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• Blog / Admissions

  Lots of questions today! Lots of answers, too.

  

  Square, because they have an all-you-can-eat buffet for Saturday lunch; we ... close by for dry-cleaning? Yes. The closest place is definitely the one in ... an iron? I have an iron, and I've used it perhaps once in my four years

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Senior Survey (Says?) (For the record, I think that being on Family Feud would be totally awesome)

  

  , for an upcoming post about my favorite door on campus. (No, that is not a joke. It's an ultra-cool door.) I'm in the middle of a tough week where I'm racing to finish up an incomplete in a class from last term by

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 3, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  Last Lap and hoping to finish strong

  

  (Current Debates in Media): This is the capstone class for the CMS major ... a dozen by the end of the year. For an undergrad, that's pretty good ... things to blog about. But, since it's my last semester as an undergrad, and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Somebody Else Seven undergrad blogs not enough for you? Now some of them have multiple authors.

  

  do this - I teach rising sophomores in writing. Let me tell you, for ... greatly resembles one I stayed in for a few summers during high school with ... 's Dream. As you can see, Moria is an excellent chef. Unfortunately, she's in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Giving Back (Guest Entry) Guest Entry by Kenny '13

  

  sophomore here for Physics and Computer Science. In addition to academics, I ... life for a second. Whether you're a current senior and getting excited for CPW, a current undergrad and getting excited for CPW, or a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 5, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week 1 Autumn tastes like warm apple pie covered in bacon.

  

  -saturated “Introduction to Undergraduate Women in Physics” event that I hosted for the Class ... interpreted as a challenge for student groups to 1-up each other in distributing ... -preservation instincts began sirening for me to pick up the scissors and start cutting

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 13, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 1

  

  essays today, I realized an egregious error in one. I really do think it ... ever consider this revision??" It is highly unlikely that an error in ... broken. Sorry. paul asked, "can a research paper in an international

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  So, What Exactly Happens? y'know, over IAP?

  

  offered financial aid for low-income students in the form of TechCash to ... 's Year In Review (which will be coming out soon) for more. Preparing talks and presentations. I'm preparing for my MIT Monologue coming soon in

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] This is Junior Lab, not Junior Theory By Jorian B. '25

  

  for 5 lab sessions and write an associated paper + presentation (I did ... . As an engineering double major (in Course 16, AeroAstro), I cared about ... interest in physics was that of an enthusiastic amateur but that I didn

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 1, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  When Friends Become Family How MIT has become my home (with some beautiful pics to accompany)

  

  in the morning working on an 18.02 pset that has decided not to let you ... I had known them for years. Every one of the brothers is an individual ... Family.   A special shoutout to the sorority APhi for being an

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Break To sleep or not to sleep?

  

  your throat as possible in the shortest amount of time it can. An example ... multivariable calculus in there as well, but graciously gives you an extra month ... remember this going into your finals. I know it may not be as big an issue in

  • by Snively '11
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Song of Myself All we need is music (sweet music).

  

  for six units of general elective credit, which, in my experience, is UTTERLY MEANINGLESS except for boosting your GPA. Hey, my A in choir made the difference between an x.84 and an x.86 for me last term, which is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Spring Line-Up, Part 1: Classes Learning Middle English, sketching constellations, holding meteorites

  

  in silence for about an hour, sketching the sky as astronomers have ... my arms. Woah. There are six of us in this class, and it is not for ... , and are used to taking physics class in which the purpose is for us to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life Coming Full Circle C’mon & zoom, c’mon & zoom, c’mon & zooma zooma zooma zoom.

  

  trying to do the same for K-12. My role in all of this is mostly marketing ... . Back in April, when I was still anxiously waiting to hear back from the slew of internships I applied for, a strange idea popped into my mind

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Bienvenidos a Miami Updates from South Florida.

  

  ), including a beaver (go MIT!) carved for them. Left: The EC Breakfast in Miami ... Alia in Seattle. I'm working on a Questions Omnibus for this week, as ... Yesterday, I held a Central Meeting in South Miami, Florida. We were

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Delicious Things Mmmmm.

  

  Despite how many mailing lists I'm on, I'm not an active member of many organizations. I show up for events randomly, but don't attend meetings for most of these groups. Not because I don't want to, but because

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Non-Stop a completely stacked google calendar? in THIS economy?

  

  held at MIT in December, so we talked about options for making classes ... campus in fall, so we're in the middle of hunting for a place to live in ... :30-3:00 I had a biweekly check-in for my communications job with the MIT

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 25, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  We will not be taking anyone from the wait list in 2020 closing out the wait list for the Class of 2024

  

  list are invariably awesome, and we hope to find a space for them in our ... space in the class for students who have remained on the wait list.   To ... students will accept our offer of admission and enroll at MIT in the fall (as

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Examining exams Sometimes, grades matter less than photons are matter.

  

  with an unearthly chorus of low self-esteem for the past week. Take a ... your intelligence is no longer in an inertial frame of reference. Your ... oxidized so many of my beloved energy molecules in preparing for a biology

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  some things my eyes saw recently (this is exactly what it says on the tin)

  

  : The weather on campus turned beauuuutiful this week (just in time for ... (including an 11.30 trip to Verde's for more packing tape) and was absolutely ... waiting for me at home, and we had an enthusiastic reunion, then soaked up

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 24, 2019