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• FAQ / First-year application

  Do students apply to a specific major?

  academic departments, or courses, which are often referred to by their course number or acronym. MIT's majors and minors are listed on our site. And the
• Blog / About Decisions

  ignorance is a virtue

  

  at my grades when they get released. when gradescope or canvas tells me ... too much. or, when a deadline for a decision is coming, i don't have to ... . or, when the news breaks and i am not in the right state of mind, i don

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a few things from civic media race in sports, human experimentation, and hidden figures

  

  people take "externships" (short one-month internships) in industry or ... people stay on campus and take classes or work on UROPs. some people just take the month to catch up on sleep, work on personal projects (or bad

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 13, 2017
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  On Tortillas and Community An update from a year and a half ago.

  

  instance, a tortilla can either make or break a meal: corn tortillas bring out the flavors in tacos al pastor or enchiladas, while flour tortillas are better suited for burritos or just eating them by themselves with a

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

  It’s Friday, Friday… hacking Mikey

  

  . But not Mikey. I'm not sure whether it's the grating autotune, or the terrible blue screen, or the creepy adult man inexplicably injected into the ... lesson, kids. Whether you're at work or in school, on break or in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In which I am a bad example but only for about twelve seconds.

  

  - Breaking Bloodless NightRaven, or something like that. Whatever it's called ... that they're badly written or anything. Considering the quality of teen ... mother. The prospect thereof may or may not terrify me. I think I meant

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Simply Brothers Finding brothers and brotherhood in MIT's fraternities.

  

  . Except I didn't get just one brother, or even three. I got forty. As some ... . Occasionally we let ourselves get carried away with petty arguments, or allowed our tempers and egos to get the better of us. But one way or another, we

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 5, 2008
• Blog / Events

  MIT Calling Yo Snively - I lied. There are actually 2 admits in Oregon BESIDES you -…

  

  just wondering if you had any questions or would like to get the ... PHONE. OH MAN, I HAVE TO REMEMBER MY SAT VOCABULARY, OR THEY'LL RESCIND ME ... , or we missed you - it's iamjkim at mit dot edu. Please, please leave a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We even learn stuff here! There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

  

  interesting to say about it. Not to burst anyone's bubble about MIT or anything ... though, is 3.091, or, as some like to call it, "3.09-fun." Clever, isn't it ... remotely logical rule or pattern. 7.012 is "seven oh one two," but 5.111 is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventure Coming full circle at MIT

  

  off the night with Origin, a location band that will help skiiers locate ... , a prosthetic socket that will allow the user to reshape the socket for ... UpBeat, a modular attachment for a drumset that will help users become

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 21, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2016 Ring Delivery! MY RING IS SO PRETTY!

  

  picture with Harry! Thanks to Will R. '16 for taking this picture! Here is Will: I also got a picture with Jake I. '16! We took a "selfie ... .   And finally, as always, I will end this post with pictures of cats

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 25, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Like a G6 except for the wings, the engines, the flight controls…

  

  signals).  I will say that, no, I will not read your application essays.  But I have and will tell you about life here, and why you shouldn't be

  • by Piper '13
  • September 27, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Television Show Decisions Three hours is about as much time as I'm willing to waste on television each…

  

  , and three hours is about as much time as I'm willing to waste on ... two years. Clearly this will be one of the four; no need for discussion ... character.     The OC Long-time readers will note that I

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Omnibus Followup: Women in Engineering Melissa asks what the gender ratio is in engineering at MIT.

  

  that all my future female companions will end up in all the different ... down to it, the most important thing will be personal experiences. If ... arts. Your engineering friends, for the most part, will stay with you in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Color by Numbers

  

  will stack luggage up here and nobody will ever see it." April and I ... luggage up there and no one will ever see it!" Well. Almost. Anyway, after

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Coming to a theater near you! (Or auditorium... or gym... or lecture hall...)

  

  I'll be in a great mood! This fall will bring me to Connecticut ... , where Matt and I will be presenting these blogs and encouraging other ... . We're hoping that lots of other schools will begin blog programs so

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I O Europe Help me, blog stalkers, you're my only hope.

  

  or four laziest people at MIT. Then my family and I went to La ... super sad or whatever. Luckily for me, I left all my packing until the ... thousand tiny jars to worry about saying goodbyes, or missing people, or even

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 16, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I want you to burn Unfortunately, usually somebody just blew up their spaghetti-o's.

  

  burrito, or that you shouldn't put pita chips in the oven and then forget ... needs to evacuate. If something's on fire, cover it or throw it out the ... two weeks without having a fire alarm go off. Just because it's 3 AM, or

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  Last Lap and hoping to finish strong

  

  , and is probably the only one that I will ever take. It's a [annotation ... take a derivative, and hopefully I will not have to take an integral ... afford to get better at it, and I know this class will be good for me. It

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Getting Back to Normal ...with some help from Macklemore

  

  Macklemore.  You know, this guy: The concert will be in MIT's Johnson Athletic Center.  The band Ra Ra Riot will open the show. While the Spring

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 26, 2013