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  As if course numbers weren’t enough: Learning your A, B, Cs, and OEs Different majors at MIT, and why I chose mine

  

  for every day that I have neglected my blog. The short story is that I have been traveling around for MD-PhD program interviews, which is one of the final steps in the long journey that is the medical school

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Before you Register for Classes: Tools, Tips, and Resources Scheduling Tools and Tips for Incoming Students

  

  for academic planning. Here are some essentials: CourseRoad is a ... , who wrote about it here. This is the best tool to plan your academic ... . They also rate their professors and TAs. This tool is helpful for picking

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo and physics and math, oh my 57 units of academic fun fun fun. Now with humanities!

  

  that I always have an hour or half-hour break after 11 am, which is great ... of time before dinner, which is really fantastic for getting research ... Wednesday? 20.020 is pretty laid-back compared to my other classes, which is

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST fun And now...the much anticipated (but never duplicated!) photo-filled account of the coolest robotics competition ever!

  

  to be there. What is FIRST? Only the greatest thing ever, basically ... . In early January, a challenge is announced to the teams at the kickoff event. The challenge is actually a game- two alliances of three robots

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Residential Life

  [Guest Post] All About the MIT Panhellenic Association how some MIT students found their "home under the dome"

  

  This is a guest blog post from the MIT Panhellenic Association, which ... freshman year and am now the Primary Recruitment Coordinator, Website ... and computer science (18C). Home is both South Korea and Southern

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP reveal!! it's like a gender reveal but important

  

  some point, and January is just too dark and depressing for me not to ... ="The website where ELOs (Experiential Learning Opportunities) are posted ... is being put to my first UROP. Without further ado, my project is

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 11, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  a time capsule of east campus multi-media, community-built

  

  . if you want a huge collection of stories, this website is also good ... of college, and i guess life as a whole, is finding forms of it. i was ... ) the culture is rich with traditions, stories, and artifacts, and (b) the

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 12, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 2

  

  excited, sure, but the third win in four years for the Pats is nothing ... goes part 1: Random questions Akash asked a common question: "Is it true ... ?" My understanding, though people express uncertainty, is that it is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 3) Thailand and Israel and Columbia, oh my!

  

  (Courses 6-3 and 21M, of Random Hall): "We all know that MIT is the best there is for science and engineering, but many of the humanities ... will take someday. In addition, I am coding the website and software

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 8, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  reviewing my classes this semester but unthoroughly

  

  .5840: Distributed Computer Systems Engineering A distributed system is a collection ... that a computer can execute? After all, a computer is just an ... statement” or “for loop” is. Thus, a compiler is a program that does the hard

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 17, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Some questions that I've received from prospectives.

  

  :  "Basically MIT is 110% my dream school, I have worked so very hard the past ... is proficiency in English. It sounds like you've got that down pat, so ... dimension: academically, socially, extracurricularly, etc. My impression is

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 8, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exodus from Cambridge in which MIT evicts us due to the COVID-19 pandemic

  

  This is a (long) post detailing the week in which both MIT and ... Sunday, March 15: Departure This post is long because I believe there is ... crisis it is today. I want to preface this post by saying that it is

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer in San Francisco Interning at PlayStation Network

  

  Station website. I entered the group at a really exciting time, when the project was ... frequent and rigorous testing is. While I learned a ton from my internship

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  short term / long term on growth and learning

  

  godly figure shining down on me saying "Cami, computer science is for you." Instead, I hear "Yeah this is the best you're gonna get. It's not even a ... it is now June 10th and I still haven't read it. Why, you may ask, has

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 10, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the First or at least, I used to

  

  – but none of that is important right now. It’s the first day of Junior ... [annotation note="to be clear this is the time stamp in the song, I will use ... . The droning on of teachers talking [annotation note="yes this is

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of East Campus i live in an art exhibition

  

  (This is the second half of the Art of East Campus series. The first ... though I had prowled the East Campus website extensively and seen pictures of its interior, the magnitude of how different EC is from normal

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Joint Post] DesignPlus A super cool and awesome first-year learning community ft. Gloria and Teresa (we're not biased)

  

  ) website here: Designing a First Year at MIT First year MIT students are ... around design, and is overseen primarily by the Morningside Academy for ... in my hands, seeing beautiful lines flow from my pencil, is so insanely

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done done done end-of-semester happiness

  

  cosmetics brand Glossier. the paper is here. protip: if you want to stop ... strategy so you never want to visit their website or see their logo ever ... .104 (seminar in analysis). this is a communication-intensive course in math

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 24, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Nerd Camp tales from TDI

  

  the community is so strong, more and more alumni began teaching as I did ... . This is all a bit scary. But it's also very rewarding. This year, I ... on TDI's campus. Kriff is 11 and Julia is 10. Here's Kriff, on my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a Polaroid Picture My alleged lack of football fandom triggers an epiphany.

  

  football (soccer) fan eh? Your comments sounds like a girl's who is trying to ... is, no, I've never really watched soccer before in my life, but the ... √ґln, and I have to say that just watching the game is way more exciting than

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 23, 2006