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  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  's a single historical source where you can read about these kinds of things: the MIT course catalog. You can find the most recent course ... observations are organized into five categories. You can read this article in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  's kind of a coincidence; if you've read my course catalog history you ... be by an MIT student, and as much as possible get a different artist ... they can't finish what they signed up to do. It's not that that person is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  smooth, rapid, pace of comprehension I know at my peak I can process, but ... say I can’t go to this event I had said I was going to, I do it, because ... always looked so ahead of you is not that they were smarter, but because

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  finding place

  

  exceptions. You can't rely on serendipitously bumping into people at university and a huge campus. You need to be more intentional, unless they ... with people through focused conversations or situations where you

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  ’s great if you can somehow avoid getting sick in the first place, but if you ... just got tired of taking better care of things I can replace...You can't have a hot car and a hot house and get out looking crazy.” I can think of

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  up for the night, usually around midnight, students can still venture to the district for a snack at Bova’s Bakery, where delicacies are ... . Regardless, Haymarket is the place for best grocery deals, ones a buyer can

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  my year abroad and now, I can’t take some of the classes I really want ... processes happening around you! My labmate, Suehern during one of our ... parts of them). Pretty intense eh? Biochemistry labs Where I spent

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  nicely when he said you don't have to build, say, a nuclear reactor to get ... alone productive. The best thing you can do is take the weight of waiting ... . And it's still true of everyone who wants to get in to MIT. And I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  dorm. Walker was where you ate all of your meals and attended the weekly ... , which you can watch below. ... inseparable part of the MIT identity—and the roots of these traditions can be

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  state of your paper. 3) you get a week to submit a rebuttal to address ... claims. 4) you get a final decision of accept or reject ... conference I submitted to works: 1) you submit your paper. 2) three reviewers

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  , so naturally, the MIT.nano staff want students to get excited about it too. To that end, undergraduates like me get to take classes where we ... .nano where I immortalized one of those pictures as a solar cell! [caption id

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  +. Are you sure we can handle it?” “Yes. We're only emotionally immature ... no matter how hard you work, you can always be better, and as long as you can be better, you’re not good enough. You’re a slacker, you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  about the lessons you can glean from his story, particularly around joyful ... new journeys. But as I get ready to start a new journey of my own, I ... maybe the best send off to you (especially to you aspiring scientists and

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  contentedness. there are things that happen when you graduate. you get gently ... immediately so you get some trailing emails delegating tasks or announcing ...  stories of mental health at mit. if you would like to read it, it's called "the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  keeping me from getting too excited about ceremonies in general. After four ... . Every senior gets four tickets to give to friends or family for graduation ... to Killian Court where our friends and families waited for us. Photo

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  I remember exactly where I was when the email got sent out. There was ... was this surreal sense of joy in the air. If you ask any student on campus why they chose to come to MIT, they’ll tell you that it was because

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  international students. Near the end, someone asked: "Can you give an example of ... an hour before German class; we can do whatever you'd like. Me: Let ... " or "Leadership" that you get to put on your transcript. I'm not an

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  getting lazy. And that's okay: it happens. Now that I see it, I can do ... you don't blog for a long time, you lose your ability to rhyme. Not that ... , you've all heard plenty of life updates and reflections on the MIT (and

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  asked, "Why throw something away when you can tell a story about it ... Milk's application (with permission) below; you can also download it ... . If you've never met the Milk, then you should read Vincent's biography

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  , really). In layman’s terms, it’s just a really huge moon that gets eclipsed and turns red because of science I won’t get into. Now, this itself ... back to that night, which began on the fourth floor Haus balcony where I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015