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How does pass/no record work?
of A/B/C.
As part of the flexible pass/no record grading option, you ... after your first term, and at any time during your course of study.
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FAQ / Academics and research
Can I study Global Change Science/Climate?
predict changes in the global environment. Additionally, a variety of ... innovation toward climate science, including the Department of Earth ... of Global Change, and the MIT Energy Initiative. -
FAQ / Academics and research
Can I join the IDEAS Social Innovation Challenge?
One of the highlights of MIT's yearly academic challenges and competitions, the IDEAS Social Innovation Challenge, connects students with the passion and talent to improve the world with the experience and resources of -
FAQ / Life and culture
How does one attain a Pirate License?
undergraduates must complete eight points of physical education classes to graduate ... H. '20 is one of the students who has earned official MIT Pirate ... of physical education. “They’re tactical. They involve strategy. Plus -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
holidays in boston a photodump for you to procrastinate with
instead of studying for my [annotation note="I'm posting this as I leave for ... lack of any holiday spirit inside of me, I have done a very minor amount of holiday-themed things around campus/Boston to remind us all to have -
Blog / Academics & Research
Becoming a Mad Scientist a required class for all meches!
figuring out the optimal scoop-ability of your favorite [annotation note="or sherbert, if you’re me"]ice cream[/annotation]? What about the power of nerf gun bullets? Or maybe the power of a single footstep? Want to know the -
Blog / Life after MIT
Remembering Woodie Flowers they say don't meet your heroes, but some exceed your expectations
died after medical complications. He was 75, and one of the finest men I have ever known. For many of our readers, I suspect Woodie needs no introduction: to the tens of thousands of FIRST participants around the world -
Blog / Academics & Research
Eyes Wide a scandalous, unintentionally-devoid-of-meaning recent history
had come to $3.14, the monetary equivalent of the ratio between a circle ... jokes (out of pity). It is currently the first day of school’s eve, more ... did not say it was impossible.) Glamour shot of the East Campus -
Blog / Academics & Research
Soldering Things pronounced "soddering"
to develop and test these sorts of things in an environment where if ... tens of thousands of dollars of payload into the emptiness of space just ... . You see, one of the things I want most to get out of freshman year is to -
Blog / Admissions
On Mens et Manus The realizations one has whilst building improvised flotation devices.
“hands-on”. Before I got here I would've listed, off the top of my head: FIRST Robotics (or any sort of robotic shenanigans, really). Rocket ... ’d totally rock an MIT-themed Family Feud episode. What do all of those have -
Blog / MIT Life
Sunday in the Park With chemistry
stampede of Nike-shod joggers, you can congratulate yourself by turning left down a ramp that winds straight into the lushest pad of greenery ever seen outside of a salad that contains neither fruit, nor croutons, nor -
Blog / Events
Steer Roast 2008 We Sport Death like it's never been done before
weekend-long party centered around the overnight roasting of a steer in our courtyard and the subsequent feast. The following description is courtesy of a ... Steer Roast as an extreme barbeque: instead of grilling hamburgers and hot -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Barker Engineering Library Where sound goes to die.
in here. Not a day goes by when I am not absorbed by a mass of tourists with cameras, taking pictures of the most random, well, crap, that I've ever seen. Pictures that I've seen taken include pictures of a wall, of a -
Blog / Extracurriculars
Into the Sunset [by Cadet Paul Estrada, '09] My fascination with color guard, and participation in a colonel's…
ROTC Color Guard was something along the lines of, "You see that man over ... in the Air Force." Both men instantly had my respect. One of the many ... leadership training is probably somewhere at the top of that list, but that's a -
Blog / MIT Life
Things you might have wanted to know
curious about and just aren't asking. One of them, I answered in one of my ... picture of MIT at night, looking out over West Campus. You can see the West ... large chunk of Cambridge, and part of the Charles River, with the Museum -
Blog / About Decisions
Just a little advice…
Just saying hello from the middle of my peaceful and relaxing vacation. =) First of all, now that all of the early action nonsense is ... messages for you prospective '10s. Congratulations to those of you who were -
Blog / Hacks
Yay! A hack! Know what're cool? See title.
name of the fictitious character who often takes responsibility for mysterious things that happen at the Institute during the middle of the night. My clever little paragraph up there is just a cute way of saying that a -
Blog / How to Human
i feel completely fine and maybe that's okay
I've been reading a lot of slow, contemplative writing recently, which is the kind of writing that always makes me want to write my own blog post of that nature. Frankly, I've been overdue for such a post -
Blog / About Decisions
What’s happening to your apps right now? Views from the Inside
It's been a few weeks since many of you have submitted your ... 're working pretty hard to read each and every one of them. I know the wait is ... every one of you a fair chance is to read what you've presented to us, and -
Blog / Community Projects
Bad Ideas events I went to (another late IAP post) i can’t believe ellie beat me to the punch
IAP is one of my favorite times of the year, because it's the best time to do stupid things at the canonical school of smart people with ... weekend of absolute tomfoolery. With that said, I proudly present to you