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  I should’ve started this earlier A statement exemplifying my first month as a Junior

  

  If I had to explain what Junior year’s been like so far…. I’d say this picture is quite accurate: (NASA/Wallops Flight Facility/Chris Perry) It’s pretty much felt that way since…

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Day of Classes Published exactly 4 weeks after the first day of classes. My bad.

  

  Like Allan, I’m obsessed with taking notes. I’m also obsessed with handwriting. In sixth grade, Megan P. sat next to me in science class and had THE MOST BEAUTIFUL HANDWRITING…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Kindred Spirits or, "Making Friends"

  

  Research Science Institute, it became very easy to fall into the trap of not ... laboratories and research facilities--it includes the very people that constitute

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

    ABCDF….I? How to use MIT’s grading system in dire situations   You may be wondering how, with all students being varying shades of brilliant, MIT handles grades. On a…

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

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  research UROP at the Koch Institute and taking 2.00B (Toy Product Design), I ... I study, because I find most music distracting.  But research shows

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bit About Me Growing up on a healthy diet of prime time television and MMORPGs

  

  I’m what you’d call a product of prime time television. In my household my sister and I planned out our days based on television shows. I awoke every summer day…

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Right NOW Making Things

  

  Yesterday I met with Ta-Nehisi Coates to talk about writing. I’m taking Advanced Essay Workshop with him, and I’ve never cared about a class this much. This week, to my…

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 2, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Everyone at MIT should take this class. How often do you get to design toys in class?

  

  What do you want to do in life?  For some people, the answer to that question comes easy.  They’re the ones who’ve been coding since they were out of the…

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Engineering Poetry we do that.

  

  The last post I made was about my summer, and I haven’t even written about August yet. If that doesn’t give you an indication of how fast time is going…

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mistakes & the inspiration we need to move on

  

  My lack of blogging this semester is largely a reflection of how this semester has been going. It’s been incredibly busy, almost to the point to which I’ve just forgotten…

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Days in the Life In which I overuse Instagram.

  

  Yo homez, I’m back! And guess what? I’m a senior. I. AM. A. SENIOR. I walk down the halls of Simmons and see freshman frantically p-setting even through they’re on…

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Results of My Summer cookies, web usability, and painting

  

  Now that the semester has started, it’s an opportune time to procrastinate and let you know how my summer turned out. Did most of my diet consist of Doritos? Will…

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Feel Old Senior year? Already? #indenial.

  

  I can’t believe I’m a senior. Seriously, I can’t believe it. I have 9 months to do all of the following: get through the list of 101 Things to Do Before…

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Blog] CourseRoad! A simple way to make your four year plan!

  

  Danny B. ’15 is an 8-Flex/6-3 major with aspirations in both fields. An inhabitant of East Campus(5W) and an active member of the class of 2015, Danny always has his…

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life Update It's been an amazing year!

  

  Hey guys, it’s been a ridiculously long time since you last heard what’s been going on in my life so I thought I’d throw together a giant life update to…

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My advisor won $3 million Unraveling the mysteries of the universe, and helping Anna make life choices

  

  his research “has centered on the application of theoretical particle ... why I am doing astronomy research this summer. That semester, I took

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Trains Make Me Think Of Bringing the focus away from miles and minutes - and onto more enriching things

  

  This summer, I’m working part-time at the Division of Student Life (in addition to still blogging for MIT Admissions – sorry eager blogging frosh-to-be, my spot’s still taken, but we’re…

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 12, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ

  

  in 2006. Our institutional research website says, quite specifically ... Institutional Research (IR), erroneously reported that MIT Admissions offered a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  11 Reasons Why Senior Haus is Awesome Twelve, if you count me once living there. That's pretty awesome, right?

  

  , I am old and retired. I was Course 9, and now I'm a research assistant ... peer educator about sexual assault; a UROP researcher with Professor

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TERMinal Velocity My last term is flying by!

  

  Hard to believe but my time at the institute is starting to wrap up. I’ll save the sappy gushing for a later post though. Most people’s last terms are comparatively…

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 21, 2012