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  About the Midyear Report We've been getting many questions about the Midyear Report. Here are some answers.

  

  students with something to report -- so if you're in a school that doesn ... semester (or after completion of the second quarter, if your school uses a quarter-based system). If your school uses a trimester schedule, please use

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 14, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iap: this year vs. last

  

  that I'm excited to see more of in my remaining half a year living here ... choreographing 4-5 hours a day for the entire month in preparation for Mocha Show ... , go back to my dorm for a couple of hours, and then spend my night

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 10, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  wow. my first three weeks being an actual student actually at mit

  

  'm still in a state of shock (so try to forgive me if this post is all over ... . We split in to groups and designed objects meant to fix a problem in ... building, note to self: join the MIT Hobby Shop, it's soo rad.) I'm in a

  • by Joe B. '18
  • September 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  We’re Bringing What Back? I don't think so.

  

  lives in Florida, anyway??)(No, don't answer that.) Dear Bryan, I woke up this morning excited to verify the existence of this thing you call

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 4, 2006
• Blog / Events

  tEpikazoo Thoughts on cooking and gratuitous prefixes

  

  offered a slice to Li Brunetto '12, who tasted it and replied, very ... battle scenes in Lord of the Rings allow pika to run a meal plan 7 days a ... In the past three months, my relationship to cooking has swerved from

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Alien in America A display of feelings; a post that might not make any sense.

  

  yell "China China!" or when just a month ago, in Nanjing, some creepy ... , but lived her whole life in Africa. Though I find it difficult to cope ... that--coping. I was trained, in a way, from preschool to college. I had

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the FIRST DAY of CLASSES!!!!! A summary of the first half of the day/how I'm feeling, with many exclamation points!!!

  

  since I got back from China. Today, in order to facilitate Better Blogging ... Blogs in order to throw a post up without much editing, but now that I ... Scholars Program at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China (that was a lot of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Spiral of Doom? Never fear! It’s similar to what a lot of us used in high ... credit limit of 57 units. I used that opportunity to explore Course 1 in a ...   ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire

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

  More CPW Pix

  

  -awesome)! It's also a time to see some folks we haven't seen in a while. It was ... 'd imagine -- and sometimes, that picture in your head is a bit off -- like ... birthday to Kelly. We took a group photo (see below). We chatted some more

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Week(end) [Read: New York] Adventures Parts 2-4 I’ve affectionately named these adventures: #metroentertainment

  

  up at the rest stop to find myself in the mist of a blizzard to welcome ... a two-hour journey up to an alumni’s home in Rye, NY for another ... , January 21, 2011 was definitely a GREAT day to start a weekend adventure. I

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m Still Here (for now) quick reflections on the last ten years

  

  round trip to do in a single day"]down and back[/annotation] when I first ... would find plane tickets cheap if she bought them almost a year in advance ... along the northeast coast. I’m listening to a playlist I made in 2016

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! Plus lots of awesome advice from MIT students!

  

  only covered a pinprick of what was in store for us. And to everyone who ... . It’s a life skill you’ll have to get used to if you come to MIT ... ? Like pudding? How about mega puddings? What about a GIGA pudding? Come to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  busy semesters and how to manage them it's organizational structures all the way down

  

  ="Communication Intensive in the Humanities; basically means you have to write a certain ... down in the system below, these should still be a sufficient source to ... 't accomplished, and in those cases I mark a red X and pull the task over to the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 10, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Hello, Ma Sheng Li Gong A journey of four years begins with a single blog.

  

  ), and we decided to stay in Boston for a couple of nights before heading ... am leaving this place, I am going to America." So that's me, in a ... I managed to stay off it for a month!) and 2) I like giving advice in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life Tokens the currency of joy

  

  ?!? which is a patently inferior term. i refuse to use that name, so i will ... ,000, even $50,000, equivalent to the payday salary of a “computer designer” in ... ), buying a house, and eventually retiring. The goal is to collect as much

  • by Allison E. '27
  • July 6, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  so you’re starting your first year? boy do I have unsolicited tips for you

  

  observing what you find yourself interested in is a good way to really figure ... You Graduate List, in case you find yourself on one evening trying to ... process, but a short one. I had to apply online, book an appointment, go in

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 2, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 2 The deadline is coming!

  

  want to enroll in a US school towards a diploma (we not not require a ... in a college and still apply as a freshman to MIT (you'd be considered ... , not in 9-11 grades. How to indicate this applying on-line? Also a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 30, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  ; The goal of perfectionism is more similar to a survivalist mindset. If ... experienced a lot of failure in my sophomore year, it’s not a dramatic ... of shit I was going to eat, sometimes served on a high-speed conveyor

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Travels Winter break is here!

  

  only 8 weeks long and amazingly short compared to MIT's semesters. Many of the CME students are taking advantage of our 6 week winter break to ... Germany Czech Republic Romania Italy Spain Denmark UK France China The list

  • by Cambridge
  • December 4, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I swear this isn’t an ad for Google But Bard is so much more fun than ChatGPT

  

  you know it used to be Metallurgy back in 1873? But even that wasn’t its ... Earlier this year, I had planned to write a blog post testing whether it’s possible to train a machine-learning model to learn Course 6’s new

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 31, 2023