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  The Classes I’m Taking This Semester [in order from least-to-most edible] 🪀🚑🔥📚♟️

  

  University of Pretoria in South Africa. I was just there, so I hung out and ... when I don't post. Whoops. [I'm also too tired to do all of the footnotes ... Manufacturing II]. It's pretty neat! The goal of the class is to make FIFTY YOYOS

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 8, 2026
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in China through MIT’s China Development Initiative A week-long mentorship program in Xiamen, Fujian

  

  walked through Xiamen University, which was beautiful. Took lots of ... adventure. I broke my big toe into a bunch of pieces, then flew home to ... astronomy conference, then flew back to Boston (I got the results of my x

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT CodeIt or: the best decision i've made this semester

  

  on their final projects, which they showcase and present at the end of the program. The Application Process I had heard of the program from my ... that I had gotten through some amounts of coding classes and a CS

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you give a girl an assignment… ...she's going to ask if she can blog about it.

  

  -screencaps If you think you’ve just stumbled into the wrong part of the ... are no silly videos of me singing off-tune today. There are no silly ... ;dagger Juliet, the 1999 movie adaptation of the Shakespearean classic (or, as most

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 2, 2011
• Blog / Events

  [joint post] we can’t hear you, you’re on mute another mystery hunt post

  

  began. Our hunt was set in ⊥IW, the perpendicular universe version of MIT ... disturbance caused by the presence of matter from our universe. As we solved ... hundreds of MIT students but also thousands of dedicated puzzlers from all

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  As the City Slumbers thoughts while walking in a park

  

  kids at the playground, and a trio of middle school boys in neon orange ... it, and a tall, steep slide with no railings, a relic of past building ... back in high school had emailed me out of the blue and offered to catch

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  friendful life recently

  

  one of my labmates has a friend from elementary school who was on the latest season of love on the spectrum. another labmate watched it and told ... . i've come to peace with a lot of the things that kept me up late at

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  why do you do what you do do androids dream of electric self-awareness

  

  these women had no obvious dealbreakers that I knew of, so I asked him why he'd rejected all of them. "I really can't say," was his reply. "It's like, they were inputted into the neural network of my brain and the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  registration day! aka "registration day blues", but like, only in the good sense of blues

  

  classes. My friends going to university closer to home had all signed up in July and were comparing schedules; we, even with the combined power of ... . But now -- now I am an MIT student, and so I can enlighten any of you

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  24 Hours From sleeping in a homeless shelter to waltzing in La Sala

  

  Bruce. The three of us speedwalked down the Infinite Corridor, and a sophomore named Kirstyn joined us. The four of us booked it across campus ... , from mid-November to mid-April. It has the most volunteers of any single

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Balancing Life, School, and… More Life? Gotta start by taking advantage of Veteran's Day to... work... and, more importantly, BLOG!

  

  Ahhhh. Wednesday. Veteran's Day. A day FREE of classes. A one ... the fourth episode of My Girl (one of the best asian dramas out there, w ... happened: I ended up watching 2.5 episodes of My Girl with my friends until

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Wise Words From Mikey A good thing to read as you prepare to arrive on campus and begin your…

  

  I'm going through my in-box today, taking care of some long ... , and I decided to wait until now instead of posting it in June - this ... their MIT experiences. I'm sure some of you will be able to relate to the

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Collective Apprehension Seems like my last entry freaked everyone out. No worries guys! You can do it!…

  

  engineering major at a little school called rose-hulman institute of technology ... So, a quick recap of my week before I launch into repsonses to the ... , people kind of freak out. So they want us EMTs to be familiar with the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Alpha Delta Phi To Be The Best of Men

  

  freewill and a deterministic universe. It was just one of those things people ... have passed since freshman orientation, turning it into this blur of free ... under a mound of problem sets and midterms. However, each time I'm thought

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 1 Post-decision questions answered.

  

  entire university of MIT. Every freshman comes in undeclared and can choose ... well as a good number of the other "top" national universities. Good luck ... of January, but he wasn't certain." There is no "deadline," as we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  busy semesters and how to manage them it's organizational structures all the way down

  

  , and then through the magic of technology, we're able to sing together in ... the oft-quoted line of Gatsby: "So we beat on, boats against the current ... my best to set up good practices at the beginning of the semester, but

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the classes I took freshman year feeling scholarly, part 1/2

  

  that I’m already a quarter of the way through my time at MIT, but the ... talking about the most fundamental aspect of college: classes. So I thought I’d fix that now, with a review of all the classes I took freshman

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 18, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fourth Semi-Annual Q&A Even yet still more answers to your questions.

  

  specifics of academic potential are part of of match ... any way of knowing what the admission decision is online or through e ... to the word limit for the essays, a lot of space is left over in the

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  This is where my decisions have taken me perspectives from grad school

  

  history of the universe. This would horrify undergrad Anna, who was afraid ... ; *         *        *   I used to think of decision-making as a complicated optimization ... be prescient enough to solve for the best combination of choices. Once

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  CMS.621: Fans & Fan Culture the class that changed my career trajectory?

  

  I usually reserve these kinds of posts for life-changing classes, the kinds of classes that let me discover things about myself and about the ... class was also a 9am-10:30am class on Mondays and Wednesdays. To those of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 17, 2021