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  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  over the past few months. I used to think history was pretty dry, but I think this is mostly because the history people study just… doesn ... , or the readings from this OCW course. These are all histories of MIT

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  from the supermarket to a dormitory at MIT. It has lived there ever since. If you've never met the Milk, then you should read Vincent's biography of the Milk that he posted on these blogs two years ago: Nineteen years

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• 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 food. Not wanting a fight this morning, I ran to the kitchen, and dug

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  - consider the following exchange: HIM: "So what course are you?" YOU: "Uh ... : "Yeahhhh....." This happens all the time at MIT. III. Additionally, premeds like to say that they are different from "all the other premeds." cf

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  During election week, among all the chaos, I got the opportunity to ... blog post, I thought I'd document the process of my first research submission, and talk about some of the things I've learned about publishing

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  , disheartened and hoping that the test will be ridiculously curved - it couldn ... around 24 hours to catch up with all the sleep you’ve missed this week. Seriously, when’s the last time you went to bed before 5 AM? But alas, your

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  . My circuit design was only failing one of the online tests, which meant ... sort of caffeine from the convenience store across the street from the Zeta Psi house. Since it was raining lightly, I sprinted to the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  clever title for my daily activities and was reminded of the musical, Fiddler on the Roof. If you’ve never seen it, then REMEDY THAT. ;) And while ... say about the summer is, “swiftly fly the years”. Be’er Sheva is a

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  In the time I've been at MIT, we've had some interesting characters pass through the 'tute - Obama, Bill Gates, will.i.am, and Lady Gaga ... had been drawn for the lottery to see him and Mike Schroepfer (VP of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  for graduation. Classes were over, and the most stressful thing I had to ... (through the MEng/VI-A programs). Since I am going to around for another year, I saw the graduation ceremony as more of a check-point than a

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  really ever came to anything. Among all the thoughts, only one feels all that important to share with applying students: taking the L. Y'all, I've taken so many L's. Physics L The summer before you come to MIT, you have

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  I still remember when I first stepped into the arrivals hall at Tel Aviv's Ben-Gurion International Airport. It was just past six in the morning and the airport was fairly quiet, being just past sunrise on an

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  . There are times when I get asked, out of the blue, what made me decide to ... to MIT for the hacks?” *Yes, I'm on a train again, and will probably ... under the nose of the administration while quite possibly breaking dozens

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
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  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  This next week and a half promises to be electrifying. We’re on the brink of an epic hurricane, a Presidential election, and either the most disappointing or the spookiest Halloween ever. But right now I’m going to talk

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
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  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  The brass drops off, and suddenly you're alone with the rhythm ... ! I took improvised solos for seven years. I joined the middle school jazz band in sixth grade, and then continued with the high school version

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  The reading continues, almost non-stop here... for another perspective on the reading, go on over and visit Ben. Shahab commented with ... as part of the application to be reviewed? Will it be interpreted as

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  never been on a plane before. Hell, I had barely left California, with the exception of one or two family trips to Las Vegas. So, when I went to the east ...  worked-- even the supposedly "simple" things. I had no clue how to even board a

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  shouldn't try to sugarcoat the harsh reality. I'm thankful to whomever ... years ago when I was applying to college, perhaps I would have felt the same way. I've written before about how the class is selected, but I

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  -campus[annotation note="Independent Activities Period, a part of the school year in January ... list. The email asks for applications for the Next House[annotation note ... something more to do, especially something that involved giving back to the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  reading the post two days after I got to campus and swearing to live by it ... was the cost of film and processing. Digital cameras are cheap and you ... classes that have nothing to do with your major(s), purely for the fun of it

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010