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FAQ / First-year application
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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 who complete courses in archery, pistol shooting, sailing, and -
Blog / Academics & Research
Note-Taking in its Many Forms
why I like to write. It anchors me when everything else is free and ... and become glassy-eyed as soon as I get lost; note-taking reminds me to continue to listen and to just write down what I see and hear, even when -
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 / 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 / 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 / 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 -
Blog / About Decisions
Waiting How about 'em EA decisions?
nine long months to birth with a lot of snarling and kicking around. On ... explains the “bawling, puking and hair-pulling” antic I mentioned in my profile. My parents and siblings know all too well that when waiting for -
Blog / Academics & Research
Mistakes & the inspiration we need to move on
, and I figured I might as well try too. Since I knew I'd love to work in ... that I wanted to try and do a minor in course 20. I figured I'd start ... the material, and I couldn't see myself ever using it again. It was a -
Blog / Academics & Research
ICE, ICE baby Guess which song would inevitably get stuck in my head as I tooled in the…
Mary, and my status as the youngest child meant she knew my location at ... bloggership? Well, senior year happened. And that’s certainly not a good enough ... have ICE, and we’ve been hearing about it since we joined the department