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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Course 2A is Cooler than You I'm back from the dead, to tell you all about my major and its ridiculously…

  

  truth on an application. It's about how you lead your life. Don't worry, I ... horrible person. Please don't tell me about it, because I already know, and I feel awful about it. =( But, my field hockey season is over and now that

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  letter to my 2023 self from: 2024 janet

  

  AOs will think you’re stupid or annoying or whatever else.  It does get ... were fine with the drive being so long — in fact, you wished it would ... also observe that this is supposed to be a letter from 2024 janet and it

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 2, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  where is south dakota again? and other fun questions for your south dakotan friends

  

  communities and its political leanings. Such, I think, is life. What does being ... live where we live? What does it mean to live? Alan: Henry's answer made ... mentioned that I know "exactly how many students from South Dakota go to MIT

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 3, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh, the places you’ll go (reprise) my first ever technical interview

  

  runtime is far too long and I don't know how to fix it and people try to ... . Regardless, I was really happy with how it was going so far. He then asked me how long I've been coding for and if I've done this sort of thing before

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  StartMIT: IAP for Entrepreneurs Like with anything else, it helps to learn from the best

  

  children. You could hear jaws hit the floor. I don’t know how she does it ... entrepreneurs. It’s a 2 ½ week long, full-time workshop that touches on everything ... how to go about implementing it—which is the purpose of the program

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 26, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Money! Money! Money! Life is like monopoly, except you're not a pewter Tophat and it costs WAY more…

  

  heard of it, it's an online financial management solution that does all ... breakfast? Go for it! Don't want to go to class? You won't get in trouble ... to comprehend it: You're going to have to start paying for things

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 22, 2009
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What does “drinking from a fire hose” mean?

  Getting an education from MIT has been likened to taking a drink from a fire hose—the sheer number of opportunities and rigor of our coursework can leave students feeling hosed. So it's only fair that students
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Airplane boy strikes again Adam writes about his UROP.

  

  , but it's not a huge deal -- class schedules come out a long time before ... through junior high and high school. By the time I got to MIT, it was pretty ... tense?] So while others were attending orientation programs on "how to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  Toronto with a friend. It’s been an extraordinarily long day. Despite ... and a therapy in itself. Give it a shot and let me know how it goes < ... When I graduated in 2018, I was talking to my partner about how lost

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist Questions The waitlist seems to be a hot topic so I'll try to answer the most…

  

  does it work? Don't I have to let other colleges know by May 1? Is it ... common questions here (with help from Dean Marilee)... 1) How many people will MIT take from the waitlist? Is it true that you haven't taken any

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First UROP Initiating a Life of Research

  

  and Hydrothermal Liquefaction. So how does it all work for a Freshman ... , how the heck does one actually go about doing this? To my luck, the ... -seen-on-tv product that actually performs like it does on TV. I learn at least two to

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 14, 2017
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Rise and Grind and Build *dolly parton voice* workin' 9 to 5

  

  points where the laser hits the bed. Why does it matter, you ask? At points ... note="lucky me, though, they still healed. so what does that say about my ... with the term, fabrication is Engineering Speak for making things. It

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Second Day of Class Course shopping and such.

  

  my forehead (it didn't really hurt much, but it was crazy how fast it ... content seems fascinating actually. It's interesting how MIT would structure ... interesting challenge, so I guess I'll keep it and see how it goes. As this is

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  "? How do we know if one applicant is "better" than the other? What does ... could we know? And how would we measure it? Clearly Kahneman thinks that ... measured not by what it is but by what it does, which is of course to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / People & Identities

  Amicus briefs and the ABCs of a diverse MIT A SCOTUS filing with Stanford et al, and a strategic action plan for an inclusive…

  

  , and here, among others; I would say that how we think about it is most ... critical educational goals. As the brief explains, “Not only does diversity contribute to better outcomes for students in STEM — it contributes to better

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 27, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1 Recent questions, answered.

  

  bitter friends tell you anything else. Carmel asked, "Question: does it ... It's been a while since I've done a Questions Omnibus... Harlan '10 ... recieve a reply, is that because I sent it in so quickly?" Harlan '10, I am

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Greek Way What I did for a Klondike Bar, caesar salad, chicken florentine, mushroom ravioli, chocolate torte,…

  

  for social chair because it had gone unfulfilled for so long, and ... actually called the ceremony, but it used the word "covenant" enough times to ... the ceremony involved such that it necessitated this non

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  If I Try Really Hard, I Can Resemble Ernest Borgnine First stop on the tour: London.

  

  long way up! It's yours truly ;-) A view from the top Big Ben & ... falling down? It really was sinking into the River Thames, so in 1968, the city of London put it up for sale to make way for a new bridge. Oil and

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  final exam distributions "mit does not curve"

  

  happiness when everyone scores poorly together."]technically "does not curve", [/annotation] so I've added some here to make up for it!

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The Blogs Turn 10: Looking Back, Looking Ahead data and narrative, past and present

  

  Years by Kim D. '09 Fake it 'til you make it by Laura N. '09 How To ... Facebook engagement, ever! Here's how much of an outlier it is: although the ... mind that these are specific formulations of an entity: i.e., it does not

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2014