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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What I just did You'll never believe it.

  

  , there's an official, MIT-specific definition). When you get to Campus ... 10 minutes ago I actually heard myself say "I really need to eat and I also really need to do 2.005 but I only have time to do one, which

  • by Snively '11
  • October 6, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT HSSP and Stanford Splash! Seven fundamental questions, and a field trip to the west coast

  

  civilization in history has had a working answer to. "How did the universe begin ... in lines outside" is not something MIT ESP is used to working with ... have you. On the last day, I found an excuse to squeeze in some radio

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work VII The triumphant conclusion! Plus, the CIA is watching me.

  

  down in her hometown of Covington GA to see a football game and a free ... in New Orleans. Looking to the left in my room. Eventually the bed ... 't have available at the time. Looking to the right in my room. This wall

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  It’s all right. It’s just a small pebble in your path. Just a tiny pebble. The place you want to be is farther than this, right? That’s why it’s ok…you can get up and immediately continue on…” - Guts (actually

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Motivation Finals are FUN!

  

  AM to 12 PM 20.430: Fields, Forces, and Flows in Biological Systems ... originally wanted to take the undergrad version of this class, but last ... /Sr P/D/F. So even if I get a C, it will appear as a bright and shiny P

  • by Bryan
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lit Analytics How humanities classes can be analytically rigorous, courtesy of a Shakespeare scholar

  

  place in 2005), a parent asked me if/how MIT humanities classes were ... rigorous," but it hints at how even a music class can embrace technology in ... media projects in close collaboration with faculty * Works with faculty to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  recently read words absorbed by my brain

  

  with most other cryptography, no idea if I’ll ever get to apply it in the ... Marianne and Connell. There’s a sentence in this story I keep coming back to ... by the time you get to the end you’re different than you were at the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 3, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Accountability Some thoughts on decisions and school

  

  the day of the final review. I left several hours in the morning to draw ... expected 12 drawings of our 3D models, but I couldn’t get the program to ... some more and wrestle with the program to try to get a drawing or two out

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 22, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  ) and told us we would get 12:00 - 2:00 with Steven Levitt in early ... -selling author, though, he's a pretty busy guy. We were pretty lucky to get him for ... I have had the good fortune to hear several excellent guest speakers

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Power of suggestion This entry will tell you whether you'll get into MIT or not in two minutes.

  

  television shows in the world. Still, I think it's safe to say that the typical ... get into MIT undergrad. And then every college in America could do the ... You know, I'm not a real admissions worker, but I bet they often get

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Fifty-Four September 13th shall henceforth be known as National Gauss Appreciation Day.

  

  get to experience. The class is in TEAL format that focuses a lot on ... greetings to people in my class in probably twenty-five languages. I think the ... foreign language to me as of now, so I am really working extra in this class

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • September 19, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Case of the Saturdays This is the true story of 5 mechanical engineers and 1 neuroscientist selected to spend…

  

  engineers at a theme park waiting in line to get on a roller coaster and you ... you in August), we got to Six Flags and began an engineer's tour of a ... Why oh why would I ever go to Agawam? (These could potentially

  • by Bryan
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fall Adventures a day in rhode island, maine, and boston

  

  .[/annotation]It turns out, though, that one of the best perks of living in Boston is how ... because none of us had ever been to Rhode Island before. In an attempt to ... nice to be in a more peaceful environment after the busyness of Boston

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 6, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  Mussels and Brussels Lessons in engineering and culture from a nation of kindness

  

  know to work on a project that covers subjects in chemical engineering ... an international intern before. A few nerves started to kick in, but I ... started to get that overwhelmed feeling again, wondering if I really was

  • by MISTI Program
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that

  

  the escalators in Catalonia to be down. Certainly— I decided as I rode ... . Despite all my best efforts, I couldn’t get the lock to turn. My host family ... for MIT's Global Teaching Labs, which sends students abroad to teach in

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 9, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  ZOMG CPW and other acronyms C.Y.G.W.T.S.F? I.F.C,I.B.Y.C!

  

  freshmen class about CPW last year to give you an idea of how things will go ... weather machine is up and running in order to give you all some of the best ... be setting foot on campus, many of you for the first time, to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 16, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The home of cool toys the best way to spend a Monday

  

  is by far the coolest toy in the inventory. So when I heard we were getting a fly-in for Marine Week Boston, I had to go see. The weather was ... : the best seat in the house the weather started getting rough

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 4, 2010
• Blog / Announcements

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

  

  admission protocols should attend to how social class is...encoded in non ... [annotation note='In addition to the main text of the post, if you see any text ... efforts to understand how we can best evaluate academic readiness for all

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

  Study Breaks, Apple Pies, and Formal Halls

  

  late but it was great to see other MIT students again. Since we live in different colleges and are taking different classes, it's nice to have get ... past few years. So it's been a little over a month since we got to

  • by Cambridge
  • November 3, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Moved Off Campus A story told by cat gifs

  

  Last year, I made a HUGE decision. I decided to move off of MIT ... , for all it's glory, is no longer my home. Danny B. '15 wrote about how it was his home.  I wrote plenty of times about how it was my home

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016