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• Blog / Admissions

  Many Ways To Define “The Best” A long response to a CC thread in which I offer my opinions on AP…

  

  # of AP's for admitted kids was 5 or 6 (that's total for all 4 years of HS - i.e. 1-2 per year if evenly distributed). Many admits (most likely ... road, kids asked me repeatedly whether or not they should take a given AP

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Temp assignments and cautionary tales

  

  assignment, most dorms have an In-House Rush where you choose a hall or entry or whatever your dorm of choice has. And then, after that, there ... students and administrators as to the purpose and importance (or the name

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  get into or attend MIT. I like technology, but I am quite happily ... , Indian, or Thai food before I got to MIT. (Come to MIT! Expand your ... gratification, as you might imagine. Either that, or we're just masochists.) Zoo

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT TechTV: Incredible videos from the MIT community YouTube has nothing on us.

  

  … I swear you’ll enjoy them! Grand Prizewinners 1st Place: Godel Escher ... (in Origami) Vol. 1 — (Does Brian look familiar? That’s because I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Amsterdesk Time is on my side, it's on my side now.

  

  ... but it turns out that tonight, 2 AM is really 1 AM again (blast you ... and leave the desk unattended at 1 AM? Just close up at 1:58 and avoid

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 29, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  18.S190 that's .0093 more than 18.S097!

  

  expected to 1) learn hard material, 2) learn how to prove hard material, and ... who want to learn everything at the difficult abstract level, or those ... . Suppose I want to go from the corner on 1st and 42nd to the corner on 2nd

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 27, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  hihi i’m back featuring all my favorite excuses

  

  class or gotten distracted by Tetazoo tea time. At one point, Jebby tried ... seemed a weird and out of character, or at least been uninteresting. Out of ... found a mama cat and three babies the next morning[carousel image1

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First UROP Initiating a Life of Research

  

  publishable research in high school was a thing) actually is through course 1 in ... have me on board with no coding ability or past experience!. The ... three new things each time I go to research before or after class. I am

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

  back-to-school special i'm a senior now :o

  

  much time with my friends as possible before 1) we get too busy for each other and/or 2) we graduate. lots of puzzle hunts and concerts lined up ... structured than they did when i lived in EC or senior haus. i've also had to

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 17, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  MacCPW, et al. in case you couldn't make it

  

  Gregor House MacGregor House is the West Campus dorm between Burton Conner (or ... rest cook for themselves in our suite kitchens (or more realistically pay

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 9, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?

  

  you're a freshman or not, I hope this is useful. Have informed imagination. There are two parts to this: (1) being technically excellent and (2 ... instilling the basic concepts of fluid mechanics, molecular biology, or

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  June and Flaky Biscuits The first part of an epic summer and food, bien sur.

  

  GOING ON AT ALL TIMES, that it's overwhelming to narrow it down to one or ... teachers to ultimately 1) improve the state science fair and note trends, and ... 't forget my mom's cooking, or my uncle's fish. Basic, simple things though

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Results of My Summer cookies, web usability, and painting

  

  lessons along the way: 1) For the grittiest frosting you'll ever taste (feel ... projects by peers from Ireland as they all delve into their first (or hundredth) Photoshop, SketchUp or Sculptris project. More specifically, I get

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Engineering leadership: the one-hour edition President Hockfield makes a surprise appearance!

  

  pressure. The better the bridge design, the more "vehicles" (or in this case ... visitors or the MIT participants had a better time. Please thank your

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coming Soon! In which I briefly account for my I-haven't-been-blogging-so-much-recently shenanigans

  

  three or four of those people. Just this week, we've had an activist, a ... Sciences lab, or somewhere else? Do I even get to be paid for this stuff? And

  • by Emad T. '14
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Following My Passions At MIT [by Susan Shepherd '11] Can a writer fit in at MIT?

  

  " Niven, whose husband, Larry Niven, has written or co-authored many of the ... "Splash!" brought 1,500 local middle and high school students to the campus ... students who love learning about those subjects in classes or in their free

  • by ARTalk
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Night Off Campus and some dancing

  

  , I check Facebook instead, where a group chat with members of the ASA

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 21, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2015! Happy New Year

  

  better. Well I ate most of my meals either at Alpha Delta Phi or at the ... freshman James Deng 1.5 years ago. Today, that adorable jerk is still my

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  SHASS UROP at MIT, read on below! Phase 1: Being a Marvel Fan & an MIT ... Marvel knowledge v.s. only 1 semester of MIT GIRs under my belt. I ... ? Watching Studio Ghibli video essays and getting in the top 1% of Joe Hisaishi

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

  Underwater Dreams an MIT event

  

  fear had already come true,” added the young woman whose family was

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 7, 2014