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• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  school, namely, the ABCDF system, except with a few additions. Below is a ... report is slightly different from your transcript. The grade report is for ... /listener subjects, academic warnings that do not show up in the transcript you send

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I would like to find an astronomer to talk to No admissions. Just good writing.

  

  - but only because, as is so often the case with vacations, I return from mine more exhausted than when I embarked. So I've spent most of the day digging out from under the work that accumulated while I was not working

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Photophobic

  

  thinking about the life decisions I've made to lead me there, I noticed a strange white glint out of the corner of my eye. I turned my head as best I could to get a better look at was was so alluring a distraction in the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 28, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  N.Y. Times, Page B11: “MIT Guard Shows Brains and Hoops Can Mix” Jimmy Bartolotta '09 leads the 16-5 MIT Men's Varsity Basketball team.

  

  I subscribe to the New York Times (paper edition!) and reading it on my daily commute is one of the joys of waking up each morning. So I was quite surprised when I got to page B11 (national edition) of the sports

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 6, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Food, Folks, and Fun…..but definitely not mcdonald’s Quinton makes friends at the Muslim Student Association

  

  As far as admissions counselors go, I am relatively new to the MIT community. Over the past couple of months, I have been exploring this wild and ... , and staff as humanly possible in order to get a full taste of the true

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 1, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Introduction To ARTalk An introduction to the ARTalk guest author blog by Kerry Powell, Assistant to the Director…

  

  [by Kerry Powell, Assistant to the Director of Arts Initiatives, and Ken Haggerty '11] MIT is at the center of one of the most original and innovative art making communities in the country. There are over 60 student art

  • by ARTalk
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Summary of CPW 2006 CPW 2006

  

  on what I was up to this weekend: Thursday night: At the opening ceremonies, the Bloggers listed the Top 10ish Reasons to come to MIT. I had ... read this blog by spreading the word that UROP stands for Undergraduate

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I AM CONNECTED! Finally arriving on campus was way less exciting than finally getting my wireless connection to…

  

  drove up the East Coast on Saturday morning (well ok, my parents drove) and arrived on campus around 5:30. I checked in at the front desk of my ... to be on the Burton half of the building in a double, but my room had

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  The Five Stages of Grief (Jonathan’s Version) on a journey from New Hampshire to Next House [guest post]

  

  The briefest context for who I am: Hello, I am Jonathan, a sophomore ... be friends with Fatima, one of the bloggers of all time, and I am also ... supposed to leave Next House for Kendall Square, to ride the T to South

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Celebrating Defiance @ the Media Lab a prize for responsible, ethical disobedience

  

  Last July, the MIT Media Lab created a $250,000 award to recognize and celebrate responsible disobedience: The Media Lab Disobedience Award ... , and the freedom to innovate, for example). Disobedience Award objectives

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 21, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The City On A Hill The "M" of " MIT"

  

  Illinois, I wouldn't have *matriculated. Though the MIT campus within itself ... , one of the most important aspects of being here is the world directly outside MIT. The "M," if you will. After graduating, I kind of felt like

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  I Miss You, Random Hall my love letter to the dorm i got kicked out of too soon

  

  'm unsure whether this is a symptom of the pandemic or a symptom of the dorm ... the corridor-style, long, empty hallways to the doors an walls barren ... COVID -- after all, the majority of the nicer things about New Vassar are

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 9, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Three More Tales of Junior Year the sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year

  

  guess sometimes they don't. I couldn’t go through with the transfer ... loved the niche I found here, and stayed because of my friends, my hall, my dorm, and the opportunities I got as a rare HASS major. I stayed

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 31, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi on Pie So much pi[e].

  

  dishes). I want to share them with you, to the extent that I can share 1.909859317102744... π pies over the internet.   (A secret: the pies are a lie. Their bottoms are excised and their insides are pudding.)    Here are the pudding

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  From Markets to Math Class

  

  I blogged last week (also here, and Kirsten did so here) about the ... why I warn my freshman advisees against getting on "the treadmill." "The treadmill" is the straightest path through MIT. It means doing the basic

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 12, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After MIT what i'm doing...etc.

  

  blogging. Which will be a sad day. ---- So I'm now living in THE NYC, on THE UES (or the Upper East Side, for you unenlightened folks). Theoretically, I live in East Harlem, since we have the East Harlem zip code

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW is for Parents too…really!! ...a helpful guide for parents (I hope

  

  For our newly admitted students, the time is rapidly approaching when we will welcome them to campus for the first time as members of the ... and this message is basically for those hardy souls who have spent the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  A Three-part IAP sababa* in more than one way

  

  guess I’ll come out and say it: I skipped the first week of classes ... Israel was only the last piece of my IAP this year. I spent the first week ... means all the MIT crew teams ship out down to Cocoa Beach, FL, and spend

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 17, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One Year After Michael Jackson An out-of-place tribute to the King of Pop

  

  AND being busy at the same time. I resent it. Regardless, it's that ... post, in the voice of last Friday. Where were you a year ago today? Ed ... , 2001, and June 25th, 2009 -- the day of the attacks on the World Trade

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 30, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Distractions For you.

  

  I've spent the past week or so running about in flip-flops, taking advantage of the sunny, 55 degree weather to catch up on all the vitamin D I ... grace, my writing professor agreed to move the location of today's class

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 10, 2010