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  Middle School To those who are having or have had a bad experience

  

  to Miami, Florida when we were 10. We started 5th grade in Miami at a ... this, we were very enthusiastic to speak up in class when we knew an answer. Our fourth grade math curriculum in New York happened to almost

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fonts of MIT a typographical tour

  

  to its lower left, the one that starts "THIS ACCESS POINT", is in ... humanist and soft. Signage I've always loved signage. I've alluded to it in ... next to RLE's: This one's in Interstate. It's a font based on the road

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Screw Up Your Username It's time to put down your AOL screen name.

  

  this decision is: your MIT username (also referred to as your Athena or ... for clunkiness or awkward pronunciations. It's usually best to go ... referred to by your username. "In some circles on campus, you may become

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 30, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  New Portlets? Just throwin' some ideas around.

  

  manage to sequester a few minutes of Quinton's schedule, you'll see them in ... media, customized to your preferences, right in your portal. #2 OCW ... link to a given user's interests in academics as designated in his

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2004
• Blog / Events

  5 days until Mystery Hunt

  

  Friday, January 14, at 12 noon in Lobby 7 (the "main entrance" to MIT). It ... Malkovich, still trying to win their first Hunt), and my team, "Lost in Space ... or so people participated in the mini-Hunt, divided into three teams

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 1: Hartford Part 1 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  things were all set. Last week someone clued me in to the fact that MIT had ... did have 50-75 people standing and/or sitting in the aisles - if you ... first leg of the trip, left Boston. (Note to self: pack the night before

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  A Blog Entry About Transition This blog entry is about transition. The act of passing from one state or place…

  

  total - so I took as many as I could, as if the only way to succeed in ... 'll have to figure out how YOU learn most effectively. Or maybe you already ... wanted to know the material, whether or not you kicked butt on the exam

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 2, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Grad school admissions My (limited) insight into the graduate admissions process.

  

  morning at 6:45 AM. (My postdoc at the lab told me I don't have to come in ... application and wants to get to know you in person. I'll be meeting this weekend ... involved in research early. Some students wait until their senior year to get

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline: Your Questions [Updated] With the Early Action deadline fast approaching, I'll try to answer some last minute questions.

  

  , "In the application form you ask whether or not we have already tried to ... writing into the optional section in Part 2, or mail hardcopies to the ... supplement next week or waiting to send both in at the same time? Thank you for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Neglect Your Creative Side And I don't mean the side of you that thinks up math problems while you…

  

  amount of sleep you need (or in some cases, the amount of caffeine you can ... First off, congratulations to the Class of 2012! From what I hear you guys are amazing. I can't wait to meet you. And to those of you who weren

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  girls just wanna have fun when u gonna live ur life right?

  

  fanfics until 3 in the morning or deep-diving into carefully curated ... knew what I wanted to do. In elementary school, I'd write short stories ... job prospects to solely STEM. In my sophomore year, I took a biomedical

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 24, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, adieu To you, and you, and you and you and you.

  

  's always open. I might even have cookies or pie. Those of you who want to be ... figured today would be a good day for me to hang up my blogging hat. I ... opportunity to help people discover the MIT that I know. Those of you who are

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language What Learning Chinese at MIT has meant to me

  

  country in Africa they are actually from. None of us knew what it means to ... culture or world awareness day. That was simply the world we lived in. This ... As an African American I have always felt left out when it comes to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vaccine Externalities Health economics applied to the decreased odds of my getting the flu, courtesy of my…

  

  vaccine for free. My bad. You may be wondering how governments (or, in this ... vaccine has on other people. In order to reach the socially optimal ... vaccine. (Open up the images in a new browser to see larger versions of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  self-taught dancing: a how-to how i learned dance through YouTube

  

  dance for over a month, I delete it or put it in a subfolder to free up ... YouTube to practice dancing seemed like my best bet. as said in my ... because I already learned a dance to it, don't like it, or think it's too

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 4, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  , Indian, or Thai food before I got to MIT. (Come to MIT! Expand your culinary horizons!) Work Next week is my last week in the lab (which is to ... about 80 to go. And then, I have to manipulate the data in Excel so I can

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  College Application Anxiety what if your biggest fear is getting *into* MIT

  

  MIT in your sights shows that you must believe in yourself to some ... 't realize is that if someone decides to invest something in you—in this case ... adequate level to pass xyz and abc classes in your time at that school. A

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Monday Actually, I think I just made it to Tuesday.

  

  his homework in a leather briefcase and can run from Random Hall to ... that I have four exams in the next week. Like the Goldberg Variations or ... is more eyewateringly jam-packed than usual: Click here to see it in

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Part 3 Helping the Class of 2010 with their decisions.

  

  The third in a series... With fewer than 10 days to go until the May ... , another anon, the email address doesn't seem to be the one in our database ... MIT or your other choice university -- or you need to appeal your award

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bring Your Audience to Work Day In celebration of the annual Bring Your Audience to Work Day, the first Monday of…

  

  in the area of Service Design. (Basically, figuring out how to make ... 'm so happy to be awake at 8-in-the-moooorning! Yeah, it's trash day ... I'm always one to celebrate the more obscure holidays. After all

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 2, 2007