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  More questions

  

  day of Spring Term! I'm a little behind on the questions, so here goes ... ) is a four day event which is only for admitted students and their ... weekend on their MIT portal; in fewer than two weeks, we will send out a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Fall 04 What I took way back when

  

  .30; 21A.453 In alphabetical order, this term, I am taking: Anthropology ... classes. I'm a genius, I know.) Okay, here go some descriptions: (Note ... saying, “I'm married to a lactose-intolerant person. She's otherwise very

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 23, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  for change in (expected + unexpected): print(change.get_thoughts())

  

  Before coming to MIT, I consumed a lot of Content™ about college ... all added up to a lot of expectations—both conscious and subconscious—about what college would be like. Picnics on a sunny quad, aesthetic library

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 19, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  lookin’ at the blur of this semester and ahead at the next one!

  

  -5 classes"]72 units,[/annotation] since one class was a 3-unit and one was a 9 ... some that I didn’t and wouldn’t. Then there is a section of what I wanna do next semester! This blog is a sine wave of academic and personal

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  soulsearching / coding in which i ramble about careers

  

  've been here for more than a month, I wanted to check in and find out how ... : That's good. CJ: But I've also been thinking about a lot of questions ... after I graduate too. I mean, I can do a master's, or if I'm given a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 26, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  actually worked, or why it mattered; or I felt that taking a certain class ... ). [annotation note = "The 'k' is a joke, albeit not a funny one. I was inspired by ... Cartesian vectors, except in polar coordinates, so there's a vector pointing

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2020 if you read even one of these i will be happy

  

  sensible."]a callback to last year's post.[/annotation] But then I decided ... the jump, ask yourself: "Why does this thing I'm writing have to be a ... , dark at others, and absurd all the way, tackling issues under a profound

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 23, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT CodeIt or: the best decision i've made this semester

  

  This semester, I joined CodeIt, a student-run organization at MIT ... that I had gotten through some amounts of coding classes and a CS internship. Meghana K. '21, the [annotation note="A person on exec in charge

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  The View is Worth It but you have to make the climb yourself to find out

  

  . It's a funny story that honestly deserves its own blog post, but even ... AM so we could get to the parking lot by 6:45 to ensure a spot because ... my trip to Switzerland, and it was a whole year ago. The Highline

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Common Misconceptions and Un-Expectations a list of things i've noticed

  

  servers I'm a part of, I've realized that there are certain things about MIT ... around my family who does not know a thing about MIT while simultaneously ... there is...a lot about the school that a lot of people don't know about

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Latest Innovation at MIT Guest Blog: Social engineering with the Black Student Union's Co-Chair, Rasheed A. '17

  

  approaching the issues no one has dared to approach before.  We can take a hard look at many issues concerning the US and the world today and observe a ... January I wrote a post, “Colors”, detailing the MIT community’s response to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 9, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics and Alumna-hood I miss my team.

  

  's worth mentioning that I was on a FIRST team for all four years of High School. It was a huge part of my life. I initially joined FIRST because my ... cause, whether it's building a robot or performing science research at a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hodge-Podge Random things from a random guy.

  

  guilty about having not blogged in a little while. I think I may have said ... very little awake time during the week and there isn't a whole lot to ... acoustically explode. Crescendos exist so that they can reach a climax, not so

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2008
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Culture Clash Spain doesn't do sarcasm, and my soul is slowly dying. But then I took some…

  

  . Seriously, a couple of weeks ago as we sat in a bar and watched Spain beat ... talking to is me"). I might be turning into a linguistics nut, but I find ... , a camel? Come on. Where did THAT come from? Why isn't it at least a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Do These Numbers Have in Common? 7, 8, 12, 17, 18.

  

  bottom. Here at MIT, it's rapidly coming down to the end. In a week and a day, I'll be hopping on a jet plane, bound for the tropical island of ... 't written about my classes yet, so I'll give you a brief rundown of my courses

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Answered Questions, answers, and Sam's face. This is the real MIT.

  

  . This ended well for both parties - with a PARTY! Pun totally intended. "Hey Sam, let's have dinner." "Or better yet, I could have a dinner party ... ? On on side I can get a PC with tons of programs, downloads, familiarity

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 2

  

  , "I'm so confused. MIT has a beaver? But so does Caltech." Right. The ... ???" MIT does have at least a three day weekend every month (see last weekend ... "mental health days," this is a fairly common term (Google "take a mental

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 20, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  3 Simple Steps for Making New Friends Guide to Meeting People

  

  shutting down. After checking in and dropping my bags in a sea of other bags, I was ushered into a room with the other Sin Limite attendees. I had arrived a bit late, and it seemed like everyone in the room [annotation note

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Joint Post] Chatting with Hank Green, the MIT Commencement Speaker interviewing Hank + sharing student stories!

  

  ="aligncenter" width="300"] !!![/caption] Hank is a man of many passions: science ... ’ve been a fan of Hank (and his brother John) for basically my entire ... about a decade ago and have been captivated ever since. CrashCourse and

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  the perfect choice doesn’t exist not the same river, not the same you

  

  blog posts. blogging right now feels to me like a sponge—it soaks up ... doing the internship application grind a few weeks ago. i've been doing ... that a little. but this year i took it the most seriously as i possibly

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 22, 2021