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• FAQ / Life and culture

  How does one attain a Pirate License?

  they’re a challenge to complete.’’ So you best be careful whilst ... arrrrrrr! Come to MIT and earn your Pirate Certificate. All MIT undergraduates must complete eight points of physical education classes to graduate
• Blog / Challenges

  My Funny Valentine No kissing on Valentine's Day.

  

  infection rendering my voiceless and without a desire to eat. So I think my ... We will first begin with a cartoon from one of my favorite webpages: And it wouldn't be Valentine's Day without: r = a(1 - cos(theta)) Plot

  • by Bryan
  • February 14, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  Call Me, Emeril BAM!

  

  So summertime brings me to a crossroads in life, my fraternity's chef gets a summer vacation, I'm morally opposed to eating Top Ramen or hot ... than those flavor packets. What is a bachelor (laughs) to do? One

  • by Bryan
  • June 25, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  A Very McGann Christmas Happy holidays.

  

  The Christmas holiday is a pretty big deal in my family. On Christmas ... attendance. Just a few miles from my house is the famous Big Duck, which always gets all gussied up for the holidays. It's great to be able to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 25, 2005
• FAQ / International applicants

  How do international students apply to MIT?

  limited to): the IB, A Levels, the French Baccalaureate, and CBSE. Your ... We understand that it's difficult for international students to apply to schools in the U.S., but almost one-quarter of MIT's applications
• Blog / Admissions

  The real O.C. Travels in Southern California.

  

  (...as opposed to other OCs) I'm in Orange County California, in a ... four more to go. On Wednesday, after a couple school visits, I had the chance to have a picnic-style dinner with the Orange County Educational

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being a lab rat I flail around trying to explain what I do at work every day.

  

  since the beginning of the summer. I've done a lot of assays to explore ... advisor. On a day-to-day basis, I work independently... after working in the ... ) if one went to MIT for undergrad. My friend Fadam '07, a course 8

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I Climbed a Mountain Today there's always gonna be another mountain!

  

  ; according to a local, lol). Basically, they're these dual hills on the ... without saying that A- is the best grade to get, since it's the same as ... sleep, eating many yummy things, and completed a 3000 piece puzzle. (sadly

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 28, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Blogarhythms! All-blogger a cappella? Nope -- a CPW event!

  

  Congratulations to the MIT Class of 2014! I'm a little late hopping on the congratulations bandwagon here (a vehicle that goes from 0 to 60 ... being so fast), but I've been up to a lot. More on that later, don't you

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Moved Off Campus A story told by cat gifs

  

  Last year, I made a HUGE decision. I decided to move off of MIT ... .  What changed? Me. I changed. Who was once a headstrong, ready-to ... during IAP due to work, but I'm back, and we are going to have a great

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  d-d-d-d-drop date late is good sometimes

  

  paper and do that pset when you have a puppy to play with. Thanksgiving ... enrolled. In the spring Baker House usually drops a piano off their roof to ... "]it sucks.[/annotation] You have a week or two to drop a class and it costs

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas thanksgiving and warm fuzzies all around

  

  course, Thanksgiving weekend. I have...a lot to be thankful for. Mom, if ... Thanksgiving day, we went to Chinatown for Thanksgiving dinner and had a ... an institution is a little hard to explain. I'll give you this instead

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 30, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a quick and dirty guide to MIT jargon what is a 6-3 anyway?

  

  either an acronym or a number. There's a quirky language to MIT, a handful ... specifically to getting an internship at a company external to MIT. Research ... is related to your major; common choices are 2A-6 (comp sci), 2A-4

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 7, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] A Journey to the W I D E by Wide Tim (Margaret Z. ‘23, MEng ‘24)

  

  ’s hard to go through the semester without seeing him, from a poster in the hall to a post somewhere on Instagram. I even have a little sticker of ... .  A Tale of the Widest Tim of All the Land Part 1: Born to be WIDE What

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 13, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Return of the Nance Effect The Summer Update Edition!

  

  to blog a little more than a year ago I wrote the following: My blog will hopefully give you a backstage pass to the theater of the absurd ... you have to be a minority to glean wisdom from, or participate in, this

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Mussels and Brussels Lessons in engineering and culture from a nation of kindness

  

  plane taking off from JFK when it finally hits me: I’m going to a country I’ve never been to before that speaks a language I kind of know to work on a project that covers subjects in chemical engineering

  • by MISTI Program
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Poetry and Physics You don’t have to get theoretical physics to get Frank Wilczek.

  

  can do anything" or the world is open to you, and then be told that there are dues to be paid, you must accumulate a certain number and type ... to get Frank Wilczek, as he is also a writer, poet and is known to tell

  • by Laurie Everett
  • January 24, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Overture to the Commencement of a Very Rigid Journey Sam's Mom dubs me Sami-stop-spleening-me!, because I am always spleening her.

  

  Very shortly, Sam's Mom and I will be on the road to Cambridge. So, I ... . I think the trailer's actually a little encouraging... it ... , otherwise it'd be pretty much impossible to adapt to film. Stylistically, it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MARC 2025 (not a live blog) Featuring Andi '25!

  

  slowing him down a whole lot. Skate skis are a lot easier to learn since ... happening afterwards, I went back to my room to take a fat nap, having only ... resonance for an hour straight took a lot out of me, but I was free to look at

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Ops Air Force A summer spent with B-1Bs and C-130s.

  

  opportunity to attend a 3 week base visit called "Ops Air Force" during the ... Development Training (PDT) program designed to give cadets a better view of Air ... different squadrons to get a broad view of base operations. I was lucky enough

  • by ROTC
  • September 4, 2008