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  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  : Historical context: notes on MIT's history in general, changes to the format of ... difference to me is the math. Differential Calculus is listed in second ... dedicated course to Electrochemistry exists today; based on the content, it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  the person he became, but I didn’t want to focus on the bad person he ... how I was going to represent those episodes on a plate. In the weeks it ... change. I put some matcha powder on top of the mousse to represent the Dai

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
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  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  . She knew there was an AKA on campus, so she reached out to her asking ... to either visit her and invite her to different cities on the coast or ... ’s easy to get stuck in the MIT bubble because everything is on campus, but

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
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  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  -minute walk in the opposite direction. I was just about to collapse on the side ... that pointed to four places on campus. After a zigzag through the ... , despite the fact we had spent six hours on it. They had to tell us

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  ’d like to take some time to shed a different light on the situation. That ... to have such a great second-family who has spent the past week ... were not granted exceptions to stay on campus during the first round, the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  dragon[/caption] On the first or second day of class, the prof showed a ... too loud to be turned on during the work day, so I mostly used a ... : how to not burn yourself Reach toward hot things (or potentially hot

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  I stopped though. I went on to pry the compound eyes off the head ... . On Tetazoo, we had a small streak where someone’s room seemed to become ... ’s got instincts akin to that of an experienced hunter. Harley is also the

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  embarked on a quest to document the best study spots at MIT. most of these ... tons of nooks to study in on every floor of building 9 (except maybe the 3rd, I didn't see much there). there's a lounge on the second floor

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  any day of the week. This left me more time to work on graduate ... . On the bright side, though, those obligations can also contract to fit ... and continued to work on my essay. At 3am, in commemoration of reaching

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  . I just want to reach out to the applicants who read descriptions of ... highlight some of the awesome things that MIT students are working on, I can ... applying to MIT. It’s so easy to become overwhelmed by hearing about the ever

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  /musing on the topic, I’ve gotten a bit closer to an answer, but the same sort ... more time than I should to complete the first Python psets, I sheepishly asked permission from my advisor to drop the class and take 18.02 instead

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  exceedingly real to me, despite the fact that I haven't had a panic attack on ... more focused on the countdown to 9PM. As the day ended, I called home ... on which I would allow myself to be captivated by the skyscrapers I

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  . The only class to which I dragged myself on a semi-regular basis was my ... day is filled. Where is the time to catch up on material that you ... There are going to be a lot of people eager to give you advice on how

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
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  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  i. I visited my high school over the winter break. I came back to my hometown in Alabama during the second week. I was staying in Georgia with my ... that this is probably going to be the last time I’ll be in Alabama for a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  didn’t try to study 2 hours before the exam on 2 hours of sleep. I ... another semester to finish. I know I need to reach out to my s³ dean and the ... 'm going to admit it to thousands of anonymous readers on the admissions

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
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  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  MIT students do on Friday nights, The Stuff of MIT Legend, and Life, the ... 2, lived on the infamous Conner 2, played on the varsity field hockey team, volunteered on the campus ambulance, and blogged not nearly often

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  "]prodigality[/annotation] and stinginess. Aristotle acknowledges that it is hard to hit on the ... . I'm reaching to the edge of my abilities and seeing what's there. This ... happy. This seems pretty close to a complete end. On the other hand, the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  winter and the slew of second semester tests starting to take its toll. It ... are written below were too big to fit on the penny. *A special thanks ... essentially a rejection. To cope, I focused on all the positives of the schools

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  about it, for obvious reasons. This idea made it to the second-to ... Tony, who was on the MechE sub-team, not Software, came to help as well ... -ordering extra buck converters that turned out to be essential, and others on the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  major delays on the Red Line, or a stroll to Jamaica Plain on a summer day ... dot the Charles’ 80 mile span. I’m only going to focus on eight of these ... . On this day, my six coworkers and I were supposed to go to the Museum

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020