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  tidbits i answer a bunch of random blogger prompts

  

  speed walk from East Campus to the Z-Center for practice. Tell us about ... back to Jibo for this prompt! Despite his WALL-E-esque design, Jibo ... (but really)) I’m not really one for going to social events outside East

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 18, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a quick and dirty guide to MIT jargon what is a 6-3 anyway?

  

  ; We also refer to people as their majors. For example, "What course are ... either an acronym or a number. There's a quirky language to MIT, a handful ... the day-to-day. Hack = hacking, of course; punt = punting work, playing

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What an “OX” means on a transcript and why I currently have two of them

  

  - “Absence satisfactorily explained to and excused by the dean for ... advised me to ask for an “OX” in the class if I wasn’t feeling better by the ... to take an OX for the class. I visited S3 again to update my dean on

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • January 25, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Full Circle Here's to yesterday.

  

  -school senior, I enrolled in Harvard's Secondary School Program for four weeks during the summer. Unfortunately, the science options for the summer were sort of lacking...so, instead, I signed up for an art history class

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A Random [Hall] Sophomore’s Guide to CPW OMG! CPW! OMG! CPW! OMG! :D

  

  . Mmmm chocolate. PooF To GO TO (Points for the Good of the Order) When it ... . Coincidentally, 17 also happens to be the number of prefrosh living at Random for ... stop by Random Hall (and I happen to be home, and you recognize me) I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 19, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Hesitations about Choosing MIT our experience

  

  scoured Activities Midway for art-related clubs, and we went to the CMS and ... lot of ppl are concerned about choosing MIT due to it being more ... want to do. We were in this boat as prefrosh, and then in our freshman

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 28, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  New York Trips that we went on with Arts Scholars!

  

  difficult to describe, but essentially it was a very moving, for lack of a ... went to see an opera for the first time ever! Specifically, we went to ... for it because, when else do you get to take a day trip to see a famous

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 5, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Supplemental Materials Answering questions about extras beyond the formal application.

  

  music supplement via email addressed to [email protected]. For performers ... need to be a music major for this to be considered (most people who ... most music classes or to be a part of the music program. For more

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670- Mechanical Engineering Tools- Week 1 Mechanical Engineering Tools (2.670) teaches us the fundamentals of machine and computer tool use so…

  

  tell, this is a very expensive class for MIT to run and we're all really ... the Lab for Manufacturing and Productivity, our job was to take the ... away high paying jobs for the opportunity to work at MIT and they all

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

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

  important to me? What did a school need to have in order for me to be happy ... schools for me, rather than pushing me to apply to the schools they thought ... important if I was to find the right matches for me. I couldn't rely on rumors

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT’s COVID-19 precautions and their impact on admissions relevant news and next steps (updated 4/14); new blog posts below 👇🏼

  

  answer is no, you are not required to take AP exams for classes in which you are enrolled. You may find it useful to do so for your own learning ... , we wrote regarding changes to the AP exams. Since then, we have

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 6, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST fun And now...the much anticipated (but never duplicated!) photo-filled account of the coolest robotics competition ever!

  

  college student mentor for Team 97, and she invited me to the Manchester ... extra day after classes ended for spring break just to go to the Boston ... was pretty sad for me- I got to watch people doing a lot of stuff that I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.2050 – Field Programmable Gate Awesomeness Featuring my “aggressive and weird” cat robot

  

  field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) to build digital circuits for all ... and waiting for Vivado to finish synthesis, we were finally done. So ... appending extra bits of (junk) information to their output for no apparent

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 2

  

  for ISEF this year?" Yes! I'm looking forward to the Intel International ... for the MIT Class of 2009. Also, we're happy to get you in contact with ... , would it be possible for you to tell us what the status is of Transfer

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 20, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  the perfect choice doesn’t exist not the same river, not the same you

  

  's always conversation surrounding it, if you want to look for it. so i wasn ... point of being someone i don't want to be, if that makes sense? for ... onsite for widget went much better. in both onsites i got to talk to an

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 22, 2021
• Blog / MISTI

  Africans@MIT: The Accra Experiment This week in the series: a Ghanaian research initiative by a dedicated MIT senior

  

  mulled over the problem for a while, keeping an open ear to the projects of ... bypass liability issues for the pilot program. On his return to MIT ... all this work, he wouldn’t be able to go back to Ghana for the summer to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  ’ll be an interesting thing to try for a month, but I don’t expect to like ... like my workplace and might seriously want to return for the summer.3 To ... tools for others to use. On a day-to-day basis, we mostly code quietly.4

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tunnel66 bringing the borderline tunnels online for CP*

  

  to a project that preserves some of that energy for this year's ad ... I’m so grateful for this opportunity to make art more accessible to ... of the Arts at MIT to paint a 200-foot long section of the MIT Tunnels

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-Thanksgiving Post-stuff and Foodstuffs In which I'm reminded I have a life, and am thus eligible to give a…

  

  I've had to study for? It wasn't to make my birthday not fun; it was ... membranes invisible for in vivo imaging. Thing is, we've gotten close to ... Thanksgiving Day came and it was time for me to whip up my dishes, I brought my

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  VI-A Course 6? Work experience and a Masters degree all at once!

  

  course, being in Beijing, there was plenty for Kat and I to explore in our ... had glowing things to say about the program. For some students, the real work experience gave new meaning to the classes they were taking. For

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 3, 2008