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

  

  long Professor Artin has been teaching algebra in MIT. It turns out he ... (very long) post is organized by catalog year. Within each year, the ... : general requirements that undergraduates need to get a degree. Schools and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  ’s head designer Jony Ive recently described many university design programs ... laser cut acrylic parts, high degree of fit and finish, and working

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  could attend a university whose site I had stumbled onto from a friend’s Google search of “World’s Best Universities.” And then one morning ... University of Pennsylvania, and inside I found several brochures, and a letter

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  before states. Dreaming about nationals. Crying on the bus home when we ... so many wonderful universes around and within me, that college ... lives won’t be dragons that a college degree could help with, and I am

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  than moving my fingers across a keyboard for a long, long time. After ... in the face. With a steel chair. Then there was the long, long flight ... and joined a long line trying to clear customs. The air seemed unusually

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  fraternity is Alpha Phi Alpha, founded in 1906 at Cornell University. In the ... universities, namely Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority (AKA), Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity ... have that compared to the other HBCUs and universities she was

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  - and much, much less expensive. And as long as I shower at the Z Center ... , and the varying degrees in between. I always recommend driving (or ... Transportation Secretary Ray Lahood's new policy, which states that "walking and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  , the linchpin in the formation of the United States of America. Worked ... command was something he had long envisioned for himself and driven towards ... motivation to apply to a great school like MIT or any other top university, you

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  tests, long before I contemplated completing an application for college ... this to be true, but most students are unwilling to state this outright ... wrong area. Many colleges and universities value multiple forms of

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  state-mandated labour. And the apprehension I had in Tel Aviv – that too ... , I have worked at a university, a non-profit, and, now, a for ... ). New York is a great city, and there has long been a Battle of the Titans

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  persisted for so long, and so universally. As if our bodies themselves ... . Not fake, just flat. Like I've been talking to cardboard cutouts and ... . But maybe this is longing, or maybe desire, mixed with grief. It

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  very long. It’s going to be as important, as fun, and as life-changing as ... senior year of high school at the Penn State Schreyer Honors College as an ... years. At Penn State I was at least a year younger than everyone in my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  cat I found online.)[/caption] The inspiration MIT.nano is MIT’s state ... any university in the world. At the heart of it is a cleanroom with a ... . These classes range from 3-hour-long “etch a tiny image onto silicon

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  university. There is a ridiculous amount of pressure from both adults and ... pursued summer internships in labs at universities, has been working on ... chose all my schools (including MIT) on a whim. I picked a variety of in-state

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  state legislators. Their leadership has galvanized students at schools ... may in turn be reported to universities to which they applied. Indeed ... fact more broadly and explain our reasoning as to why. We have long held

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  the president of the United States and pulled an all nighter chilling ... - my best friend told me that some kids were betting on how long I would ... prestigious school. My eyes were set on a good, local university that would not

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  tournament by Rowan University. This week, I met with two players from this ... Intercollegiate Athletics site has a long list of achievements. Meghan is a ... school team to two state championships. Looking at their lists of

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  alongside many of Boston’s universities and colleges: MIT, Harvard, and Boston University, to name a few. To get from Cambridge to [annotation note ... meters long. On the exterior, this bridge is fairly unassuming and frankly

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  you don't blog for a long time, you lose your ability to rhyme. Not that ... Anna has so eloquently stated. But my geographical scenery hasn't changed ... taught the best classes while finishing my undergraduate degree, and along

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  'll be sad.) Since the stated purpose of the blogs is to introduce ... you don't get personal attention at research universities? I leave with ... replication and protein synthesis! My postdoc and I discuss the state of our

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005