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How does pass/no record work?
of A/B/C.
As part of the flexible pass/no record grading option, you ... after your first term, and at any time during your course of study.
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FAQ / Academics and research
Can I study Global Change Science/Climate?
predict changes in the global environment. Additionally, a variety of ... innovation toward climate science, including the Department of Earth ... of Global Change, and the MIT Energy Initiative. -
FAQ / Academics and research
Can I join the IDEAS Social Innovation Challenge?
One of the highlights of MIT's yearly academic challenges and competitions, the IDEAS Social Innovation Challenge, connects students with the passion and talent to improve the world with the experience and resources of -
FAQ / Life and culture
How does one attain a Pirate License?
undergraduates must complete eight points of physical education classes to graduate ... H. '20 is one of the students who has earned official MIT Pirate ... of physical education. “They’re tactical. They involve strategy. Plus -
Blog / About Decisions
What’s happening to your apps right now? Views from the Inside
It's been a few weeks since many of you have submitted your ... 're working pretty hard to read each and every one of them. I know the wait is ... every one of you a fair chance is to read what you've presented to us, and -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
[joint post] Welcoming you to “Here at MIT” student art in the new welcome center
the story of one particular piece of art: the Story Wall. On its own ... feet pegboard, stretching away to the right of the Welcome Center entrance. But it turns out that you can do quite a lot of things with -
Blog / Academics & Research
I’m sitting at work right now Seems like as good a time as any to bang out a quick blog post
this summer, which is sort of embarrassing since I keep making reference to it. So, here's a snapshot of what I'm doing RIGHT NOW, at 11:52am on ... , from all over the place: BU, University of Kansas, UVA, Macalester -
Blog / Blog Projects
the blogs turn twenty 👴🏻 the posts start coming and they don't stop coming
It is a venerable tradition of the blogs to begin a post by ... you get older, time has a way of sneaking up and past you, the way that, for many people, one's birthday shifts from being a moment of annual -
Blog / Summer
i visit Cape Cod and discover the most beautiful beach on Earth
suggested that we spice up our orders by asking for four of what the person in the car in front of us ordered. while passing the menu, we noticed a ... .... [caption id="attachment_54023" align="aligncenter" width="537"] only one of -
Blog / Events
Halloween Tag In which I do a YouTube thing for a (bonus) Halloween vlog
Halloween was yesterday, marking the end of the spoopiest of months ... of my month. There were candy pumpkins, what looked like an entire Costco pack of fruity/sour candy, a movie, some foodstuffs, some other cool -
Blog / MIT Life
Hey Erick, You Awake? Not gonna call it a night just yet
Music Room (the name of our TV room at Skullhouse) at 2 am watching ... before and had no idea what was going during either of them. One by one ... if anyone was still awake. I replied "Yea! There's tons of us down here -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Analogies “Fill yourself up with musical lighter fluid and ignite your inner match.”
Kresge Auditorium almost rolling in laughter, listening to arguably some of ... steps!” Though not inherently obvious, they are words of wisdom. They are also the words of the MIT Wind Ensemble (MITWE) director, Frederick -
Blog / Admissions
Discuss Disqus launching our new commenting system
. There's a big open box at the bottom of each entry, with fields for name, email, your comment, and a captcha. It then populates the big long list of comments at the end of the blog. See, e.g., -
Blog / Events
Rubbing Elbows I have pizza with a famous person.
amount of passion, creativity, and pure intelligence that suffuse all of ... campus culture we have all come to know and love. The traditional image of a college professor is, I think, something along the lines of an -
Blog / About Decisions
Moving Forward I, and the outstanding staff in the admissions office, re-affirm our pledge to uphold the…
We were all saddened by the news of Marilee Jones' resignation. In ... felt. The message of "being" vs. "doing," quality over quantity, and ... , members of the class of 2011) - that our admissions process is, and always -
Blog / Academics & Research
Biodiesel@MIT: Turning trash into black gold A student group called Biodiesel@MIT has just won the grand prize of $25,000 in the…
sundresses, flip-flops and shorts. Today, we are in the midst of a winter storm, with accumulations of 5 to 8 inches of snow expected. Meanwhile crude oil ... of fresh water is waning. There are several natural reactions to these -
Blog / Hacks
Another hack Snow and hacks and exams.
close to the amount of brain-shocking work that your two math classes will ... use some community sympathy also. :) What? Of course it makes you appear ... remember from the Mario hack entry, I was friends with a bunch of people -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
318 memorial drive a historical rabbit hole
, CJ and I promised that we would write a post full of wonderful facts and obscure lore about the history of the T. This is not that post. However, in the process of doing research for it, I read a book titled -
Blog / Academics & Research
Year 2 at Hogwarts Holy Hell, I'm a sophomore
: Vincent Anioke. Year 2 Undergrad. Department of Electrical Engineering and ... -food tornado of Orientation and the pre-psets era. A year since every building ... just too big and I’d never get the hang of it. A year since I left my -
Blog / Blog Projects
17 Ridiculously Useful Tips Every Blogger Should Know i am the entire circus
to write good blog posts; you only need to have the appearance of ... with a table of contents Open strong and generate excitement by giving a preview of what you're discussing. What better way to do this than with a