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  An Uncreative Post with an uncreative title

  

  . Snow days here don’t imply a “get out of school free” permit. They mean ... complete all those hopeful post beginnings, reenact the thrill of days long ... the essentials of IAP and Spring semester.   During IAP, I took

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m a physics major (for now) feeling scholarly, part 2/2

  

  applications in climate science later on (in grad school, or in my choice of job ... , in my very first blog post, I came up with an assortment of general ... classes that I took – those weren’t spur of the moment decisions – but I

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Comics and Role Models I interviewed one of my favorite professors because she’s amazing

  

  Towards the end of any semester, emails start flooding into our inboxes advertising last-minute events, study breaks (the best of which have puppies), and classes that will be offered next term. It becomes second

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Forum Monday Let's make a list of questions that you feel you REALLY need answers to ASAP.

  

  following: instead of me posting a topic and you responding, let's make a list of questions that you feel you REALLY need answers to ASAP. Here are the rules: Make sure your question is general enough to be of

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6 / New Year, New Me Looking back, looking forward & staying in the present

  

  took my life day by day, moment by moment. 2018 was a year of many ... and every moment, and take it all in. Most of the places and people I ... to the US and to carry with me for the rest of my life. I wanted to

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 12, 2019
• 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 / Admissions

  Waitlist post Some Q & A about the waitlist.

  

  waitlist? We offered 499 applicants -- approximately 4% of applicants -- a ... reply date for other colleges? You should accept the offer of admission ... I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Recap—The Book Launch Oh hi there...yes, I'm back!

  

  promote it. My high school gave me a booth during its Class of 2014 ... . Between then and now, a fusillade of transformations has taken place. Rather than present a disjointed patchwork of events from here and there, I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  the pnr mindset vs. the grindset mindset pnr shall be missed

  

  be overcome if you’d “give me a month.” We’d offer consolations of “you ... ="Undergraduate Research Opportunity."]"UROP[/annotation]-ing” instead of “studying,” and going to my [annotation note="it was a bit of a shock going home for

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • January 15, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  THE BURTON THIRD BOMBERS pset, party, pset and party party, rinse, repeat

  

  uninformed, this means that I 1) live on the third floor of the Burton side of the dorm Burton-Conner, and 2), am lowkey part of a cult—a rowdy ... ="aligncenter" width="535"] bombers class of '20 yearbook photo[/caption] When I tell

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a major road to trouble exploring interests as a baby beaver

  

  wasn’t fond of medical school. Or having people sue me. Who knows ... about engineering within the constraints of a high school schedule, but I ... try out. One of my friends in high school was an avid linguistics fan

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  Another Journey Planned How to go abroad 101

  

  at the forces affecting the development of cities around the world. If accepted, I will be travelling with a group of about 30 students to Detroit ... gain a better understanding of the social, political and economic systems

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 21, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  How to Foil a UFO Abduction 1. Control your thoughts.

  

  Neha is a male) was the team leader of FIRST at her school, and basically ... take BC Calculus. At my school, they don't offer the class, however I can ... school's policy is. (A friend of mine at RISD, where they have a very firm

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an album a day the only new year's resolution i've ever completed

  

  thought this would be a good idea because I enjoy the entire process of ... ,  and organizing any noteworthy finds into one of my 150+ carefully ... prospect of consuming 365 new albums in a year. what if I found it tedious

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  at least it’s not covid sick day

  

  on thursday morning, i woke up at 9 am, after only six hours of sleep ... , and mucus discharged from my faucet of a nose. unsurprising, given what ... be a flagrant violation of rules to attend class, and a bad idea anyway

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Actually Doing Things or not...but actually, really

  

  A lot of what an engineer does is makes things more efficient. As I ... action. The ELLs we’ve done for the past couple of weeks in GEL have covered that. Let me explain to you my life in the context of those ELLs in

  • by Stanley G.
  • November 20, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Turning the Tide My thoughts on an important report

  

  Graduate School of Education released a report entitled “Turning the Tide ... 100 of my admissions colleagues at colleges around the country. I think ... have of students – and more important, by clarifying what we do not

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 20, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Doggy Birthday Meet Simmons Hall's smallest - and furriest - new resident, who just turned 8.

  

  zookeeper described as being the size of a stick of butter. Like a number of ... because she's a cockapoo. That's not to say Butterstick doesn't stay busy ... , delighting a contingent of residents who'd spent the past year campaigning for

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vaccine Externalities Health economics applied to the decreased odds of my getting the flu, courtesy of my…

  

  offer the good at a price of P=0. It's a weird kind of subsidy, but it ... modeled this sort of behavior. Basically, vaccines have positive ... . Read on, grasshopper. Here's a simple derivation of the private demand

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New Year, New Semester Celebrating Lunar New Year and a new spring schedule

  

  exorbitant amounts of Chinese food, and watch a variety of different performers ... with the arrival of the eastern seaboard’s very own polar vortex, so the ... frostbite. Thankfully, we were indoors for most of the trek across campus

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 15, 2016