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  A Bachelor’s & Master’s in 5 Years An attractive option offered to undergraduates in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning.

  

  'd like to focus in the future. The topics are wide-ranging and can be ... This will be the first in a series of entries focused on my department and opportunities available to its students. :) Well, you may have

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 15, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  College Admissions and the Public Interest

  

  be admitted to college, and why? Thresher’s insight anticipated today ... to publish it as a free PDF for anyone who wants to read it. Now that it's up, I wanted to direct people to it. The foreword sums it up well

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduled time my classes this semester, and how engineering and sociology go hand in hand

  

  Is this what it's like to be an upperclassman and only take classes ... societal objects, so I thought it'd be good to take an engineering class ... 's important to remember that being an engineer doesn't preclude your ability (or

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 14, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  time travel is overrated conversing with my past self

  

  email to our future selves, which would be automatically delivered to our ... to be sheltered within the station’s dry warmth, even if it meant ... now-fleeting memories. but would it be wrong to say that MIT is also a

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • November 2, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Time! All my classes managed to schedule tests within a week of each other.

  

  pretty manageable. I studied as much as I needed to and went to bed by11 or ... ’re apparently low-stress enough to be called “quizzes,” even though the one on ... then this is a CI (communications intensive) class, so that’s to be

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 5, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  church gardens some paintings!

  

  North Wales. Unfortunately getting to South Wales would be 8 hours ... skeletal remains by tending to it as a garden.  The Welsh word for children ... separate blog about that soon.  Thankfully, I got weekends to hop on a bus

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXachusetts Institute of Technology your guide to the daily confusion

  

  guide online. Reading it can be a uniquely good guide to understanding ... . According to MIT's Dormitory Council: Residence Exploration, or REX, is a four day experience for first year students to explore MIT dorms and find

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  MIT Mini Maker Faire Celebrating STEAM and creativity

  

  wants to comment about their experience, that would be wonderful. I went ... according to MIT News) it was a huge success! My photography skills are less ... written already, even by people at Make Magazine, and I’m not sure I can do

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 11, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Study Break!

  

  sounds weird. Trust me, I remember coming to campus for CPW and taking tours of all the different dorms and being so confused about this study ... breaking abilities. But now I know. =) I first learned to appreciate the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Literature Tea & Mural Contest Artwork on cookies and walls.

  

  On Monday, I went to an afternoon tea sponsored by Course 21L: Literature. The event (which occurs weekly!) is open to everyone, so even if ... themes... in German. She introduced me to her housemate (at Student House

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection begins Picking the Class of 2010.

  

  that this will be a very tough year of MIT admissions. The quality of ... , and then have a discussion about that applicant. Things are by consensus ... discussion without needing to resort to a formal "vote." In the very rare

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 2, 2005
• Blog / Events

  And if I had a million dollars Solve this problem and win a million dollars, SERIOUSLY.

  

  closely related to the behavior of an elaborate function ζ(s) = 1 + 1/2s ... you 11415 years to hit a million dollars. Unfortunately, this is not a blog entry on course 18. So this week, LSC sponsored a book talk by the

  • by Bryan
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  C’est la Vie In which I describe my summer in words, without photos (yet).

  

  blogs since school ended. To be honest, this summer had been wonderful ... summer, since I'm going to be here in July, I signed up to teach APWH, and ... them to Central America, where we'll be visiting the countries of Panama

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  how to draw dotted lines on chalkboards, mit style dotted lines go brrrrr

  

  .5–5 cm) from the tip of the chalk. (You’ll need to be further back if you ... A few months ago, I posted about how to clean old whiteboards. Of ... ="aligncenter" width="1000"] from 8.033[/caption] I learned how to make dotted lines

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 20, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Year in Review blogs, bhangra, and a baby monkey

  

  happens to be my nightly walk over the Charles River to my commuter train at ... for its signal of the year coming to an end and the promise of the new one to begin. I prefer the days right after the holidays, taking

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben’s Final Farewell Thank you, Ben Jones.

  

  part of the cycle. Ben is on his way to even bigger things. And that ... quad, and I couldn't help but be reminded of last summer. It was my last summer before I came to MIT, my last summer home, and the one thing I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / Events

  total eclipse of the cruft

  

  too, so I asked if I could collect their old-timey tales. To be honest ... normally drives a pragmatic efficient EV I’ve now been radicalized to being a ... of others, I traveled to northern New England to see the total solar

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  40 Hours Left! The time is 0500 EST, 12/15. I am studying for finals. You are waiting for…

  

  that hour sublime On the Subway Express. Now isn't that an amazing way to ... sped from lower Manhattan to the Bronx, they fell in love: (Boy) It was in no sheltered nook It was by no babbling brook When romantic'lly we

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 15, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  chasing the aurora a celestial hunt

  

  supposed to be the highest visibility night this weekend of the solar flare ... was being live-booked out right under us, so we had to book across the ... This past Friday evening, I wished I didn't want to see the aurora

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 13, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  I saw a turkey the other day… hello, world!

  

  ...which may not be a big deal to most of you, but since I was on a ... be good to let others share their thoughts. To that end I plan on ... their behalf). One of my favorite places to run in Boston with the cross

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 14, 2010