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• Blog / IAP

  I’m Awesome (at) Parkour! and other fun things i'm doing this Independent Activities Period

  

  (which I don't), it's mandatory to have at least some sort of meal plan ... IAP is in full swing, and I am having a blast! At MIT, the second ... the IAP acronym, and then spending a quarter of an hour trying to come

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 22, 2019
• Blog / CPW

  how to tackle CPW ...i totally have the authority to write this

  

  offer. if you're interested, look at the dorm pages and check out their ... handful of dorms at my CPW, and ended up ranking Burton Conner #1 later. tip ... Bloggers - Friday at 8 PM in W20-307: come say hi to all of us and ridicule

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 6, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  On Essay Writing A guide to essay writing for the express purpose of obtaining admittance to an institute…

  

  local coffee shop while others gag at the smell of coffee. Pretty sure you ... sit at a desk in a library with a stick of gum to keep me awake but no ... unfiltered. c. Staring at the ceiling – I do some of my best thinking while

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Slump and an unexpected summer

  

  ’s common to feel stuck in a rut at times, and there are ways to get out of it ... . After a long week of interviewing, I accepted a position at a company that ... My second year of college just ended. I’ve been trying to think of a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • June 2, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  My First Semester at MIT a thicc recap and a look into our conversation

  

  As the final hours of my first semester at MIT come to a close, I ... that, at the end of a shitty day or test, I can always just see one of ... and emotional at the mere idea of even having the privilege to write

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  A CPW Entry for Parents Students shouldn't have all the fun.

  

  parent event offerings based on feedback, requests, and questions. Some of ... Services Session for Parents: Friday afternoon at 1pm, Director of Student ... , whys and whens of financial aid at MIT -- how we determined your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is an Incomplete Grade? ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire situations

  

  shades of brilliant, MIT handles grades. On a 0% – 100% scale? Maybe “A ... Spiral of Doom? Never fear! It’s similar to what a lot of us used in high ... screenshot of how your MIT grade report looks like online. Note: Your grade

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  being bad at ice skating and learning to try anyway

  

  ="ok so part of it may have been because i was jumping for three hours at my ... remember the pain of dragging myself along the wall at one point, and someone ... arm in braces floating constantly at the back of my mind; I was

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 15, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  One thing every woman’s missed in Massachusetts Bay Sam and Shana have gone to look for America, starting in Philadelphia.

  

  being and took the hint, offering us lodging for the night on his couch at ... things as those at MIT. Ursinus students apparently slide down some of ... sitting by the fountain at the Tomb of the Unknown American Revolutionary

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (An Incomplete Guide to) Summer Opportunities for MIT Students Pantsuits, stress, hyperlinks.

  

  of companies send recuiters to set up booths at MIT. It fills up an ice ... more time at MIT). I don’t think I did a very good job of building these ... for something related to your education, MIT offers a lot of

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Valentine’s Day Special Featuring calculus, people who hate me, and a picture puzzle

  

  to talk about things that they write at the bottom of lists. In ... selection of friends at some random time in the middle of the night and ask ... they were doing. The result would be a mosaic of diverse happenings at

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 3 Connecting with your Educational Counselor

  

  you--a couple of days at least before you begin to worry. They are busy ... This time of year, Educational Counselors all over the world are ... reports about their meetings with you. For some of you, an interview may not

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hometown Heroes The first of articles about awesome MIT '09s.

  

  of genius at age three or four. After returning from visits to the ... 'll highlight it in a future entry! A little background: back in the summer of 2003, the MIT News Office did a series of these articles called "Hometown

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 Classes For 0 Credit: Beethoven to Mahler and Paradise Lost That can be rearranged to say: Paradise lost to Beethoven and Mahler.

  

  Beethoven to Mahler Last semester, I took my first music class at MIT: 21M.235, or "Monteverdi to Mozart". 21M.235 is offered in the fall, and ... one of my physics classes. My friend Ben H. '14 was in a similarly

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 17, 2014
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 2: DINEPA and mosquito bites

  

  lot of health campaigns as well as water testing at the source, although ... school in Dalebrun, at the epicenter of the earthquake, to work with the ... kits to potentially teach some of the children at the school how to test

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I am slowly going insane This is your brain on AI-generated videos

  

  -labeled data that OpenAI can only dream of. The first-place prize was an NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano, which Professor Han had demo-ed at the start of the ... hundreds of AI-generated videos and rating how realistic each looked. His lab

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 6, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why I stayed up until 6am on Thursday More nerdy cake-baking.

  

  Spoilers: there's a picture of an awesome cake at the end of this ... frats. I wasn't signed up to play, but at 7:30 one of our players told me ... , because I'm super hosed...so lots of fast typing and zero editing

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m taking this semester! senior fall

  

  Classes start tomorrow! today! I started writing this at 11:55PM and ... of time. I've also grown an "idgaf if you think I'm stupid, I'm just ... improved my state of mind. And honestly, there isn't a single class that I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  trust how do you decide who to trust when there are lots of untrustworthy people?

  

  would drop me off at the gym and i would run laps around the track, and ... that they tried to kidnap me. i spent most of my childhood distrusting ... vast majority of people are safe to be around in the vast majority of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Marathon If Mollie's boyfriend can complain, so can I.

  

  . Plus, there's a lot of work. Take last week, for example. I was up until ungodly hours Wednesday night finishing the 18.02 pset that was due at 1 PM on Thursday. Once I handed that in, I had a couple of hours of class

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 15, 2006