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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 / Events
Learning about the ABCs Apple Bake Competition, At Burton Conner
note="one of the dorms at MIT, also where i live ... functional and eating edible food"]GRAs [/annotation]in the Fall of each year. It’s a competition where people bake a lot of goods with apples, to -
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 / 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 / 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 / Admissions
World’s Best Rib Recipe as advertised
scheduling app. OK, BBQ at Burton Connor. Walk out of Kresge. Have to pass ... eat on the way. Classic. Arrive at Burton Connor. Lots of people. Grab an Arnold Palmer and some chips on a plate. Muscle to the front of the -
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 / Art, Literature, Music
dancing at MIT (and beyond) continuity vs. fulfillment and the perils of stagnation
-time instead of Mocha was difficult and took quite a long time to make; I started ... was no satisfaction of selling out a successful show, or of buying ... liked having creative direction over choreography, but the thought of -
Blog / Academics & Research
Reading, Thinking and Igniting Innovation Rational optimism about MIT and the future
, kind of. I`m almost 300 pages through Matt Ridley`s "The Rational ... hike. I was in a strange mood. I`m a student at one of the most ... the pace of life, the thirst for knowledge and the search for new ideas -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Got any threes? Go fish!
TV. As such, yesterday evening found a large majority of the residents of Conner 2 sitting in the floor lounge, eating Hsin Hsin (a great ... is that e-mail mailing lists are the lifeblood of this place. They -
Blog / MIT Life
DO YOU WANNA BUILD A SNOWMAN?? I KNOW YOU DO
LOL"]FIRST(ish)[/annotation] SNOW OF THE YEAR!! (several days late) We ... :D Even more ironically, the snow chose to arrive during the middle of ... displayed on the TV, a large quantity of fake lei, and half the attendees -
Blog / How to Human
things that make noises for those lost
march is a rough month. you are lost, not only in a pile of things to see and things to do, but probably also in a pile of emotions you can ... AAAAAAAAAAAAA. it's the constant screeching noise in the back of your head you can -
Blog / How to Human
best places to sleep on campus for when your bed is far far away
because classrooms are never this full at 9 am, or indeed any other hour of ... appear in your notebook but you have no memory of writing them. they are ... ire of your professor and thereafter you feel guilty whenever he’s nice -
Blog / Challenges
Questions from Beyond one last blog
Wait. Why am I here? For those of you who don’t know, I actually don ... new job, and I’m kind of nervous. Well, kind of is KIND OF an ... moment of my life since I was probably 12-years-old being [annotation note -
Blog / MIT Life
You construct intricate rituals function loses form and form loses function
. On Floor Pi, one of our traditions is this event called tea time. It ... communities do you most value being a part of?" But often, discussion strays ... into math, but we have a hard rule of "no math during tea time".) I -
Blog / Classes
I Finally Finished Intro Programming ...it took 2.5 years
ahead of my peers, so this came as a disappointment. I resolved to take 6 ... of which were 6.0002. One of the four was 6.009, the second class in ... also switched majors to aerospace engineering. I had a long list of