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• FAQ / Life and culture

  What are the housing/dining options?

  Housing is a huge part of undergraduate life at MIT. You choose where ... choose to join a conventional meal plan with access to dining halls, or you might prefer to live in a cook-for-yourself (and often, your friends
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What happened since the end. Bringing you up to speed on life since I finished all my schoolwork. FOREVER. (You're…

  

  insane, so it's back to productivitiy! Time to churn out the dozens of blog ... tedious but easy task- it took me several hours to finish all of the updates to my set design blog (don't read it too closely- the last half of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 28, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

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

  

  the day-to-day. Hack = hacking, of course; punt = punting work, playing ... full list of departments, linked to their respective course catalogs ... decimal bear some reference to the level of difficulty or order you should

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 7, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Staying in Touch Family back home or here in Boston!

  

  changes daily), adventure I had taken into a new area of Boston, or just to ... , we headed to Quincy Market in the heart of Boston, where I had been ... -campus and having too little of time to check them all off the list. We ate

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  You should live in EAsT camPUS A few of the basic things to know.

  

  known to make a home out of EC as well.. 3. Residents live in doubles or ... What sets MIT's East Campus apart from other dorms of the college type? 1. You can learn how to cook. What better way to learn how than to

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • July 31, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  XC is Sexy

  

  'm going to mix it up a bit, and give people's living groups instead of ... I first saw the slogan "XC is Sexy" on the shirt of a 12 year old, and I figure if it's appropriate for him to wear it, it's okay for me to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re stressed. So are we; here's how we deal with it.

  

  decision applications to college, and, for many of my senior friends ... resolved to spend every waking hour of my weekend either studying for my ... release of Early Action decisions, we aren't allowed to blog on Saturday or

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Scholarship Opportunity: Davidson Fellows A look at a scholarship worth up to $50,000, and some past MIT winners.

  

  lead to the advancement of quantum computing, which could aid scientists ... , Boris Alexeev proved a theorem related to the theory of automata, the mathematical basis for the field of pattern matching. Boris worked to determine

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2008
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Livin’ la Vida Española (Pt. 2) Where the music is richer.

  

  classes since the first semester of senior year, and to be honest, my high ... and I will come back at night to the caretaker of the apartment ... started formulating a "draft" of what I was going to say (which resembled

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 4, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  Slay the Spire as metaphor i didn't waste 60 hours playing for nothing

  

  a set amount of energy or money that you can use to play your cards, and then all of the cards go to a discard pile. You add When the discard ... attack and defend and do all sorts of things. Beating enemies allows you to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  today is my birthday & i still don’t know who to become

  

  difficult to choose MIT. But lately, I dawdle. My calendar is full of ... lately, it occurred to me that if I had started my first year of college ... i. The days wheeled past like a flock of starlings, and suddenly

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Flies And I lose track of it

  

  Matilda, and go to New York Comic Con. One of the greatest parts about ... one huge part of this independence is being able to say, “Hey, MIT, you ... living their lives, and to remember there’s a world outside of psets and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 26, 2013
• Blog / Hacks

  Final-ly! now that finals are over, a few academic highlights ... and perhaps a few surprise…

  

  want to mention, which are some of the memorable moments from GIR's in ... of the room in order for us to calculate the percent rebound, relating to the Rutherford model of the atom. You should have seen the way the

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • January 12, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in My Summer Life Starts at 5 AM, ends at 10:30 PM, and go-go-go in between.

  

  , and since all of us are used to showering in the morning instead of at ... of my summer goals was to improve my culinary habits, but I am ... becoming a doctor, I wanted to get a little insight into the pharma aspect of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 15, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Hawk Flies High Spontaneous jazz improv at 77 Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  music elements to jazz--or vice versa, depending on your point of view. I ... was in the presence of a true artist. He wasn't there to busk or beg, or ... night. At first I attributed it to the loudspeakers that blast rock and

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • August 7, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Update Lots of good and important stuff for both EA and RA admits.

  

  'll find a bunch of stuff only available to admitted students, including ... of 2013 Guestbook: Hundreds of your classmates have checked in to ... this fall (Yay! Welcome officially to the MIT Class of 2013!), that you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We even learn stuff here! There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

  

  the craziest and most entertaining lecturers to grace the front of 10-250, I'm sure, explained to us the significance of the music. Were were ... proceeded to tell us about the discovery of the element administratium and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  COPENHELL a giant metal fest in Denmark 🤘🏽

  

  sacrificed my best chapstick to the Copenhell gods. It fell out of my pocket on ... ’re in a space too big to explore all of it.  Before entering any crowds ... narrative for a lot of people. This particular event just happened to be more

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 28, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Targets shooting things and hitting them

  

  in order to shoot a pellet; another part of safety was to keep your ... to the left and right of the front sight. Hence the mantra: equal ... same way each time. On the third day of class we went to the range to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Being Home and Answering Questions some changes, some constants, and the end of pass/no record

  

  months. As this week comes to a close, so does MIT's week of finals. This ... people are ready to take it on without the training wheels. Both of my ... (Independent Activities Period--in essence, MIT gives us the month of January to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 21, 2013