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  The Holy Grail of Classes Think of the coolest class you can. Then think of one that's a million times…

  

  have found the MIT Course Catalogue Holy Grail! 2.00b, otherwise known as "Toy Design." That's right, MIT has a Toy Design class that requires no ... : MIT TOY LAB lab coats. If these aren't a hot ticket item then I'm not

  • by Snively '11
  • February 6, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Adonde? Excuse me sir, I seem to have misplaced my pants.

  

  . . ." Since getting to MIT I've been a part of several riots and a flash mob ... . Eventually we got back to MIT, settled in, and told everybody our story. Well ... The Tech (MIT's Newspaper) this morning, I was greeted by this picture

  • by Snively '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will, I will set this schedule on fire This has been a long time coming. Text- and picture-heavy! Link- and acronym-happy! Take it…

  

  on this illusion that I am working towards a dual degree at MIT, doing ... .012 is and if you should take it in the fall and hey, how come MIT doesn ... left MIT in May.) You can also use the extra credits to take an intro

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 10, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Psets from hell Sometimes learning can be painful

  

  computation as I go. Ask me to do math for math's sake, or to do an MIT ... upsetting. Here is what one of our 18.03 psets looked like: http://www-math.mit ... with my grade in the class. Sometimes I think I got into MIT because I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home sweet violet capital of Ohio We didn't see a stuffed whale, but we did see a bunch of primates. Nonhuman…

  

  to travel with an MIT airplane-scientist-in-training... I'm kind of ... many students at MIT get funding for their research; in my mind, it has ... the gold makes the rules, and many of the investigators at MIT are very

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Marathon If Mollie's boyfriend can complain, so can I.

  

  So you guys. MIT is hard. No, seriously. I figure you've probably ... the scrambled contents of my brain on the margins of the pages of MIT ... wikipedia page I linked to. Also, a HASS is MIT lingo for a class in the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Dishwashers, parents, space: what do these things have in common?

  

  metaphorically), who will kiss it and make it all feel better? The MIT Medical ... these situations have in common? You are waiting for the Safe Ride, MIT

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 9, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Conspiracy and intrigue

  

  contributor's copy of How to Get Around MIT (frosh should use it, it's a good ... Ave from MIT. If you don't want to spend money, there's a new student ... character part in an Assassins' Guild game. The Guild is an MIT live

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh no the future obligatory “i am old” post with pretentious morbing

  

  . The grubby larvae that I was when I first came to MIT must emerge from ... requirements. I applied and got into MIT’s MEng (Masters of Engineering) program ... carry. Though I think it counts for something that I came to MIT with

  • by Anika H. '26
  • October 23, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Doesn’t Feel Real getting from one place to another

  

  of these walks, I reflected a lot on my time at MIT and my relationship ... disability affect your time at MIT?” “It didn’t. Well, I mean. I couldn’t let ... . At MIT, with these flowers comes the optimism of students. They signify

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 24, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Dance ‘Til You Drop 53rd planning a 53-year old party i've never even been to

  

  .[/annotation] The party is open to the entire MIT campus and features a hack and a ... House reopened, the party, which was now known as DTYD, returned to MIT in ... . For DTYD L, literally hundreds of alumni flocked back to MIT to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 3, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  ; ...and I had to talk to my MIT interviewer,  She asked me to tell her ... . On the various MIT-admit Discords, I’d found people who really seemed ... who had ADHD… But among MIT students, am I really that weird? ii

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  Where is Andorra? and other FAQs about my IAP Teaching abroad in a quadrilingual country

  

  to high-school-aged students who were training to be IT personnel. MIT ... complete difference in educational theory at the CFP versus MIT. MIT is quite ... hardware other than my keyboard. Even MIT's attitude towards learning how to

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 5, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  7 / Pressure is a privilege Training for my last hurrah, the US Championships

  

  for MIT. I had two months to prepare for it, but working full-time, I ... to the MIT firehose and try to juggle it all. I still had my last few ... MIT rink, squeezing in as much training as possible. I wasn't perfect

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Siete Ciudades de España A very busy IAP

  

  convenient times to travel, but being an MIT student can make it pretty hard to ... semester across an ocean when MIT already offers the best engineering classes ... Spanish department. You spend 3-4 weeks taking an MIT Spanish language or

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures From a Year of Classes The End of a Saga

  

  first year at MIT. So, like the first and second two times, I’m going to ... ). Part 14: January Shenanigans So as you may know by now, MIT has this ... the beginning of the year, DoingWell at MIT had us all write letters to

  • by Richard O. '28
  • June 20, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Hydranting My Spring Semester 5 stages of courseroad grief

  

  's been ~1.5 years since I came to MIT. Fall finals season helped me shove ... [annotation note="very helpful class planning website for MIT students that's updated ... ="academic planner for MIT students to plan out their degrees, test out paths for

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 5, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  letter to my 2023 self from: 2024 janet

  

  ="independent activities period, MIT's unique January break"]IAP, [/annotation] you regressed ... Oxford with [annotation note="a friend who studies at MIT with me :P ... ’re dead. Sometimes you’ve got to let things take over your life. HackMIT is

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 2, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience

  

  school. CS can be hard for beginners, more so at MIT, so I'm at an area ... platform, and I met a lot of my friends here at MIT through SSP. The ... start with formally learning CS. When I got accepted to MIT, I thought

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  up, down, and out some moments from the last month

  

  you want; the membership is subsidized by MIT, and provides unlimited 45-minute rides."]Bluebikes subscription[/annotation] through MIT and ... Killian Court to join a recording for a music video, in preparation for MIT

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 5, 2021