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  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  'll find something that works for both of us. Yours, -APWBD” Before coming ... professor in the physics department lent to me. For privacy, let’s call him ... meeting ended something like this: Me: Do you have any suggestions for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  ][2][3][4][5] for quick access.) Note that these are not stories in the mythical ... together my intense curiosity for biology with my love for math! 2. What ... encouraged us to write about what messed us up, to know the person who really

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
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  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  but air? And then you kinda have to wobble for a bit before you lower ... the fall? We talked for half an hour. And then he left for the airport. I sat down in our room for a couple minutes, staring at his empty bed

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  students for dialogue. Some lure us with cookies and tea. Others with pizza ... expired. I’d bought too many pairs in anticipation for college. {First ... alarms pre-set on my phone. I may need to awaken for lecture at 11:20, but

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  proportion of international students in a U.S. institution. In a 1917 Boston ... , Bulgaria Class of 1894 (originally Class of 1893) Candidate for an Advanced ... Engineering Society (with N.T. Paraschos) For the first half of his MIT career

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
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  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  This past weekend was the 10-year reunion for the MIT Class of 2000 ... the members of our class (about 1000 people) and asked for "10-year ... (Harvard MD) Chemical engineer for ExxonMobil Computer engineer at Akamai

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  Things took a turn for the worse. Quickly. Very quickly. -- August ... the indignant rumble of my ungrateful stomach, which was screaming for ... four huge airport-bound bags…and then it happened. I heard it. For a long

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  . You've heard the story, but you're there for new perspectives ... ingredient. —anonymous going to Harvard, but for a fraction of the cost. —Robo ... well in the ocean. The same goes for a degree in engineering," says

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  -traditional” route (for example, opting to put their education on pause to compete in the Olympic Games and earn medals, or to serve the nation in the U.S ... edited for clarity. Here are the basic details for each of the six

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  Boston. It got delayed, so I had to stay in Boston for another night ... continually shedding the old enchantment for the new. Zero. My flight going from ... asked for a later flight. But it was too late, ah well. I was thinking

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  fitting in, about studying for classes, and about joining clubs. For those ... [/annotation] ready to give you their tips and tricks for surviving classes and getting ... , there have been many, many blog posts filled with advice for first

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
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  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  on this post alone for the past six days. Most of it, I've been writing ... a necklace, trying sentences and paragraphs on for size, then ... reasons I'm leaning towards taking more writing classes for my HASS

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  /aerodynamics lecturer, welcomes us all to a year of Unified Engineering, a year-long, four ... . Maybe we're not all white socks/pocket protector (about a third of us are ... : 1. Take the candidate outside. 2. Wait for the familiar rumble of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
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  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  languages have a rich vocabulary for rain. The lightest is probably ambon, a ... enough for. We might describe the weather with pumapatak, or dripping. There's even a word for the small droplets that fall through an open

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

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  -wielding tourists. You bump into one of their shoulders; they regard you for a moment ... one class I dreaded taking, one class I registered for, then dropped, then registered for again, then considered dropping. I just couldn’t do

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  There are no imposters in the Class of 2018 Strength in networks

  

  ," "I can't wait to meet you," and "I already feel a special love for all ... Pressure." You should take the time to check out all the results, but for ... for 3.5 years and from looking through the results of this survey - that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  may take many forms. What is it that you look for in an applicant?, some ... in and of itself will get you in to MIT. For example: A few years ago ... reactor in his garage. Think about that for a second. Now, most students

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  campaign for the Richards; Jim Paradis of CMS/W wordlessly watching us do so ... strangers, to Hopkinton, Massachusetts, where we, and thousands more of us ... wear once — over my running shorts. I'll sit and stretch for awhile, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  post ^^; This is a bit of an awkward topic for me to broach, but ... that an international student "did not understand U.S. dating culture ... , I find, many people from the U.S., also don't understand what this

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
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  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  DSL is hoping to implement for students. She's also swiping us into ... could sleep for a much longer time. I roll over to cuddle with them and go ... of bed in 20 minutes is unfortunately pretty good for me these days

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022