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  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  Nowhere, New Mexico - out on a Navajo Reservation. Did I mention that I ... 100% Navajo, and about a quarter of its students go on to graduate. Even fewer go on to college. School. Otherwise known as my second home. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  cathartic on Friday, November 6, 2015. Today is Sunday, November 6. This is ... should listen to the Nintendo a la Cziffra verson on youtube. Danny B ... past. We can help. Have you slept? Good luck. EC Gothic Nchinda N. '17

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  . My parents gave me my MacBook Pro as a gift before I left for MIT. It ... terminal and the Apple GUI depending on what I need to do. I also like the ... computer not suffer on my behalf. Here are some things you should buy for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  :30-9:10 -- Check CC, everybody's blogs, Google News, and a bunch of Live ... EECS. We discuss happenings in our lives. He comments on my recently dyed ... (This seemed like a really good idea for an entry when I was on my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  you have explored it’s time to focus in. Master your major, and focus on ... Happy 10th birthday, blogs!!! I made you a cake! (With help from ... anniversay of my MIT journey. 10 years ago today, I was just about to start my

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  starting to take on new and exciting coursework, I smile and think of all the ... within the sorority--the founder class. We decided on an aspirational name ... ). Briana B. ‘17 (right) and I on the steps to Lobby 10 The current

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest blog: “Me, Marvel, and MIT” Jade's experience working on a SHASS UROP for me

  

  in Cambridge for summer 2023. I would be working on a more technical ... Today I'm hosting a guest post by Jade Durham '25, who — alongside Cami '23 and Shayna '23 —  spent the last few years working on a UROP

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  you will live away from your parents for potentially the first time in ... , and I decided I couldn’t live that far away from my family for four ... my favorite professors, chatted with me about math and life for hours

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  I am starting this post on Thursday, April 8, 2021, and today, it ... . Because if you do so, you won’t focus on the path that you did choose. Live ... . On Tuesday, I chat with my girlfriend. I ask her if she thinks that I

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  into the floor on which I'm standing. I love being able to make progress ... almost every week for the past 6 years. Mostly at the Z on campus; sometimes, on the road [annotation note="I keep a stack of guest passes to the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  in advance, here's considerations on picking classes and schedules ... , but look into classes that aren't on this list too. The best way to ... semester. The big requirements you should be paying attention to early on are

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  display it on the LCD. After asking for some help from Jay, I ended up ... punishment database that would live on the server and the function to access it ... exercises and needed a lot of help with it. But when I look back on 6.08, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  like my old self, if you don't get the news you are hoping for on ... ! *** Precisely one year ago today I sat drinking coffee at a Dunkin Donuts with one of my best friends, Colin, as we chatted about getting into our

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  questions about their lives to help you puzzle through your own young ... the city through the eyes of people who love it. You are living here, on ... bootcamp and lived alone for ~3 months with a job and a nasty commute - my

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  was chatting with strangers on the Internet. I hopped through different ... chatted, I vented, I gamed, I put it all on the web where it still remains ... grave mistake. Naturally, I turned to strangers on the internet to help me

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  the semester and plan on doing a reflection sometime before finals ... picture from my seat on the bus without looking too strange.   9:56am arrive in Harvard Square 10:01am arrive at L.A. Burdick's This particular

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  captured that was circulated on Reddit, Facebook and every news channel, next ... , of pessimism, of worry, of fear and live in the moment, passing on the ... them, whether it is helping someone pick up something he/she drops on the

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  ; graduate students who actually live in each dorm on campus and serve a ... numbered? One reason I'm writing this entry is to help bridge the gap ... focus on the aspects of MITese that are (in my opinion) universal across

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  fraternity. On the other hand, Nikayah had not heard about D9 organizations ... school when she began to think about college, specifically HBCUs. On top of ... -affiliated individuals.  During her senior year of high school, AudreyRose, who lives in

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  I was in. I hope this can help provide some solace to you on this day ... from people who were not admitted on Pi Days past sharing their own ... elsewhere, and when my MIT waitlist decision came back, it felt more on equal

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023