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What is Splash?
and everything. From music theory to Hungarian history to aircraft ... number of subjects—things you always wanted to learn and topics you never
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FAQ / Life and culture
How does one attain a Pirate License?
arrrrrrr! Come to MIT and earn your Pirate Certificate. All MIT undergraduates must complete eight points of physical education classes to graduate—but students that complete courses in archery, pistol shooting, sailing, and -
FAQ / First-year application
May high school juniors apply?
their high school curriculum and feel ready for college. We have a lot of ... . You can fill out our Tell us about yourself! form and you will be added -
FAQ / Interview
What if my interview is waived?
interview will be waived, and your application will not be adversely affected. The interview is not a required component of the application, and the -
Blog / How to Human
Wanting to Do Everything And Deciding What Parts of Everything I Can Do
by so fast,” and other phrases of the sort, I would have a lot of ... my scalp, but in others, it feels like January started last week. And ... with friends for food off campus, and another, I’ll be trying to rush a -
Blog / Life after MIT
Don’t forget to check in with yourself On living with intention
— and it all still felt like home. Okay, all the places I loved to eat ... closest friends are still those I met at MIT (including my husband), and there are just a whole lot of stories to reminisce about and tell over and -
Blog / Miscellaneous
what’s in the box? why is spring cleaning a common phrase but not fall cleaning hmm
few days ago and then fell asleep. and then got caught up with making ... "]thanksgiving was a few days ago, and in the world of this post it is still ... for me. i woke up to grey skies and decided to go back to bed for -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
In the Music Cubes, no one can hear you scream…
-hand last week, and it was pretty mindblowing. That’s right – the Music Cubes ... the Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building) are finally open! For those ... ensembles typically rehearse and perform"]Kresge Auditorium[/annotation] and -
Blog / MIT Life
Summer On-Campus No exams woohooooo
semester a little less hellish, and (3) exploring Boston and Cambridge. UROP ... you can manipulate. A sensor above generates a 3D model of the sand, and ... sandbox, and the software creates an animated topological map that changes -
Blog / Academics & Research
Semester Two Hosed, feeling, writing, love and hatred and whatever else
, and if I wanted to write, I would. If I wanted to spend an hour ... , others I published elsewhere, and the rest I kept to myself, on napkins and in journals. I'm approximately four weeks into my second semester, and -
Blog / How to Human
setting up a house will it take an entire semester? stay tuned
minutes away from MIT by foot and dope as hell. There's an upstairs and ... existence—and living spaces. It's pretty litty. My group started moving in on ... 3rd and spent the majority of the day lugging all our boxes from the -
Blog / Residential Life
it’s not the same, but it’s still home back at MIT
warned by all of my friends and by all of the informational videos about on ... House where I live—[/annotation] and I was home. Not everything was the same, of course—the beanbags and squishables in the main lounge were gone -
Blog / MIT Life
my freshman year in laptop stickers RIP my laptop 7/19/20
yesterday was a really shitty day. a lot of annoying and stressful things happened, and just as i thought things were looking up, i spilled ... Cambridge"]Microcenter[/annotation] took one look at it and told me not to -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
10 ft from Hasan Minhaj D R E A M S D O C O M E T R U…
actually do exist! They’re out there! For you and you and you... As the sun ... with the auditorium lights, my excitement and energy was not alone. The night was spent with great laughter, deep questions and a good amount of -
Blog / Academics & Research
back-to-school special i'm a senior now :o
know what i'm doing with myself, and it's a really good feeling) and am grappling with the fact that i'm leaving this place and my friends in less ... (grad behavioral, 14.160, and labor, 14.661), poetry workshop (21W.762 -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Take Off Gate '21 Calling for Departure
I’ve already been on three flights. And as I attempt to make sense of ... conversations and “light reading”), I can’t help but draw a parallel. The past two ... around in the boarding area. The anxious march through the plane door. And -
Blog / Uncategorized
spring notes resilience, change, warm weather, Santa Fe
after winter and before summer, in which vegetation begins to appear, in the northern hemisphere from March to May and in the southern hemisphere ... Chris Peterson's powerful and beautiful Marathon post*, I question -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
Escaping MIT Maybe if I just get far enough away, my finals will cease to exist!
, but I’ll be too busy celebrating and reveling in the streets, regardless ... , it came to an abrupt end, and I’ve been left staring dejected at my ... and try a new, adventurous wander-around-Boston-while-studying method. I -
Blog / Admissions
In Memory of Sean Collier a memorial, to a member of our family
, and part of the MIT family. It is not the first memorial dedicated to ... difficult subject for me to write about, so I am going to stop and let you ... , Head of the Department of Architecture at MIT and lead architect of the -
Blog / Events
The Tale of a Frosh once upon a cold November
, and the occasional surprises of the semester seem alien and odd. For the ... school), the Frosh can say, “I’m not going to finish this homework,” and ... /No Record basis, and she is allowed to slip. But the lengthy vacation will