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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Ponderings of a lifeguard Why are white water rapids white?

  

  week. Whenever I'm at a spot with any kind of cascading water (which is ... . See, reading is a huge part of my life. My mom used to beg me to put the ... I can get my hands on. I've been known to walk down an aisle of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Life, As Physics Problem also The Tech said a thing

  

  immediately after my accident was all about trying to figure out the physics of ... 't remember many of the specifics. So I emailed Yan '12, who is also President of MIT Undergraduate Women in Physics, and asked her to do some physics

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  Schedules and expectations The do's and dont's of freshman scheduling, and what to brace yourself for.

  

  reason. First semester is on pass/no record (P/NR) in order to give ... !) so here it goes. IТƒфd like to preface this all with the statement of ... probably take you a while to get used to college life and on P/NR you

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Inside vs. Outside How MIT changed for me after being admited

  

  'm working on getting a better camera so apologies  ahed of time)"   I ... just dream of one day being able to live in my “Heaven on Earth” and 4 ... nevertheless every piece of your life seems to fit into the right spot. You

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do dual enrollment students apply as a first-year or transfer applicant?

  university level. Information on transfer credit is available at the Office of ... Students participating in dual enrollment programs or taking college ... apply to MIT while you're still in high school, you're considered a first
• Blog / Academics & Research

  d-d-d-d-drop date late is good sometimes

  

  semester which is different and wonderful Oh, boy, I have been awake for ... Atlanta to attempt to fly back to Boston since essentially all of the ... -necessary, non-lecture classes to get to on Tuesday. This was my first year not

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I-Rop, U-Rop my contribution to the future of medicine

  

  here at MIT. The way I managed to get this one is I emailed a lot of ... (Pictures coming soon) One of the Google features I use the most is ... our "Liver-on-a-Chip" project. Our research project is partially funded

  • by Bryan
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT students do it all night. A salute to sleep deprivation, Aztec philosophy, and grape-catching.

  

  laid on a piece of turquoise. This is where the priest would start the ... Tuesday, but it's dedicated to Tuesday, because on Tuesday morning I pulled ... really cool article. Then on midnight of the 12th day of the festival, a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bachelor’s & Master’s in 5 Years An attractive option offered to undergraduates in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning.

  

  MEng, or Master of Engineering, which is typically a one-year degree ... the Senseable City Lab) or to the sorts of quantitative analysis one ... thing about DUSP is the ability to pursue a joint program of the MCP and a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 15, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  regression and imposter syndrome let's talk about computer science!!

  

  'm really unsure how to deal with it. I think part of it is because I'm a ... 't pretty. I think this is a place I was really terrified of returning to ... because it is out of the reach of my comprehension. This led to feelings of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 11, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for transgender students in light of the military ban and our ROTC program(s)

  

  on behalf of undocumented and international students, to reaffirm our ... wishes to be part of it...   The MIT community is proud of those ... ban, or to the people affected by it. What I do know is that MIT, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 3, 2017
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Minecraft: Discuss Open thread.

  

  video game which allows players to build constructions out of textured ... 't anything else to this post. Minecraft is a fun silly game in which you can do ... released in two day's time, at 9 PM on Thursday. But because neither of us

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2010
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  From East to West: An American’s Cross-Atlantic Voyage The start of my MISTI UK experience

  

  , “Of all the airports I’ve been in, Logan International is on my shit ... to a nearby pasty shop. Pasties are kind of like folded pies, which are ... into Heathrow Airport on a dragon, and then I rode with a group of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 10, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Online Decisions To Be Released This Saturday Only a few more days of waiting...

  

  shortly thereafter. I'm pleased to let you know that we're on schedule to ... , March 17 or Tuesday, March 3/18. Decisions will be available online to ... designated in your MyMIT account) is 2008. You applied in Regular Action, or

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  Class of 2014 and would like to request a one-year (or sometimes two-year) deferral from starting at MIT, it is super easy to do so. On your online ... ,000 or more many of them would be paying for college. I'm not writing to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  One for sorrow, two for joy Never surrender your dreams.

  

  sleep, which sort of sucked. It did, however, give me a little bit of ... Cambridge, California, or China. Four of the greatest years of your life are directly ahead of you. I know many of you find it hard to picture yourselves

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out There kicking off spring break with some Chinese food, some anime, and some media studies

  

  One of my favorite classes this year is CMS.100 -- Introduction to ... worldwide fan communities. The idea is, people tend to think of media as ... pasted on the side of a bus. Having a dedicated 5+ hours/week to really

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 22, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  Tier Listing My Classes i may have got this idea from tiktok

  

  memeing. On the brink of graduation, I'm able to look back at all the ... committing a lot of time to my research. I'm sort of a boomer and this is the ... of this week, to be precise. Once January 29th comes and goes, I will

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 23, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  318 memorial drive a historical rabbit hole

  

  another building to the left of this one, which is labelled "MIT ... , which is now the McCormick Annex, a set of rooms connected to Mc ... "]not quite dumb enough[/annotation] to stand in the middle of Mass Ave, here is

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer to Remember – Interphase or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Institvte!

  

  years I didn't have a book to read, a paper to write or a set of problems ... of its attendees better off for MIT is what I would call "exposure ... grades where life is at its best. Where one stays up until 4am, not out of

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 5, 2011