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  HT@MIT: Department Lectures and Final Presentations MIT's Best Kept Secret

  

  undergrads that you can't find in most classes. The first opportunity is an ... practical and even longer from being taught in classes. I see it as a glimpse ... blowing how far people branch off after GIRs. I swear the course 2's are

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • December 28, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  ’s nighttime when my eyes open, and the middle of the day when I go to bed. In ... that I can’t sleep an arbitrary number of hours per day, which I can ... something about snow. Now, I saw snow for the first time in November 2013

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  them in more detail than I will if you’re interested in learning more ... whether I want to double major in math or be a 6-2 instead of a 6-3, and 18 ... status early), which basically means that if I do bad in the class, it won

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Decide my major! Because putting your future up for a democratic vote is clearly the way to go.

  

  (COUGHMITCOUGH), which, I mean, is a kind of a big deal and will in fact influence the rest of your life. No pressure or anything. I will weigh in with how ... Alright, you and I both have some big decisions to make in the next

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / Announcements

  A New Year, A New President Introducing Dr. Sally Kornbluth, the 18th President of MIT

  

  'll see if I can post a video later if it becomes available."]In a Q ... coaster —  you can tell this is a center for intellectual fun." In response ... faculty and the school in general, Dr. Kornbluth talked about how getting

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Images of Rush preparation

  

  it up, as in this message left by Phife '04 when I was a freshman ... example, the other night, I finally met Laura '09 in person, discovering her ... ? Lit by a glaring light so that students can continue to work at one in

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Events, Food, and Awesomeness: CPW A story about how CPW is more awesome than lobsters

  

  the lobster tank in the Chicago Meijer, wondering how on earth I had ... saying Orange County, California. I was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, but I ... reliable information. I have one memory of me crying in the kitchen while my

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  gaps that I can fill in between classes, which, as a sophomore, are ... , since it doesn't have my laptop in it at that pictured moment (Yes, I am ... in my room, with pages of notes strewn on my bed and my person, where I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogging About Blogging CAPTAIN FAFSA!

  

  'm not sure what I can say in order to make you believe it more, other than ... for another, I was actually interested in what they had to say. It ... FAFSA has a mascot and I met it. It's strange though, we wondered how

  • by Snively '11
  • February 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Winter is coming. actually, it's already here.

  

  coming to MIT, I had never cooked before in my life.  Nada.  Zip.  (okay ... how to cook).  I'm fairly sure I caused my mom a great deal of stress ... ?  but calculus?).  Being the knowledge junkie that I am, you can bet that

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / Hacks

  Vespertilio No spoilers here.

  

  try to get an hour long nap in. Or, it means I can tell you what I ... minutes early so I watched as guys dressed in batman pajamas stormed the ... 's when I saw it. Everything finally snapped into place. How could I have

  • by Snively '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paper Planes You ask, I answer

  

  order’. How can I indicate that someone else is providing the fee? A: Just ... date that you can take is in January. Just because I care, here is the ... applicants. Maybe they will help you too. If I didn't address your question in

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 18, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  students will choose to remain on the waitlist. Can you tell me where I am on ... reconsider all of the waitlisted students again in May, when we know how many ... our international quota. If I'm waitlisted, can I still come for CPW or

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

  sometimes when it rains I feel seventeen and seventy all at once

  

  process, so I can’t even identify how I got to my current gloomy state ... sticky buns are really good, and all I want in life is to sit here and ... class in the morning. Part of me still feels like I’m seventeen and back

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Life Changing Classes at MIT ft. ec-discuss

  

  a life in the tech industry." "MAS.863 - how to make almost anything ... , and how I look at the world. 6.172 taught me a lot of technical things and helped me define what I'm really interested in. "the weight

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 20, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  8 / Fresh start A month of eating and sleeping and other fun things

  

  . I spent several hours immersed in rummaging through and reminiscing ... , flyers, postcards, and everything in between contained. I made a big fun mess in the kitchen, but I consolidated everything into one notebook that

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 3, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  It’s not all happy I know, shocker!

  

  about is the part where I will sit in a library for 8 hours trying to do a ONE PSET. I don't blog about how overbearing things can feel (a test and two PSETs due on Wednesday) or about how long days can be (9 AM to 10 PM

  • by Snively '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Summer

  five things I love about New York welcome to New York, everybody walks in New York

  

  notice fashion in a way I never did before. I can tell you that in July in ... .) I spent the summer doing a software internship in New York. I lived ... , in classic MIT student tradition, I crammed a year’s worth of self

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 28, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hometown Heroes The first of articles about awesome MIT '09s.

  

  rocket scientist. I can remember playing with this airplane that I had when ... 's realizing what's important and what has to be done in order to succeed. I mean ... about how important it was to do well in school." [...] McGee recalls

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

  Keep it simple, stupid I try to choose classes for the fall. Things get messy.

  

  have cool things to talk about. I'm sure you're all excited. In the ... -epiphany where I kind of sort of maybe started thinking about majoring in 2A ... .900 because not only am I interested in the subject, but it fulfills two HASS

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 9, 2006