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• Blog / Academics & Research

  majoring in 21E: frequently asked questions what it's like to study humanities at a stem school

  

  fully pursuing the computer science degree at MIT? Am I "giving up" or ... would you rate the quality of hum classes/UROPs/opportunities to STEM at ... think there's a lot of really cool opportunities in humanities at MIT. We

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Deadline-time Questions Omnibus Answering all of your questions. See you in 2007!

  

  January?" Please email admissions at mit dot edu to advise of January tests ... Freshman)? 1. You can be at MIT for all of, part of, or none of IAP -- it ... 's degree. [...] Do I have any chance of getting in to the Physics M

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our loving, our friends, and our labor This entry is based on Aaron Copland's opera "The Tender Land."

  

  DID YOU KNOW? "The Canticle of Freedom," written for the dedication of Kresge Auditorium at MIT, was the only piece Aaron Copland ever ... to stop growing until we deprived them of oxygen, at which point they

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 22, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Working at a Toy Company! I promise you, my job was cooler than yours.

  

  to be fun time at MIT. I wrote a large chunk of this entry back at the ... spent my summer days working at Hasbro. I could've chosen a lot of ... I want to focus on my last Friday at work because it was one of the

  • by Snively '11
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  IAP, and trivia answers IAP begins tomorrow.

  

  Tomorrow is the beginning of MIT's Independent Activities Period (IAP)! IAP is one of the most fun times of the year. It is a time where students have lots of freedom and unique opportunities. Some students will do

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pursuing multiple fields

  

  .5 years' worth of work at a "normal" courseload. But there's a slight catch ... " courseloads is 384 units. So, that's what sort of picture you're looking at ... /humanities) or 21E (for engineering/humanities). For either of these degrees, you

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Online Learning Ecology in The United Kingdom An xTalk on Amazing Programs and FREE Resources

  

  Surgical Sciences Masters degree? Now you get it online from one of the best ... enroll into a university of 190,000 learners from all over the world, at ... provided above.  Online Education at the University of Edinburgh

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  New York A break from Cambridge.

  

  ever find yourself at MIT with 48 hours of absolutely nothing worth doing ... on the bus to Times Square. The eye-frazzling shock of Manhattan at ... . Settling at last into a posh-yet-Zenlike bench at one of the swankier, less

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Truth About Science comic-style.

  

  ) Quinton caught me napping at South Station last week :( (2) IT'S 99 DEGREES ... So the good news is that the series of scientific mishaps I blogged ... spend a significant portion of the next 72 hours taking full advantage of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 22, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Take 1.618: Film at MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] There are very few things for which I would get up…

  

  many arts classes here at MIT as I can fit into my schedule. All of the ... " degree? When my acceptance letter from MIT arrived, things got a little ... torn up, I happily made my way to Boston in the fall of 2005. However

  • by ARTalk
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In Japan, the Elevators Don’t Care - Sort of trying to fit in as an American in Japan - 

  

  category of cultural differences like "toilets are heated and have a fake ... bring new challenges everyday. At the very least, I had a run down of ... 're sliders and levers. Room doors don't have hinges to open into or out of

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  I’m a food blogger now enjoy reading through 700 words of personal digression to get to the recipes

  

  ="only REAL CANADIAN MAPLE SYRUP THOUGH, none of you Americans' terrible fake ... syrup. sorry !"]maple syrup.[/annotation]At risk of sounding like an ... myself a glass of water, and taking ready-to-eat baby carrots out of the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 26, 2019
• Blog / Events

  21: The Movie Night From the Bay Area to Boston, Seattle to the Florida Keys, Houston to Chicago, the…

  

  -floor rooms of Building 4 here at MIT. Although the movie producers got the ... Before we get to scenes from the MIT Class of 2012 Movie Night, I'll share a few of my thoughts and observations after having seen 21 this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Antics! The title is pretty self-explanatory, isn't it?

  

  throughout most of that book. Merudh: so hows the cafeteria food at MIT? you ... students usually try to get their money's worth of it. At the same time ... -packed week. The beginning of the week was either pretty lame or well

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it is the escape living a second life as an art student

  

  rest of us, left with nothing else to do, ended up standing at the stage ... Chamber Chorus at 9:30. I always arrive slightly late, completely out of ... walls of academia, where, it seems, I am destined to end up at some point

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 26, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Person Studying Persons… ...and why the Myers Briggs test is invalid

  

  --even data collected from the test itself shows this.   BEWARE OF FAKE ... . This did feel like a more accurate description of myself, but at the same ... This post began with my long-standing hatred of Myers-Briggs tests

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Culture, not the bacterial kind Some questions you should be asking about all the schools to which you're applying.

  

  (This entry courtesy of the free wireless internet at the Hotel ... -five biology programs, and my training will be excellent at all of them; what I ... particularly useful. In biology at least, a masters degree won't really get you

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  snippets from a semester minus academics, of course

  

  days of the firefly music festival. it was absolutely amazing; Tame ... friends in the last week of the semester. there was an ungodly amount of ... get to perform at OVRDRV, Boston University's dance showcase, and Dance

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 21, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a week of class notes airplanes, ethnography, and some bonus doodles

  

  (aero/astro) major at MIT. we spent the first day of class watching videos of very fancy automatic control systems at work, like variable ... of the capstone options for the aeroastro degree. in true mens

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 11, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday on 16th Street A Day in the Life

  

  of the city where I was born. I felt the calling. Actually, I also ... high school. I take the free bus down to the other end of 16th Street ... to the ticket window. I give people the benefit of the doubt, but I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 11, 2015