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• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can I take a summer session?

  During the regular Summer Session, MIT offers a limited selection of ... designed for special interests and needs of MIT students. All classes are for MIT students only.  
• Blog / Personal Travel

  childhood and disney world trips

  

  (although I've mellowed out at MIT since MIT is incredibly non-competitive) so ... around Epcot and landing in [annotation note="Epcot is a park at Disney World where each area of the park is a different country to showcase that

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 25, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  finding meaning at the end of the world i alone determine my destiny

  

  few months? three. one of the things i'm supposed to value the most is ... on my own life. this is a philosophy i think the magic the gathering card force of will really embodies. this is a counterspell, which means

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths

  

  -growing and never-shrinking universe that is Organic Chemistry. Time and time ... overlaid. And hydroboration oxidation is Anti-Markovnikov. I really have been ... is always predictable: the infamous synthesis question. The task is

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 7, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  Pirates and Pi and Rats and Pie and Rats (except there are no rats) 3.1415926535897932384626433832795… idk the rest.

  

  semester."]2.S02[/annotation], and 21M.299. The last one is a world music ... .  How the class works is we read a book by some salty New-England sea dog ... note="The spelling of this word is a complex thing. There's a chicken

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 23, 2024
• Blog / Events

  tEpikazoo Thoughts on cooking and gratuitous prefixes

  

  the most ferocious kitchens at MIT. Knives galore, a meat locker ... kindergarten when they taught you how to identify vegetables. *This phrase is ... curry chicken), but all that truly matters is that Ben inevitably almost

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Our nation’s greatest injustice I didn't exactly grow up in poverty, but socioeconomic inequalities have featured heavily in my…

  

  My hometown is a real-world manifestation of the phrase "the wrong ... hometown is a classist jerk, but more than once have I or a member of my ... South High School is better funded than Middletown North High School

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I walk a lonely road and it takes a lot of time

  

  of time” is far too vague. When do I need to leave my room if I want to ... ’m late, but on MIT time, classes start five minutes after the hour and end ... the sculpture is lit up, how the numbers and mathematical symbols cast

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 20, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 2 Hearing Amazônia

  

  addition to this post. We also recently performed our Brazilian music at MIT ... ) flew by quickly. That is until we got to the arachnids exhibit (finally ... … is certainly one way of explaining why we have electric eels. That

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 1, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  New York A break from Cambridge.

  

  Spring Break, swerved cleanly out of MIT. But, enough with preliminary ... ever find yourself at MIT with 48 hours of absolutely nothing worth doing ... service. *This if-condition is hilarious for several reasons that you will

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catching up What's new? Lots of things. I just haven't told you about them yet, because finals…

  

  . But now, it's all almost over. I finished all my finals (passing them is ... design is cool. I used to be pretty good at it, but then I stopped learning ... frustrating hobby- ("Oh my God, where'd the page go? The whole thing is gone! I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  living away from home lessons learned

  

  renting. Is there a grocery nearby? How about a gym? Is there public transportation? Is the area safe? Do you feel comfortable walking around there at ...  need. Check if there's an in-house washer and dryer, if that is important to you

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Senior Fall Classes Better late than never

  

  we are blogging about them now. This is the second semester when we ... , physically based simulation, ray tracing, and real-time rendering. There is a ... animatable characters out of it! Here is one of them. [embed

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 25, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  part i it's been kind of a hard fall. all mit students are ... . for me, four classes (one of which is secretly like 1.75 classes), doing ... "]la-ing,[/annotation]trying to blog (...the operative word is perhaps 'trying to'), and having

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Hate Superman. (I Love Superman.)

  

  earth. I’d laugh if someone told me this is the power they’d want. He ... is this behemoth titan hanging over all the weaker, new heroes of today ... ."]Speedball[/annotation]? I bet you don’t know who that is. Or [annotation note="After getting

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 16, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Self Help I

  

  in me. It is a space of gentleness, optimism, and unfamiliar trust ... wisdom I can't make up for myself. Readers, what do you think? Is self ... not helped you? If self-help books don't actually help, is it a waste of

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

  

  ’d like to think so). Unfortunately, at MIT, most of my computational power ... "]IAP[/annotation], Bad Ideas Weekend takes hold in MIT like glitter: it’s everywhere, if ... and take their minds off the constant demands of an MIT education. Bad

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 3, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  Vicennial wikipedia says this means 20th

  

  your day. The coming year is gonna be fantastic. MIT has been on the ... kid, either. College is itself a sort of bridge, with trappings of ... "]Collegeboard,[/annotation] but I never bought school spirit. Right now, though? I want to be an MIT

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  't ambitious didn't feel true. Maybe the problem is my definition of ambition. Do ... . I wanted to get into the best schools, I dreamt of MIT, and, well ... [annotation note="is this overly confident? confident, definitely, but it’s not

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learning to Spend Better This not a budgeting post.

  

  This is not a post about budgeting, because no one likes to hear how ... your guesstimate is wrong. Every month up until my last semester, I was ... is." It gives me an alternative when I'm pre-pset procrastinating

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 18, 2018