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FAQ / Academics and research
Can anyone join the Experimental Study Group (ESG)?
-year subjects of biology, chemistry, math, and physics through small, discussion ... floor of one of the central buildings on campus. Eleven staff members and ... supplemented by a variety of community activities, including weekly luncheons -
FAQ / First-year application
Will there be a wait list this year?
Each year we aim for a class of approximately 1,100 students. Based on our estimates of the percentage of admitted students who will attend ... with the uncertainties, we also keep a wait list of students. We won -
FAQ / Prepare for MIT
What is Splash?
For one awesome weekend each November, thousands of high schoolers ... analysis, Splash offerings span a wide variety of areas. Want to take a class on origami? Lasers? Neuropharmacology? Over the course of 21 hours -
FAQ / Academics and research
When was MIT founded?
Ok, this is probably more info than anyone wants regarding the founding of MIT, but you asked! -
Blog / Events
Consilience From college essays to a Medieval Studies @ MIT Colloquium
became obsessed with the word consilience. I loved all of my classes ... - and was enamored by the possibility of doing research that bridged ... it's been collecting dust. On Monday, at the beginning of my Chaucer -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Snow On working in a winter wonderland.
Though born in Massachusetts, I grew up in the wintry hinterlands of ... Burlington area, which averages a bit over five feet of snow every year. While ... will melt, whereas in Burlington it never does, so towards the end of the -
Blog / MIT Life
It’s Monday Actually, I think I just made it to Tuesday.
potentials inside charged cubes. Erons is the type of person who carries all ... . Incidentally, the set of such people that I know contains one member: namely ... the Cold War or the ending of The Matrix trilogy, academic life at MIT -
Blog / Academics & Research
Classes – Spring 07 Ending MIT with a literary bang. Can you hear it?
Description: Studies important examples of the literary form that, between the beginning of the 18th century and the end of the 19th century, became an indispensable instrument for representing modern life, in the hands of such -
Blog / IAP
some IAP adventures as told by my camera roll
on January 31st, but close enough"]the month of January ... whirlwind for me, and since we're now in the midst of the first week of the semester, I haven't had time to process it all. In lieu of a more thoughtful -
Blog / MIT Life
Meteor Shower For once, the title is relevant.
editing was far more polished than any of my dreams could ever dream of ... -and-white-and-symbolically-important-colors-only. The sad truth is that my periods of REM sleep, no matter how R my EM may ... of Helvetica not only gave aesthetic purity to subway signs but also -
Blog / Personal Travel
[Guest Post] The Southbound Train by Kylee C. '23
’ve ridden my fair share of intercity trains here in the USA, on the East Coast ... /Miami The City of New Orleans connecting Chicago and New Orleans The passenger train receives woefully little love in the US of A, but it -
Blog / Admissions
The Other Side from prefrosh to cpw chair
hustle and bustle of the street had a certain magic to it. The cars were ... (earlier than me!). She stares outside of the window, amazed by the scene in front of her. It reminds me of exactly one year ago. When, MIT was a new -
Blog / Admissions
Nance Nance Revolution! (+ My CPW Recap) New art and new memories.
change gonna' come." For the greater part of my blog's existence, many of ... ). Well thanks to one of my favorite prefrosh, the dream is now reality! Check out an incredible piece of graphic art from Ms. Star Simpson of the -
Blog / Academics & Research
Goldilocks and the n HASS classes too hot, too cold, just right. on picking a hass class.
semester. Unfortunately this semester, I left the selection of my HASS class to last, so I have to find one that fits my schedule instead of ... ; let me know what you think! 11.002J Fundamentals of Public Policy -
Blog / People & Identities
an anime fan’s dilemma am I a weeb? please GOD say yes
friends"]60+ days[/annotation] of anime and have read tens of thousands of chapters of manga. I learned Japanese so I could watch shows without needing ... part of me that I wouldn't actively think about writing about it, but -
Blog / MIT Life
40 Hours in Cape Cod Take note, I typed this entire post with a broken shift key. Please appreciate the…
On the first night of my mandatory vacation, I walked to the beach with the taste of fresh complaints in my mouth, trying to wrestle down the symptoms of workaholic withdrawal through the ancient zen technique -
Blog / Athletics
A Run through Boston Having an adventure was easy. Carrying the camera around was the hard part.
Recap: I survived the last week of February with hit points to spare, despite running out of energy cards sometime around Thursday afternoon ... page 2 of my test booklet, and continued to the next round of combat -
Blog / Events
Thoughts on coming home With guest appearances by MIT's Dean for Student Life, the communist dracula, Roman lasagna, and…
Thanksgiving morning was a groggy smear of coffee, subway, and airport, a rhapsody in grey shattered once by an outburst of sunrise over ... ocean of sky, I woke up and instantly felt the narcotic echoes of the -
Blog / Academics & Research
Gerald Fink’s “What Is a Gene?” one of those cool talks that happen at MIT all the time
In 1981, Gerald Fink was a professor at Cornell and a member of a ... split over the idea of establishing an MIT-affiliated but independent ... opposition. Fink remembers being a part of one meeting about Whitehead in which