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  An MIT Acronym Quiz how many can you decode?

  

  weeks as a freshman on campus involve a deluge of new three-letter codes ... . GTL? IFC? ADT? On top of the new place names and numbered courses, it ... , and I now have a list of 140 different acronyms used at MIT. I spent two

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 21, 2026
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus: Building a Camera at the Hobby Shop [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] If you have an idea, you can build it.

  

  something completely new comes up. One of the best things about working at ... hoping to make an update for my work in April at the end of the week ... --building my own 4x5 pinhole camera out of foam core and playing with the Student

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  list of things that refill my will to live things to do when i don't want to do anything

  

  memories of high school one night i had a breakdown at 2 in the morning in ... the halfway point of the camp and we were all sad about it being halfway ... of my friends this surreal video about studying math because the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  post: new questions to ask yourself, a different way of looking at the ... bigger hit than “Cooler than Me” (at the time of this post, 1.3 billion ... bubble of privilege, heading meekly in the same direction, great at what

  • by Phi A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  majoring in 21E: frequently asked questions what it's like to study humanities at a stem school

  

  would you rate the quality of hum classes/UROPs/opportunities to STEM at ... think there's a lot of really cool opportunities in humanities at MIT. We ... all its worth, but I still gets lots and lots of questions about being a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  I’m a food blogger now enjoy reading through 700 words of personal digression to get to the recipes

  

  assigned. My parents (who met at a university with a mandatory 20-meal ... syrup. sorry !"]maple syrup.[/annotation]At risk of sounding like an ... myself a glass of water, and taking ready-to-eat baby carrots out of the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 26, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Dinner With Goobers Yeah food! Yeah people!

  

  . At any other university, people whipping out a chess board during ... 't my grades, my afterschool activities, or other ways of bringing honor ... to watch important football games (read: all of them) during dinner

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 27, 2012
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can anyone join the Experimental Study Group (ESG)?

  Experimental Study Group (ESG) offers instruction in the core first-year subjects of biology, chemistry, math, and physics through small, discussion ... floor of one of the central buildings on campus. Eleven staff members and
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  What is Splash?

  analysis, Splash offerings span a wide variety of areas. Want to take a class on origami? Lasers? Neuropharmacology? Over the course of 21 hours ... For one awesome weekend each November, thousands of high schoolers
• Blog / Events

  MIT is in Boston!!!!111!!!1! It's something to be excited about!!!!!

  

  talking to people outside of the MIT bubble. Basia and I once had lunch at ... One of my favorite things about MIT might also be the most obvious ... “Greater Boston Area”) While at MIT, I’ve been able to hang out with a lot

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  First Post A little about myself.

  

  Olympics). We entered every event offered. We won most of them, but I think ... years ago). John Everett, MIT class of 1976 — who learned to row at MIT in ... opportunities to experience life fully, they look at them as a test of their self

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Autumn in New England The trees explode with color.

  

  I've been lucky enough to be able to enjoy autumn in New England recently. For those of you in regions that do not have four seasons: autumn is a wonderful time of year; the air is crisp, the foliage is exploding

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day

  

  : the rush of wind past a double-decker train (nothing) Breaking my “at ... few minutes listening to the two people—one of them a train conductor—at ... before this conversation, but they both went to University of Nebraska

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m supergirl and I’m here to save the world My day, being thought of as superhuman, and answering several questions.

  

  :15 AM -- One of the girls I met at the UCLA weekend works at a ... somewhere in the neighborhood of $30, and I had already spent $30 at LAX last ... 't eat enough, they get frustrated and depressed, but at the end of the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Kick to the limit! The Korean Flying Tigers! What could possibly sound more exciting than that?

  

  the Korean Flying Tigers, and since half of my floor is in the club, I ... be sitting next to the sports editor for The Tech, and through a bit of ... University in South Korea, where it's possible to major in taekwondo like an

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Changes To Your MyMIT Account The no-online-notification thing may change in the future, but unfortunately not this year.

  

  A quick response to some of the questions we've been receiving: you ... - remember that you can call us after 3/18) - otherwise, we'd be offering "online notification" which as you know we don't offer. :-) MyMIT will only

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Events

  One of those “big picture” days 2 hours of inspirational lectures, one from the CDC director and the other from broadcasting…

  

  scheduled to end at 5 pm, today was the end of a four-day experiment and we ... (according to Wikipedia, “Tom Brokaw dropped out of The University of Iowa ... .A. degree in Political Science from the University of South Dakota in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  reviewing MIT’s Intro To Deep Learning the highs and lows of the beloved IAP class

  

  given at the end of Friday's lecture (definitely less boring!). Doing the ... ranged from MIT freshman to students at other universities who travelled ... This past week was the first week of [annotation note

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 12, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making it work. In which I just carry on. Where's Andrae when I need him?

  

  to go to classes and stuff, so he was expelled at the end of his ... readmitted in 1936. Now, at MIT, passing a typical class earns you 12 units of ... as many as you want as long as you take at least half of your units at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Epilogue An open letter about blogging, growing up, and the end of my first year at…

  

  Dear reader: It's time that I confess one of the most soul-wrenching facts of the blogging profession. (Pardon me, did I just call it a profession? Sorry to those of you who have actual careers like car-washing and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 21, 2009