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• Blog / Classes

  a semester i’m excited for to the tune of "a girl worth fighting for"

  

  coded key of how I classify the classes.Notice the relatively small fraction of classes per semester that I actually wanted to take and the ... waiting to take this class since freshman fall, and it's honestly one of the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Rejects, I feel your pain! I've never been stung by a bee, but I imagine it felt sort of like…

  

  that we are not offering you admission to MIT in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning. The number of applicants for admission to the ... rejection can't really derail things that badly if you kept sight of the

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 19, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  72 Hours Three days can be a long time.

  

  , to say the least. I've also been out of town quite a bit thanks to the ... applications varying by semester. Emphasis on the integration of fundamental ... synthesis of all the chemical engineering topics you've learned: mass and

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • November 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m supergirl and I’m here to save the world My day, being thought of as superhuman, and answering several questions.

  

  : 6:45 AM -- Arrive in Boston. I actually sort of slept on the plane ... :15 AM -- One of the girls I met at the UCLA weekend works at a ... undergrad and grad school), and she offered to drive me back to the dorm, an

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  [Guest Post] One Year Later Some things changed, some things didn’t

  

  MIT, I can proudly claim the “gay” identity. I’m part of Queer West. I ... takes a long time for sediment to collect at the bottom of a liquid ... . After months of scheming and plotting how to get the words -- lodged

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To Defeat the Huns ...as Hamsika said, there's major business to get down to this semester.

  

  , I’m excited again, since both of my parents are in the biology field ... ’s under Stata. But!!! I'm crazy excited that the classical theory of ... what I get. It’s going to be hard, but at least I know I got most of the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 3, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Secret Lives of Machines 🤖 In which the machines in my life get the spotlight they deserve.

  

  , times a thousand. That’s probably the amount of hate that my phone feels for me. Marla is the phone I got before freshman year of high school ... of fame of places where I have dropped Marla: the floor of an aquarium

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 22, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final Forty-Five Still somehow worse than last term

  

  ’m taking this term. I’m taking a total of 45 credits, the fewest credits I’ve ever taken at MIT. Part of the reason for that is that one of my classes ... class until 1pm any day of the week. 1.011 – Project Evaluation (9 credits

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in Internet in the bathtub! And a bunch of stuff on choosing a major.

  

  Well, I'm back home in the great state of Ohio, getting ready for ... a week of wireless internet in the bathtub and reading by the ... any major. A list of degree programs is here (I find this list SUPER

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  For Applicants Admitsphere.org, four hens, two ducks, best wishes and high regard from Mac-town, Oregon

  

  I know it's late in the college application season--the deadline is near and the pressure is on--but for all of you who are still typing away ... the quality of their school's college counseling.“ Enjoy. If your brain

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 27, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  to put the anxiety of prospective students to rest; knowing you ... the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. I've also always been a ... Institute of Technology. I liked the way that sounded. It had a lot of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  On APs Trying to clarify the role of AP courses in the MIT admissions process.

  

  To my surprise, one of Marilee's quotes in my last entry about the ... those AP classes and all of those activities." Here are two of the ... the work of the textbook and the work of the imagination. Too many times

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes: Junior Spring Edition + notes on MIT academics in general

  

  academics in general. In the descriptions of 6.00 and 17.803, I talk about MIT ... professors are adamant about not making that the purpose of the course. 6 ... hall on campus, 26-100, with a capacity of 566. But it isn’t even the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 25, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  nice moments on campus things are okay, actually

  

  people"]75 degrees,[/annotation] so I took the opportunity to spend the ... that make the grind of MIT bearable, and make me glad to be on campus even in covid times. Knowing that at the end of the week I'll be able to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Combining the Arts and the Sciences Some of the best science writing is happening at MIT. Find out how to get…

  

  . Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may ... Ever heard of Alan Lightman? He’s one of the most famous professors at ... where the speakers shared their insights about the ins and outs of being a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 21, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedilemmas Schedule + dilemma = most incompetent-sounding portmanteau ever

  

  - Intro to Comparative Media Studies. Offers an overview of the social ... , discovered three new species of granola in an unexplored section of the pantry ... -accessible treehouse, crawled onto the cold-tiled roof, and stared at the thick haze of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 7, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Why So Serious? On Keeping Life in Perspective

  

  still thinking of the things I would write for all of you out there who read the blogs. Thinking of all the things I would say post-decision time ... the controls to slow down, but they're just out of reach. You fall flat

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  Talking About Dining There's been a lot of talk on campus about one thing – dining.

  

  to the tune of several hundred thousand dollars a year. Unsurprisingly ... committee called the House Dining Advisory Group (HDAG), composed of administrators and students, was set up to explore new options. At the end of this

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 21, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  The ________ Outdoors What do you think goes in the blank?

  

  wind up staying overnight in a terminal, or sleeping in the trunk of my car trapped on the road in 8 degree weather because there's 4 inches of ... , whose only concept of the outdoors is an item that is outside the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 10, 2010
• Blog / Events

  IAP Jealousy (Hey, Jealousy)

  

  by walking past it a few weeks ago (it's a bit out of the way). They ... pick up line in the comments, and if you want to see more of what is ... , because of how unique it is to an MIT education. I wanted to update my spiel

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • January 13, 2015