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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2009 Brass Rat My highly biased and personal opinions about Ring Premiere.

  

  , but I think they could have come up with something much cooler for such ... . (If anyone else has an explanation for this, by all means, drop me a note.) It's been an Institute tradition since about 1929 for each class

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skipping Class and Failing Bio A practical guide to poor life choices

  

  September rolled around, I set my alarm for an ambitious 1 whole hour before ... . Hahahahaha. That plan worked for a while. But by the second week of classes, a curious phenomenon began… phenomenizing. I started staying up later, but not

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 29, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Waiting Game hit submit time to quit

  

  living room floor, rapidly typing up my last MIT essay twenty minutes ... really hope to God that I get the yes. After rapidly typing up an essay, I ... auditioned for my choir's winter concert solo. I went out with friends to the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Down to Business 'Tis the eve of a new semester.

  

  'm taking the writing class for a couple reasons - first, I have a lot of fun ... is notoriously difficult...*cringe* Other things I'm up to this ... keep it up. It might not be too hard, though - there are a few Indian

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Marching Band Refused to Yield Band in the name of love.

  

  later, I'm finally about ready to finish up this entry on marching band ... that our clarinet player, Michael '09, built for us. Since we don't have ... when the drummer gets tired of making up a cadence, we just let her use

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 4, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Curseroad MIT class roadmaps that shouldn’t exist but theoretically could

  

  Choosing classes at MIT is like filling up a skill tree in a video ... . That’s why we have CourseRoad – a website for planning what classes to take at MIT! CourseRoad is an invaluable tool for MIT students – it has

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  2021 Applicants: Answers to Your Emails Inspiration, Process, Components, Stress Mgmt, and More

  

  your questions that I could know, some generalized for the public. If you ... this post is so long). Thank you all for your emails and kind words and for sharing your experiences! I appreciate y’all! Number 1 tip

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ROTC Is Life (In a Good Way) Everything you ever wanted to know about ROTC at MIT (and then some)

  

  hopefully be up soon! You can also go to afrotc.com for information about ... great option for anyone adMITted who wanted to consider it (and now, a ... Tessa is on the right, excited for an incentive flight on a KC-135

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection-time Questions Omnibus

  

  concentrations. For the minor, students will take four required courses ... experiences back to Sloan in a follow-up course titled Leadership and ... accepting and friendly place for gay and lesbian students (this is my outsider

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Philosophy Things liberty, property, consent - that kind of stuff

  

  of devising models and gathering evidence for and against them. The ... ,” which I ended up taking this past spring, and (to put it simply) thought ... different and mutually conflicting theoretical perspectives on what makes for

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 11, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a quick and dirty guide to MIT jargon what is a 6-3 anyway?

  

  of words we made up and toss at each other — here are a few you may ... gleefully puts upon themselves. IHTFP: An acronym for MIT life. Either "I ... departments are numbered up to 24, but here are the most common majors: 6

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 7, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Downtown if you could see it then you’d understand

  

  leading up to some unknown structure. There’s a mural on the lower ... . As if you could box culture to be a single thing, I say. We head up ... talk about. The sidewalk is level for a while. And then it leads down

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  experiences for the academic standards i’m comfortable with? could i, perhaps ... "]FPOP[/annotation] counselors (a super inspiring upperclassman!), so i reached out asking for his ... wanted to live and which activities i was interested in, but i ended up

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: A sneak peak at research @ MIT This new website is sure to change the way that the world thinks about MIT…

  

  .” He was looking for funding to start OpenLabWare, which he explained ... ’d be interested in becoming a content creator for OLW. Of course, I ... , before entering the meeting, I prepared myself for rejection. Luckily, she

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 13, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  It’s been a long road… ...gettin from there to here

  

  ’m raising money for the National Organization for Rare Disorders. I have ... organization that puts on the Marathon) for the past two years. [caption id ... -Marathon in November.[/caption] For various reasons, I don’t want to specify

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology (fatima's version)

  

  google search, 0/10 for conviction kah do ye kohkan se ki marna nhi kamal ... : Opening Pages of “Memory for Forgetfulness.” I read this book during ... to hang in my room for the fall! how-to-dormspam. probably for

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / Summer

  bay area parties well, two of them

  

  up for them to mature. and i'm certain that there were people there who ... a website called partiful: think facebook events for parties. the ... was for "smart, hard-working, ambitious people in tech." now, my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 15, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Today A Trader Joe's monologue

  

  Today, I woke up and walked to Trader Joe's. The elevator was taking ... play. When I walk past that house, I feel an overwhelming yearning for domesticity. For matrimony. For a car that is safe and reliable. For a sidewalk

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  even bother. The thing is, I don't need physics, not really, for the ... the right thing by sticking with physics for so long, and these days, I ... , despite it being less relevant to the career paths I see for myself. Course

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of Burton-Conner long live BC

  

  modifications that are being made are ones students have been advocating for for ... murals may be restored. Also, sliding wall panels for students to paint on ...   For All That We Hoped For Conner 4 The pirates! Pirate Logo

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 25, 2020