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  FourFiveUnits all you could ever want to know about my semester schedule

  

  empty my schedule is. The truth is, however, like any MIT student with ... tl;dr: Look how empty my Firehose is compared to the other bloggers ... expanding to fill its container. I am enrolled in 45 units, which is 3

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Syllabus in Retrospect goals, guidelines, reading list

  

  Today is the eighth day of fall and the first day of winter in my ... month, is decidedly dead. The sky is white and my bed is very warm. So I ... little cheesy). This is what the syllabus looked like:   Summer 2015

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Calm in Suburban Ohio sunsets, helicopters, and fruit

  

  event is the helicopter Easter egg hunt—if only MIT let us out every ... . During the day, the sky here is a plain blue and the houses are beige. The ... sky. I miss it.     Before MIT, when I still identified as a math lover

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogging My Way to a Passionate Life On writing, during and after MIT.

  

  maps the Internet could ever want, my first year of post-MIT life flew by ... distilling my thoughts over the last 4-5 years. That is, in addition to no longer blogging on MIT Admissions about what I’m thinking/going through, I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Hospital Trips and Dance Parties MIT campus is where it's at over the summer.

  

  Two weeks ago, I arrived back at MIT. This is the view from my new ... is where I'll come home to for the next couple of months. MIT during ... Gregor, one of the two MIT undergraduate dorms open for those of us living on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 29, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Aftermath Literally.

  

  ’t define us. In fact, I’m pretty sure this is one of the principles MIT ... . This is understandable behavior. The past few months of your life were ... to get in and got in or had all the passion in the world for MIT and

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 17, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What Do You DO All Day? A guest-author entry by Joan Horvath '81.

  'll learn a lot if you to come to MIT. But the greatest thing you'll learn is ... is nervousness about how thorough and multi-syllabic the response is ... engineers do that they won't have to ask! I graduated from MIT in aeronautics

  • by mitblogs
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  NY Times article on women in science Women in science...the debate rages on.

  

  mathematics.” It seems that MIT is increasingly cited as a paragon for the ... contemplate what it is like to be a “woman at MIT.” The only differences that I ... create them, Dr. Steitz said.” This issue of mentorship is one that MIT is

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  some small distractions to help with many weighty things

  

  there is a LOT going on in the world right now -- perhaps most prominently for you, oh reader of this post, MIT EA decisions (which come out ... good that this world has to offer. this post is that place. here are some

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Why Leadership? (guest post) Inclusive leadership and vision-building at LeaderShape 2018.

  

  Wonderland Camp and Conference Center in Sharon, MA for the MIT LeaderShape program. As a student—at MIT or anywhere else—it can be easy to lose ... up at MIT, LeaderShape programs take place at many schools, and even if

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Telethon FAQs from a small but enthusiastic sample of prefroshies

  

  'm pretty sure that MIT's campus preview weekend is (a) the most fun (b) the ... except the pony. For reasons unfathomable to me, MIT is stellar at ... . MIT is undeniably very difficult, but freshmen are given the boon of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Merritt ‘13, Carlos ‘13, Edward ‘13, and John ‘13 The final edition of a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  him. "I don't think she really understands what MIT is," Garay said ... ." [Please note: All of MIT's financial aid is based on financial need; there ... preference. "My main interest is math," he said. "I'm going to MIT to get a Ph

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Three Tales of Junior Year Accidental Harvard Class, UROPs, Experimenting in College

  

  ). UROPs The MIT UROP program is... awesome! As long as you work with an MIT ... The Accidental Harvard Class It is possible to miss a class. Not in ... (that’s 46.5% of the total class load!). The ones at MIT were: 17

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 10, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  More Updates from Cambridge It's CPW 24/7 here. We can't wait to see you.

  

  the Sox won 14-3. Fenway is a pretty short walk from MIT, about 15 ... I've had fewer strange dreams lately, but the pace is still frantic ... descend upon the MIT campus... CPW Events Wow, there are a lot of cool

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 10, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Music Scene by a non-musician

  

  or hang around and enjoy the air. Music at MIT is so many different ... exist, I can confirm). It is the one form of art where I am perfectly ... that music is one of the most relaxing things, ever. Whether you

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Residence-Based Advising Residence-Based Advising WILL NOT allow you to change dorms during your freshman year.

  

  switch out. This is particularly important because each of MIT's dorms have ... !.. (three years ago! ahem..) Working at Pixar is kind of like working at a ... like MIT. We have a gym, a pool, a kitchen with free breakfast (including

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Productive, yes. Appropriately productive, no. You would think that my activities the weekend before finals might include studying.

  

  posibly rearrenging their class schedules. I just hope that MIT is serious ... into the term. So really, no worries. :) Scheduling at MIT is pretty ... advice from MIT IS&T.

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’re 18, But You Aren’t Invincible Impressions of my first month at MIT -- both sobering and exciting.

  

  great thing about MIT is the incredible amount of personal choice you are ... laureates walking down the corridor to your next class. MIT is an amazing ... I've been at MIT for just over a month now. It hasn't quite sunk in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

  double-slit experiment (which prove that light is fundamentally quantum ... is technically a quantum process. But those don’t count! What I really want to see is something like a person falling through the floor (via

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainty becoming a boring adult

  

  afterwards i think this is actually a pretty common bias. it’s closely related ... about is the concept of “beginner gains” in the context of learning. that is to say, if you’re a curious person with an open mind, you can

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 31, 2022