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  fall ’19 catalog is out! and a summary of sites we use to plan semesters

  

  questionable right now, and also bootstrap is not nostalgic to look at. firehose ... primarily use. it's an indispensable way to quickly see how your schedules ... longer whether or not you should not pre-reg that class you really want to

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 25, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  About Tomorrow Good Luck Tomorrow!

  

  hopefully you're not like me, and will be willing to give it some thought. I ... : "Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to ... be occupying many of your minds, and so I'd like to offer some brief

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  hinged on me really enjoying physics classes, and I’m just not sure how ... to focus on in order to not completely destroy my mental health; double ... -bogglingly few classes that I realized it doesn't make sense for me to not finish a

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures at Trader Joe’s i think i might have joined a cult

  

  , most of the times they were sold out in the store. I'm not sure where to ... apprehensive when trying these because how could you ever do justice to the OG ... 'm finally here to enjoy all of the great things it has to offer! For all of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions; I’ve got (some) answers Answers to your questions.

  

  'm Vietnamese, would you tell me about how to get a scholarship from MIT?" Hi Nam, I will admit that I'm not completely familiar with how international ... happened to you at what time, and then post the information? Not 'just

  • by Bryan
  • October 10, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Moves and Music(als) Illustrated with tons of images and a video, and not *as* many words

  

  people from MIT actually know how to dance, which may or may not be what ... Elizabeth '13 has a good point: we all need some way to show you we're not ... dedicated to the arts at MIT, but you know that spiels are spiels, not actual

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT vs. Chuck Norris Ever wonder how many math and science Chuck Norris jokes exist in cyberspace?

  

  to cut him in half and count the rings. - That's not Chuck Norris ... lightbulb turns on. - The Manhattan Project was not intended to create ... Presidential Candidate Mike Huckabee. This got me thinking, "I wonder how many

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • February 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 3 (Finals) You may begin at the sound of my voice. You have an hour to answer…

  

  already existing on OpenCourseWare. To gauge the extent of how well you understand MIT and how much the course taught you, I need you to answer the ... us. Thus came the dilemma of “to cross or not to cross”. And

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 26, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  There’s a Story in Which My Eyes Shut Am I changed enough?

  

  . How could it seem so real to them? I closed my eyes again. Don't you ... expression of sleeplessness I'm coming to terms with. But I am not inherently changed. MIT is a school. Not a reactor. Not a speedway to prestige or

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 25, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Taking at MIT The beauty of The Cheat Sheet

  

  “teeny”. “Not teeny enough” just isn’t going to cut it. Creating these ... formulas and facts laid out for me isn’t enough, I have to know how to use ... concepts without having to worry about whether or not a student was able to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  a salmonella saga weekend outing tingz

  

  few weekend trips to New York. these helped me realize how feasible ... , given how much work we have at ALL times. surprisingly, I was able to pull ... 't bother trying to venture out into Boston very often. over the summer

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  #Winning the battle for awesome (fictitious) alumni

  

  out of scraps in the desert, not to mention building his own mechatronic ... , builds, and uses all of his stuff.   Any doubts? Of course not. How ... through the 4 years of masochistic glory that is MIT. This is not one of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A *Major* Dilemma Will you forgive the pun if I tell you that I just declared my major?

  

  accepted that it was not possible to become Brian Greene himself). I ... , above all, that we need to regain, not only in medicine, but in all ... not? When I have trouble making a decision*, my instinct is to try

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Writing code, making models, reading, buying comic books, eating brownies, playing Guitar Hero 3...

  

  property to keep track of how composites containing carbon nanotubes hold up ... memory phenomena emerges. We want to find how simple may a system be so ... /dy. Times are rough. I often forget how to take derivatives. I'm sorry to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Math. by Joy ‘13 I’m not a complete nerd…but I am convinced that math is a language

  

  word compressed down to numbers. Not only that, but numbers are very ... “assigned number.” Not only this, but we are forced to use numbers every day ... even need it to count how many pieces of paper we have, How many shoes we

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My design won an MIT merch contest I don't know why

  

  wrote some bullshit about how I wanted to capture the complexities of the ... college, not knowing what to do after graduation, realizing that your ... figure out how to publicize this neurotic rat-animal-thing along with their

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering some questions The entry on commencement was just getting unwieldly.

  

  'm not sure how high the ceilings are, but I guess they must be at least ... hand? when do you get to learn how to do all this anyways? Yes, you can ... -- I think in both lotteries, they're not trying to maximize everyone

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summerteeth Are you afraid of the dark reaction?

  

  ! How cool is that? However, not every single UROP in the history of MIT ... (while slightly inebriated) about how "react" was not an intransitive verb ... could be sure that the professor wouldn't be there to see me. Not that he

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Win Sam Stuff! That, amongst other things.var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" +…

  

  stood there awkwardly, not quite sure what to do with myself. The tour ... a way to post all of the videos in such a way that not only do they ... Waaaaaaaah! You've moved on to '13 already!? I don't feel loved

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 In this entry, I answer your recent questions left in the comments of previous entries.

  

  time outside of class gives us as many clues to that match as how you do ... classroom, and how you've explored them, whether or not they're a formal ... out how to do that in the awesomest way possible

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2006