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  majoring in 21E: frequently asked questions what it's like to study humanities at a stem school

  

  switch to a 21E major because I talked to the twins, Danny and Allan, about ... did you choose to do 21E? I spent a lot of my time going back and forth deciding whether or not I was going to fully major in computer science with a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Linkdump: Smart Leaves, Burritos, and Shaq cool things on the Internet

  

  childhood was a festival of notes. I'd wake up to a note on my bedside reminding me to brush my teeth; on the bathroom mirror a note would remind me ... even now, as a grown man, when I go home I'm liable to wake up buried

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2019 i3 videos megapost your annual Interactive Introduction to the Institute

  

  tends to make their own I3 video; this year, not every community has a ... As a part of MIT's unconventional housing assignment process, the Class of 2023 has been spending their summer deciding where to live with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Wish I Was an Astronaut I was a nerd even back in 3rd grade.

  

  grade, just thought I'd share. Mollie, maybe Adam wants to make this the ... chose to do a rap about him. This only demonstrates how nerdy I was even ... and his men opened up a new door, To that new frontier in outer space

  • by Bryan
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Read Some Science Fiction You'll see why in a bit

  

  right moment to drop some sodium acetate into his drink to make any tool ... even a wearable to create an "immersive reading experience". The wearable ... , a beach. It could also vibrate in a pattern similar to a heartbeat to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 16, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So you think you want to be a doctor: Pre-med at MIT

  

  who wants to go to medical school must make this decision very early on ... ), then you have to make sure your schedule accommodates these classes. Here ... test can give you credit) -A biology laboratory (there are couple to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  class sketching an adventure in speedrunned pedagogy

  

  have languages, we want to think about how, given a string, we would determine whether it belongs to a language or not. Formally, we will create ... get a bit more complicated but this is related to the idea that there

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • December 23, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Waiting (is the hardest part)

  

  defer letter and the deny letter each come in a standard #10 window envelope (4.125" x 9.5"). As for the admit letter, it is unlikely to be ... 's early acceptance rate so low compared to other selective colleges?" Well

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am dumb

  

  "department requires this information". A Few Answers to Questions: 1. There ... to bottom. Now, if everybody did that every once in a while, wouldn ... people don't agree with me (and it's easier to clean a suite kitchen shared

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Knife fight with a biker gang Best blog entry EVER. If you think I'm kidding, let me just say: Gory photos…

  

  make a reference to the scene in Veronica Mars where Logan was attacked ... that is going to have to take a back seat in order for me to document to ... to a bloody pulp with my awesome newfound kickboxing skills. I'd almost

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Deadline Q & A Have a question about your MIT application? Read on...

  

  validation errors with their essays, taking more than a couple of minutes to ... . Generally speaking, if you are in tough financial shape and make a good faith ... will allow you to preview your application as a PDF. This PDF is exactly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  “That is NOT an ice cream flavor.” wasabi + ginger + ice cream = disaster

  

  documentaries in 10-250 with a group of friends as we prepare to make our own ... I think FUN would be a good way to describe this weekend. THURSDAY Thursday night, my friend Diana and I went to a free showing of Forrest Gump

  • by Bryan
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  love people. cook them. tasty food. meet pecker!

  

  will probably aggressively try to make you dinner; we’re somewhat queer ... Pecker, but if you're willing to lump a bioengineering, bioengineering ... flavor of nerdiness.  If you choose to climb up all three and a half

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Aliens, Bitcoin, Camps now i know my ABCs

  

  antsy, so I wanted to make a quick post and point your attention at two ... illustrated story of a lonely alien sent to observe Earth, only to meet all ... happiness, all while learning to feel a little better about being an alien

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 19, 2017
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  things, then you can write down equations to plug into a simulation, and ... good at theoretical plasma physics you have to know a lot of things that I didn’t, or else be willing to put in time that I didn’t. And we’re a

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Robo-CJ writes a college app do neural nets dream of electric essays?

  

  didn’t need to find a GPU to run it, because Google Colab makes it easy ... doing enough to help people. I’m sorry that I’ve been doing a lot, but I ... syndrome from me. I was going to write a blog post about it, but I couldn

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 28, 2019
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  We Stan Matt Parker i'll try not to mention the parker square

  

  or Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension (to name a few ... -variable calculus at my local community college. I began to feel like a real college ... mathematician with a PhD is sitting in their office "researching" how to solve the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Uncreative Post with an uncreative title

  

  about her awesome film-making job) and a visiting film crew from ... ’ve recently submitted a formal application and a constitution to be recognized ... . On bad days, I have to go out to buy a salad (or eat human food that

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Retreat! Retreat! 24 wonderful hours of sister-time in the MIT mansion!

  

  included scavenger hunts, improv skits (apparently I’m hard to make fun of ... a great cause! Our room! And my roommate! The hallway to our ... I just returned from a retreat for my sorority, Alpha Chi Omega. We

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MCAT Advice For the pre-meds out there, MIT or otherwise

  

  forces you to study and furthermore provides you with a wide range of study ... are! Courses are useful to some; I just like independence a little too ... a few details; to supplement the Examkrackers materials, I used

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 15, 2011