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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  Hey there!  Haven't seen you in a while.  And by "seen" I mean "you ... do one at the time, since I was dangling off a cliff in Utah and had ... .  And while that's nice for the ego, it's not so helpful in terms of

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Nerd Love Beauty and the Science!

  

  degree, she also...became a beauty queen! And now, she's a happily ... earning his master's degree at MIT's Artificial Intelligence Lab, and he had ... that everyone is an incredibly awkward ugly nerd with acne and backne and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 25, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT: Progressions what the students thought of the place in 1969

  

  , unearthed a lost (literally: it had been misnamed and misfiled) MIT Admissions ... ; I'd seen (and we've posted) MIT: The Movie (1992), which was ... what's amazing to me is the salience and relevance of this film. The

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 18, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How did MIT’s GIRs come to be? the Tech has some answers. Plus, the SATs from 1918, and a mascot on a…

  

  ." - William Barton Rogers, Objects and Plan of an Institute of Technology (1860 ... 're still heads-down reading applications and meeting in committee. No final ... introductory coursework but advising, major exploration, and so on. However

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 1, 2018
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What is Concourse?

  . Concourse offers small classes in the math and science GIRs as well as small ... the meaning of human nature, the basis and character of morality, the necessary conditions for liberty, the proper role of science, and the
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Forbes and MIT there's graphs in this one

  

  , and University of Pennsylvania. Obviously, awards are subjective, and ... and Social Entrepreneurship categories have included well-known names, like Mark Zuckerberg, Evan Spiegel, and Malala Yousafzai. The

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 19, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  40 Hours in Cape Cod Take note, I typed this entire post with a broken shift key. Please appreciate the…

  

  -perforated silence of Cape Cod two full months before the season of tourists and ... . Overhead, a countable infinity of little stars twinkled, and I pondered their ... child to the pika alumni trust fund and spending one fine weekend in early

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 27, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2011 Brass Rat! Can I turn this in in lieu of my blank lab report for tomorrow?

  

  there are like 2 1's in the diploma (reflected from each other) and 1's in ... 't know that blogging the Ring Premiere has become, and I here quote, from ... Premiere! And so, after three beautiful years of Ring Premiere blog entries

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  why do you do what you do do androids dream of electric self-awareness

  

  signaling that I am bisexual. When I state that I am a computer science and ... and time if I hadn't wanted to attend a great university. For example ... him. This friend is single and would like to have a girlfriend, and

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Lovin’ Tell me more, tell me more!

  

  cobblestoned plazas and taking in the sights. However, guess what some of the ... proposals and applications. Aye, it's that time of the year again. If ... programs (and since then, the deadlines for the three summer programs that

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Year vs. Senior Year The same, but different...

  

  .01: Physics Mechanics, 3.091: Solid-State Chemistry, 21F.076: Globalization, and ... -explanatory, and to be completely honest as they’re mostly General Institute ... special and different type of hectic every year that I’ve begun classes here

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Attention local high school students interested science and engineering! Have you heard about BeaverDash?

  

  students to explore the Institute through an engineering competition ... Dash is an event specifically designed for high school students and is held each year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). No previous

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,

  

  [annotation note="and if you look to your left, you will see a biochemist attempting to understand language by lysing the words and fractionating the letters into roots and x-fixes"]ad and visum[/annotation](from videre, "to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 16, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I may have been accepted to MIT, but I'm getting darned good at failing at other things!

  

  , Rose Hulman, Oregon State, Georgia Tech, Indiana University, and so on ... from our floor lounge to the homepage of the admissions website and got ... remarkably well after 20 years), and That time the Navier-Stokes equation was

  • by Snively '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  dress your wounds and stay in bed self care!

  

  uncooked steak and realized I in fact had a third degree burn. That is one ... cw: I discuss some injuries with varying amounts of needles and blood ... rest when I was sick, let myself heal when I was injured, and to sleep

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Toga, Toga, Toga On being in a fraternity (info for parents too)

  

  sleep. So to a degree, the reaction my friends had was well deserved. When I came to MIT, I had no clue who I was going to meet and who my ... other person from my high school, and he was going off to live in New

  • by Bryan
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  If you’re scared of decision day Here's an exercise

  

  ? Yeah, they would probably be worried about my mental state, and scramble ... from the MIT admissions blogs - sitting on mitadmissions.org and refreshing obsessively was masochistic and irrelevant to the outcome of the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 13, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Couchamarans and Carboats MIT alums create awesome floating vehicles from which to watch the fireworks.

  

  State Police again got involved, and the maiden voyage of the carboat has ... students and alums often will create special boats for the occasion of the ... Officer Amrys Williams '02, and a team of MIT alums and other folks embarked

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Events

  A Brief History of Thursday I met Kip Thorne.

  

  -enviable genetic makeup is devoid of lottery-winner DNA, and (3) I've heard that it ... general relativity and had already mastered string theory thanks to the ... Hawking and Professor Xavier* from X-Men. My dreams of parsing the grammar

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Paradiso A selection of dishes that define my MIT dining experience, part 4

  

  , and one that I often ask myself. Usually, I default to my “origin story ... hall food and by the greater Boston food scene in general, and resolving ... .[/annotation] Junior year was a period of introspection, exploration, and experimentation

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 28, 2023