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• FAQ / Life and culture

  What’s the Infinite Corridor?

  . (As viewed from a stationary point on the earth, the path of the sun through the sky is roughly a circle that moves north and south as the ... , a reference to Stonehenge.
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What is Concourse?

  Concourse is a unique community of first-year students committed to learning in a small interactive group environment with dedicated teachers ... a community lounge where ideas and people come together, not only for
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What are GIRs?

  All MIT undergraduates must complete General Institute Requirements (GIRs). Basically, you must take two semesters of math, two semesters of physics, a semester of biology, a semester of chemistry, and a selection of courses from
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT consider extracurriculars?

  realize that students in the U.S. have a huge array of extracurriculars to ... other countries may not have access to such a diverse range of options ... live or attend school. Don't be concerned about having a lot of extra
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can I join the Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change?

  political and communications savvy to organize a genuinely global approach ... Model (IGSM), a linked set of computer models designed to simulate the global environmental changes that arise as a result of human causes. In
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Can I play football at MIT?

  football team completed its historic regular season with a 24-13 victory over ... garnered a lot of press from coast to coast, with announcers pointing out that most of the team members had a better chance of "owning" an NFL team
• FAQ / Visit

  How do I sign up for an info session and/or campus tour?

  without a reservation for a session, we will not be able to accommodate you. But don't feel like you have to travel to Cambridge to get a feel for
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Hate Superman. (I Love Superman.)

  

  , or flying, or something like that. Someone might come up with a more ... crazy! Oh, they have no weakness, except for a rock that you can’t find on ... the Great Depression, he was born out of a need for a hero. But I can

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 16, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  updates cook or get cooked - summer boston edition

  

  semester I spent a larger than usual amount of time thinking about more ... class. It is challenging. Each lecture has a bunch of content and it's overwhelmingly rich - but it's well organized and I learned a lot from it. I think

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 30, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Noise and time chaos and peace in a silver package

  

  On time and noise I've been meaning to write a post recently about ... wrote this post that I really enjoyed, and related to a lot. Notably: I remember being a freshman this time last year! It was all excitement and

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 15, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  self-destruction my entirely self-inflicted problems

  

  the brain is just a collection of neurons that have no choice but to ... might be a set of input stimuli that, when perceived, causes the neurons in your brain to fire in a way which destroys you: “He means the Word

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 27, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  writing and faeries reflections on my classes at Harvard

  

  now, upon leaving, I have a few more reflections — mainly that exposing ... and diverse. We learned Daniel O’Connell, a well-loved historical figure ... , and the sum of parts is always greater than the whole. I gained a much

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 3, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  and they’re going to better places lessons learned from a hard summer

  

  playlist; tw: suicide mention briefly Today, I interviewed for a ... 'm a loud, outspoken individual. For the most part at MIT, my character ... friends who have graduated, they seemed to all mention a common theme: the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  my problem list weird brain things

  

  least.) anyway, every day i'd wake up to a new message from someone saying they tested positive, and when i developed a sore throat on the last ... proved over the course of a week. but anyways, i saw a message that petey

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 8, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  The long view days, months, years

  

  puzzles from an issue of P&A Magazine together. The last time the Puzzle Club worked on a P&A issue was last semester. Miscommunication meant ... I ate dinner at Dumpling House with some friends. It's only been a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 27, 2022
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Leavetaking and homecoming

  

  As a kid, I only moved [annotation note="twice if you count going ... a dry riverbed. The property shrank each year as the river bank eroded ... cross streets held a bank, a jail, and two corner stores. In the old house

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 28, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  butterfly season the very tired caterpillar

  

  home—back to Iowa. June was spent in a transitory state. Slowly packing ... away, helping out around the house. We were doing a lot of renovations in ... . Iowa became a distant memory as I talked to my old friends less and less

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  fun facts about random stuff sometimes i just like learning new things

  

  -quite-potato thing that I’ve been doing is trying to learn a lot of trivia — time on ... have a lifelong goal of trying to make it onto Jeopardy, and so I view ... , the reason why I feel like this is a "break", even though objectively it

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 5, 2021
• 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 ... email filters you make, somehow, emails will flood in like a tsunami. It

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

  Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,

  

  [annotation note="and if you look to your left, you will see a biochemist ... seen. Seen in the sense of sending a message to someone, but they just ... hear ([annotation note="unless someone directs a mighty Oye! toward you

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 16, 2019