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• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  shades of brilliant, MIT handles grades. On a 0% – 100% scale? Maybe “A ... Spiral of Doom? Never fear! It’s similar to what a lot of us used in high ... screenshot of how your MIT grade report looks like online. Note: Your grade

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  N.Y. Times, Page B11: “MIT Guard Shows Brains and Hoops Can Mix” Jimmy Bartolotta '09 leads the 16-5 MIT Men's Varsity Basketball team.

  

  my daily commute is one of the joys of waking up each morning. So I was quite surprised when I got to page B11 (national edition) of the sports ... Jimmy Bartolotta '09. One of the great things about sports at MIT is that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 6, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Colin Jackson is awesome So is my life, but not to such a great extent.

  

  shaped to remind the consumer of a child's arms folded in prayer. 6 days ... -day weekend and every single day of the weekend was the most beautiful day ever ... statement of purpose for grad school, or a practice GRE essay, or one of my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role You Play in the Admissions Process by Jenny Rifken, Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions @ MIT.

  could be assured of some admissions offers, but I didn't count on being ... and you control two of them. You really can have a great deal of ... with the list of "deal breaker" variables. Who was I and what was

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a few new things is it too late to talk about the spring semester?

  

  continue with the math part of my degree. At the very least, I knew 18 ... overwhelming sense that I need to talk about all the difficulties of spring semester in order to present you an honest picture of life at MIT. There is

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! Classes! Classes! Classes!

  

  yourself up in your room trying to get a 100% in every one of the 16 AP ... beyond capable of accomplishing what high school is throwing at you. So if ... Last Year of High School Magnifying Glass, which always makes things look

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 1, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  excerpts

  

  , etc.). One even offered to take photos of us on top of Angels' Landing c ... I haven’t been doing a great job of blogging this semester for a variety of reasons (grad school is busy, life is hard, writing isn't my

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk

  

  For whatever reason, I’ve been getting a lot of tumblr questions ... sort of felt like I just ran into people as I went about my life, and some of them happened to be people I really “clicked with”, and we became

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 30, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  Apply to WISE! It would be WISE of you to do so

  

  the majority of the people in her area didn’t have college degrees and ... A few days ago, I called two of my dearest friends, Asia and Daymé ... year’s program and further details here. I will now spend the rest of

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 13, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  a time capsule of east campus multi-media, community-built

  

  these glimmers of east campus. <3 five months ago, i poorly planned ... , and eventually moved out of East Campus (ec). it was not only the dorm i ... . i always knew i wanted to live here, mostly attributed to my years of

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 12, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  The Quest Continues and into the open world i go

  

  dream. And sometimes, even in spite of the photos, I’ll still wonder if it ... memories, as you normally do in the hubbub of real college life, you ... faded into the background of my college experience. A Monday night when my

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 29, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  the art of trying new things exploring new clubs, making new friends, and doing the things i was afraid to do

  

  One of my goals for my sophomore year was to do all the things I was afraid to do in my freshman year. One of the bigger things I wanted to do ... because a lot of the clubs required interviews. Being a wide-eyed frosh with

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  I’m Graduating Early??? [NOT CLICKBAIT] also: the unification of course 7

  

  .002 was first offered last semester as a sort of intro lab class that first ... of the CUP first-year experiment. Here are two that actually affect me. Graduating Early We are within throwing distance of Commencement 2019, in which

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 1, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  This is where my decisions have taken me perspectives from grad school

  

  ; *         *        *   I used to think of decision-making as a complicated optimization ... be prescient enough to solve for the best combination of choices. Once ... of me; once in place, I could follow them where I wanted to go. So

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Journey back Home from PE Class photodocumenting the trek across campus

  

  -shirt weather spurts in February and March, it seems like this streak of sunshine and relative warmth is here to stay. In this final quarter of my time ... & Meditation first, Yoga right after. Although having to take half of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As I Was Saying… My second internship entry AKA "How I copy and pasted my way to a new…

  

  offer recommendations on behalf of my organization. They also designated ... since it was a thing of the then distant future. Now, here I am, smack dab in the middle of my time in the GEL program and contemplating my

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  In which I am somehow still an MIT student 4 years later

  

  , and trying to "make the most" of my last semester of college, despite ... Lab, the same lab that I had UROP'ed in. That first year of grad school ... satellite, and on efficiently co-locating data from different types of

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 / Keep Calm and Carry On Getting some much-needed vitamin D on the other coast

  

  ="alignnone" width="1000"] A peek into my week of October 1st to 5th, categorized by ... it's already October. We're a third of the way into the semester ... of my friends are also graduating a semester early. It's one semester

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 30, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Eating my words at Area Four Mushroom and fontina pizza my beloved

  

  though (after witnessing the sad drooping of my slice) and offered to trade ... , as I believe their pizza defies all known laws of reality. For one, the ... perplexingly, the tip of the slice always flops down and [annotation note

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  who started the fire? (not clickbait) playing detective

  

  was offering the items (like the jugs of cleaner) to the next tenant ... of other MIT undergraduate women. We're part of MIT's FSILG (Fraternity ... house, then after some investigating, they found that the source of the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 28, 2022