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  Do You Have A Core Curriculum?

  

  Requirements, or GIRs. The GIRs consist of 17 classes, 9 in math, science, and ... ; Sciences (MAS) First Year Program. Each of the 8 required humanities, arts ... spaced out over the length of one's MIT career. With 8 required classes and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons from Loomis and Whitney a math month post

  

  "shadow" of $A$ on the $x$-axis and the $y$-axis, and let's call these sets ... , essentially, we bounded the area of a set by the lengths of its shadows. And ... _{xz}(A)$, so the left hand side (LHS) of the above inequality is 1 and so is the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Terence ‘13 The second in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  Today, we continue the series Introducing the Class of 2013: Terence ... ’s getting ready for summer classes at the Massachusetts Institute of ... few times and have stolen some things. So, that's the personal

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Orientation Wrap-Up Reason #457 why I love Orientation: I don't have to pay for food for a…

  

  your first week at MIT. Since Sam and Mitra both have covered many of ... Midway, I'll just try and cover the aspects of Orientation that have not ... to see. Friday night, the entire class of '09 and the Orientation

  • by Bryan
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Rowing at MIT: a guest post by Connor M. ‘16

  

  Engineering, and one of the most awesome experiences of my life has been rowing ... with you because I think a lot of you might be like me and would feel the ... time each day. The first time I thought of taking up rowing was as a pre

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 26, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  ’s nighttime when my eyes open, and the middle of the day when I go to bed. In ... . First, Kevin and I started out tamely. We just took pictures, the Dome ... of snow and roll that ball along the snowy ground until it was big

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Attack! My war diary.

  

  members of Conner 2 charged up the two flights of stairs and rammed the door ... and happy New Year! There's a new kid on the blogs, halfway through the ... amounts of snow, snow means fun! For all of the upper-classmen who see snow

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  An Atypical Saturday That followed an atypical week.

  

  get up and keep fighting, because you will make it. And when the match is over, you can walk out of the ring with your head held high and know ... Fenway in the massive crowds of people: And managed to snag some Red Sox

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 30, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  An unexpected discovery, from a few centuries ago It takes more than four years to get to know a place

  

  than George Washington. After Lexington and Concord, the pair of battles ... , ending the Siege of Boston, shifting the war to a different theater, and ... this semester, and apparently Dana Hill, one of the reinforcement points

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 20, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  people appreciation post <3

  

  all times in terms of the length of assignments and the first midterm ... me on the quality of my life with full force. MIT is so vast and there ... be like Matthew, the correct mix of wise and bully that is Prajna, the

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 2, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Commence the Commencing! and congratulations to the Class of 2014

  

  of 2014, including Anna, Emad, Kate, Natanya, and Tom, were the first ... of 2014 will join them as alumni of the Institute. The 148th ... prefrosh to unbelievably intelligent and compassionate adults. Most of my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 6, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Sailing! !!!!!!!

  

  the first one of the fall semester. The five of us headed out to the ... Twelve hours ago, Mathura '12 and I had the following gchat ... alive in ten minutes? Mathura: probs not, hes in the line of happiness

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 26, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions updates ...including the state of the mail and EA application tracking.

  

  of the United States, India and China are our largest applicant ... application tracking system. We are receiving buckets and buckets and buckets of ... word limits and with essay formatting; if the online submission was badly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Events

  picture the world my phone's storage space hates me

  

  and out the back door and our faces were met with a rush of snowflakes ... experienced a boston winter and were well-acquainted with the sensation of ice ... and ran through the snow and gulped mouthfuls of ice from the air. i

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • September 23, 2025
• FAQ / Afford

  How much does MIT cost?

  Detailed information about tuition and fees, housing and dining, and books and personal expenses are broken down in detail here. If you have a ... Services online, by email at [email protected], or from their contact page.
• Blog / Events

  Three Weeks a short summary of this crazy place

  

  Campus time and time again, and since I was temped here in the first place ... Joon. This is an introduction of many senses and forms. First, this is a ... . Everyone is working on their first problem sets of the year. My friend next

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 12, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  9000 Words This post doesn't have 'em.

  

  something to my cello case while I was out of the room. G) My hallmates and I have taken to sitting out in the hall. This is one of our handful of ... the 3AB goobers, had his first fencing tournament of the year the day

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Dating Research A news story today looks at Media Lab research on dating.

  

  ," punctuated by "ahas" and "yups." This isn't the first time Pentland's dating ... talk. And I'm not the only one. This seems to be one of the key rules to ... of couples and get it right three-quarters of the time; the remainder

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 3: Koumon ou rele? Which is Haitian Creole for "What's your name?"

  

  poured down my face and into every crevice of my body. On top of that, the ... mechanic to discuss the feasibility of the idea and put the machine together ... around one of the tent cities and wait for our friends from last night

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / How to MIT

  Tips and Tricks to MIT What I have learned in my first semester at MIT

  

  going to take a leap of faith and say that most of the people applying to ... MIT. For those of you that don't know, the first semester at MIT is on ... and if you don't pass the class then it disappears off of your

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 5, 2015