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  Learning Time Because that really is what we are here for

  

  since my senior year of high school (Hi Ms. Graglia!), so it has been kind ... ) { // So at the beginning of every semester Matt sends out an email to the ... of my classes is 1.00 (or in non-MIT speak, Intro to Computers and

  • by Becca H. '12
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Circus but like a nerd circus. So you know, less elephants and more calculus. Just as…

  

  be during the school year (gotta remind myself of that during finals ... readers may have picked up on, this is one of those times, as my summer has ... of the hilights reel. To start things off, I'm working in the new

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Burning questions A lot of people had questions!

  

  the perks of MIT being a fairly small school), and in most dorms it ... (This was originally going to be one entry with the grad school admissions stuff, but I got tired of typing and went to eat a piece of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The most beautiful class schedule yes. good

  

  from MIT or after additional schooling. There are many versions of what ... starting out your semester or school year or whatever and you keep telling ... likely demoralize you until your stash of motivation is entirely depleted

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • February 3, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes from the Road: NorCal, Netherlands, Nick Cannon, and Nerd Camp where I've been, what I've been doing

  

  cofounders of MakeSchool (his partner, Jeremy, is also on extended leave from ... things worth updating y'all about. So: a brief accounting/recounting of life since my ISEF Trip Report on May 13th. Week of May 16-22 After a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024 looking backwards and looking forward

  

  In the rush of finals and the end of the semester, I've been losing track of time. I flew back home to Pennsylvania for the first time on ... school and childhood friends, and blissfully wandering around town without

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 1, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  Waiting… and a more serious note about pre-decisions at the end

  

  didn't disappear until I talked about it with one of my high school ... about some of the things I did to avoid thinking about decisions. Hopefully some of these help take your mind off of college, even if just for a

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • December 15, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Documents Due Monday important information to make your application complete

  

  posted last week, we have been working through our buckets and buckets of mail since the New Year. However, as of tonight, we have finished processing all mail, hand-checked all filing cabinets, scoured all of our faxes

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 26, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take Deep Breaths :) Deep breaths.

  

  be the end of my formal education, but here I am applying to graduate schools. It's not an easy task either. Waiting on pins and needles to hear ... that you tried your best and that is all you should expect of yourself

  • by Bryan
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  O, GRE Battle The best of the worst entry I ever wrote.

  

  school admissions specialist -there was once this really funny episode of ... really long-winded and kind of boring entry while working Burton ... ... in case there's a chapping emergency, and one of them got lost -stain

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Stu Schmill ‘86 Name: Stu Schmill; Job title: Associate Director of Admissions and Director of the Educational Council;…

  

  Name: Stu SchmillJob title: Associate Director of Admissions and Director of the Educational CouncilHometown: Little Neck, NY (in Queens)High school: Benjamin N. Cardozo HSCollege: MIT '86, mechanical engineering

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Dora the Explorer My long-lost twin has suspiciously wrinkly forearms.

  

  Zaira, an 11th grade student from Brownsville, Texas (the tip of ... to give her addiction to "papas adobadas," a kind of mexican hot Lays ... .) --------------- Thanks for all of the comments on my previous entry about PE classes

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  getting back in the groove 🎵groovy groovy🎵

  

  because this is my 14th year of school, this is the first time in my life I'm not itching to go back out of boredom. School has always very much been ... Once upon a time in a land far, far away A group of schoolchildren

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 3, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Countdown to Burnout the clock is ticking

  

  ?"]everything.[/annotation] I’ve gotten all of my school work done without ever having to do work ... future, coming back to MIT, and feeling a bit lost. He gave me a lot of sage advice, most of which I had wish I wrote down and saved, but I didn

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  checkboxes this semester in a list

  

  lot more time there, working, or not, and made a lot of fond memories ... reasons"]consonant,[/annotation] [annotation note="P and NP are classes of ... letters of the [annotation note="in case you are wondering, the best letter

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  mid semester check-in all about my classes

  

  I originally registered for 60 units of classes this semester: 18.701: Algebra I 18.404: Theory of Computation 18.905: Algebraic Topology I ... of the four technical classes I had picked out or put one of them on

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 22, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Exploring MIT’s sports facilities there's so much to see!

  

  do it! As you may have noticed, I’ve been kind of into the whole tour ... -campus grocery store, it’s been fun to show off a little piece of what makes MIT so ... MIT has sports?? Of course, no tour is fun without some tour guides, so

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  Boys like cars and money $1 billion is not enough for thefacebook, but $9 an hour is good enough for…

  

  going to the end of this block." MAN: "It's actually free!" ME: "No ... with strangers. But as the man sped off in search of another victim, I noticed that the taxi was actually offering free rides to anybody who joined

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Olivia S. ‘20 en Monterrey teaching algorithmic thinking to girls in México

  

  biggest ones. Luckily, most of my Spanish came back from high-school and I ... While some of us have spent the first week of freedom from classes ... (likely) pause. Speaking of patterns, Patrones Hermosas or Beautiful

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 4, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Where’s My Stuff? Updates from the MyMIT Application Tracking System.

  

  lots of materials, many of which were postmarked before the deadline. So ... are taken out of the envelope, given an official MIT Office of ... sort of document it is (this is why documents that were sent in the same

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2009