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FAQ / Academics and research
Can I test out of some classes by taking Advanced Standing Exams?
subjects outside of the classroom itself. If you're confident that you ... test out of it. It's essentially like sitting the final before the class ... , and you will never exhaust our curriculum of hard, interesting classes. -
Blog / Academics & Research
Writing is useful for science. Surprise!
the pertinence of writing to science. The answer was: writing is an ... ; * * * The days of partyboy/astronomer Tycho Brahe reclining in the quadrant he built into the wall of his palace are (regrettably) over. Tycho -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Sweet summer song
common carnival Of passions and regrets, And gives the world a glimpse of ... summer has been full of new colors. Last semester was not the best, and I've been rediscovering a lot of beauty which I wanted to share a glimpse of -
Blog / IAP
nothing & everything again & again my senior iap
This is just one in the onslaught of many posts to come about what ... interesting redux of my sophomore IAP, which I blogged about here, and from which I stole the title of this post. Freshman year I was busy taking -
Blog / Academics & Research
In Case You Were Wondering… Here's what I do when I don't do anything
the distant glint of the Charles. If you don't feel like craning your ... fair amount of sunlight, especially when we forget to pull down the blinds. There is a nice view of Building 1 and a pleasant reminder that -
Blog / Admissions
Human After All Unlike customer service nowadays, MIT (and its admissions office) is 100% human. Give or take…
Chesapeake area, you were given a bit of a treat on Monday night. Several ... Avenue, including this guy, who took to answering tons of probing questions ... little bold with this whole idea, but there's a whole lot of our reputation -
Blog / Academics & Research
So many problem sets
of homework, usually in the form of a problem set. I thought the ... actually like, so I've posted a few of the problems from my own problem sets (don't give me the answers! I haven't solved all of these yet!). 9.22 has -
Blog / How to Human
in a funk and salvaging hope
its ways of wading in and out of life it never goes away it will always be a part of who you are it just takes on different forms some ... [/annotation] having to miss weeks of classes to recover from both and everything else -
Blog / Admissions
Open Thread: Deferred Early
MIT students were initially deferred; you can read some of their experiences here, here, here, here, here, here, and most recently here. Some of you may feel happy to be deferred. Some of you may feel sad. Some of you -
Blog / Decisions Day Threads
Open Thread: Not Admitted
There were many incredible applicants to the MIT Class of 2028, which ... this post are an open forum for those of you who want to talk with us ... with the best of intentions, even though this may be a difficult time for -
Blog / Admissions
Open Thread: Deferred Early
initially deferred; you can read some of their experiences here, here, here, here, here, here, and most recently here. Some of you may feel happy to be deferred. Some of you may feel sad. Some of you may have complicated -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
Julia’s Day Out Almost 10 things I've learned since living in Boston
to campus these past two weekends. Many of you have explored our campus before, but for some of you, this was your first time. I also know that many of you got the chance to explore the Cambridge area. So, I figured -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
tetacats the furry fish of tetazoo
For context, Tetazoo is the name of the cat friendly hall that I live ... number of residents who identify as furries"]furry residents.[/annotation] Within on campus dorms, there are a couple of other halls in East Campus -
Blog / Classes
Tier Listing My Classes i may have got this idea from tiktok
of this week, to be precise. Once January 29th comes and goes, I will ... realm of cruftiness. So, in the name of going out strong, I'd like to put ... of - you guessed it - Final Fantasy 7. These posts will be about mostly -
Blog / Admissions
Open Thread: Deferred Early
read some of their experiences here, here, here, and here. Some of you may feel happy to be deferred. Some of you may feel sad. Some of you may -
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-campus living in the fall that there would be a lot of restrictions. Things will ... because it is on the west half of the fourth floor of Next."]wing of Next -
Blog / Personal Projects
a quarantine haiku generator purell and poetics
hello! hope everyone is doing well. I made a quarantine haiku generator: get yours here. -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
Nothing Gold Can Stay some reminders
process thing as they happen. But all of a sudden I'm at home again, with no ... thoughts carry me away. The morning before I left campus, a group of ... drive from campus). In the midst of observing Ramadan and searching for a -
Blog / Miscellaneous
In the Jungle, the Mighty Jungle @NatGeo, pls hire me
Game Reserve. We stayed on the very top of a hill in Hluhluwe , sleeping ... magnificient. Oh and there were lots of baboons too. We drove into the game ... habitat, relatively untouched by mankind. During one of our drives, we