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• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A Round Two Answers to some questions

  

  Chandresh asked: Do [MIT] professors take courses? Professors and ... course where they sit in and evaluate the class to make sure that it is ... ... how difficult is it to pick stuff up? As far as picking up programming

  • by Bryan
  • February 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s snowing, and “It’s Raining” K-Pop and Prof. Henry Jenkins.

  

  labeled the Korean Justin Timberlake and the Korean Usher, is a serious and ... paragraphs later, the author turns to none other than MIT Comparative Media ... flow of cultural goods around the world," there is a "new pop

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m just curious as to why you keep invoking William Faulkner. "MIT is so charmingly nerdy" entries #12 and 35.

  

  doing quiz bowl in high school, even though I'm not on the MIT College ... the work of William Faulkner is set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County. 3. The third-largest city in Ireland is called "Limerick." ...and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Joint Post] Chatting with Hank Green, the MIT Commencement Speaker see Kano's post

  

  [Joint Post] Chatting with Hank Green, the MIT Commencement Speaker

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another take on pass/no-record and some other stuff. Hey look, I haven't pontificated about anything in a while.

  

  are very real. Truth is, we're at MIT, and we'd all do better if we ... . This is what got me going: Taking "advantage" of pass/no-record. "No ... that that kind of talk, that kind of pressure, is OK especially for

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happy Birthday to m—-suck. I turn 20 and cry tears of blood

  

  little saying "Getting an education at MIT is like drinking from a fire ... 's part of MIT's natural order of things. What really ****'s things up is ... entries is because I'm no longer a freshman, meaning all of my admissions

  • by Snively '11
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The middle of the semester I'm kinda over this workload

  

  . There is a real and very understandable temptation at MIT to take on more ... five classes or four classes plus a UROP is a reasonable workload for me ... have semester-long group projects. My French class is also an

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 2 and the power of the many

  

  A cornerstone of 6.046, MIT’s infamous algorithms class, is ... -sided die, the probability of getting a number smaller than 3 is 2/6. Now ... , 19, 2, 17, 14, 4), I want you to sort them, that is, arrange them in

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Pythagorean Triple of Awesome Otherwise known as the weekend of the 4th of July. Just another long weekend in…

  

  Avenue (MIT’s mailing address, and it main entrance). This is dangerous. Oh ... , I’m UROPing in the Doyle lab in the basement of building 66 (which is ... least once a week, and my life is awesome. Case in point. During the

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • July 18, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In many ways on average-posting

  

  In many ways, the work of a critic is easy.  In the summer of 2022, I ... .  There is something strange about writing for the public. You are giving up ... there is no direct way of getting criticism on the blogs, I am usually my

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  start of summer tidbits i'm alive

  

  ? So you may have heard of x-terms, which is a new thing that is starting ... because the living room is literally just couches EVERYWHERE and there ... and another person is raising LIVE CHICKENS in a REAL CHICKEN COOP in

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Local Boston Startups at Mass Innovation Nights Over 700 to be (sort of) exact

  

  . The CEO/Co-Founder was also an MIT grad. Anchor Nutrition Bar is ... Trivedi, is an MIT Sloan graduate. GeoOrbital made a wheel that can replace ... Mass Innovation Nights is a monthly product launch party for local

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 10, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Next Steps for EA Deferred what to do next

  

  best thing you can do is to focus on things that are not MIT (or other ... [at] mit [dot] edu). The Office of Undergraduate Admissions is closed ... . What new stuff should I send? The only "new" thing you need to send in is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  History of the Brass Rat with pictures of the bezel design from 1930 to today

  

  The Brass Rat, the MIT class ring. MIT students get theirs sophomore ... Commencement, the ring is flipped over so that the beaver is sitting on the world. Legend has it that it is the third most recognized ring in the world, after

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 23, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Cake Concert, Wing Dinner, and Senior Ball An action packed 2 weekends: Cake, a wing dinner, and Senior Ball!

  

  first things I noticed in the hotel was that there is a view of the MIT ... verrry busy. Here's a recap: Last Saturday: Spring Weekend is an annual MIT tradition, complete with: - a performance by a top-notch band (it

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1 Recent questions, answered.

  

  into it. Leo asked, "is it true that rejected MIT applicants get auto rejected if they apply again ,,, and another question is what is MIT's definition for a transfer student." Leo, it is not true that rejected MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I “less than 3” the Chorallaries My relaxing and enjoyable vaction draws to a close. *sigh*

  

  things about MIT is the names of our a capella groups. The Chorallaries ... - just know that I disapprove!) Thursday night April and I went to the MIT ... Princeton, NJ. This is not the be confused with a meeting of students who have

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yay for cheap stuff Inexpensive books make me happy.

  

  though- April's dad is an MIT alum, so after discussing with us some of the finer points of life at MIT, we sat him down and had him help us with our ... Saturday/Sunday was the famous MIT Press Bookstore loading dock sale

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  relearning what i know now or: hi, i learned wrong my entire life.

  

  thinks that perhaps this is bigger than me. That perhaps MIT is bigger than ... them. They ask me about classes and how hard it is and what MIT is like ... I do know is that I so desperately want to be back at MIT. And that I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Who we are All the stuff I've been trying to write since last July. It isn't much, but…

  

  , 12 to go. That sounds a lot better. Exam week is a busy time at MIT; a ... . MIT students are complex. This is a fact of life. I've also had to get ... someone has a problem, we can't stop ourselves from helping. There is no

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 23, 2006