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  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  in late January. I'm living in Next House after a busy on-campus[annotation note="Independent Activities Period, a part of the school year in January where students mostly do things other than school, like externships and

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  collaboration with people here. It's neat-o business, folks. And as of last Monday ... saying that I am by no means and expert in anything related to business ... ?! And my response is yes, there was definitely some degree of novelty to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  —a time for high school seniors to visit campus to see if MIT is really the ... 'm gonna roll with it. Once your “I just got into MIT!” high school senior ... . Nerdy, silly, sporty, food-offering, you name it, that type of activity is

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  presentations are usually pretty dry events. Busy PowerPoint slides, droning ... in design schools are expensive and computers are cheaper.” He ... laser cut acrylic parts, high degree of fit and finish, and working

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  Hey! I’m back this term to finish my undergrad degree. I realize ... purgatory and get my degree just in time for the Class of 2012 π reunion. But ... -dozen half-read books. Mostly sci-fi fantasy, and some business stuff. Multi

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  "]OME[/annotation]—likely my freshman year [annotation note=" My senior year of high school, I ... how you compare to anyone else directly. I remember in high school ... of their classes in high school; I was worried about how horrible the

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  opposed to every other lab in campus, which have busy grad students working ... the crew with a couple questions and offered to set up lights or wrap ... are the things that I want to learn, but MIT will never offer a class on

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  /engineering school and has the reputation of being incredibly difficult. This isn't the ... - particularly since, with the AMCAS (med school app) coming out this Tuesday, I'm about to dive head-first into the craziness that is medical school

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  great degree of structure to it, six years of grade school, followed by ... school, I had nicknames like “Doctor Math” and “2390”. I worked my ass off ... got an offer letter. I spent that summer interning in Google’s Los

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
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  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  while observing Mass Ave. The street was busy as usual, with MIT students ... hot shit in high school, like everyone else here did. But MIT humbled me ... of mine who lived in Lauren’s dorm, offered to walk me back. He had

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  it’ll be a great break from the stress of school. But also don ... often be safer than taking that left turn in a busy intersection (just ... , you don’t have to say yes to the first UROP or job offer you get

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  offered in it). And our Engineering field is Course 6, or Computer Science ... , one for the minimum amount of classes we need to finish the 21E degree ... degree. With just a glance, you can see the CMS option has much more free

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
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  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  offered, and explaining the hundreds of clubs and student activities, along ... name, the ’93 Dormitory, opening for business in 1924; its introduction ... two houses offered to fraternities for residency. For a while, this

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  selecting schools to send an application to easier. On Tuesday, the company is ... students how likely it is that they will be admitted to each school on their ... good,” of getting into the schools. Admission Splash currently runs

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  picking out her sweet joint degree Melis on -- oh wait she basically already ... : grad schools couldn't care less about your nontechnical GPA. No, really ... Course catalog Degree requirements (mysteriously titled 'course catalog

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  Affairs at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs in Bloomington ... spring of 2013 I graduated and got a permanent job offer from Echogen ... busy teaching me to not be fazed by anything. This is how experience

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  am waiting on grad school decisions, which is feels a little more nerve ... stopped and freaked out a few times. grad school has been a dream of mine ... economics degrees done that i missed out on finding my true calling, which, of

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
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  50 Reflections

  

  offer you 50 Reflections. Here goes... The years I spent at MIT were ... inspiring. I remember thinking: in 2004, the greatest technology school in the ... using html tables and virtually no css. Despite the old-school nature of

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
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  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  semester or two to finish her degree. Others take that extra time not by ... art course or build huts in Peru, but if you left school because illness ... business fair. Students pass on foot, on bikes. The doors to the student

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  is everyone growing up without me? we're only getting older

  

  and wedding announcements have appeared. Several of my middle school ... .  People are conquering professional milestones, too. Another middle school classmate who graduated early from college recently finished law school. One

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2022