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  class sketching an adventure in speedrunned pedagogy

  

  's helpful to understand underlying ideas behind a lot of things in CS ... class speedruns basic electronics! It's a 6 unit (half of a full class ... 't go too deep into the theoretical/solid state science behind some of the

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • December 23, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done done done end-of-semester happiness

  

  consequences of china's rise for the united states" hal varian, "google tools ... have been helpful in exposing me to new concepts to think about and

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 24, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you want to be when you grow up? Worst. Question. Ever.

  

  baseball games. (This usually involves mocking the actual announcers for ... actress United Nations! sock designer teacher at HTHS (my high school ... program which helps students find and plan study and internships abroad. I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Attack of the Acronyms and the space between the letters

  

  , 12 syllables, and a state name that I am still completely incapable of ... acronyms can sometimes feel like a fun little game, and someday (hopefully) I ... what you gotta do…"]a state completely deprived of Trader Joe

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer on the West Coast A visit to the west coast to see what life is like on the other…

  

  country to visit the great state of California!  Growing up on Long Island ... invited them to hang out and helped them gather their things and pack up the ... cream, and eventually decided to play some games.  We tried the game where

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  On APs Trying to clarify the role of AP courses in the MIT admissions process.

  

  years. I hope this entry goes a small way in helping to reduce that stress. Let me state clearly: we do not admit students solely because of their ... what you may have heard, college admissions isn't a game of whoever has

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  difficult difficult lemon difficult the end of senior fall

  

  horrifically cursed system of units, where 12 units is considered the equivalent ... different folks to help make residential life at MIT better; my ongoing and ... [annotation note='a professional staff member who lives in the dorm and helps

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Lots of questions today! Lots of answers, too.

  

  anywhere (to my knowledge), which makes me sad. Yes, you get 9 units of ... . Those elective units can be used either toward the 180 units outside the ... units you'll need outside the GIRs if you're a double major (which you

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  36 Units of Class To make room for 12 units of Life

  

  Construction - 15 units 6.UAT - Oral Communication - 9 units CMS.URG - CMS UROP for credit - 12 units As you can see, we are only taking 3 classes (or 36 units in MIT talk) this semester! But it’s still an immense

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 13, 2018
• Blog / Classes

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

  

  expanding to fill its container. I am enrolled in 45 units, which is 3 units less than a /typical courseload/ but 9 units more than the minimum number of units required to maintain full-time status. It's still four

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

  Snow lovers, unite! The sky is falling...

  

  When the weather outside is frightful, But the fire is so delightful, And if we’ve no place to go, Let it snow, let is snow, let is snow! The first…

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 13, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  As we hurtle towards Pi Day… A post of posts.

  

  Things are getting fast and furious as we head towards Thursday, but I thought I’d take a tiny break to post a little something. I’ve already had a lot of…

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Our favoirte applicaiton spellnig errers If this title bothers you - or more importantly, if it doesn't - you should…

  

  Every year, the MIT admissions staff reads tens of thousands of applications. Last year, it was 17,909 to be exact. And we don’t just see them once – there is…

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 21, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi(e) No, not π times e.

  

  Yes, I’ll admit that when I first wrote “Pi(e)”, I thought of π times e even though I meant “Pi/Pie”. Anyways, as Pi Day approaches, I thought I’d put up…

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Delicious Things Mmmmm.

  

  sure to enjoy them! I know I do... *Thanks to the Glorious Gloria Yang

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Ah, TV… A super-sized value meal for the mind, not the body.

  

  's Anatomy: What's up with Alex and Addison? Will Yang and Burke work it

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge Math, exchange programs, and why we love MIT.

  

  's twice as old as the United States. If I could massively overgeneralize for ... perspective to help you make sense of the decision that, though it won't make or ... going to others for help, it was nice to basically be forced to go to

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 2

  

  Manchester United, whatever you like] Today I got back to reading domestic ... there will be many people along the way to help and mentor you. Along those lines, let me answer some of your questions to try to help. If you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Self Help I

  

  I raised my young self on a steady diet of self-help literature. I ... relevant to my life, but mostly I decided that the self-help shelves didn ... . I stopped reading self-help books. I became a skeptic. I saw people

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Professorial Help Thanks to the faculty.

  

  members who have helped out with selection this year, including Alex Slocum ... help the world transition from a fossil-fuel-powered world to an ... ," he said. His latest attempt to help people through science lies on a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 26, 2006