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  Back to work

  

  cool! Then you got to see us again the following night in the Student ... st is the deadline for freshmen to declare a major. Technically, it ... .812) and two electives. In the first four years the minor is offered, it

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Small talk How about that weather?

  

  specifically to notify students of events that have free food. :)" This is most ... planning to write a little feature about MIT mailing lists in the near future ... 'm pretty sure all sports follow pretty much the same schedule. According to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Veni, Vidi, Jamba I came, I saw, I conquered a lot of smoothies

  

  MIT. What’s it like? Is it hard? How much sleep do I get? These tend to ... hair is definitely not used to the bay area climate. We left dry, mid-90s ... in my classes for the GEL Program! [Intermission is over; please

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 15, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Visiting MIT this summer (part 1) It is now high season for visiting colleges. I plan to do a series of…

  

  plan to visit, please leave your questions in the comments; I will answer ... to leave your advice on visiting MIT and Boston in the comments; I will pass that advice on in the posts to come. A visit to Boston to visit

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shaye Storm: Studying Extrasolar Planets Shaye Storm spent his summer working at the MIT Planetary Astronomy Laboratory where he studied…

  

  'm told is currently a super hot topic in astronomy! The goal of the observations is to test if the Wallace Observatory has all the necessary ... eclipse is observed by a big drop in intensity in the light curve readings

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  keeping interest a list of things i think are cool

  

  that majoring in the humanities is a dead end (when it very much is not ... and do good things. And in some ways, this is my goal. I want to be ... 've recently come to learn that this is known as front-end development). In all

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 4, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Always Moving Forward: An entry by Prof. Patrick Henry Winston MIT has the nation's leading running back in Division III football?!? And he's a Computer…

  

  sports, the most in Division III, and football is certainly not the big dog ... cheers is a number. The members shout out the digits of pi. As in the ratio ... at 3.14. This is MIT, after all. They go the distance, as in 3

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Some Time in New York City I'm not much of a man by the light of day, but by night I'm…

  

  . The other third of you are actually going to live in Boston! When other ... ." Seriously, what is wrong with you? Anyway, we were in a huge gigantic hurry to ... , we had to sneak out for two hours in the middle of the party. We

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Stu Schmill ‘86 Name: Stu Schmill; Job title: Associate Director of Admissions and Director of the Educational Council;…

  

  yourself is going to lead to the right outcome for you. This is true in ... think change is great! (I do plan to stay in my current house, job, and ... Director of the Educational CouncilHometown: Little Neck, NY (in Queens

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Done (this summer) or Why I Haven't Blogged in a Month

  

  -long wait until the next one. The Medical Center is similar to MIT: its ... biggest difference between the two: the VA is a place with mostly older men ... prepare for—I’ve talked to alums who have been in the bubble for 30 years

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / How to Food

  [GUEST POST] Cooked Cooking by Joy X. '29

  

  tended not to stick and would fall off in the pan. Yum, fried flour! Later ... in the kitchen next to us, and offered us a piece of pasta to bread ... ” -Shelly Y. ‘29 “is a circle the one where you get the most area for the

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 14, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get by with a lot of help from my friends Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song! You just might walk out…

  

  . College, on the other hand, is all about change. I have to laugh at myself a ... the professors who cared about you enough to tell you they believe in ... ’re in for some of the most memorable four years of your life. But don’t be

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 1, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  go alone or you may never go at all

  

  instincts tell us that we're in greater risk of danger. The unfamiliar is ... in the moment. It's also nice being able to think "I would like to do ... prevent oneself from doing something—like, you wanting to do it is all the

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • January 6, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC’s Q&A with Dean Kelley of Pixar’s Coco (he also worked on Avatar: The Last Airbender, Monsters University, and The Incredibles 2)

  

  A couple of Fridays ago I had the opportunity to sit in on an LSC ... . It was set in Mexico on the Day of the Dead, but in order for us to ... got to go to the Great Barrier Reef. So it depends on what the film is

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Case of the Considerate Robbers and other winter adventures

  

  Spanish speakers anywhere else in the world would fail to understand, found ... , and place students in over 25 countries all over the world. Most ... for the trust and confidence MIT puts in our abilities to affect change

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • August 3, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear prefrosh, a letter to you

  

  to one of the top universities in the world. My freshman year is ending ... to MIT than its rigor. MIT, yes, is one of the most difficult schools ... stupid or unqualified, I was able to find support in my peers and in the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 25, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  happiness springs, songs, sheep

  

  have changed in the past four years, mostly for the better, and I'm a ... strange nostalgia for the future. It is impossible to explain. ... shower, got an early lunch, and took the 11am bus to wellesley. i caught up

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 24, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  On Greek history, and this strange end-of-semester sprint  tl;dr nerding out over a final essay

  

  responsibilities, would I have the self-discipline to still put in the work? I hope ... read the textbook. I went running. I forced myself to take a seat in the ... Achilles and Patroclus, I think, from the Iliad. I wanted in that moment to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To D or not to D? MIT's Design Lab is tempting me.

  

  solar heating. This is the definitely the class to take if you want to ... , and it reminded me of the good times at MIT. Well, in Honduras, but ... took in the Fall of 2007 about Development. It's also known as D-Lab I

  • by Kim D. '09
  • February 17, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  crazy party weekend from 2019 to now

  

  concerts and i’ve become a much better vocalist in the process, but… i ... weekend was my last ever cpw, so i decided to revisit some of the same ... cappella concert, is an annual event where all the mit a cappella groups

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 18, 2023