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• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is an Incomplete Grade? ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire situations

  

  semester was the first time that D-Lab: Education was being offered, and I ... internal advising use only, and may have +/- modifiers, dropped ... than standing for Standard Temperature and Pressure, S refers to transfer

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

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  , and the rise of LLMs like the one writing this blog post, the years 2011 ... I took the path of least cranial activity and applied to physics ... Hawaii and coordinator at an open science nonprofit. As it so happened, I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Events

  The View From the Other Side of Hell If MIT is a 400-meter race, am I really at the beginning of the home…

  

  Two days ago, Sophia '10 drove Kathy '10 and I to Cape Cod, where we ... nap on the beach and on the drive back, I remarked, "It's so nice not ... afternoon, when I hunkered down and started studying for my four finals this

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a lesson in the feminine arts aka mfa boston and a rant on enjoying art

  

  one priority over all else: living on a coast. I'm sorry all states from ... least an ocean to walk to and ponder my melodramatic nature over. And while MIT fit the criteria of being a) on a coast and [annotation note

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 30, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Watching Birdwatchers And getting into summer programs.

  

  1, dove off my bed, and flung my laptop open. Gmail couldn't load fast ... offer you an appointment to The NRAO Summer Student Research Assistantship ... will be "Pulsars"...Please confirm acceptance of this offer by 5:00 PM

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part two) sophomore trinkets

  

  friend Elissa H. '21 and started talking about Steven Universe because it ... affectionately refer to as our memory mushroom), and when it overflows (which it ... like to go through all of the stuff we collected, and reflect on the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 25, 2018
• Blog / CPW

  From First Visit to First Week A Reflection on Independence and Making Decisions

  

  nights and interesting experiences, I want to reflect a little on my first ... ’s something about traveling that I think can be fulfilling and scary at the same ... that in today’s world, you can press a few buttons on a screen, and in a

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  fake it ’til you make it what is a healthy way to be happy?

  

  -eyed morning runs felt hollow, and much as I enjoy talking about books as if I did not read them all in the hours between 12 am and 3 -- feeling ... , and making everything seem rosy feels false. On the other hand, I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester’s shenanigans what i've been up to!

  

  reassuring myself that i’m Doing Things and half stressing myself out even more ... [annotation note="except lecture"]everything happens so fast[/annotation] and ... [/annotation] and maybe having an incredible experience here and there, but it's being

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2nd Half of IAP a quick and slightly belated list

  

  spring semester. But for the second half, we arrived on campus and did some ... run with our mom (she was visting us), and got side tracked along the way! Look at the frozen river! and ducks! and geese! close up of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 13, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action FAQs Yes, yes, we got your emails!

  

  ALL THE EMAILS AND PHONE CALLS are upon us. So many. If you’ve been trying to contact the Admissions office regarding your application, and you ... you back to zen calm state sooner :) ***AN IMPORTANT NOTE***: A lot of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 24, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  11 Reasons Why Senior Haus is Awesome Twelve, if you count me once living there. That's pretty awesome, right?

  

  , and I'm actually on campus about as often as when I was still a student ... ! Nice to meet you! I'm Keri Garel, class of 2010, and in the blogger world, I am old and retired. I was Course 9, and now I'm a research assistant

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stories from Uganda [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] Installing an exhibit in the Wiesner Student Art Gallery.

  

  the second floor of the Student Center (W20) and is the only permanent ... usually booked by month and scheduled well in advance through the Student ... brings computers to secondary and primary schools in Uganda. I have been a

  • by ARTalk
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Life, or Why I’m Afraid Of It 1) Isn't everyone?

  

  wipe the crusted drool off my face before going to classes) and doing me ... the process of developing the program, building and expanding it, and ... applied to Teach for America in October, and I received the book as a gift

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tech Nomads Four MIT students are spending the summer racing 8000 miles across Europe. Find out why.

  

  Borsch - (Moscow), through the Baltic States and on to the Russian capital ... , fast cars, or even good cars. It's just you, your pants-mobile and ... drinks at the launch party, leap into the cars and head for Dover. Once we

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  International Men & Women of Mystery

  

  is a self-governing country and not America's 51st state (despite what ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... admissions for a long time, and (finally!) here goes. First, an important

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This entry has a surprise ending While you wait for decisions to come out, I remind you that people at MIT…

  

  into the depths of meditative relaxation, AKA, I ate some fruit and read ... : Exam 1: 52.5%. I may have choked. Turn on the slow-motion cameras, and ... numbness. I considered having a stroke and then decided against it, mostly

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  It was the blurst of times? I'm a stupid monkey.

  

  good-and-evil, right-and-wrong, red-and-black kind of way. So, whenever I ... "Reply to all recipients?" and "Include original message in reply?" You have to answer these with either 'Y' or 'N.' And you have to be careful

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback A useless guide to MIT undergraduate housing.

  

  stands for "Interactive Introduction to the Institute," and it showcases ... . Unless you consider all of those 500 forms I needed to fill out and send in ... boring ones? Today's topic is housing, because it's raining out and housing

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Brass Rat

  

  beginning, for the freshman picture; once, at the end, for graduation; and ... -buying. RingComm designs the ring over a six-month period, unveils it, and stages ... the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Class Ring dates back to the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 28, 2005