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• Blog / Academics & Research

  6-3 not a definitive guide

  

  were 757 undergraduate students alone enrolled in Course 6-3 for the Fall ... people I've met who are 6-3 (which is... a lot) aren't in it solely for the ... enough along in it now to explain what it's been like from my perspective

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2020 Ring Delivery we got our brass rats!..time to drop out? (also many photos)

  

  gather in a big fancy place, eat fancy food, dance, and take a bunch of ... fancy. But in my case, I mostly ran around and took pictures (as displayed below). Side Note: Allan is not in the first few (because we don't like

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 27, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Three More Tales of Junior Year the sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year

  

  , in my months of deliberation, I fell in love. With my life at MIT. I ... else—with a spice of the technical in the liberal arts. I'd miss seeing ... , it feels lonely to do social science without being able to share in the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 31, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Weekend Trip to Salem, MA romance, adventure, and no witchcraft

  

  weekend in late April is helpfully situated before hell week(s), i.e. the ... part of trip planning was then figuring out places to visit. In my mind ... ditched it eventually and decided to improvise once in the town. Salem

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2600 Years of the University college life since 600 BCE, as told by Prof. Shailendra Mehta

  

  . ________________________ Imagine: you are a prospective university student in India, 600 BC ... development of higher education in India. After the final five Indian universities were destroyed in 12th century AD, few records of them remained

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 21, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Senior Spring ... I'm almost done?

  

  relationship with her father. Both emotionally wrecked me in the best of ways and ... whether to keep walking in the cold and he said something to the effect of ... pretty good advice sometimes.      My weekdays in January were filled

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poker, Mountains, and Magic The four words of this title have no other exact match on Google

  

  ? undergoned? underleft?) over IAP, but in the meantime I’ll recap my January and ... dropped before ever attending. In Pokerbots, I worked with Jeff ‘18 and ... -n-go pot-limit Texas Hold’em, in case you were wondering) against other teams

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 6, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Blog: Operation Overgourd A different kind of pumpkin drop (by Lauren H. '16!)

  

  is an air museum in eastern New York that restores and displays Golden ... dogfighters and barnstormers…and for two weekends in October, they host a Fall ... , then compete to see who could make the most cuts in the paper before it

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Truth is Rarely Pure and Never Simple A behind-the-scenes special on directing a play

  

  What does a number do when it wants to be a picture? I acted in my first class play in 2nd grade. Science was a way to explore the universe ... later, I am now pursuing a minor in Theatre Arts at MIT. I, like many

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  Deadlines and Habits Staying sane

  

  in fellowship deadlines and requirements, graduate school applications ... . What do you do afterwards? If you want to continue in academia, you try ... astronomy, and get a job in industry, business, finance, teaching, and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 19, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  With Apologies to Dr. Seuss why MIT is amazing, a la buzzfeed

  

  're off and away! (flickr: thenerdsangle) You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes You can steer yourself any direction you choose ... you may not find any you'll want to go down. In that case, of course

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 4, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Q&A A bit of clarification on being waitlisted.

  

  reconsider all of the waitlisted students again in May, when we know how many ... great choice to fall in love with, so that no matter what happens with the MIT waitlist, everything will still turn out well for you in the end

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Nationals! In which MIT XC goes to Iowa

  

  qualified for nationals after placing fourth in New England, while the men ... change later, we found ourselves in Minneapolis: There was snow! We're definitely not in Boston anymore... After a three hour drive, we made it to

  • by Alina G. '11
  • November 27, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Moves and Music(als) Illustrated with tons of images and a video, and not *as* many words

  

  most definitely didn't have a gratuitously-added picture - in which I ... , not-so-involved career. I got my start in the second half of senior year ... 's say you're a student who's interested in MIT, and you want to continue

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  had my first 9-5 job this summer in a California cancer research lab, I definitely saved time for fun. Case in point: daycations. I consider myself an ... . I started this summer with some easy trips. A day on Folsom lake in

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 15, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do Alums do? Are you exceptionally forward minded? Already thinking about what you'll be doing as an alumni?…

  

  while they were in school, and so they tend to continue doing really cool ... 's usefulness in action. But what's REALLY cool about the company is that it was ... stuck out like....well like MIT students in a class full of sports

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  College The path to self-discovery is lined with my blog entries.

  

  One year ago, in the mush of schoolless boredom known as Spring Break ... in the superficial sense, bearing no deeper significance than that I could take a plane to 77 Massachusetts Avenue in August and call myself a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mikey’s Meta TV Post ...In which you find out about the good, bad, and really bad shows I love…

  

  this post): 1. I have not blogged in quite a while. 2. I finally have a ... premiere weeks in September, but traveling got the best of me. 5. Now that ... get spoiled for me in the comments. [Important sidenote: I watch almost

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals Week, from my perspective My finals.

  

  ! It's hard but totally doable! I could actually be ok in this place!" I ... . That class is the most information intensive class I've ever seen in my ... ) most failed class in Course 2 (Mechanical Engineering). After my first

  • by Snively '11
  • December 20, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Observations of an MIT Sophomore Advice and insight.

  

  school. In my humble opinion, xkcd used to be a lot funnier than it ... of the facilities, but rather the character of the people who live in ... a UROP in their lab, or anything else. This is how Melis and I got an

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 10, 2008