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  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  Fool, which is not a part of the major arcana, in the same way that an ... , major in Biological Engineering. I kind of wanted the vibe of a less-is ... what a fair price was, so I offered $20 per card, and it seemed that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  side, this meant that in addition to the ~12 hours a day I already spend ... sleep every 30 hours or so for a week. In other words, I've had my fair ... year we went fully "online" in our admissions reading process; that is

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  So you don't know what to major in. You have no idea what to do with your life and you're kind of interested in a lot of things and everything ... * Choosing between the forty-nine majors that MIT offers can be a nerve

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  regional term you use for a major road that you drive relatively fast on"]highway.[/annotation] I grew up in Nashville, TN, a driving city, but I somehow avoided ... silence in my car or hotel room, I think to myself, “Would Flat Tim do it

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  reserved for situations in which you are completely lost in a hallway that ... exaggerated clarity and make a point of crisp, rapid pronunciation in everyday ... . Knows remembers believes a corridor in a big long garbled cold echoing

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  a good while. In the meantime, I get some pictures of the trains that ... Station. Interestingly enough, I think this is our only run that’s in ... pretend I know what CJ is talking about. All I know is that the Green Line D

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  with my professors and friends, but I found a home and a second family in Random Hall. Each dorm at MIT has a personality, and I think ours is at ... a year ago and it is equally true now. Specifically, I want to share

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  scan that I do when someone is having a panic attack is reminding people ... . If you are not in a safe space, try to find one. Whether it is your ... tattoos, too. I find it extremely grounding to sit in my room with a book of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  . Because in the end, I truly believe that MIT is what it is today because of ... , beautiful and dangerous at the same time. MIT is like that, too, in a way. And ... 't make a whole lot of sense - my apologies. But my point is that it's taken

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  .   One thing I'm proud of is that we spend a lot of time getting ... times as possible.  I'm told that it's worked 60 times in a ... ) software is ubiquitous these days in mechanical engineering courses, a huge

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Community Projects

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  What if you lived in a world that was entirely grayscale? Without any ... in Plato’s cave for a bit). Yet, in matters of race, I think there are still people who live in a grayscale world, and do not see bright red

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  . Now, I know that sounds confusing, but think of a cube. What is the best ... egg on top. And like that, recipe 1 is done! Plate it up in a nice bowl ... cube, as most 3D modeling softwares have buttons that'll do just that. In

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  . In that respect, I appreciate the spotlight that is now shining ... identification.  In reality, most of the confusion is about how to best leverage a ... in a highly selective college admissions process. Instinctively, I knew

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  work. This prompt sends a clear message that MIT is interested in ... again in person. I didn’t make it quick, after all. After spending a few ... now, a half-century later, as the 2022–2023 application cycle is in full

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  and down in excitement. I had a bunch of them and they were really good ... worst of the bad ideas I took part in. It was so bad that I wrote an ... number won a prize. If I recall correctly, one of the people in the photo

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  that MIT is bad at the humanities, but I wanted a fresh start. I didn ... me the strength to declare the major that I did: 6.08 6.08 is one of ... having a specific focus or lens in which EECS is taught. This class focuses

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  . MIT feels a lot better now that I have this kind of confidence in myself ... ). One that comes to mind is while replica plating. Replica plating is a ... round in the magazine. Don’t give up the mission. This is a mantra Coach

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  ’t get stuck in the bubble, please. I learned the hard way that MIT is a ... regrets in life is that I didn't take more pictures in college. My excuse ... try to do it with friends—food in college is a social experience. In

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  , too.” These are the words that echo in my head when I remember last ... it’s called in scary scientific terms), is a rare case in which a ... , really). In layman’s terms, it’s just a really huge moon that gets eclipsed

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Blog Projects

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  year in next week's Tech issue, which I also think is a really good read ... wouldn't be too bad if I didn't get a CPW in 2019, because I'd be doing CPW ... together—a story that starts in the 1980s and ends today. There'll be actual

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021