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• FAQ / Academics and research

  What are GIRs?

  subjects to help you explore your anticipated major. MIT’s GIRs ensure that ... social sciences to getting rigorous training within their area of ... the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. During your first
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor quotes The spurious wisdom and even more spurious wit of MIT professors.

  

  effect is like when you're at a party, and you're talking to someone, and they're desperately trying to get away from you, but they can't because ... , and that this is going to make me either a good scientist or a raving

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Notes From The UK [by Mirat Shah '08] Currently in Cambridge, it is 50 degrees F and not only…

  

  . However, I am glad to be getting a taste of both because I do now have a ... in an equation, and you have to be on your toes. Something I like ... 'll get to do all year. As a side note, AFM is incredible because it lets

  • by Cambridge
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Entry: Engineers Without Borders Environmental engineering major Tiffany'12 fills in on international development

  

  offered to temper my usual Course VI nerditude by writing about her ... contamination of critical water sources. By providing the means to basic hygiene ... fun. We get to spray each other with water while prototyping our pump

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 14, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Highlight Reel Parents! A cappella! Thesis! Superheroes! Film class! And generally hanging in there @ MIT

  

  years now, and this is the only time my parents get to see us perform. You ... perfectly normal thing to do when writing a novel. Little by little, I ... feels nice to get back to work. Superheroes Do you ever fall in love

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • November 22, 2014
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  What happens if I’m not selected as a Match?

  proceed: You may use your QuestBridge application to apply through Early ... .) You may use your QuestBridge application to apply through Regular Action ... matched with a binding school and must attend your Match school. You could
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Chris inspired me to do dumb things I went to Disney World. It was fun, I guess.

  

  Chris Peterson "Damn you for being so inspiring, you're going to get me ... .  "Perfect!" I thought to myself, "I did MIT, I can do this! Besides, I get 6 ... order to register for the Dopey Challenge you have to prove that you're

  • by Snively '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Still Going… haha... yeah. It's not over for all of us.

  

  40. In lighter news, by this I mean I'm going to talk about things ... actual deadline for the senior thesis that I am now desperately trying to make. That is, next Thursday, May 21th. That is, if I want to graduate on

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 15, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Get to know Tim the Beaver! Tim shows off some moves at an MIT men's ice hockey game

  

  spectators waited patiently for the Zamboni to finish during a men's ice hockey ... siezed the moment. To the 2016ers, here's what you can expect when you arrive on campus in a month and a half! Get pumped!

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  Intermezzo by Sally Rooney A: really great, would recommend to ~anyone ... strongly recommend to a friend Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut A ... relationship between Peter and Ivan, and I get that Margaret was supposed to

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! Classes! Classes! Classes!

  

  yourself up in your room trying to get a 100% in every one of the 16 AP classes you're taking - don't surrender to senioritis and stop doing ... practice your conversational skills by telling you to describing your family

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 1, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  weather and stuff a Californian’s first experience of fall and also other things on my mind

  

  woah woah woah, hold on Fiona, its going to get a whole lot worse in the ... minutes total, no matter where I’m going: I get to leave later and not be ... part of the neck out in order to “deflate” your puffy marshmallow self

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • October 2, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  More about Residence Based Advising Still have questions about RBA?

  

  , including one where you get to build furniture for your room (a picture of a ... seminar also serves as your freshman advisor. This way, you get to know the ... your advisor has been to some of the best restaurants in Boston and loves

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline Extended to January 3 We have extended the RA deadline. Happy Holidays!

  

  to submit your deadline. If your application is ready to go, click that button, or stamp that mail! The closer you send in your application to the ... Tracking. Please note that you do not need to express mail or overnight your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 3, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Sal Khan, Gabriel Abrantes, and the Man in the Shiny Red Satan Suit Yesterday was crazy, or: How to Quit your Job, Learn Everything, and Think about Art

  

  uncertain coworker. By the time I grab my sandwich and get to the door, both ... looking all over for you, kid!" booms Satan. "Let's get you back to hell ... roast chicken-mashed avocado-jicama sandwich and talking to my sister on

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 10, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Q&A A bit of clarification on being waitlisted.

  

  choose another college to attend by May 1. What should I do about the May 1 ... of the waitlist, do I have to go to MIT? What about financial aid? You're ... 'll have time to consider your decision before letting us know one way or the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Short, Sweet, and to the Point: MIT in five senses or less (Guest Entry) Hear, See, Touch, Smell, and Taste MIT

  

  folder, your booklet of 600+ activities, and this card to give us when you ... kind of place where I want to be: a place where you take your talents and ... . People want to research on projects supervised by Nobel Laureates, people

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  It’s Possible To Have Too Much Nutella Wait, don't go away! Hear me out on this one

  

  like salads as they hand out coupons to passersby. (If I ever get the ... intense, it refused to be subdued by the iced tea I picked up - although ... 'm not knocking Nutella by any means - I'm going to try to find their

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Sexy MIT Engineers My

  

  veteran players! How to play defense by being on the open side of my player ... getting an education here, it was equally important to build good habits ... to be swamped by work. But I realize that exercising, being outside

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m Still Here (for now) quick reflections on the last ten years

  

  MIT in the fall of 2015, I’ve taken the trip from New York to Boston ... to come after. There are songs that I’ve [annotation note="i wanna get ... person adapted to a new environment in ways I don’t even fully notice much

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 27, 2025