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  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  of staying in our current major or switching majors. After 2 years at ... , one for the minimum amount of classes we need to finish the 21E degree ... semester at a time, and see where that takes us. And, of course, write about

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  courses: organization of departments and schools, course numbers, and degree ... that has a table resembling our modern degree charts: a table of the ... first-years today choose their courses, which is at the end of their first

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  postwar Canada") The Kansas and Colorado State Boards of Education ("for ... awarded a prize at an Ig Nobel ceremony :) (Also, the rest of John Carr ... In 1965, the U.S. government awarded George (MIT Class of ~1923) and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  students with a full year of credits (96 units) at the end of first-year fall ... sorts of academic policies and issues at MIT: copyrights for MIT Theses ... sorts of education-related things happening at MIT. Additionally, we

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  random places, all of which I seriously considered for at least the time I ... A lot of different people have been asking me about my prospective major. And for these gracious inquirers, I have a lot of different answers

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  going into it. Many of the weeks have been unfortunate at best and excruciating at worst. It is possible, of course, that this pain was inevitable ... while. In short, I would not be quite so quickly alone at the end of the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  quite 1,000 googol pages. All I can offer you by way of reconciliation is ... would be taking next term at MIT. So, I added a trendline in the form of a ... time that I spend at MIT, which will add up to 80 hours per week of real

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reflections and Decisions Take advantage of every opportunity you can

  

  at MIT for only two and a half years of my life, compared to the ... offer you my congratulations. Welcome to the most stressful four years of ... craziness of the semester is already over, that I have completed my finals and

  • by Becca H. '12
  • December 20, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  of the intervening years. (basically, the backstory is that at ... ;-- this at least I am proud of. 2. Eat N2 ice cream - you are not allowed ... President Hockfield - as a matter of fact, I did this my very first week at

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  -001. Anyway, let me set the scene: one day in the summer of 2020—at the height ... authorized campus access at an unmarked service door at the basement level of ... office unsupervised. At the bottom of an old metal filing cabinet, I found

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
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  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  every single cookie jar of majors that MIT has to offer in one way or ... the front-end of our app to present at the end. The program is split ... . Later, my team chooses to meet at 5 every day to get more app stuff out of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
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  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  decade after I was a student here, but one of them is ✨delight✨ at seeing ... small deviation from 90 degrees at the corner leads to wildly inaccurate ... into the side of the stringers at the correct height and angle so that

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  : An annotated timeline of everything he's ever made at MIT! You can see more of everything Charles has made at his website, http ... Copenhagen Suborbitals, a group of amateurs trying to launch themselves into

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  engineering degrees). 2) I've never built anything at MIT (most engineering ... something wrong if you buy all of your textbooks at the MIT Coop. One or two ... to deal with the deluge of students seeking help at the final hour :P

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  really excited about this, as it’s been a dream of mine for at least…the last twelve to fourteen months. Even at the start of my junior year of ... . If you find yourself to be the same person at the end of college as you

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  of self respect. At least that's the way it was with me. Something that ... 2pm. You might be wondering at the moral of this story. Is it grades ... There are going to be a lot of people eager to give you advice on how

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  Venus of Urbino, lounging naked women that Titian would draw staring at ... at least five copies of Machiavelli’s The Prince -- all in Italian. It ... now and then, I’d stare out the window -- of my car, of a plane, of a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  ending--it's the beginning of a path you might not have meant to take at ... winter and the slew of second semester tests starting to take its toll. It ... losses of Matthew Nehring and Christina Tournant. And for you, dear

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  Daily Globe article, the President of the Latin-American Club at MIT ... Degree (graduate) and Bachelor of Science in Course I. Civil Engineering B ... tuition award! Many of the international students at the time struggled

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  tale from last April.  Longtime readers of the blogs may know that I've come to understand the challenge of MIT through the lens of physical ... challenges of balancing growth and recovery, and the isomorphic relationship

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020