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  Guide to MIT: Academics requirements, resources, and miscellaneous info

  

  courses are often capped at 25 people so the good ones fill up quickly and ... to see if spots have opened up after the initial rush. CI-M - a ... caught up, and it saved my grade! Though maybe I wouldn’t have needed the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Independent Activities Period Yultide Day 1

  

  Wisconsin State Capitol. My window opened up to the hotel pool, so my sole ... hikes. Queer Stand-Up Comedian Performs at MIT In November, I received an ... Anne Smith is coming to MIT to give a live stand-up show!!!!!" Below that, the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skullhouse Road Trip Seattle, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Austin, New Orleans, North Carolina, Delaware, New Jersey, and New…

  

  '17's house and invited all the families. We also met up with two other ... his family had set up for us on their lawn. After an afternoon with ... 5 am. As an MIT student who regularly stays up to that time, this is

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few

  

  ’d spend up to twenty hours working on every last detail of every problem. I ended up averaging 100% on the p-sets and acing the class. Most of the ... pretty strong feelings about the recent elections but to set up an

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Fight against Gender Discrimination in STEM an excerpt from a fall class paper

  

  repeatedly denied, Hopkins did not give up. Armed with a tape measure, she ... family member. A follow-up 2011 Report on the Status of Women Faculty in ... engineering were hostile. A 2000 article in Nature called the MIT Report a wake-up

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 6, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chang Ning District, Shanghai 上海，长宁区

  

  contrast.   On the way back, my mom went to go meet up with a high ... you grew up (in my case, the United States) isn’t necessarily the best ... countryside. My mom grew up in Nanjing and our relatives are mostly in Shanghai

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 4, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk

  

  were up to, strike up conversations. The first few times were admittedly ... to Chinatown. He proceeded to wake me up by blasting loud, traditional ... . That part really is kind of random and up to God, the universe, whomever

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 30, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Breathless Why it's so hard to tell college students to ease up a bit.

  

  rapid talking we’ve been doing to catch up. “Love you bye!” he shouts ... the end of the day, she’s been stressed out trying to keep up with ... results. I planned to go to sleep and wake up early to do my 2.001 pset

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  up with what is taught in class (at least, it should). 4. Tests. The ... up pretty well. If you study, there are not usually many surprises ... working all by yourself, you can work on it for a whole day and end up with

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  #tbt: MIT Cribs Digging up some old freshman-year blog posts

  

  ’t F*** This Up”). New planner! Because I’m all grown up and in college ... less willing to wake up than I was in high school. Seriously, how did I ever wake up at around 6am every day to get to school by 7ish. This clock

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 5, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Highlight Reel Parents! A cappella! Thesis! Superheroes! Film class! And generally hanging in there @ MIT

  

  awesome excuse to finally clean up my room, yay! I assembled my futon and stuck a lot of the art I’d picked up at conventions on the above my bed ... others, if you need to catch up. Naturally, being me, I thought I didn

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lost in the Pages of the Institute are we out of the woods yet, are we in the clear yet

  

  Hall residents. I did have a simple Yamaha piano growing up, but then ... games my siblings and I had come up with, heck even napping. But the ... end of the week, and I can tell you everything I was up to these last

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Now and Then and Maybe Later Tying up loose ends and weathering the calm before the storm we call "Fall Semester"

  

  sentences I split up at random places. Semantics.) This green armchair, Is so ... . I ended up continuing my position into the summer, having been given ... white tents set up, protecting whatever fruits, vegetables, or food

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 30, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 2 With guest appearances by NJ Representative Rush Holt and MA Senator Elizabeth Warren

  

  Rush Holt is standing. Well, actually, I walk up to Rep Holt’s staffer ... yesterday. While Sean and I are talking, Congressman Holt walks up to me ... Capitol Building nearly made up for the fact that it was FREEZING outside

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 5, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some virtuosos play $4 million violins, and some Trojan heros wear brass rats $4 million violins, not 4 million violins. Joshua Bell isn't *that* intense.

  

  stretching by spending most of Friday with my legs propped up on a giant stuffed (toy) bear, balancing an ice pack and wincing. But I sucked it up ... college. We all showed up ready to have our minds blown by Joshua Bell

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ultimate Recognition You probably don't know what that is.

  

  really you'd rather curl up in bed and put your shades down and never look ... her wherever she ended up going to college (she's now doing some crazy ... up at the scoreboard and seeing that our Robotics team lost. It feels

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On a Week of IHTFP An Exam Week story. Starring none other than 18.022.

  

  it up by posting much MORE often... it looks like some order might be ... , hey wait the professor messed this part up too... so he gave himself a ... class up till now, I reread them this weekend, I bought notecards and

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Liveblog: Info Session with Karyn Blaser! Learn about MIT

  

  finish up my food, Chicken Makluba from Sepal (a restaurant in our student ... up those requirements. The swim test is ~1/2 the width of the Charles ... MIT. 2:22 -- MIT is set up on a 4-1-4 schedule (4 months of classes, 1

  • by Snively '11
  • October 12, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Nerdy adventures on the West Coast Q: What changes when you transplant a few MIT students 3,000 miles? A: Not much.

  

  normally flip up unless you hold them down with your weight by sitting in ... , but really I'm laughing because I can't figure out how to get up without ... 've stopped stocking a lot of graphic novels now that comic book place opened up

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers I know an atomic particle's speed, AND position!!

  

  , and soak up all the trivial goodness that is: Q&A Are MIT students ... if you don't like the food you cook yourself, take it up with the chef ... 're writing about at first, leaving it up to the admissions officers to read

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 30, 2008