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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AFROTC = stress, and why that’s okay Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps: "what do you do every week?"

  

  low crawling to how to challenge intruders, we had to know it all so ... , which is where we really get to practice our skills. LLAB is run by the juniors, seniors, and fifth-years, and is designed to teach the freshmen and

  • by ROTC
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Choosing a Major there are so many

  

  I was on track to double-major in history; all it takes is one history ... majors here, and it’s hard to choose. # “What course are you?” a tour guide ... , writing, is largely useless to humanity, so I want my day job to do some

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 20, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2023 Wait List Decisions Released

  

  plan to admit students from the wait list. How many we admit is a ... list is used to manage the uncertainty of knowing how many students will ... 't somewhere I really thought I wanted to go). Looking back now, it was a great

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Yourself Can you really LTFP?

  

  's something I want to convey to you. MIT is not for everyone!! It's not that ... study that's not even vaguely within your interests? I don't think it is ... 's department learns a given subject.   This is not to say that answers

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Reading folders A little bit more on evaluating applications.

  

  longer essay? The Part II is a great place for us to get to hear your voice and understand what is important to you. Then, it's time for your ... Once upon a time, there was an application to MIT... It's a Monday

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Singing with a Local Filk Group [by Susan Shepherd '11] At MIT, I discovered that my "unusual" hobbies weren't all that…

  

  is the culture. It's hard to describe, but there's a peculiar mix of ... short. Filk music can be awfully hard to define. Strictly speaking, it is ... " was written to commemorate Jim Henson's work; it is sung from the point

  • by ARTalk
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007: Where even your smallest part matters The 2.007 competition has come to close!

  

  possible, especially because at MIT it is a required class for all mechanical ... teaches design and manufacturing, so the first month or so is dedicated to ... final product. Alas, here is my robot: Its name is Melotaur (both a play

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  my semester in a word: oof or perhaps "oof: the party, the lifestyle"

  

  't have much to show for it, except notably a fat C in 6.006, MIT's intro to ... of interest. i feel like it's good to know what good code looks like ... while and i'm really excited to finally be in it. i was a bit irritated by

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out of the lab and into the internet Confession: I actually listen to music from the movie Ice Princess. I'm not even kidding.

  

  'm on at the lab is swearing to me that it's 1 Gbps, but that just sounds ... 't considered for graduate work at MIT, is this true?" In lieu of responding to ... department is allowing MIT biology undergrads to apply to the program (see

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor quotes The spurious wisdom and even more spurious wit of MIT professors.

  

  , and that this is going to make me either a good scientist or a raving ... friends said on a daily basis (note: I was going to link to it, but then I realized 1) it is entirely inappropriate for innocent eyes, and 2) I said

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Likelihood

  

  scholarship money to come. The idea is to win their affections by getting them ... Furstenberg is quoted as saying, "We do these letters to try to introduce some ... 't have any early notification is that MIT does its notification pretty

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Greetings from MIT Labs! Introducing MIT: The Game

  

  admissions staff, it allows students to experience all the best parts of an MIT ... to unleash the zombie virus release it to the world! To play the game ... ! It probably is. The flash file is packed with so much awesomeness that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 1, 2011
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  making things a blog about being a meche major

  

  E. This is why I choose it, every day I come to class and try to pay ... pay the bills. It is a side pursuit for when I am not writing. I used to ... Maybe my favorite part of course 2A is sitting next to my friend in 2

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walking in Tim’s Shoes Trust me, those are some pretty big shoes

  

  , naturally, YES YES YES YES YES YES PLEASE!!! ME!!!!!! I managed to tone it ... my list of 101 Things to Do Before You Graduate!   It’s always ... remember to turn on the personal fan installed inside. (It took me and two

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Famous people who didn’t go to MIT Some people are more successful because they turned down admission to MIT.

  

  is an amazing, world-changing place. But it's not for everyone ... that he knew what he was meant to do early in life. It looks like she ... Atlanta's nascent farm-to-table movement when Michael Touhy opened it in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 23, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline November 1 is the Early Action deadline.

  

  , it can take a week or more to complete all of these steps. The mail is ... application piece is mailed to the time that it appears on your tracking system. It is also important to note that we do not need to have your scores in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Tracking update All EA application mail has been processed; check your MyMIT Tracking.

  

  for EA applicants. This is a good time for you to check your application ... will not look at your application unfavorably because it is missing an ... a transcript, please fax it to us, but be sure to also mail us another

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6-3 not a definitive guide

  

  and running, now you need to know how to use it! Next up is assembly ... programming, and it's How To Software (For Real™️) (Shavina C. '19) 6.031 is ... upped it to I think a 15 unit class which is just slightly more

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come Together What do you believe in?

  

  Munroe. Generally the comic is true to its tagline. It's nerdy, it's cute ... coordinates and a date. The coordinates, it turns out, pointed to a park here in ... crippling rule of the military junta, the nation is yet again reeling from its

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Arma virumque cano: a guest post by Quynh N. ‘15 Why you should take Old English at MIT

  

  classes? Aren’t you guys a technical school?” The answer to this is a ... to four of these classes must focus on a specific field—Connie is ... they love and find it’s not so bad after all. I’ve talked to both

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 11, 2015