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  Do You Have A Core Curriculum?

  

  classroom to which MIT was assigned. Next door was a nice colleague from ... hour event. Each college fair I do seems to have one question that gets ... ." There are a variety of ways to take these courses. Each of the science

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Exciting potential UROP: the cancer genome

  

  Genome Project, which mapped the human genetic blueprint. It would seek to ... mutations that give rise to cancer or sustain it. Proponents say a databank of all such mutations, which would be freely available to researchers

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 28, 2005
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  My First Few Weeks at MIT … one year ago

  

  Every freshman’s first few weeks at MIT tend to follow a predictable ... to Newbury, creating long notes lists of all the restaurants you want to try, wandering through the underground tunnels, spending WAY too

  • by Hala K. '29
  • September 22, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Hate Superman. (I Love Superman.)

  

  unique power, like density control, or to control friction, or to forget ... ’t help but feel like he became a propaganda tool. Used to support the U ... superhero. How many new heroes and stories have missed their chance to

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 16, 2024
• Blog / MISTI

  go alone or you may never go at all

  

  market scene is just beginning to liven up. Crowds of people are shuffling ... scarier without friends. It can simply feel awkward fumbling to navigate places alone. Signs seem to point against doing things independently

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • January 6, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Strands literal and metaphorical >:)

  

  , despite having bleached it myself repeatedly!). I forgot to bring my book along with me to the drying apparatus, so while my hair was gently warmed ... freshman IAP, and I’m bad at remembering to condition it. After I left home I

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 10, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  winter things a sampling of IAP plans around campus

  

  January, students are free to do whatever they want, whether that be staying ... allows undergraduates to work with professors and in research labs to ... "]UROP,[/annotation] taking cool classes or traveling. The freedom to do whatever you want is

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  food consumed this week, mostly free or: how to get away with rarely cooking

  

  Campus, what do you eat?” My answers have varied, from “Free food!” to “A lot of things,” to “Uhh… I mean… I certainly did. I actually have no idea what.” At one point I turned to a friend and said, bro, what did I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  you & i will always be back then time is an illusion that helps things make sense

  

  monsters. I don't really have the words to describe what this show means to ... to be too childish for my tastes, as the show is riddled with moments ... is necessary to understand the show fully.) I took a long break from

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] art and things zine making + what makes us, us + thank you cambridge + yomp

  

  , and for those who are so inclined, there are a billion ways to hold onto ... spectroscopy. This summer, I had the chance to live in an apartment in Cambridge ... /self study, I began to realize that I needed something for me, outside of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  on body image me in my head, me in the mirror

  

  ="64798" /] It's Filipino culture to comment on people's bodies when you greet them ... honest observation about the person you're talking to is supposed to be a sign of concern; that they care about you enough to both remember what

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fall Semester Recap my classes so far

  

  quick recap of how the semester's gone for me so far since I've wanted to ... &M, last spring so I was eligible to take 8.021, a lecture-based format of ... Learning"]TEAL.[/annotation] At first, I was really nervous to take this

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions & Answers a daily blog prompt compilation

  

  't had time to blog, and what I've been doing instead. The main reason, though, is that I wanted to write something perfect and meaningful and personal yet protective of my friends' and family's privacy, and I refused to

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 14, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Getting Stronger the never ending cycle of trying and failing and trying again

  

  ’d[annotation note="a near impossible task to ask of two 19 year old college students ... down to the great exercise that is [annotation note="which involves a lot ... can admit that it can be really intimidating to start. Starting from

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2019
• Blog / Residential Life

  A man’s reach should exceed his grasp My roommate and I built a lofty heaven!

  

  up to; as an applicant, seeing other applicants brag about their skills ... are central to the way MIT works. In the right environment (one ... may seem like a skill that is impossible to acquire in fact came from

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 23, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Doors of East Campus a la Humans of New York

  

  This is the first in a series of a couple of posts I wanted to do on art in my dorm, East Campus. According to the MIT Mind and Hand Book ... Burton Conner - rip Senior House) to paint murals on the dormitory walls

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Spring break in Canada Snowboarding ramps, waterfalls, poutine, butterflies, and lots of noodles.

  

  This year, for spring break my friend Yida and I decided to head to ... Montreal. Montreal is pretty easy to reach from Boston and as such is a popular spring break destination for MIT students. We decided to visit

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 4, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breaking Normal From Freshman Spring Archives

  

  . The rest of the day promises no surprises. I’ll need to find food, wash ... walk across the East Campus courtyard, twisting my neck to see the Boston ... the right to carry a laundry hamper across their own yard. When I walk

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  If you've been to a high school math class recently, you probably ... observed students entering anything from 999*999 to sin(π/6) to 7 ... +7 (=12) warrants machine help. And habits die hard. To combat our

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Adventures of Comic Artist Girl (+ Doodles!) In which comics class gets a talk from an award-winning cartoonist

  

  seemed to be a consensus among a bunch of people I talked to that this was ... something really, really rad also happened this week, and I want to tell you about that instead. To introduce the rad thing, I present to you Exhibit

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 19, 2014