive. For those of you who can't conceive of inventing time travel, this might be the next best thing to help keep yourself abreast of

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection-time Questions Omnibus

  

  's a snippet: ...while many universities offer management majors or ... universities, extremely open-minded and supportive of diverse populations, people ... write entire entries on many of these topics, and I'll answer more

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Do These Numbers Have in Common? 7, 8, 12, 17, 18.

  

  offer an alternative from learning from large freshman lectures (all of my ... also offers a more abstract approach of evaluating history through ... day, I'll be hopping on a jet plane, bound for the tropical island of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life as a Physics Major- Research and Junior Lab(Part 2) Long and verbose. But I hope you find time to read it.

  

  figure has been found to a high degree of accuracy, the question then ... the latter, (Save your notes.) but sometimes, they can offer a little of ... one of the easier 8.13 experiments) and gives you, to varying degrees

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Campos on Campus A True Westside Story

  

  IAP externship offer for the month of January and had the opportunity ... to think of myself as someone who asks the tough questions and is not afraid to get to the heart of issues. So in the spirit of Charlie Rose

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / People & Identities

  dating while asian to love & be loved freely

  

  perhaps it was because our school was 80% Caucasian and in the heart of ... most of my time doing math. I haphazardly dyed my hair at home and ... university I attended, but he clarified he wanted to know where I was from. “I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT writing faculty comment on GPT and other AI assisted writing in education

  

  . You've probably seen some of the recent news about GPT-3 and Chat ... language text in response to prompts.  There has been a tremendous amount of ... college (or even admissions application) essay, to say nothing of broader

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 24, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Spring break in Canada Snowboarding ramps, waterfalls, poutine, butterflies, and lots of noodles.

  

  one side of downtown opens up to a 180 degree panorama over the ice ... while chilling in a café chock full of university students finishing their ... Canada! My friend Yida, showing off the giant ramp of the snowboarding

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 4, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Skating or School? Why not both?

  

  of Virginia to our neighbor Boston University, brought contingents as ... registration expenses. This coming season, NYU and University of Delaware are ... the rink, in and out of the classroom, offer a social component to an

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  my rights violated by the Massassassachisetts Institvte of Technology ... calm my fiery sense of injustice. So I’m probably just having some ... dreary stew of words I’ll call a story when my alarm goes off. The stupid

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  what’s happening on campus tl;dr packing up & freaking out

  

  follow the path of an exponential function, info here) and research into ... had already put enormous amounts of time and effort. All the national ... of times, when you're not frantically trying to say a too-early goodbye

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So I said to Einstein… ...think of a name for my new theory while I go talk to my relatives.

  

  .. "I think of MIT as a samurai school," said Jones. "It is preparing you for the highest work of advancing civilization. You have to find a way ... course of my job of turning turkeys into oil, there are long periods of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done with the b.s. 4 years of mit by the numbers

  

  the University of Vermont). Quick disclaimer, this is not cause I was ... , MIT-MEET, and MISTI-UK. All of these were through MISTI, so they were ... and my 238 units past the GIRs, 180 of which I needed to graduate o

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions…..*sigh* Is (Fill in the Blank) University the right school for me?

  

  Name University with lots of money and prestige, I hope that this is ... uncertain about the process of identifying schools and how to apply to college ... process. The good news is that she got accepted to a bunch of schools all

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • April 22, 2010