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

  

  helped me realize that Course 1 wasn't my destiny. SO WHAT IS THE BOXED I ... high school. It was my first project-oriented class, and I was really excited. Little did I know the depth I was getting into. Me and my teammate

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eastward ho! Don't US people normally go to Canada or Mexico before they cross an ocean?

  

  across the main island. In my typical fashion I arrived at the train ... enough, a job offer found its way to my inbox in January. Here’s a normal day for me: I show up at 8:30, my supervisor and I talk about what we

  • by Stanley G.
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline

  

  accessing MyMIT - we're seeing some unusually heavy user activity today (even ... , but I'll do my best to update this post as soon as I hear any further

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • December 31, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roombaaaa The longest trip I've ever taken in my life

  

  My story begins a couple weeks ago at Career Fair.... As I attempted to make my way through the hustle and bustle of suited up MIT students ... want to practice networking. Those that just want the free swag. (My

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Great Gatsby In all its pixelated glory

  

  While browsing through my news feed the other day, I came upon a post from the MIT Alumni Association's page that caught my eye... The Great Gatsby as a video game?? So cool. After doing a little digging around, I

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Invasion of the Stikmen Another invasion of MIT?

  

  ?!?" Baffled by these little men, I tracked down my friend Steven '15 (my go

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • August 14, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Stephen, I’m Putting You On Notice!

  

  Believe it or not, admissions officers occasionally try to do things besides reading applications to MIT. One of the things I enjoy doing in my ... is one of my favorite television shows. During one recent episode

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TERMinal Velocity My last term is flying by!

  

  Hard to believe but my time at the institute is starting to wrap up ... sorts of projects. I, for better and worse, am not most people. My term ... lets take a peek into my day:   6.002x (Circuits and Electronics

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  High Class Brass [✔] Order a Brass Rat [✔] Feel swanky [ ] Become Iron Man

  

  Both my father (MCP, '87) and I spent some time here at the Institute. My dad, as you might deduce from the letters and the year next to his ... something new to my list, albeit I don't get it until May: the MIT Brass Rat

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ICE, ICE baby Guess which song would inevitably get stuck in my head as I tooled in the…

  

  something my mom would say to me, but she never actually called me Margaret Mary, and my status as the youngest child meant she knew my location at ... myself I would never become. What happened to make me neglect my

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memoriam: Professor Silbey

  

  . My interaction with Prof. Silbey was in Spring 2010, when I took 20 ... my favorite professors I've had at MIT. He managed to take something ... , in my book) that could get away with using Comic Sans (the other being

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day in the Life see what we're up to

  

  It's 2am, I'm up reading about plane crashes (more on my classes later), and a cool thing is happening on campus. Technique, MIT ... now, back to my regularly scheduled tooling*   * except I

  • by Piper '13
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Meant to Be What I've found at MIT

  

  events have happened in my life. I experienced the best FPOP ever aka DPD ... my first MIT pset. As you can imagine, it's been hard to devote my ... amazing things happening on campus. Nevertheless, my love for the blogs and

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 19, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  This is what happens when we don’t do work Here is the infinite rollercoaster of fun I promised not to take you on.

  

  to blog. Here's a quick summary of my last two-and-a-bit weeks to prove ... bubble tea for my caffeine event (note: never hold a confusingly named event on the fifth floor). I only wish I'd had more time to spend at my

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 24, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  Coming up with entry titles is harder than it seems Reasons 9001 and 9002 to get "absolutely pumped about CPW," as Cam would say.

  

  Hello beautiful folks of the interwebz, It's been a while! Much has happened since my last post - I stopped being a teenager, I went to San Diego ... surprise care-package from my mom (contents: Best of Mr. Bean DVD), to name a

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We now interrupt our regularly-scheduled programming… I tried getting ahead on my reading assignments but that only lasted so long.

  

  Just so you all know, I'm working on a new Q&A video. Thanks for your questions, I feel loved. Special shout-out to my midwest friends ... morning classes got cancelled, my 9:30 am 7.05 (biochem) class was still on

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring! What I did (and didn't) do over IAP...and plans for my last semester!

  

  and IAP, I did my best to take it easy. That’s the wonderful thing about ... exciting, good kind of way). Here’s what I’ve got in my final (!) semester at ... to hear what our topics will be. German II-Unlike any of my Course 20

  • by Alina G. '11
  • January 30, 2011
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  A New Time, A New Place 2011 and India!

  

  hogging wifi and using the textplus app on my iTouch to wish my friends back ... -minute bus ticket purchase, and some serious luggage-lifting, I made my way ... ’ve been here with my mom and grandma; it’s absolutely gorgeous: The

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Passions (No, not that kind)

  

  -description attached to this post may have, despite my best efforts, given some of you a clue as to what this post will be about. Anybody who read my last post ... a far-too-familiar part of campus with my friend Kevin

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for Seniors From me to you. Why? Because I care

  

  I have been back from my fall travel rounds for almost a week now ... between. My trip was a lot of fun! I saw the Pacific Ocean…… ….got lost on my way to Hollywood, but found Christopher Columbus, who pointed me

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 10, 2009