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• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is the HASS Requirement?

  100% of MIT undergraduates study the humanities, arts, and social sciences. At MIT, we consider the humanities, arts, and social sciences ... . The requirement deepens our students' knowledge in a variety of cultural and
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Remembering Woodie Flowers they say don't meet your heroes, but some exceed your expectations

  

  died after medical complications. He was 75, and one of the finest men I have ever known. For many of our readers, I suspect Woodie needs no introduction: to the tens of thousands of FIRST participants around the world

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Barker Engineering Library Where sound goes to die.

  

  sitting at one of the desks and then one farther away up against the wall ... in here. Not a day goes by when I am not absorbed by a mass of tourists with cameras, taking pictures of the most random, well, crap, that I

  • by Snively '11
  • February 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Little things that remind me im not home

  

  accept cards than back at home, where lots of small businesses don’t accept ... . Crossing roads. Back at home, if you’re on one side of a major intersection ... , stop in front of the crossing, smile at you, even wave. Back at home, you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 15, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  IAP? No.. YOU’RE AP Possibly the worst title EVER. (Also, answers to your questions, but under the worst title…

  

  classes at other campuses can cost several hundreds of dollars and take much ... . Yesterday I saw Monet's water lilies up close at the Museum of Fine Arts in ... ? A problem set at MIT consists of 1-23049234 ALL and then a bunch of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  168 Hours and how to spend them

  

  -so-prevalent commodification of time at the institute. As a student, time is wealth, time is ... like, you know, processing things for at least a few of the 167 hours in ... to outrun the decay of your brain, constantly fleeing the moment at

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 21, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  short term / long term on growth and learning

  

  could be good at one of them. And I don't know if I'll ever be good at ... out of place with recent events. I've tried a lot to figure out how to ... exactly pinpoint my feelings, tired of repeating the same old "I don't feel

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 10, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  (Guest Post) esolangs oh man

  

  from this joke paper. If you stare at a given piece of Chicken code for ... Hello world! I’m Song, I’m currently a freshman here at MIT, and I ... [annotation note="Fundamentals of Programming, but the CS department is

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 5, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  The River Freezes Over and other nifty things about being on campus

  

  gestured at it through the window of our Uber, wondering aloud if water ... on her bed sometimes, and I spend most of my time at my desk by the ... , I lived in a house at the end of a road, and the back yard dropped off

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  semester 4, take 2 positivity edition!

  

  tough at times, and I'm going to have to take a bunch of technicals next ... halfway point of MIT. When I look back at the path I've taken, it looks ... : nope. can someone explain to me the passage of time? how to avoid

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 23, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting always waiting

  

  . Here is a photo I took of a collision at Weeks.[annotation note="as far ... of the above activities appeal to you, you can always, at the very ... rowing so I can watch you race at Head of the Charles next year! Eat a

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 12, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Self-Discovery Within An Internship guest post by Grace C. '21

  

  *written by Grace C. '21 as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of Summer guest post series*   It’s the end of finals. I’m sitting at a plastic table amongst hundreds of other students in the Johnson Track Center

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals Week, from my perspective My finals.

  

  out of the summer all happy from working at Hasbro and building toys all ... walked out of the final at 4:30 PM on Wednesday and went straight back to ... was hard. We're talking miserable hard. It was a test of will, to be

  • by Snively '11
  • December 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’re 18, But You Aren’t Invincible Impressions of my first month at MIT -- both sobering and exciting.

  

  that though everyone is a bit exhausted at the end of the day, they too ... I've been at MIT for just over a month now. It hasn't quite sunk in ... calling home once in a while. There are things to do at all hours

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 1, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Come together (and eat)

  

  hall", not "the dining hall", because if you have a plan at one of these ... the way back to eat; just grab your meal at Baker! Some of the FSILGs ... Mollie's neck of the woods (Note: as I am being greedy and co-opting Mollie

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I?TFP

  

  hours later I was less optimistic. Also, I was tired of staring at the ... two of us started working very intently. At 5:47, I ran the test jig ... of IHTFP, and ILTFP (the sentiment, not the student activist group), at

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  papurgatory I am demolishing my print budget and my solitary working habits

  

  the tired eyes of a poor researcher?” if I continue to print at this ... I have read slightly over 200 pages’ worth of papers this week. I procrastinated 115 of them until the day before I had an assignment due on said

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  sharp and soft featuring: my favorite naruto moment

  

  of the confusion at the time i thought going from spiky to soft also ... in my favorite naruto scene, a samurai and a ninja charge at each ... says something along the lines of: people are their blades! bluntness

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 21, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nisha’s Restaurant Review: February this is extra but i'm doing it anyways

  

  't play any of the arcade games because I am not good at them, but the vibe ... blog post, but I've been trying to see more of Boston and Cambridge this semester. My method of doing this has been going out to [annotation note

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music, Photography, and Two.js i am proficient at two (2) of these things.

  

  milk, and at the moment it strikes the surface of the table, flash the ... (basically just a gathering of a bunch of people with really nice synthesizers ... ton of time writing music lately - MIT is definitely an inspiring place

  • by Joe B. '18
  • November 15, 2014