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FAQ / First-year application
Does MIT have required classes or language requirements?
, chemistry, biology, and four years of English. We want you to take the most ... and IB coursework as college level and the highest level of rigor in -
Blog / Community Projects
Affirmations not unnecessary
, I try to be.” - my blogger bio, circa summer 2023 In one of the ... terrified of putting this thought out into the world. Hell, I followed the sentence up with a number of caveats all to the effect of: Yes, I do know -
Blog / Academics & Research
academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines
-grade teacher told us all to “divide your page in half.” The other students made ... with the notion of “half”, I did a zig-zag that still partitioned the page into two equal areas. The teacher, who by this time of the school -
Blog / Uncategorized
Things I Know to Be True: Addendum One A post I hate, and some truths from my first year at MIT
throw down the anchor. I could revisit what I knew to be true. Looking back on the post, I think its ridiculous. I think it is needlessly ... artifacts of reality crashing to the floor. If it was a creature, it would -
Blog / Majors & Minors
Declared My Major :D aw yeah i'm a College Student™ now
during the spring term of their freshman year. I'm a fairly decisive person ... increasingly interact with technology that mimics their own capabilities, the need for students to understand both the science and engineering of -
Blog / Academics & Research
aquaporin adventures a livestream of my brain while working on my urop
The Problem: A reviewer went "You guys did things while assuming that cells exchange their water in the matter of milliseconds. Proof?" The ... ,000 number That’s half the terms I want. This is going well. 1:37 am -
Blog / Advice
No Snow, and on singing badly me? singing? and posting it online?!
been one of my favorite Christmas songs. You can read the lyrics here. Let me get this out of the way, first: I think this cover isn't great. I ... the original instead, because it's better. If the cover's bad, then -
Blog / Academics & Research
forbidden gatorade cell media looks tasty...
with “Try not to drink the media.” This really just implies that cell ... (including biotin and vitamin B12) Taste: 8/10 “Like lemonade, without the lemons” Is this safe??: ?/10 The [annotation note="safety data sheet -
Blog / Miscellaneous
trying to figure it out an attempt at a goodbye
Vegas). This flight is 6 hours long, but for the past 6 hours, I’ve been ... . This post is hard to write. Not in the emotional “I’m not ready to say goodbye” kind of way. Rather, it’s hard in the sense that I don’t know what -
Blog / Classes
9.00 with no context are you a cool rat?
of the most interesting and fun lectures I've ever had at MIT. As a ... best quotes from lecture. Shout out the 9.00 group chat for all of these ... you want to take a sip of coffee, you know not only what the cup looks -
Blog / Challenges
36 Units of Class To make room for 12 units of Life
The last time that we blogged about our academics was in June. We had ... and don’t have time to (since it’s kind of long), the gist is we were ... stuff (by switching to CMS). At the end of that post, we concluded that -
Blog / Admissions
[GUEST POST] CPWgCPWaCPWyCPW huh...there are some lowercase letters in the title. that's odd.
events!!!! But first I want to give you the scoop about how gay things are ... the first and oldest lgbtq+ club on campus! I’m like half involved (um yeah...that’s the most apt way to put it haha), and we do a bunch of cool -
Blog / About Decisions
It’s Pi Day, Pi Day the infinite is alive with the buzz of drones, and the 2020s bake pies
that some helpful hackers had the delivery drones already warmed up for ... ; A helpful hacker forwarded the text of the letter contained in the tubes, which I've embedded below. -
Blog / Admissions
Selam’s First CPW Some thoughts and odds and ends~
CPW event tomorrow, and then I went to Meet the Bloggers, in which I met ... is on the interwebz rather than IRL. Tomorrow, I am going to be at the ... of event. The pre-frosh are all very exciting, and I enjoy being -
Blog / How to Human
Don’t Forget These I forgot to bring them when I first came to MIT.
suit. And my toothbrush. Ugh. Well today I spend the second night in my ... carefully select survey on a stratified sampling of the population of MIT ... . So when you're cutting down on the things you're bringing, make sure to -
Blog / IAP
Teaching Abroad: a Guest Blog Post by Elizabeth Q. ‘14 Learn a new language, teach science.
things to love about the MIT student community, and one of them is that we are all teachers – whether it’s working and learning together in the ... the many other (see #17) ways to teach,* you are most definitely coming -
Blog / How to Human
Taking Care of Yourself Eating, Sleeping, Water and Vitamins pave the way to happiness
incredibly difficult in the face of a three midterm week but these simple steps will make the experience that much more bearable. Step 1: Eat Properly How not to do it. (A dinner from last summer) This is probably the one -
Blog / About Decisions
Disappointment I know how it feels...
am currently at Logan Airport, wishing my flight weren't delayed. The ... called 'To the Deferred' - and I want to now add to the words expressed in ... with friends. In the end, I didn't get a nomination spot - and for about -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Things That Aren’t Studying If you think about it, I get paid to procrastinate
7.013, 8.02, and 5.12. (My brain is still recovering from the trauma ... , uh, relaxing. And now, to punctuate the beginning of this week, I ... 's because my brain can't do the think now because it thunk too hard and wants