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

  

  accuracy for any of these things. Also, I'll be really bad when it comes to ... Technology". The school was explicitly for people who wanted to be mechanical ... from 1:30 to 3 PM for "dinner". There were also Saturday classes: either

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  to go mountain climbing. This example works for many, but clearly not ... virtually anyone trying to make sense of the college admissions process. In ... situation is probably not going to change. I can't speak to the situations

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  mattering. snowballs and shuttle buses and moments to save for nostalgia. at ... , then at least for a while. i watched lady bird (excellent and emotional) and swiss army man (also excellent, also emotional) and went to a house

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  medalist, who also happened to get an 800! The same goes for people who are ... to accompany and support the claims I had made. As one commenter put it ... .   So let's discuss admissions data. First, I'd like to say that I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  using his own intelligence and sweat of his brow. I would love for that to ... . According to the Wikipedia bio, this is Stark's background:   ... really like to give these kind of honors to fictional MIT grads, though. In

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  told myself that it was “practice” for the “real” applications to “real ... super reach for HYPM” “EC's aren't that good imo, to spread out kind of ... -800” “For MIT and Brown, try to bump up your SAT to at least 2200.” “you

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  studying. I think this holds truth for me; to maximize my exposure and ... lot of persistence for me to not get frustrated and give myself time to ... fundraisers and creating petitions to re-emphasize the need for MIT to implement

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  as a Tech Caller, which means I call alumni, talk to them, and ask them to donate to MIT. It’s a fascinating job, and it deserves an entire ... are excited to tell me about how they relate to MIT. Believe it or not

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  ever been before. Coming to terms with the fact that this would be my reality for three whole months, I thought to myself: What on Earth am I ... . Now, I shudder to think of life before MIT, condemned to four years of

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Community Projects

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  , so ready for CPW, because I didn’t get to go to CPW when I got admitted ... format for a haiku. Most of its poems are 2 to 5 lines long, and each line ... one wish i would wish for the haiku bot to reincarnate myself with haiku

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  't plan anything to do, so after playing Crystalis for two hours, I decided ... 'm headed to UC Berkeley for grad school. Of course, the data also predicts ... for you. Actually this entry did end up being kind of long, but it's not

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Class Projects

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  my love and appreciation for Avatar to another level because the ... attention to detail and world-building. Zuko Alone: I’m a sucker for ... I had picked what I would focus on, it was time for me to think about

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  listening to someone lay out a plan for the next week, and the overhead ... everyone is still for too long for it to be a natural pause. I watch as a ... quiet for me to go and there are three other people streaming lectures and

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  ingredient. —anonymous going to Harvard, but for a fraction of the cost. —Robo ... 're going to get rich. —Robo-CJ trading your sanity for a piece of paper that ... , but you'll have to hold your breath for high tide. Every time the waves

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  I’ve decided to continue a long chain of poor decisions by starting to write this post at 5:38 AM. In front of me is an empty Pringles can and some iced tea, to my right is a notebook full of vectors and

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  ’d imagine belongs to two MIT grads and a master’s student:   Here, on the ... stove is on a different fuse, and for that we are very lucky. Here’s how ... mostly gone you have oats. The cooked oats stick to the pot, but they come

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  Bulgaria. Then he moved to Persia to do construction work for the Russian ... tenure at MIT with a vision to build a more diverse and inclusive Institute ... they can insure the future peace of the world.” To achieve this ideal

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Events

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  conservation of energy you can’t go full circle. We get to watch preparations for ... week to build and was up for another week after that, and the students ... -built rollercoaster, one tapping hand on knee to the beat of Galantis (“visualize it

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  for things if I want to make any headway in what for the sake of what I ... second floor of the East Parallel of East Campus. Today I want to tell you about the bathroom closest to my room. The 2E Bemis bathroom has two

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  waitlist for Columbia! She ended up going to MIT! I told my dad about the ... to college, but he was sure that I was a great candidate for whatever ... can hurt a lot more for people with technical brains, because we tend to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019