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  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  difficulty; but 5.112, for example, is harder than 5.111. GIR(s) - General Institute Requirement(s). Pronounced "gee-eye-our(s)." HASS - Humanities, Arts

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  asking what people’s favorite classes were. I received 130 responses ... classes but only 8 2020s responded to my survey and all with different ... approachable.  The labs tie-in the week’s lessons well, and you can see how each

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  time, it was CPW, and we had a big Discord going with all the 2024s, and ... Wilson S. '24 took pity upon me and decided to turn my sketch into actual

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  , especially since the 2022s and 2023s are being experimented upon. Everyone in

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  It's been one week since decisions were released for the 2023s, and one week and a year since the 2022s got in or didn't; two years and a week from 2021 adMITs, and I got into MIT three years and one week ago

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  . For those of you that don’t know S.A.T is a page for Asian people to ... friend.” I don’t say this to fault my classmates, it’s just the way things

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  . How’s 7:00 tonight? Trash, trash, trash. Yeah, well, I think you ... decorate, mostly, since it’s not like they have computers. That’d be

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  . Looking at my (eight different color-coded) Google Calendar(s), I notice now ... . This makes me feel old. It also makes me feel nostalgic. Chris S, who

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  tactful than my sister’s words, who told me that if I went to MIT I would ... what field they would devote their life to because it’s all they’ve ever

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  Haslanger, Jennifer S. Light, Takako Aikawa, Justin Khoo, Athulya Aravind

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  reasons similar to M.B. ‘17’s ice cream: if I got in, she'd get hugs. If I ... dog didn't know what was going on but she was down to party anyway. S ... few more minutes. \o/ S.M. '19 It was Pi Day. I was sitting on

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  to MIT’s Class of 2022 have asked us if their acceptance will be

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  person’s identity that they hadn’t expected to find; for others, however

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  anything but finite, as they continue throughout the course of one’s life

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  think it’s important to consider why people apply to MIT. My primary

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  .But to me MIT is like a T800's mission: It's about the people. I've met

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  get a long-term visa to the U.S. and the first question they asked him

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  the freshman seminar(s) of your choice through an online lottery over

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
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  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  group of MIT students in the '80s. Adam's undergrad advisor and the CEO of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  died, because I used to watch reruns of the 1980's Ripley's Believe It Or

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006