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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests @ MIT The class average is your friend.

  

  making a completely awesome aid sheet for 3.091... ...and then you go to ... for it.... "Yes! I got a 66!" Here's what I'm trying to get across ... , my goal in life for the next 24 hours is to actually beat the class

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  i saw you four ways to follow MIT students

  

  you learn to care for others. practicing that is one of the best things you can do to prepare for MIT. ... to vicariously ride the ups and downs of MIT. they can't tell you if

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 16, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cancer on my mind Wait, shouldn’t that be Carolina?

  

  Cancer is on my mind lately. I know how to have fun, huh? But maybe it's because yet another good friend of mine just had surgery for ... Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT the other day. I could

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 18, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  L@@K at the Class of 2015 profiles in greatness? a great profile? or both?

  

  to the newest data from this past year's admissions cycle. We always try to provide as much data as we can to make our process as transparent as possible. But before you get to the numbers, here are just a few of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UPOP Program and a look at Jay Dweck (‘77) UPOP is a one-week seminar that teaches leadership and work-place dynamics to sophomores studying engineering…

  

  goal of this program is to teach leadership and work-place dynamics to ... to do a great job at their internship, but *sometimes* they lack the interpersonal skills to really succeed. To remedy this situation, 240 students

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  right now, but I thought I'd take a quick break to tell you a little about ... . No one seems to believe me when I tell them that when I'm reading an application, I just glance at the test scores to get a sense of them before

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT and Slavery a developing history, and a live webcast

  

  to the community: To the members of the MIT community, At MIT, we ... , we must attend to some newly uncovered facts from our past. A ... immediately endorsed his proposal: to develop an ongoing undergraduate primary

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Beacon St. and Marlborough St. Rooftops and flowers on two streets in Boston.

  

  before I graduate I want to show you more of these places I love, starting with Beacon St. and Marlborough St., which run parallel to the water on ... ’s sailboats in the foreground. (Click for larger versions.)   And me and Cory

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Doonesbury and MIT Meet Alex Doonesbury, MIT '10.

  

  I skipped 4 days of school to go to Seattle and Vancouver to learn ... of reading to catch up on. The last thing I should be doing is blogging ... invited readers to decide which college the character Alex should attend

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Avoid spelling errors! The most commonly misspelled words I see on MIT applications.

  

  thought I'd give some tips on how to avoid simple spelling errors. Most ... using spell check for that. More often, I see spelling errors in the ... 's something to avoid if you can. It's unlikely to be the difference between

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Fondue: fun and done A break from admissions at the Fondue party.

  

  long Saturday of working to select the class, I hopped on the SafeRide shuttle to attend the Alpha Chi Omega (usually abbreviated as AXO, and ... . This year, for the first time, the party was preceded by a special

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  halfway there musings about currently being an MIT student

  

  have food to eat but i'm not going to because i ate six bags of chips for ... ...viscerally uncomfortable. Is time real?? I've already lived at my current house for longer ... ? Whenever I talk to other MIT students, there's so much reminiscing. Always

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Schnitzer Prize Winners! [by Ken Haggerty '11] Buildings with eyes, a drum for the people, and a house…

  

  his friends). The video shows his reactions to the programs. For most ... —both because it's wonderful to see an MIT undergraduate doing art (and for fun ... doles out various awards and honors to those who've made significant

  • by ARTalk
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Top of the World If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the roof of the Green…

  

  course, we said yes. Although it's hard for me to recreate the impression I ... might crash your browser. :) For even more photos, feel free to check out ... lab to the tennis courts on the other side of campus to play a quick

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 3, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I do too much stuff at MIT 1)My mom doesn't have a problem with it.

  

  sometimes), and planning to run for president of Senior House is definitely ... pleather chair in my dentist's office waiting for a cleaning while reading ... top 25 albums of 2007?! Come on, Blender.), when it occurred to me that

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in the life

  

  I always wanted to be. We came up with some funny ideas for satirical ... inconvenient with everything else that I had to do. -9.29 (Intro to ... writing Matlab code. I was sitting next to my friend Dennis '08, who was

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Varied states of the basement A roundabout trek to an underground level of Building 7 leads me into areas very…

  

  time to get back to my room. Stay tuned for a fun day trip idea! ... to poke around a bit before heading over to 7-012 (a room I pass on a ... a picture for you. Various areas of Building 6's basement are under

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  6.5 Years Post-Graduation, I’m a Beading Artist a twisty path

  

  returned to the blogs to let people know: “I did not graduate from MIT on time due to mental health issues, but I’m thriving, and I’m a health ... straying from the path set up by my education, but it was meant to be. I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  snowfall as the snowflakes fall, they remind me of home

  

  are almost always tied to the[annotation note="MIT has a reputation for ... freshman fall, when I kept waiting and waiting for the snow to come. October ... It snowed for the first time this school year yesterday! Originally

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eyes Wide a scandalous, unintentionally-devoid-of-meaning recent history

  

  of the time, and proceeding to sit down for a whole two hours and ... had come to $3.14, the monetary equivalent of the ratio between a circle ... repeated, immediately cursing my inability to keep nerdy observations to

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 8, 2017