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• FAQ / Life and culture

  What is MIT Code?

  exactly what you're saying. Translation: You could be in Room 10-250, taking Linear Algebra, which is the unit distribution: 4 hours in class per ... MIT uses numbers for everything. You could be in 10-250 taking 18
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Chancellor? What’s a Chancellor? What does the Chancellor do and how does that affect student life?

  

  ? Given the interest in and demand for interdisciplinary careers, how can ... ’t tell my colleagues in other departments I said that) department at MIT ... aside, I can’t resist noting that both Cambridge, England and Cambridge

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  How Are You? because it's not just a simple question

  

  . So let me ask you, how are you? How are you really? Because I ... finished. I want to hear about how the semester’s been tough. Heck yes I want ... sense? Same. I want to hear about how you're afraid of growing up. I want

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 19, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  GRE, Boston love, and loose ends from last time Wandering around Boston lost is one of my favorite things to do.

  

  completely owned the test, I am in an unaccountably giddy mood. The only good things about the GRE (in this order): you can take it any day of the week ... , so I will skip to after the test, when I had my score in hand and began

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome

  

  fan), but I can make random references to geography and pop culture. And how. By day, I work in South San Francisco. Last night, I took 101N ... internship, so I shouldn't really be writing an entry, and I definitely can

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience

  

  's just something about it. this is how i got interested in biomedical ... artificial things than organic things. this is how i got interested in ... could’ve had to gain experience in programming. It's a pain, but I can

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision

  

  hating it because it just becomes work. I can't just be in a play, I have ... . What follows is the very long and detailed crisis I had in picking my major, organized by what I considered, in a roughly chronological order

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maybe I’m Amazed ...but not until Season 13, at least.

  

  part of the line was confined to "Hmm, I wonder how many people are in ... memory. Anyway, I learned in high school that excuses are like dirty ... day of the past decade. I helped teach Susan Hockfield how to play Wii

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  keeping interest a list of things i think are cool

  

  in my junior year of high school, hated it, and swore I'd never return ... truth in the matter was that I didn't really hate compsci, I just found it ... 've talked about this in past blogposts, but I'm definitely growing out of this

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 4, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  lots of words and a tungsten cube monologues and dialogues.

  

  telling it because i find it funny. how a silly little review can make a ... said to me. i do not know how much of what i have said i now own, but in ... it is. i stand there with the cube in my hand, my brain going, is it

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 20, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pre-Orientation Begins Pre-Orientation and a mini-contest!

  

  will camp out in the parks, have informal lectures with the Earth Science ... "Soccer Bots," culminating in an ultimate Soccer Bot battle/tournament at ... in the program and 12 upperclassman mentors explore one of six

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Clarification On Last Post I was really just trying to say that when I look at your names in…

  

  impact an essay can have. I just wanted to clarify my last post in case I ... Hi folks - a comment I received in response to the last entry: I ... who were strong in other areas. I was really just trying to say that

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 18, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Inside vs. Outside How MIT changed for me after being admited

  

  sitting there like, “lol Ben I haven’t got in yet so I can’t yet get ... , looked it dead in its pale, white, papery face and said, “I will defeat you ... perfectly describe how I felt when I first put foot on campus, but sadly I don

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reg Day collisions People should transfer to other colleges once they dump you.

  

  how eventful it was....everything was sort of...boring. I woke up early ... adventures in Italy (which I still haven't told you about, man I'm bad at this ... -Spain) but she was in a meeting. On my way to my advisor's office I waved to a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Final Blogpost With a heavy heart, I say goodbye to the MIT blogosphere. The journey was all…

  

  tends to meander in all directions I’m clueless on how to summarize it. I ... . I can see the people around him. I can feel the heaviness in the air ... page can hold in confidence. I write because I have something to say, if

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  You can get anything you want… ...excepting Alice. Or a good blog entry.

  

  another week or two before I get back in the swing of things. Incidentally ... each one was, I can only offer you this news, which has me excited beyond ... It's been hectic for past few days; I had my first German vocabulary

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 17, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT: Round 2

  

  . So cherish it while you can. For me, I don’t anticipate staying in the ... maybe some engineering problems). While I can’t say that I’ve personally ... an around the world experience, but in the end, I just couldn’t stay

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  I failed the Swim Test! And now you can too!!

  

  ; I don’t know how to swim. I got two and a half laps in when I realized ... how draining the whole process felt. I know I can’t really equate ... test, which requires you to tread water for FIVE MINUTES. I can’t even

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 26, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  Springtime for Interns in Germany Watch out, Europe: I'm going on tour.

  

  , where I'll learn how to open a bank account in Germany, why not to call ... music, in any case. I get chills--no pun intended--in "Denn Alles Fleisch ... is actually more beautiful, if you can believe it. And Saturday I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  people keep leaving their things in my room and other stories from sophomore fall

  

  , framing myself in a movie, I realized just how crazy it all is. That I go to MIT, that I can wander to the Charles river at the three in the morning ... details as to why or how and what lessons I'm taking away from that, but I

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 17, 2021