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  Hello Summer! Finally done with finals

  

  handwriting. I will also stay busy in the off hours of Interphase finalizing my ... Finally the year is over. After a week of relaxing, I can finally ... my perspectives of the institute, and I cannot wait to get back to

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • June 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wrapping Up First Semester Two more weeks to go.

  

  months immersing myself in as many books as I can cram in the windows of free time that I have. Here’s a picture of my bookshelf that has grown ... semester was kind of in a lull period in terms of work, I vowed to finish a

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • December 10, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  for change in (expected + unexpected): print(change.get_thoughts())

  

  reading a school email once every month or two: “With the consideration of ... social, and partly a function of being a nerd at a nerd school surrounded ... years of high school, I definitely became more social, and a lot more

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 19, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  This Entry is Really Long. And my pictures won't upload :(Edit: Actually, they finally did! Yay!

  

  graders celebrate the end of the year by pulling a prank on the school and ... completion of high school. Partyyy Speaking of celebrations: following the ... , we fail at finding them though, so instead of gazing open-mouthed at

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 28, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  in college). Given all of this, I turned down offers to Brown ... school offers. (let's face it - as "great" as Harvard is, you can ... Department of Literature (21L) offers an exciting series of literature classes

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can my school use Naviance?

  our Letters of recommendation page; however, we also accept electronic documents submitted through Naviance, SCOIR, or other methods. Regardless of ... submit their additional documents (prepared letters, school profiles
• Blog / Academics & Research

  motivation musings as i look back on the year

  

  up my first year of grad school. I was never fully set on doing an ... On [annotation note="home of the economics department, and the place where I spend most of my time on campus these days"]the fourth floor of E

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  Do Welsh Robots Dream of Electric Sheep? teaching kids robotics through GTL Wales!

  

  within the limitations of the secondary school’s resources and budget. A ... went a lot smoother (with the exception of the fact that the school ... mention navigating school bureaucracy, taking care of their own families

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / CPW

  I’m nervous to meet you A letter to the prefrosh at the dawn of CP*

  

  , offer advice, joke around, and tell all of you, face to face, that if I ... on school nights, or having a constant stream of group chat messages ... Dear prefrosh, Today, Friday, April 17th, is the first day of

  • by Powers '23
  • April 17, 2020
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Does MIT offer Army, Air Force, Navy ROTC?

  MIT is proud to offer Army, Air Force, and Naval ROTC programs on ... commissioned from MIT, of whom more than 150 have reached the rank of general or ... typically includes one or three hours of classroom training depending on year
• 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 school, namely, the ABCDF system, except with a few additions. Below is a

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

  Fall Adventures a day in rhode island, maine, and boston

  

  exploring Boston more than I did the first few weeks of school ... haven't been able to read very often because of how busy the semester has ... with a friend I've known since freshman year of high school, and we went

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 6, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Summer Reading Challenge Read with me!

  

  back to school and got busy ;__; will finish (starting from the beginning ... If you are a college student, or even in high school, you may have found that your busy lifestyle leaves little time for reading for pleasure

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  lived in, my school, our church. Then, there was a network of our family ... life might have. MIT is different in a lot of ways from other schools ... hours, maybe. But as for this particular piece of the internet, I haven

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  What it’s like being back

  

  deluge of school came. (I was mildly successful). It was surreal coming ... School is back in session, and I know the question burning in the back of everyone's mind is "Chris, WHAT have you been doing?" (or

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do in four years?

  

  you take advantage of what MIT has to offer, there are going to be ... whether you'll be able to take advantage of everything MIT has to offer for ... Okay, now for the next post addressing one of your requested topics

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Born Under Punches The heat goes on, which is nice, but so does classwork.

  

  you know. But it's a busy week in my life, between classes, choir, marching band, career fair, thinking about grad school applications, marathon ... parties, a floor-sponsored trip to some island in the middle of Boston

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s the middle of November. Do YOU know where your Early Action application components are? How to tell if they are missing, and what to do about it

  

  take 2-4 business days from the time of receipt to be processed and show ... (relatively small but still nonzero number of) Early Action applicants for whom we are still missing a component of their application. Typically we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art things #1 illustration, graphic design, ceramics, and photography

  

  cartoonist. My high school English teacher was a huge fan of Barry, and I knew ... Although it may not be as apparent as other aspects of MIT, the ... ! There are a ton of resources on campus for making and enjoying artwork

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • December 1, 2023
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What’s the School of Science like?

  The six departments in the MIT School of Science are consistently ... ; Mathematics; and Physics. Members of our community study deep philosophical questions: What is the nature of dark matter and dark energy, which make up 95