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  We are reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles in order to help us continue to build a diverse and talented MIT

  

  the COVID-19 pandemic, I wrote:  This was not a decision we made ... .']more socioeconomically restricted[/annotation] relative to the SAT/ACT as a result, not ... enrolled students must be up to date with their Covid-19 vaccines, or have

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo and physics and math, oh my 57 units of academic fun fun fun. Now with humanities!

  

  that I always have an hour or half-hour break after 11 am, which is great ... focus for the rest of the course, so that's pretty exciting. 21W.746 ... , work, and act. 21W.746 has no formal lecture component; instead, we have

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Events

  MIT wins the Putnam ...for the third year in a row!

  

  The results of the 2015 Putnam Competition were recently released, securing the MIT team's first-place ranking--our team has finished in first ... Fellows from MIT are David Yang '17 and Yunkun Zhou '19. Maybe you've heard

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions Released TODAY @ 6:28 p.m.

  

  .mit.edu Other facts: Almost 19,000 students applied for admission to MIT this year, the most in our history. (Again) As a result, our admit rate this

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 14, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  busy, busy, busy screaming into the void

  

  short story for 21w.755, reading and writing short stories, entirely ... uk, for the first half of 2022. wouldn't that be exciting? except ... this fourth quarter. it's 11 am on tuesdays and thursdays. i was

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Washlava! A Sentiment Analysis quantifying laundry feels, based on MIT Confessions

  

  this post, the Washlava app has a 1.4 star rating (with 191 ratings) on ... no Washlava confessions, three were posted in mid-March, when undergraduates were evicted from MIT due to COVID-19. I was [annotation note

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If I had a nickel for every class I was taking this semester… I’d have 4.5 nickels.

  

  anyway. As a result, the class is much more open-ended and student ... proving/disproving statistical results typically presented as empirical ... obvious results are surprisingly difficult to prove formally; sometimes

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 12, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Paradiso A selection of dishes that define my MIT dining experience, part 4

  

  the world around me in the spirit of “you are what you eat.” The results ... awaiting the results. What started as an enjoyment of driving led to car ... ="21L.320 Big Books"]class on Dante’s Inferno and Purgatorio

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 1) Another IAP. Another Country.

  

  IAP. I just renewed my passport last April, and I've filled up about 1/4 ... . Not many people know this. 11. Speaking of which, "koi" （ ... in its natural habitat. 14. When you watch businessman (salaryman (サ

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  post-semester paradise two weeks with no psets or exams in sight

  

  reason resulted in staying up until 6 AM and then sleeping over. as soon as ... non-seniors was the 19th, but i had begged for a last-minute housing ... '21s got their own celebration, where they could receive "diplomas" in

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 3, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  14.11: Putting Social Science to the Test—Field Experiments in Economics A new class on experimental social science, including: race discrimination, gender differences in behavior, persuasion,…

  

  One of the economics electives I have signed up for is 14.11: Putting ... 's some information on what we're going to study: What is 14.11? 14.11 is a ... 10. Voting behavior and political economy 11. Public health and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Happenings What's been going on? Recent events at le MIT.

  

  end result? A HACK!! It was raised from the ceiling of Stata the night ... . '17, Evan D. '17, Nick M. '17, Nadia M. '17, Alex D. '17, Sean K. '14, Christina S. '14, Cosmos D. '15, Hesham '15, and Alison O. (GRT)   As a

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 4, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  8,726,400 SOS: The Conscious Subconscious guest post by a fellow '21

  

  *written by a '21 as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of Summer guest post series* After finishing my freshmen year, I followed the common ... on a good day) and commuted into Cambridge, resulting in the traffic

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A HASS[le-free] Semester Stay for the videos!

  

  -H 14.02 17.40 21F.503 21F.782 21F.703 21W.747 And aside from the HASS ... one that lulu took), Japanese III, and Macroeconomics (14.02 - falls ... breeze-through classes here either. True, classes like 14.02 are curved a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hodge-Podge Random things from a random guy.

  

  include: This song, 8 seconds in, This one at 4:15 and this one at 11:30 3 ... packaged that contained two dolphins, wrapped in masking tape. As we marched ... -psychic knowing what you're about to see when you round a corner. 11) People say

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Other ways I’ve been rejected over the past fifteen years [suffering-from-success.jpg]

  

  talk I submitted was unceremoniously declined. After we moved in 2021

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  today is my birthday & i still don’t know who to become

  

  i. The days wheeled past like a flock of starlings, and suddenly 2021 is two-thirds over. To celebrate the newly abandoned month, I play august by Taylor Swift on repeat. As I grow older, I find that Taylor is

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Harvard Friends, Part 2 finding my quarantine dream team

  

  grown closer) since being sent home due to COVID-19. Staying in contact ... home from MIT due to COVID-19. I found myself calling friends I ... felt so blindsided back in March when we all got kicked off campus – I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Humans 101 @ MIT introductory SHASS classes this fall and recapping the lightning talks

  

  : Anthropology 21A.00 Introduction to Anthropology: Comparing Human Cultures; HASS-S  | G. Jones 21A.500J/STS.075J Technology and Culture; HASS-S  | S. Helmreich 21A.520 Magic, Science, and Religion; HASS-S  | G. Jones Comparative

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  An unexpected discovery, from a few centuries ago It takes more than four years to get to know a place

  

  never saw action. The British were driven out of the city in March 1776 ... mainland with one tenuous spar of rock. During the 19th century, Boston

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 20, 2018