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  Classes: Junior Spring Edition + notes on MIT academics in general

  

  summary: I am taking 6 classes for a total of 69 units of credit (courses ... SCIENCE LABORATORY Class Info and Benefits: 17.803, a required class for Political Science majors, truly prepares you for future research. It is also a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 25, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  Jill Biden waved at me D.C. during inauguration

  

  I noticed that I would be in town for [annotation note ... manhandling at the door. They even gave us free French fries to apologize for ... us. An older lady at the table next to us stood up and started

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  10 Fun (and REAL) Facts About MIT! Incredibly Correct Facts about MIT!

  

  When MIT Students Blew Up the Sun For a fun prank in 1992, MIT ... The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is globally renowned for ... for sure that it gives off that quirky MIT charm. “Did you shrink

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • April 1, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Mine hands are broken reflections on many a year of carpal tunnel syndrome

  

  , comes from repetitive motion (like typing). For me it shows up as pain in ... running, and that pretty much cleared it up. That week, though. Jesus. That ... off for years, sometimes better, sometimes worse. I think it was worse

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m sitting at work right now Seems like as good a time as any to bang out a quick blog post

  

  here. The name plate on our door has four slots, taken up by AWESOME PEOPLE ARE HERE which is, in fact, just as accurate as having our names up ... (for his birthday, we made a Whirlpool Galaxy out of cake, frosting, and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Human After All Unlike customer service nowadays, MIT (and its admissions office) is 100% human. Give or take…

  

  being hyperbole. So let me clear up a few misconceptions. And a totally ... for any prospective student to stand even a ghost of a chance of getting ... to an end - nor is it, for that matter, a question of finding how low

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / How to MIT

  in the prospect of leaving are you proud of the work you've done?

  

  . And from there I wiped off the grime and stood up again, this time a ... start ups and nonprofit orgs DanceTroupe a sorority CodeIt the ... permanent or constant in my time here at MIT except for blogging. Even my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Behind The Drones the making of the pi day drone delivery video

  

  receive from the office instructs them to keep an eye out for "delivery owls ... , last October 5th, Loren and I met up on campus with my uncle Andy and my ... :   Noah was going to be on campus for MIT's SAT test prep

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Ice Bear it’s ice bear

  

  ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyPeDZ-I8pY Ice Bear wakes up. Ice Bear observes CJ do work. Ice Bear enjoys companionship. Ice Bear goes to sleep. Ice Bear will wake up again.

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 13, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Immaterial Girl in a Material World There is an imposter among us

  

  story of how I ended up in 6-2. 6-9 I entered MIT last fall knowing I ... ’d already made a Courseroad for 6-9.) I became a stereotypical CS student. I coded websites and Discord bots for fun and would include C++ when asked

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  updates cook or get cooked - summer boston edition

  

  every facet, and breaking it adequately becomes the feedback loop for your ... culture and hack the systems they build for you. Very fun stuff and very ... /Quantum - 18.901/8.04 This duo was a bit weird. I was taking 8.04 for the first

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 30, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  living having the time of my life

  

  for help when necessary. I’ve also learned a lot about my past, that my ... acquired standards for friends). But what hit me the hardest was I realized I ... ?” “For the hell of it. Oh man, my mouth’s getting numb,” they say, reaching

  • by Anika H. '26
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  how to meet curious people

  

  about math. That made sense, I suppose—they had voluntarily signed up for ... other institutions, so this might be much easier for me than those at ... for various computer science groups because I want the job opportunities

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Growing Pains And Every Other Type of Ache

  

  can’t hear very well, for some reason, and I feel like the physical ... unending enthusiasm for learning. There were things that she loved. I feel ... .008[/annotation] this semester; three difficult lab CS classes. Er, difficult for me

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • December 6, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Pigeonholing boxes = semesters, pigeons = classes

  

  debating whether or not I should, and it wasn’t an easy decision for a few ... for me it’s just a [annotation note="arts graduation requirement"] HASS ... abandon them. Furthermore, I have already written about twenty pages for

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 Resolutions posting so i can be held accountable

  

  to make them for last year, so I decided to show you mine for this year ... home, I have not stepped foot in the gym. For 2020, I want to see how much progress I can make if I consistently go to the gym for a year! I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  On Friendship how my beliefs have changed over the years

  

  school, they would not match it to me. For the most part, I didn’t really ... Myers–Briggs personality types. It stands for introversion, intuition ... new image for reasons I struggle to justify now.  Was it because I felt

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 2, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] Down the River Sharon L. '21 talks Harvard and life paths

  

  biotech companies to MIT campus (possibly for recruiting reasons or close ... sign in the cold for an hour vs. purchasing a sign holder."]when it ... the M2 bus with a Harvard ID card! These can be obtained by signing up

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 8, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  , we must include the time it takes for the sound to travel up the well ... reaching for a calculator. EXAMPLE #1: consider being in a room with a ... ’s talk). The question: how long does it take for all audience members to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• Blog / MISTI

  Another Journey Planned How to go abroad 101

  

  looking for a program that didn’t promise that and rather had a different ... offer me the experience I was looking for. Although not many students ... with Cambridge University; MIT Madrid, which sends students for a

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 21, 2011