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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside

  

  friend where she admitted to me that she really screwed up academically this semester, and she seemed to be pretty embarrassed about this. BUT ... ? So I went to bed, and the next day I woke up, and I was like: “Gasp

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT how we practice and pursue it here

  

  Allan is taking Digital Toolbox 2 (which teaches how to use animation ... , etc., but were only ever able to practice those things independently ... high school we went to, and for 11th and 12th grade, we transferred to a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2018
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I don’t have letter grades for some of my coursework or have chosen to take a class pass/fail?

  grading systems. We want you to know that we accept whatever grades your school can make available to us and consider them in the context of your ... assessments, or something else. In some cases, you may have the ability to
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes 2.0 what i am/am i doing with my life

  

  Here’s to a basically mid-semester check-in to what I spend my time ... half in now, it’s safe to say that I will have learned a lot by the end of this semester. Perhaps even enough to compensate for the fact that

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 27, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action FAQs Yes, yes, we got your emails!

  

  trying to contact the Admissions office regarding your application, and you ... you back to zen calm state sooner :) ***AN IMPORTANT NOTE***: A lot of people seem to be panicking about getting all the required materials in for

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 24, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Preparing for Pi Day MIT decisions come out this Friday: what to do between now and then...

  

  ...don't freak out. 1. Prepare Your Wifi I applied early to MIT ... morning (Pacific time). During that time, I was scheduled to be at a day ... 't have a smartphone. I sure wasn't going to spend all day in agonized

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / Residential Life

  river and rainwater a rainy walk home

  

  rusty old bike is 19 mph; I wonder how fast I'd be able to go on a sleek road bike instead.  Only occasionally do I glance to the side and notice ... to take it for granted. It's been raining sooo much lately. I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / Events

  life, with the brass rat we're halfway there????????????

  

  their class ring to celebrate being halfway through their journeys. The ... separately but not together. No one warned me how chaotic timing would be ... managed to figure it out, for the most part. [caption id="attachment_91429

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 26, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Calm in Suburban Ohio sunsets, helicopters, and fruit

  

  librarian wondered if I was over 12 years old—not great to hear a month before ...   to feel cool. I enjoy role-playing with my sister and going to the zoo ... playground. And it felt pretty darn cool because I was no longer in a rush to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 16, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What’s cool about Nick’s room artsy people, walls, and East Side living

  

  A few weeks ago, a friend at Princeton traveled up to Cambridge for ... comment: “you can actually tell that people live here!” It’s funny how much ... , my boyfriend’s* mom had a bit to say about the colorfully painted walls

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Finding Balance May I have this dance?

  

  pairs, to stumble out the steps of the international rumba. Here in Lobby 13, the dancers-to-be had convened from near and far, hailing from MIT ... , enthusiasm is good," said Aaron. "But you need to find internal enthusiasm

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  At The Ends Of Tunnels unlike a tunneling particle, I actually had to expend lots of energy to surmount obstacles

  

  to fifteen hours to finish. When we emerge from our cyclic periods of ... into your 'camera'. To save computation, you cast 'light rays' in reverse ... -level gist of it is pretty simple; on a low level, we had to build in tons of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Time-sensitive matters

  

  Lots of questions waiting to be answered, but for today I'll just ... visited." As an international, I don't know how much you follow American ... @MIT website. During CPW, I had the opportunity to check out the brand new

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Brass Rat

  

  MIT Class of 2007 class ring. (Thanks to Mitra for the invitation ... an elaborate delivery ceremony. How did this all start? The history of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Class Ring dates back to the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 28, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Things that make you go hmmmm……. Obama’s transformative presidency………for geeks????

  

  knows how to dance; he dresses well," Sarewitz said. "It's too high a ... used to be. I have been trying to help TIM the Beaver get an internship ... concerned about the financial state of Iceland and wanted to lend his

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • December 30, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i will meet zendaya even if it’s the death of me a wide-ranging rant written while feverish

  

  probably connected to a lot of deeper things than this blog can go into ... as productive as possible, I hate the idea of not being able to do something, and I hate having to just suffer without immediate solutions. My

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 26, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Humans 101 @ MIT introductory SHASS classes this fall and recapping the lightning talks

  

  , Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. History 21H.001 How to Stage a Revolution ... purpose of the list is to provide admitted students with a basic roadmap to the SHASSy side of MIT as they try to navigate the Institute and figure

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trumpeting for Assassins I get to watch each presidential assassination. Live. Over and over again.

  

  In fifth grade, everyone at my school had to pick an instrument to ... playing every instrument in turn, and the teachers would rate us from 1 to 10 (not a clue what they were rating, exactly...how awesome we looked

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So, uh… help me pick classes I have no classes.

  

  interest in learning how to make forceful arguments in written form. Studies ... Prereq: None Units: 3-0-9 You must enter the HASS-D lottery to take this ... means for autobiographer and biographer to develop a personal voice; and

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Events

  dtyd weekend all party, no planning (for once)

  

  "]DTYD[/annotation] LIV was on Sunday, so the days leading up to it were filled with events ... reason exists in Walker Memorial, right next to East Campus"]the Muddy[/annotation] and then headed straight to Bhangra practice. since Bhangra was the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 19, 2023