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• Blog / Admissions

  Very, Very Important News That title is written to tantalize your RSS readers.

  

  Hi folks, Today was the 8th day in a row of selection committee ... 're all feeling good about the past week's work. I'll post something longer in the next few days; in the meantime I really need to say something

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 24, 2005
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can I test out of some classes by taking Advanced Standing Exams?

  subjects outside of the classroom itself. If you're confident that you ... test out of it. It's essentially like sitting the final before the class begins. If you do well you get to keep your grade on the ASE as your
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What kind of things can I do during IAP?

  in the big, wacky, comfortable chair called IAP. Sandwiched between the spring and fall semesters, the Independent Activities Period is a special four-week term at MIT that fills the month of January. For more than 50
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do I have to submit a February Updates & Notes Form (FUN)?

  The February Updates & Notes Form (FUN) is required for Early ... , students who have graduated, and international applicants. The form will be ... as soon as possible after completion of the fall semester or after
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sunday in the Park With chemistry

  

  If you walk down Massachusetts Avenue to the Charles River esplanade and cross the Harvard Bridge without getting knocked over by a militant ... down a ramp that winds straight into the lushest pad of greenery ever

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes from the Road: NorCal, Netherlands, Nick Cannon, and Nerd Camp where I've been, what I've been doing

  

  People often ask me what admissions officers do in the summer. They ... applications to read in the summer, we must not have much to do. It's probably true that the workload is somewhat lower than it is during the cycle, but

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story of the most epic pset ever If you correct my problem set in the comments, I will get angry. And you…

  

  far, it's pretty awesome. It's one of the few classes where I really ... problem that requires you to use the heat equation and see if you finish ... ," and feeling all enlightened and such. Part of this is because the class

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out of the lab and into the internet Confession: I actually listen to music from the movie Ice Princess. I'm not even kidding.

  

  information; first I emailed one of the cheerleaders, Lisa '04, who is currently doing her MEng in the EECS department, but she told me she couldn't answer any questions since she's in the MEng masters program, which is only for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Events

  total eclipse of the cruft

  

  of others, I traveled to northern New England to see the total solar eclipse on April 8th. I had happened to see the total eclipse in 2017 in ... around the mountain west, and it was an incredible experience, so I knew I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  love letter to the ‘tute miss miss miss

  

  the past month (classes here start early January) and will return to MIT for the fall semester. i decided to do this for a lot of different reasons which i won't go into in this post but the overarching reason is

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 21, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  winter in Brazil adventures in WGS.245: Race, Place, and Modernity

  

  culture, with tons of readings, movies, and museum visits each week. The ... the setting we’re learning about. I find myself swept up in the ... ="aligncenter" width="225"] Sao Paulo is full of murals -- we saw this one on the drive

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 10, 2023
• Blog / Summer

  MNL → BOS → SFO we live in a so(ci)e(ty)

  

  Manila, lived three years in Boston, and am now spending the summer in San ... right now I'm in Mountain View, an hour long drive from SF. The scales of the metropolitan areas involved vary. Metro Manila is a well

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 1, 2022
• Blog / Travel

  spring break! so much happened, but also so much didn't happen

  

  The media portrays spring break in college is super-fun, adventure-filled time, a time to relax, hang out with your friends, and have the ... of the covid restrictions at the time (not that I would've wanted to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 16, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Hold your breath my first CPW

  

  Breathe in. Keep breathing. The prefrosh I was hosting, or my ... talked about logistics; this is how you get to East Campus, this is the couch you'll sleep in, I'm gonna head to class now. The first class I had

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  Celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day with AISES + NASA

  

  The second Monday in October has long been an MIT holiday, but today is the second year that MIT has observed it as Indigenous Peoples' Day, and the first that it has been federally recognized as such. Earlier

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 11, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part three) junior trinkets

  

  This is the 3rd part of our 4 part Sentimental Objects series! Here are parts 1 and 2 ! As we've described in the first two parts, we have a ... memorabilia from the school year! He has yet to successfully hold ALL of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Labor Day, literally Moving back into my dorm room

  

  -least-favorite day of the year, after moving-out day (which additionally involves ... steps to the process, and all of them are inconvenient and involve lots of sweating. It's also pretty sad to think about all the effort you're expending

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 3, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer in San Francisco Interning at PlayStation Network

  

  I spent this summer interning at PlayStation. The office was in San ... time in the city before. Plus, this was my first real full-time job! In other words, the past three months were a completely new experience

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How MIT students are trying to change education by biking across America.

  

  . Who: 9 students from MIT and UC Berkeley What: Biking across the ... hold “learning festivals”, teaching students subjects the cyclists are ... necessary! Science! (a sample of classes: “The Algorithmic Beauty of

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 10, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  A niche on the third floor of MIT’s Building 8 leads to two glass ... , neutral red letters. Immediately inside, the left-hand wall displays a grid of portraits of the 67 individual resident physicists. Each poses in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012