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  Turning the Tide My thoughts on an important report

  

  in which everyone can thrive and succeed. From what I have seen of ... should I take or activities should I be involved in? There is no one answer ... and recommendations highlighted in the Turning the Tide report, and I

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis

  

  ] (which makes sense if you think about it). In my excitement, I gripped ... Introduction Before coming to college, I often wondered how hard MIT ... measurements backing up these results, how could I trust their accuracy, let

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  And So It Ends, And So It Begins May 1 marks the end of this admissions cycle and the beginning of the next.

  

  , I sincerely hope that you will keep in touch. It's been a true ... what I'm going to do without her next year. It's sortof like in the ... 'm still here in 18 years when she finishes her dissertation, you can bet

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Faculty Luncheon for Local* Admitted Students *local: from New England or New York, or anyone who just happens to be in…

  me (maybe that's a good thing?), but I come to you today with important ... us in addition to the many activities they're planning for Campus Preview Weekend in April. We brainstormed, made charts and graphs, and after

  • by mitblogs
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shaye Storm: Studying Extrasolar Planets Shaye Storm spent his summer working at the MIT Planetary Astronomy Laboratory where he studied…

  

  operated Wallace Observatory in Westford, MA. Once at the observatory, they studied extrasolar planets (a planet outside of our solar system), which I'm told is currently a super hot topic in astronomy! The goal of the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2017-18 Application Essay Questions

  

  announcing these prompts last year: People often ask me, "How do I stand out in ... to begin thinking and planning ahead of time, which I respect and value (maybe the most underappreciated thing a good college applicant can do is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 31, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  We’re Ready for CPW Are you?

  

  possibly can and we're just about ready. Right now, we're all getting our prefrosh assigned to us, as you can see below: 1,100 of you are coming and ... -Conner and say hi, I'll likely be involved with most of the events we host but

  • by Snively '11
  • April 4, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  ZOMG CPW and other acronyms C.Y.G.W.T.S.F? I.F.C,I.B.Y.C!

  

  experience what a little bit of MIT is like. Can't sleep? Curious about what to expect? You can read some guest entries (including mine!) from the current ... weather machine is up and running in order to give you all some of the best

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 16, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  king cake and a run-on sentence busy week

  

  the mixture because I had just finished working with yeast in the lab ... so the cake didn't rise but it took so long to prep that I put it in ... cake because I told him to Brandon F. '19 put on a shirt just for this

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT writing faculty comment on GPT and other AI assisted writing in education

  

  I'm briefly emerging from hard work in the application mines to share ... I also am crossposting, called Calculating the Future of Writing in ... 's experts in the field, and wanted to share them on our blogs since I know

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 24, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Decisions, Decisions decisions!

  

  advice I'd received in high school about college decisions. I'll give it to you in the form of a short poem I found recently by Piet Hein ... average confidence in their choices was 66%, but 96% of them ended up

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • April 26, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope for the Axolotl: On the Amphibian Extinction Crisis Happy Save the Frogs Day!

  

  awareness about the amphibian extinction crisis. When I was in high school I ... what you found in the comments for the rest of us to see). I hope you ... Doom? When I was in middle and high school, my parents and I used to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Hello from Palo Alto My California not-so-vacation.

  

  home of a current student in the program. Sunday, Feb 26. I take a tour ... rain and I can't wear my cute interview shoes (they're very "I'm a ... -around awesome person. Wednesday, Mar 1. Free day in Palo Alto! I sleep in, go to a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 1, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Science! at the BAH!Fest The science is a lie. The exclamation points are not.

  

  for the inevitable punch line. In which case I’d happily comply and say ... comically improbable possibilities? Can I just take a moment here to marvel ... village to village in order to increase the diversity of its gene pool. I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 8, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Reasons to Join ESG A Look at MIT's Freshman Learning Communities

  

  to your professors. I found myself in ESG (Experimental Study Group ... ESG to stay in the program, ESG can be only about taking classes or it ... choices that come in the form of Freshman Learning Communities. Because most

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 4, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A lot about course 9

  

  -40 undergrads per class year in course 9, although I think that number has been ... /systems/psychology. If you like all of it, you can dabble in everything. Have it your way ... Today was supposed to be my first day of lab work in our new lab

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Halls are Alive with the sound of mischief :)

  

  -100 piano![/caption] Juggling in Lobby 10 Many a night I’ve returned from a ... ="aligncenter" width="1000"] Spot spotted in Stata![/caption] Free Polaroids I was ... papers to come in. I leave to use the bathroom and for a blessed moment of

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  places around and at mit godless and holy

  

  busiest and bustling cities in the world, Boston. During my time here, I ... years. In these past months, my friends and I have discovered our fair ... 's is, in fact, not it. But since I'm making this blogpost: It's godless

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  Language (die Sprache) MIT-Germany student discusses language

  

  difficult, you can still learn an entirely new way to think, to communicate, to ponder. It's quite incredible really. Coming from the US, I had it easy overall. Growing up I spoke English from birth, and the few

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My Disappointment Is Immeasurable And My Day Is Ruined A story about cream soda

  

  my favourite drinks back home in South Africa; naturally, I was excited ... has the drink, though, so I lived in blissful ignorance about the ... to how prevalent creme soda is as a flavour in South Africa. I grew up

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 15, 2022