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  More Notes A quick update.

  

  . Having an official Course number is a pretty big deal at MIT, so this ... email and phone calls. On Monday, I finally returned a call I had been ... I can. I was talking to a guidance counselor over the phone today

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Landing  Your Aircraft Has Arrived at Gate '21 

  

  the weather outside is a chilling 2021.   For your safety and comfort ... reminded me that being happy and healthy is the most important thing in life ... emotions is healthy. In fact, many times we are so focused on the next big

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 4, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sorry 6.003 Wherein my senioritis starts getting just a little ridiculous.

  

  information that she found in a women's fitness magazine at the Z-Center while ... print out a copy of this entry and submit that. So in 6.003 there are ... , a tenured and world-renowned professor will stand up in front of the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yoga The joys of physical education

  

  Institute Requirement in Physical Education. The requirement includes successful completion of the swim test (or beginning swimming class) and a ... : WHATEVER) It is imperative that you take steps to complete this requirement

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 25, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  lookin’ at the blur of this semester and ahead at the next one!

  

  about queer history! → there is a queer bookshop in Tucson that will help ... some that I didn’t and wouldn’t. Then there is a section of what I wanna do next semester! This blog is a sine wave of academic and personal

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Football home opener College football is as American as apple pie.

  

  probably at least dimly aware that I'm a cheerleader, I never write anything about cheerleading. (To be totally honest, this is pretty much because there are very few pictures of me in a cheerleading uniform on good hair

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Debunked I clear things up.

  

  said e-mails are in the works). I am a student. Students don't get to ... labeled as, A GUESS. When Matt or Ben post when the decision date is we will ... propped up in bed and listening to the Toy Story soundtrack. Anywho, I

  • by Snively '11
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 2: Extracurriculars My academic plans? I've got bigger plans. Better plans.

  

  ." is from a musical written by MIT students that I performed in. The ... Overheard at MIT (Fall 2012) [MIT Sophomore walks around in a circle ... ...you actually AREN'T doing work, because the total work in circular motion is zero

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: Really Random 19 pictures. Don't open on a dialup.

  

  is teaching the undergraduate class 21M.304: Writing in Tonal Forms II ... Random Hall. One thing she doesn't mention is that one of the floors in Random Hall is named "Destiny." Why would a floor be named Destiny? Well

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  To the Class of 2016 General life advice

  

  thinking of them. In fact, I even wrote a little outline of this blog down on ... , make sure you have time to decompress. "You" time is never a waste of ... in a poor test grade. It happens. As the semester went on, I

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Science! at the BAH!Fest The science is a lie. The exclamation points are not.

  

  awkwardness, but still, to everyone’s chagrin, logically sound in a roundabout ... , so take advantage of them. If you ever see a girl standing in front of ... experience of sitting in a room filled with scientists and fellow geeky

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 8, 2013
• Blog / Events

  So You Want to Make a BrassRat? A very very very long year in review.

  

  Stark is a very, very, very long process. So in the first week of June ... class at their halfway point through the institute. In a nutshell, this ... the second half of MIT by Anelise N. ‘19 Spotted: A Brass Rat in the

  • by Richard O. '28
  • May 31, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our loving, our friends, and our labor This entry is based on Aaron Copland's opera "The Tender Land."

  

  succinct, complimentary and distressing e-mail I've gotten in a while from my ... professors that, in order to make up for not having a problem set one week ... : Harmony and Counterpoint II -- Well, I have to write a theme in the high

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  engineering. In Costa Rica, we hardly have a decent airport for receiving tourists, and therefore, studying this career in my homeland is like making a ... applying to a college outside of Costa Rica, since our education system is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  CMS.621: Fans & Fan Culture the class that changed my career trajectory?

  

  ourselves, which I think is very, very rare in a classroom setting. This ... world around me and see things in a perspective I've never really ... having to read Powers' ATLA blog in class, which I thought was a cool

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Ended Up Working for a Reality TV Show

  

  campaign. I was called up on a random night in October by my friend Sathya ... in between all of my other commitments. Since I was travelling a lot ... is to type one up entirely from a Mac at an Apple store.  

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 5, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Onto the next world! a stupidly long metaphor

  

  what home is to me in such a short amount of time. When I think of home ... In this past semester, the definition of "home" changed a lot for me ... . Perhaps it's a bit of an overexaggeration, but it seems that this is a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 24, 2019
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory?

  The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT focuses the talents of a diverse array of brain scientists on a single mission: unraveling the mechanisms that drive the quintessentially human capacity to
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So you think you want to be a doctor: Pre-med at MIT

  

  said it wasn't a good school for premeds. In some cases, this is ... have a more biological approach while 3.091 is more applicable to ... Harvard is B+/A- centered.) There is pressure to get good grades, but you

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  being bad at ice skating and learning to try anyway

  

  community and hang out/support each other in a group. i'm personally not in a ... famlines; this is the famline i'm referring to! it's a nice way for alum to stay in touch and support newer members, and i like my famline a lot <

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 15, 2025