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  Ben’s Sixth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 12/22/05.

  

  's offered in terms of back stage work for freshman. Also, are students allowed ... -up. ------------------------------------- Prashant wrote: "I know there are many different international schooling systems that you guys have to consider...But among indian school systems (I

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Cacophony of Coats Also, my courseload for this term!

  

  -classical music until high school, so this is all kind of new, but jazz is like a ... While waiting at a bus stop the other day, I witnessed one of the ... topic of winter coats -- a logical move given that it was fairly chilly

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Glassblowing at MIT my IAP excitement

  

  lol). This blog post is about my journey into the art of glass ... ), because its pretty difficult to make anything out of glass if you don’t know how to obtain any glass. The furnace is kept at around 2,000 degrees

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • March 10, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2017 By The Numbers with apologies to iron maiden

  

  % Number of different high schools represented: 848 Just For Fun Most ... 've blogged before about how the dangers of reading too much into admissions ... fundamental confusion between our admissions process and the results of that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week Robot and sports and owls, oh my

  

  : many iterations of the mold design, the optimizing of temperatures, times ... design, and has also taught me to be skeptical of anything that involves ... It’s been a whirlwind of a week. I initially planned for this post to

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 9, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wonder what an Amtrak station in the middle o’nowhere looks like? Pulling an Anthony on you: pictures of train stations, followed by my IAP so far.

  

  This was the title of an email I sent to Neha '10 a couple of weeks ago containing, well, pictures of an Amtrak station in the middle o ... moved and where I spent the first week of the new year. As we drove over a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  From The Midst Of Selection A recount of EA selection committee.

  

  committee. That night I edit 50 pages of copy for the new viewbook in ... enormously rewarding. After we all gather around the table, Marilee offers ... . And that's not an exaggeration." There's a bit of silence as we all

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Global Languages Freshman Learning Community engaging frosh done right

  

  semester, is designed to offer freshman community and expose them to new ... can be. Check out this interactive visualization of the course here ... .5-hour meetings each week; there's a Food of the Month, Film of the Month

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  degree increments?” [annotation note="The question was originally proposed ... hand”. You see, I’d spent way too much of my free time last summer holed up in my room playing the new Legend of Zelda game instead of exploring

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role You Play in the Admissions Process by Jenny Rifken, Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions @ MIT.

  could be assured of some admissions offers, but I didn't count on being ... rankings or someone else's list of "best" colleges. A school missing from ... 's definition of a "good" school. Certainly there were schools I liked more than

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the classes I took freshman year feeling scholarly, part 1/2

  

  ="admittedly, this was partially by choice… I still hadn’t gotten out of my high school ... assignments designed to take about ten hours each to complete. At the end of ... that I’m already a quarter of the way through my time at MIT, but the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 18, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  XREG

  

  Art"), and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA). Cross registration is ... class at Harvard, in the Graduate School of Education (all Harvard ... schools, and all the interesting things that happen when two or more of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor accessibility Mentor, n. A trusted counselor or guide. Or perhaps a really famous biologist who lets…

  

  People often seem to think that going to an elite school, particularly one with a large population of graduate students, means that ... as the grad students in my lab for probably a tenth of the salary

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 28, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  One of these labs is not like the other GELlin' like a felon

  

  designed to help the next generation of engineers (like me!) build leadership ... school as part of a club you were in? Or one of those hands-on engineering ... the past (courtesy of high school marching band) is the fact that you

  • by Stanley G.
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Question me an answer. I try to help somebody, for the first time ever.

  

  model the fuel company's reactor in our design?" A lot of chemical ... tap dance break or something in the middle, and at the end of the song ... old adage "Chemical engineering is the practice of doing for a profit

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  the school year has progressed, I've sort of come to the conclusion that ... am really tired of school. I feel like when people at MIT say this ... from other people. But at school, when those are really the only types of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final Forty-Five Still somehow worse than last term

  

  ’m taking this term. I’m taking a total of 45 credits, the fewest credits I’ve ever taken at MIT. Part of the reason for that is that one of my classes ... of other classes. For that reason, 21F.702 (Spanish II) and 14

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  The View is Worth It but you have to make the climb yourself to find out

  

  get into graduate school and don't get a full time job offer. I get a full time job offer and don't get into graduate school. I get neither a ... offer as the regular part of the aforementioned hike. The benefits that

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer of Learning Because MIT classes don't spend too much time on hacking into computer systems

  

  reading, lots of reading. And it has easily been one of my favorite ... year. The internship was pitched to me as a better class than any school could offer and it's been so much more. There have been three aspects to

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 29, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Why did I come to MIT? by River A. ‘26

  

  Content warning: brief mentions of anxiety, BPD, hospitalization Hi ≧◡≦ , my name is River. Just like most people, I had dreamed of coming to ... spring here! Yet, despite all those years of dreaming and planning, none of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 2, 2024