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• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IvyPlus some reflections from an admissions conference

  

  Plus 2011 conference at Yale University. IvyPlus is an every-couple-of ... Plus institutions are both collaborators and competitors: the former, in the sense ... latter, in the sense that we compete to admit and enroll similar, though

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  You Got The Gig So excited about ALL the Things!

  

  in a lab at Stony Brook University back in New York, supervising my ... this incredible university - the sickest place in the world. I was so ... necessary to post the cute caterpillar in order to perfectly emulate my

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m supergirl and I’m here to save the world My day, being thought of as superhuman, and answering several questions.

  

  : 6:45 AM -- Arrive in Boston. I actually sort of slept on the plane ... pharmaceutical company in Boston (a lot of people take a year or two off between undergrad and grad school), and she offered to drive me back to the dorm, an

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dyslexia at MIT Living with dyslexia, and the current state of dyslexia research, at MIT and otherwise

  

  for this paper taught me a lot about a subject that is central in many ... not match up with what she envisions in her mind. It takes her more time ... has taken on a concentration in writing, which requires her to take

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 7, 2012
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  how to make a minecraft bot reflections on my microsoft internship

  

  IAP (Independent Activities Period), MIT offers micro-internships, which ... micro-internship applications opened up in September 2021, so I decided to ... contacted by Semantic Machines, which focuses on conversational AI. In fact

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  So @mitblogs_ebooks exists 'as you might know, i am a full time internet'

  

  tweets aren't very funny. But some of them are really funny, if in an admittedly odd way, because while they are consonant in subject and voice with the source texts, they are probabilistically written in ways that the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flat Ryan’s Adventures at MIT! There are more exclamation points in this entry than there are days of classes left…

  

  fact: His office doors are covered in pictures of his former students and their kids, but his Nobel is kind of off in the corner of his office. He ... cool. 3. Flat Ryan in 5.112 lecture. 4. Flat Ryan at the Great Glass

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 5, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Rubbing Elbows I have pizza with a famous person.

  

  distinguishes the Institute from any other university that I know. On one level ... also play a tremendous role in creating, encouraging, and preserving the ... small) contribution to this research through my UROP in the Langer Lab. In

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Physics Prof. Peter Fisher on Conan A freshman physics professor helps the late night talk show host break a record. [with…

  

  feud with Stephen Colbert (resolved in a battle royale), a German disco light shows, a visit to the doctor, a turtle race, and ring spinning. In ... . He has been trying in vain to beat his record of 41 seconds. Clearly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday is the new black. The world moves on MIT's hips. The world moves and it swivels and bops.

  

  hands of thunder clapping. The universe poured down in a divine onslaught ... DID YOU KNOW? After failing to acquire MIT no less than 3 times in ... . Baker to establish a school for engineering in Cambridge. This college is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  back in 2017. In early March, Janelle messaged me asking if she could ... stayed in drafts. However, I thought it was still relevant, both for those ... drove in sacramento? tracy, where i grew up, is known as a cow town. a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Week(end) [Read: New York] Adventures Parts 2-4 I’ve affectionately named these adventures: #metroentertainment

  

  90% of these getaways have happened in the Big Apple, “Weekend ... home…hung out in random Jamaican restaurant 12:50 pm – got settled and ... Frida’s Soul Food near Columbia University 11:27 pm – more movies and

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rosalind Franklin and Kent State Two more short book reviews and some news of my summer not (directly) relating to…

  

  Bookstore the first time I ever visited the campus back in my junior year of ... then proceeded to get no credit for the whole thing because [fill in ... passages are those in which Maddox carefully reconstructs the frenzied weeks

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 16, 2006
• FAQ / Academics and research

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  MIT offers a variety of academic resources to provide support for any student facing a particularly tough academic challenge, from tutoring and study groups to time management tips and testing strategies. Here's a
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  You can do anything we already offer on campus, or you can start your own "thing" at MIT! Check out Campus & Student Activities to see what's going on around campus, or check out a list of active groups from
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• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Monday Actually, I think I just made it to Tuesday.

  

  7:39 PM: It's Sunday night. I have four exams in the next week. Hey ... his homework in a leather briefcase and can run from Random Hall to campus in less than two minutes and once lived in Africa and is actually

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Monkey Dance

  

  Mira Nair came to speak last year and kind of offered my friend a role in ... work at 6:50pm tonight and was in the mood to do something interesting, so I pulled up today's IAP calendar and realized that in 10 minutes, a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Tales of Two Parallels East Campus History class!

  

  History. It’s a special class, offered for the first time this year, with ... dorm is renovated. The class, now labelled STS.051, will be offered this ... ="attachment_78721" align="alignnone" width="300"] The coaster we're in the process of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of an Era The last lecture of 6.001

  

  place in the new curriculum, so this is the last term that it was offered ... conspiring, which means that I need to put that to an end. In the next little ... was taught in 1980 by Hal Abelson and Gerry Sussman, the authors of its

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 8, 2008