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FAQ / Life and culture
What is MIT Code?
MIT uses numbers for everything. You could be in 10-250 taking 18.06, which is 4-0-8, for 6-5. At MIT, all of your friends would understand ... week, 0 hours in lab per week, 8 hours of homework per week, for -
FAQ / Life and culture
Is there really a swim test?
Yup, there's a swim test! There's an awesome variety of physical education courses for undergraduate students to complete the swim requirement ... during the academic year. If you take the right mix of classes, you can -
Blog / Academics & Research
The story behind TIMtalks In other words, a story about stories
, or failed at a wide range of ventures or ideas told their stories ... “Think. Inspire. Motivate.” There has already been some coverage of the ... , but as one of the handful of inaugural TIMtalks speakers, I got a unique -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Burton 1 Cribs A look at the interiors of several rooms on Burton 1.
express themselves. Below you'll find accounts of six very different rooms ... a team of hair and makeup artists, as well as relaxing in their personal trailers parked outside of their rooms. No, actually I just ran -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Don’t Eat the Hot Glass Five things you can’t eat in the MIT Glass Lab for “health and safety” reasons…
ancient art form. One heavily-emphasized aspect of the class was “safety ... compensating by drinking copious amounts of water isn’t working anymore. Suddenly, you catch a glimpse of a glimmering caramel orb. Its golden glow beckons -
Blog / MIT Life
my first spring break!!! 13 MIT students take San Diego
group of [annotation note="all junior, sophomore, and freshmen bombers (members of burton third)"]friends:[/annotation] Miami, Puerto Rico, Spain ... flights weren't very expensive. as a plus, hundreds of other MIT students -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
Friday Night, Off-Campus Style come along on our evening of fish and wine
Friday nights are great. Assuming you’re not in one of those classes ... midnight,[/annotation] Friday nights bring the freedom of having no impending ... from going to the types of social events that are just barely getting -
Blog / How to Human
love languages in the little things
Here's a list of things that I consider love languages, because the standard ones--acts of service, quality time, gifts, words of affirmation ... . Heart-shaped things are a love language. I love this time of year -
Blog / Challenges
The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)
later, in an ironic (and quite sad) twist of fate, I broke the November ... ="exactly 2 years ago to this day. i am the master of eerie timing"]month into ... it impacted me quite a bit. with every new year comes an onslaught of -
Blog / How to Human
the one where i talk to ameer what is real again?
, in front of me is the Jeremy, behind me is Ariel, DJ to my left, and right behind him is Ameer. Scattered throughout the rest of the office is ... tangibly real, to digitized clusters of pixels on a Zoom call. What is "real -
Blog / Academics & Research
Karma What goes around comes around.
many people are sick, but I definitely had some type of illness that made ... die is when you add that to the normal stresses of MIT life. Not a lot ... homework while ill are varied, one of the big ones being the degree of -
Blog / About Decisions
Spoiled Milk I wrote an entry so long overdue my milk has spoiled in the process. So…
Once, when I was younger, I poured the entire contents of a carton of ... side. My dad, being the upstanding keeper of never throwing anything out ... following would have been a wonderous experience for both of us. It really is -
Blog / Academics & Research
6.2050 – Field Programmable Gate Awesomeness Featuring my “aggressive and weird” cat robot
sorts of applications, from real-time digital signal processing to high ... lecturer. 6.2050 was one of the most demanding classes I’ve taken at MIT, but it has also been one of the most rewarding. In just a few short -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
it’s been thirteen days since the Eras Tour began
of that, I am ranking my favorite three songs (I can’t pick one) in alphabetical order (yes, I cannot pick one) from each of her albums and will be ... ’t Blame Me vibe of songs. The live performances for these songs were -
Blog / Challenges
where is home? leaving your home is easy / it's keeping this one that's a struggle
part of the reason why it's been so hard to write about what's been going ... pretty fun. then it was doing a bunch of final projects. for 21m.600 intro ... all of a sudden it was finals week. my only two finals were both on -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
on mit’s mailing list culture update: tetazoo glounge
've already squeezed out so much free time out of my week. i am in class 3 hours a day, and then also doing a load of things outside of class. also i'm spending my free time playing a lot of monster train. actually that's the -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
by bike, by train, by wind, by rain getting around different cities
I’ve been thinking about different modes of transport through cities ... . Each of those three have their own method of transport: Copenhagen bikes ... exposed to other ways of getting around, I'm thinking about what I want to -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
How to Make a (Short) Movie in 15 Days give or take
countless films of [annotation note="as short as 2 minutes or as long as 2 hours"]varying lengths,[/annotation] and of wildly different styles. Some ... -and-outs of making a film—from the very beginning of storyboarding and -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
13/101 Things To Do Before You Graduate 2 of my favorite days at MIT, to date.
Bloggers of old have written about the "101 Things To Do Before You ... orientation, every freshman receives a list of 101 things to do before they ... Cruise Check out the New England Aquarium Visit the top of the Prudential