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

  

  a Division of Humanities. The committee report called for it to be a ... Technology". The school was explicitly for people who wanted to be mechanical ... elements studied in groups. To be fair, Mendeleev's version of the periodic

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  being in different states, even if the appointments were virtual. my ... ," asked claire, "if you wanted to go against the wind?" "you don't," said ... degrees to go the other direction, was called tacking. there were nuances to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  to kill, and being one of the most annoying household pests to get rid ... , removed my tools from the makeshift mat, and then wrapped everything to be ... ’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

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  basement of Walker Memorial in 1960. The call letters were changed to WTBS ... ,000 to WTBS in exchange for the call letters. The deal worked out, WTBS ... 's seen the unpublished posts; I just keep changing the date and planning to

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  the class if this was the kind of work I thought was acceptable to hand ... . After a lifetime of being smart and good at school — the thing that had ... goal to run the marathon, I would have never started training. If I hadn

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  the work of not working this is going to be a challenging semester ... 'm the one who needs to be reminded. a happy moment in market design i ... different type of work this semester--the work of being present and focused

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  , you get the point. Freshman fall is meant to be a reality check for ... poured into my classes, I still failed to grasp the concept. It was as ... 's very easy to get caught up in the daily metronome of life, especially

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  journalists appreciate. I have the luxury of being able to be a purist in this ... good along the way.  However, much of the time, students fail to connect ... in places where they will be appreciated, particularly if they have the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  highlighting and ignore the lecture. If I was scrambling to take notes, I less ... failures are gifts that will lead to successes down the road. [caption id ... and the process of making new friends. I hated being confused over

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  becoming the person that I want to be? Is the pain on the way to getting ... or another, and so I rolled the cart along, once again sad to be moving ... enough to be saddled with three finals, meaning that I spent the last three

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  certainly should not be construed as advice to start ignoring the suggestions ... people around you.[/annotation] You should be generous to the people around ... years. Many of them are also filled to the brim with anxieties about

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  be felt droplets, and even the lightest of rains would be felt if you ... you to seek shade and be with others. But if you want someone to help ... , and are coming, to campus. Slowly the summer will end. It feels as if

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  story, circumstances, and so forth; even if they were to replicate all the ... , that it is ripe for mockery (or can itself be used to degrade the self ... prepared to do the work at MIT, you will not be admitted, because we don

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  actually merge the two in a thesis if I wanted to. My grandpa passed away a ... The Thing. Don’t try to be memorable or unique. Most people aren’t (I ... happened to be the chair of MIT’s Biological Engineering department and is

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  . When the questions began, I will admit to being a little perplexed by ... , if an applicant maximizes the opportunities that are available to them ... impact on the campus community. If an applicant has to create their own

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  thinks you need to be. The internet wants to reduce you into a pile of ... the internet and dived into research. It didn’t take long to come ... Confidential had the answers to all of my questions - about how I should approach

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  sacrifices they made to move to America. Additionally, being the ‘smart kid ... to strive for. And if I’m not going to accomplish anything or be ... ’s Volunteer Award around the time I was applying to colleges and being so angry

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  into the darkness of the jet black irises hoping that I might be able to ... should be enough to keep the eyes from thinking I had died. Back to my ... I wished to be a part of. Unlike the others, this paper did not

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  and the Internet. One of the things I was doing to fill the time was ... here. The powers that be over there liked this post so much that it ... talking to the people who work there, and my observations of the students

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  trifecta covered, your score would be up to some combination of fate and the ... really loudly in my room. I can be introspective to the point of self ... There is empirical evidence to support the idea that males have a

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015