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  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  speakers of MITglish enunciate consonants at the end of words with ... the incoming Class of 2013, I offer an introductory documentation of ... , localized dialect like a wandering hitchhiker on the sideroads of esoteric

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tales of my first Career Fair Among other things, shirts for the next 33 days

  

  resume at some of the smaller companies that ask for one. My friend and I ... , and an 18.02 exam on Friday. In the midst of spending the day studying ... upperclassmen. "OF COURSE IT IS! GO FOR THE FREE SWAG," they all encourage me. So

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 2, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Get The Scoop The dish on ice cream around MIT.

  

  went at the end of last semester before it was time for us to take our ... Without fail, if I could only eat one food for the rest of my life, it would be ice cream. Fortunately, here at MIT, ice cream is only a

  • by Bryan
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  working really hard for an MIT degree. MIT kids are really good at delayed ... the percentage of MIT students living at dorms owning a TV set ... a pretty generous designation for that rather sizable piece of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  Stata Center has three towers. Some of the windows look out at other walls of the Stata Center. Others look out at a desert under unfamiliar stars ... blink. There are ResLife workers at the edge of the mudpit. An RLAD shifts

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  Let's face it: none of us are getting younger. In fact, I'm getting older at the astonishing rate of one (1) year per annum, which means that ... , MISTI, career fairs - MIT offers a lot of resources, but you have to take

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to work

  

  grumbling for part of them because of having to wake up at 7am. ;-) April 21 ... CPW was a lot of fun, and it was great meeting so many of you in person. The fabled Weather Machine did its job on Thursday, so at least you

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2017 By The Numbers with apologies to iron maiden

  

  Here at MITAdmissions we try to be transparent as possible about our ... 've blogged before about how the dangers of reading too much into admissions ... fundamental confusion between our admissions process and the results of that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The things that can change your life…

  

  " advice about life at MIT, only one tidbit of which I remember clearly. "If ... enough ago that few of you were reading my blog. A little bit of context ... of Peeto '01 and his lovely fiancee Meaghan. He's one of our zanier

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Public Statements

  A letter from President Reif regarding George Floyd and Minneapolis

  

  ongoing pandemic, the death of George Floyd, at the knee of a Minneapolis ... , and students of MIT: To the members of the MIT community, At MIT ... Today, the Class of 2020 graduates — virtually — from MIT. On a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Fight against Gender Discrimination in STEM an excerpt from a fall class paper

  

  research the history of gender discrimination and Title IX at MIT. I first ... the Schools of Science and Engineering at MIT showed further ... of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), the University of Arizona, and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 6, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Railroad reading A Thursday evening book review that nobody really asked for.

  

  Bravo at MIT, so this evening I watched Battle of the Network Reality ... 's mother at a little league game--that alone is worth the price of admission ... ?" It rocked. Today Sam's Mom and I went for cheesesteak at my favorite

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Labor Day, literally Moving back into my dorm room

  

  renting a truck at the beginning and ends of the school year to transport ... things. Yida and I moved out together at the beginning of the summer and ... classes. A lot of people are already moved in at this point, but I always

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 3, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  the npc life office hours with lupe fiasco

  

  the same idea. Near the end of last semester, we got brunch together at ... "The Show Goes On" and "Battle Scars", so when I heard he was teaching at ... out of Arizona/the only one who can save me is Rona," I riffed

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 26, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Associate Advising and the MedLinks Program I'm sick of unpacking, so here's a blog post

  

  Overheard at MIT (from sometime Spring 2012 - I've been keeping a collection of these for a while, and will start leaking them out) MIT Student ... the form and the coefficients? I used erf and it gave me both at the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  understandable; but in the early 1990s an even higher percentage of the students at ... I do understand that human beings are not intuitively good at ... showing, among other things, that people in general are terrible at

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Women’s Initiative A bit about my classes - and why girls are awesome

  

  extremely valuable pieces of information :) 9.52 - Stat for Neuroscience ... interesting in that 90% of our grade is based on problem sets, 5% on ... easy. It's a new class, offered as a substitute for 9.07: the notoriously

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keeping it Green On a visit to NYC, I learned a little about environmentally friendly housing.

  

  After a not-so-brief hiatus, I'm back at the Institute! Over the break, I took large bites out of the Big Apple on my two visits to New ... unassuming, only the giant blue solar panels on the roof give any indication of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Greetings from India: D-Lab Students in the Field D-Lab students Luke, Sydney, Jessica, Madhavan

  

  Cuisine" "India offers so many new and exciting things, one of the most ... D-Lab is an interdisciplinary program at MIT committed to working ... technologies. This January, teams comprising a total of 35 students are working

  • by OEL
  • January 28, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final Forty-Five Still somehow worse than last term

  

  ’m taking this term. I’m taking a total of 45 credits, the fewest credits I’ve ever taken at MIT. Part of the reason for that is that one of my classes ... .1 lbs/g. Their column was also the lightest of all, coming in at a

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 28, 2011