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  Why Course 2A is Cooler than You I'm back from the dead, to tell you all about my major and its ridiculously…

  

  . But I'll probably fail. The topic of today's entry is my own amusement over the number of characters in my major. Most of you are familiar with ... the trees. No joke. Majors at MIT are also called "courses" rather than

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Perfect weekend Sun, fun, and Plymouth Rock.

  

  Oh, it's been such a good weekend. Friday I went into the lab for a ... splitting cells over the weekend. (NOTE: As I was writing that sentence, I ... today!" Good thing I started writing this entry, because I would be up the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 4

  

  Sunday. Just look for the person with the "MIT" sign near the baggage claim ... outside of the times we're running the shuttle, you can take a taxi (~$25), or the subway ($1.25). The subway trip can be a little confusing for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 25, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Designing dead ends A look into the "misc." folder on my desktop

  

  ="🍰"]workiversary[/annotation]as the in-house designer on the communications team at MIT Admissions and Student Financial Services. Essentially, in the months when I’m not reading applications, sitting on the admissions committee, or [annotation note="In a

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  an outlook on emails a week of my inbox’s pain and suffering, compartmentalized

  

  A couple of weeks before the school year started, I spent countless ... my Gmail account, and for the first time in quite a while I was so ... ’s inevitable. Unfortunately, the naive prefrosh I was didn’t know this and

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher

  

  I’m ranked in the bottom 39% on profile views among my connections on ... , in a word, frenetic. I loved all of my classes (or at least the idea of ... deadlines that I never had time to appreciate and absorb the material. Some of

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reading, Thinking and Igniting Innovation Rational optimism about MIT and the future

  

  , kind of. I`m almost 300 pages through Matt Ridley`s "The Rational ... hike. I was in a strange mood. I`m a student at one of the most innovative and progressive universities in the world and I always have loved

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 5, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Know when to hold ‘em Know when to fold 'em

  

  This, potentially, is the longest I've gone without a blog entry. This is probably due to the fact that I'm not on campus and, while I ... to help you learn about MIT. Since getting home from MIT I've had the

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A HASS[le-free] Semester Stay for the videos!

  

  you at MIT?"). But, I do feel that the HASS department is MIT's hidden ... were: Introduction to Art History, Rhetoric (a different version from the ... under the "Social Science" category of HASS). Ironically, at the end of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Why does my kid have to move again?”

  

  Before I get to the point of this entry, I'll answer a couple of ... , but I was wondering. What's the policy on non-MIT-students being in/visiting the dorms?" I found the official policy here. Students are allowed to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  questions: What is up with the whole abstract course nomenclature? Im sure this is great for MITers, but it seems rather arcane to the outside world. Why not call Course 9 'Biology'? Why not go the full distance and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Long-Overdue Responses Questions answered.

  

  the whole admissions experience more fulfilling for everyone involved - on both sides of the equation. I apologize to those of you who think ... attempting to refute that - my blog is what it is, and the folks who "get it

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2004
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Other ways I’ve been rejected over the past fifteen years [suffering-from-success.jpg]

  

  . Some turn to exposure therapy, or perhaps the simulated version, maybe ... themselves from the pain. The mere passage of time turned out to be that ... rejections from the past decade and a half. After graduation I returned to

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day in the Life: Weekend Edition 80% more fun and 800% more apples in one serving!

  

  translucent silence filling the room. Dawn-ish grey light hung on the ceiling ... thought about the word indeed for a while too, and then I leisurely reached ... :15 because the MIT concert band was leaving for a gig in Harvard, MA in EXACTLY

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And now for the feature presentation… ...IN STEREO.Don't ask. It's an LSC thing. I don't really get it myself.

  

  disk drive, and the little safety lock clip thing has somehow been broken off. The drive fits, but it doesn't take much for it to slide around ... duct tape the drive in place. I figured this would be no problem since

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 28, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  fictional coping mechanisms learning to love unapologetically

  

  interests." The logical part of me knows that's probably the dumbest thing ever, but I think the thing that's holding me back is just how much I ... pulled me through some of the roughest times in my life, especially in the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 11, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 1 More Q, and more A.

  

  out Bryan's latest post) Rushil wrote, "I have a question regarding the ... the moon(that was used by my school's team( I was a leader of that!) that reached the finals of the International Space Settlement Design

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  what i ate in a month* *basically true to my word this time but at what cost

  

  the school down the road"]saving graces. [/annotation] If you want an ... note="i live in Burton-Conner and thus am free from the shackles of a meal plan YIPPEE unlike the majority of my friends. but also lowkey MIT

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  hike the desert pretend i am a lifestyle blogger

  

  [annotation note="Josephine ‘24 and I led our group through the mist after ... clambered over boulders until we found the peak, looked out over a wide and ... The first day I got back, stiff from the plane, I hit the river path

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  . By the time you read this, I'll have been home for over a week - but as far as I can tell, not much has changed. And yet, at the same time ... semester at MIT. In retrospect, I realize that - in spite of reading the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007