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• Blog / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  's around 60% of classes."]many MIT classes[/annotation] fall into two main archetypes, if you will: [annotation note="Because of how I chose to divide the classes, I'll mention grading a lot. Of course, grading is only a small part

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  old east campus working through feelings caused by news

  

  senior year at ec. but more to the point, all the history of this room, all the years and years of stories attached to each piece, may not get ... all of these feelings, i'll need to start from the beginning. renovating

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2025 are now ... you click View Update.  This past year, inclusive of both Early and Regular Action, 33,240 students applied to join the MIT Class of 2025. This

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Unwinding how i destress

  

  Recently on @mitadmissions I asked what kind of blogs people wanted to see and one of them suggested that I talk about how I personally ... little bit of high school, I was an avid YouTube and Twitch enthusiast. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  An MIT Community Vigil for Black Lives

  

  of the recent tragic killings of African American people across the United States – including the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery (Glynn County, GA ... Associate Dean and Director of the MIT Office of Minority Education Di

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 4, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2024 are now ... , one of our decision servers has decided to self-isolate from the rest of the Internet out of an abundance of caution. If you are getting

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  blogs that are marinating IS THIS POPULISM?

  

  lot of stuff left unblogged. Taylor V. '19 did something like this in August 2018 when she strung together some scraps of potential posts that ... going on, but I really want to write up at least some of my scraps. To

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  happy palindrome week! conventions, patterns, palindromes

  

  , including how we write our dates. The [annotation note="and, of course, dropping the leading 0, so it's currently 9/ and not 09/"]convention of MM ... of a week-and-a-half of them, running from 9/10/19 to 9/19/19. While

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  summer scraps life updates

  

  I am sitting, alone on the second floor of a brand-new cafe, with smooth grey walls and crisp, square wooden tables. The smell of fresh paint ... 's the title of the first chapter. That's how I feel right now. where i

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 30, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Recapping Trashion 2015 sustainable fashion == trashion

  

  Two weeks ago, after a long day of committee was complete, I headed ... the Boston area create pieces made of trash and recycled materials ... Fernandez of Architecture, Professor Martin Hackl of Linguistics

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Freshman Application Is Now Live for prospective members of the Class of 2020

  

  guide, with an overview of each of the components of the application, including essays, letters of recommendation, required tests, interviews, and ... life, full of activities, many of which are required of you. Tell us

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 18, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now (Actually) Available Online

  

  Update: the once-in-a-century alignment of Super Pi Day appears to have fired a cosmic EMP directly into the heart of our server farm ... of 2019 are now available at > > > decisions.mit.edu <

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fifteen Minutes to Clear My Head on my morning walk from Boston to MIT

  

  take a picture. I had just taken a snapshot of something I see every single morning. I stepped onto the sidewalk and took another picture of the ... of everyday things. But I thought these everyday things were beautiful

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  YO! -yo. Learning how to make more toys!!

  

  needs to be capable of being made somehow. 2.008 teaches us how to make it real. Of course, this is MIT, where we believe the best way to learn is ... yo-yos! Faced with the challenge of deciding what what we wanted our

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 19, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ for Maker Portfolios You have questions - I have answers!

  

  This post has been updated as of October 2018 to reflect new ... lot of questions about the new Maker Portfolio supplement on the MIT ... information about all of our supplements and portfolios on the MIT Admissions

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 1, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why Apply? Putting your hat in the ring if you're not so sure

  

  myself to you. The ghosts of Uncle Labs and Beatriz have haunted me all ... radar (or I've created the perfect search terms to draw you here or one of ... -lovers). Since I've become a member of the MIT community, I've found the

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 9, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s like I go to class or something. Or whatever.

  

  Contrary to popular belief, I actually do stuff outside of farting ... important stuff. Filing that one away in my list of Things To Refer To When ... 'm actually learning a lot of things in this class called 20.330 Forces, Fields

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 2, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Perfect Match? because the right CPW host can make a huge difference...

  

  While many of our students have known for a quite some time that MIT ... . That is of course, until they had the opportunity to experience all things MIT over the course of Campus Preview Weekend, better known simply

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 30, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sigma ChIgloo MIT Fraternity brothers engineer a 10 foot igloo while relaxing in Maine

  

  Brothers of MIT Sigma Chi retreat to Maine from Thursday -> Sunday. Here's (most of) what happened As I was assembling this blog post, my ... built as a half sphere with an inner radius of 7 feet and an outer radius

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • March 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fun Times @ MIT (Pt. 1) Life's gotta be fun.

  

  MIT has this uncanny way of making you learn life lessons extremely ... perfect 100% of the time. (3) It's easy to feel sad and miserable about ... different. In terms of classes, this upcoming semester is going to be my most

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 4, 2012