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  SHE CAMPUS ON MY PREVIEW TIL I WEEKEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my freshman cpw post turned east campus love letter

  

  prefrosh who were being led to believe that Boston was always 70 degrees and ... upperclassmen friends who freely offered up solid advice and told us about their ... masse in Cambridge, and the prefrosh excitement around me was so palpable

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 6, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  registration day! aka "registration day blues", but like, only in the good sense of blues

  

  Physics II: Electricity and Magnetism. It's... well, it's an institute ... classes. My friends going to university closer to home had all signed up in July and were comparing schedules; we, even with the combined power of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Spring Line-Up, Part 1: Classes Learning Middle English, sketching constellations, holding meteorites

  

  our solar system, and getting a broad introduction to the universe using ... Last year, my class sizes were on the order of 100, 50, 60, and 20. This year, my class sizes are roughly 5, 6, 8, 6, and 25. I'm learning

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  dirt, and sunbathing. Sadly, he passed away shortly after I moved to MIT ... cat I found online.)[/caption] The inspiration MIT.nano is MIT’s state-of-the-art research facility for nanoscale science and engineering. Built near the end

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Kids These Days Don’t Know How Good They’ve Got It and they need to get off my lawn

  

  math.SE eventually got me noticed by StackExchange, and they offered me a ... access to elite institutions and only have access to the Internet still ... something and have access to the Internet, you can Google it, which will

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • October 26, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Update from selection We're working through the weekend towards admitting the Class of 2011.

  

  . We'll be working throughout the week, making decisions and preparing to release them on the web and through the mail. This is what Selection ... Hockfield, her daughter Elizabeth, and their golden retriever, Casey, playing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The first of the lasts My last Registration Day. *GOOP WARNING.*

  

  bachelor's degree in course 6 (EECS) and one in course 15 (management), and ... Georgetown, and is waiting on others. I'm getting two bachelor's degrees -- one ... Although I do make active attempts to avoid goopiness and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Good Luck Jo-Jo!

  

  serving as President of the Undergraduate Association, and she was serving ... degree in Electrical Engineering, Joanne now works as a management consultant in the medical technology and pharmaceutical industries. Tonight and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Public MIT panel on the science behind vaccines, and ending the evolving pandemic

  

  a webinar on the science of vaccines, and the role they will play in fighting the pandemic. The webinar is open to the public, and will be hosted ... , government and industry brought us to this pivotal moment – and where we go

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 4, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  -renowned geneticist and the former director of the Whitehead Institute, as well as a ... worthless Conner 3 residents, and a bloody dormwide revolution ignited when someone whipped their shirt around their head and declared, "YOU CAN TAKE

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Practical virology A little too practical, if you ask me.

  

  of 24-hour flu or something... I didn't get to go out and watch the marathon today because I've been lying around in bed feeling pathetic and ... back by tomorrow, when a bunch of my friends are going to Fire and Ice

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Money! Money! Money! Life is like monopoly, except you're not a pewter Tophat and it costs WAY more…

  

  of "prease" if Biology has taught me anything) and finally become fully fledged frosh and other alliterations! Want to eat ice cream on toast for ... 're adults now and that means you get to make choices. Of course that also

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  what’s on my desk? creative furniture

  

  quick post to check in and say happy tuesday. it's 52 degrees and sunny and there's a high of 73 degrees tomorrow. i haven't shared ... makes a pretty serviceable bookshelf and doubles as a nice little reading

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A New MIT “Alum” Many fictional characters are MIT alumni; the newest is Jessica Alba's Sue Storm in "Fantastic…

  

  film "Fantastic Four" (it got a "thumbs down"), and one plot point caught ... establish credibility for a character by giving them an MIT degree. Here are ... doctorates) and Ronald Quincy, respectively Steve Buscemi's oil-drilling wierdo

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2011 arrives… Orientation programs are beginning, and the campus is really starting to come alive.

  

  Oregon (and Snively's parents), Sara '11 from Massachusetts, Thilani '11 from Sri Lanka (and Thilani's mom), and Beebe '11 from Maryland. It was great to see everyone. Note to '11s: Ben, Bryan and I are generally around

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Ode From A Science Fair Junkie in honor of intel isef 2018

  

  offered. ISEF would happen if it was meant to be, and by all means I ... foundation for the confidence you carry. And your low points remind you to take every step forward with humility. And while all of those moments and

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 13, 2018
• FAQ / Transfer

  What does MIT consider for transfer admission?

  institution. We select students who we believe are a good match and who we feel ... , competitive applicants typically have a 3.5 GPA or above, and mostly As in math and science courses. Ideal preparation includes—at the very least
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sleepless Nights And how I've been spending them

  

  choose two between school, a social life, and sleep. I tend to think that there’s a way to balance the three as long as you're organized and realize ... research in CSAIL; I joined a club on campus; and I’m leaving time to keep

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 26, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  we named 2124 cities of the world fridays with 4W

  

  declare their exhaustion with the current state of the website and say they ... Nicole H. ’22 and I quote, “Do you have time to waste?” He pulled up the ... completely decimated west New York and Jess H. ’24 named the craziest cities in

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 29, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Big Dreams, Small Mind The troubles of being in school and doing research for too long.

  

  University. I am currently working on a number of blog posts that will be ... and I really want to give you guys everything I can, as far as the past ... am a course 20 (biological engineering), and I am in my 3rd year at MIT

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 24, 2018