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• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  and meticulousness were the defining traits of a good engineer ... embarked on some soul-searching and deep digging of MIT’s Course Catalog. I ... engineering student, I have realized that the qualities of a good engineer are

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  New Year Resolutions in Fall An ambitious list of things I wanna do that probably won't get done

  

  accomplish by the end of the school year knowing that 90% of the items on this ... lecture hall Sleep before midnight on most days of the week Don’t lose ... you all know which of the maybe 3 things on this list I actually

  • by Richard O. '28
  • August 31, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Untitled "The work is untitled because meaning is always changing in time and place." ⁃ Félix…

  

  worked with curators Massimiliano Gioni and Jenny Moore on the New Museum ... work of Félix González-Torres stands at the intersection of ... , courtesy of BAK You are invited to take a page from a stack of blank paper

  • by ARTalk
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  This is the way…to check your decisions

  

  decisions.mit.edu. In order to verify that you will receive a decision on the ... on the forgotten username or password links beneath the login box on ... dragon, or intergalactic radio broadcast. However, following the release of

  • by The BlogChild
  • March 10, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  Affirmations not unnecessary

  

  this way, I wrote out the sentence I am good at math not as a declaration ... that semester, I went back to him with grades I was proud of, and a new ... professor). From that point on, I just stopped caring about making a fool of

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist FAQ Some answers for students offered a place on the waitlist.

  

  I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully ... for a class of about 1,130 students this year. Based on our estimates of ... -900 applicants -- fewer than 5% of applicants -- a spot on the waitlist. Not all of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Experience with Real Analysis epsilons, delta, and the technique

  

  was based on one-variable calculus. Now, I knew the focus of the class ... material. Next semester, I have a good sense of what classes I am going to ... about how I wanted more of the proof and verification for all these

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • June 10, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  A little something while you wait. Don't plan on doing work until we finish this.

  

  with the phrase "On A Farm," which is connected to a bunch of boxes ... I have some pretty fond memories of second semester senior year, largely consisting of doing nothing, making random trips to Steak 'N Shake

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • March 10, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  student at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. Boy ... . Moral of the story? FedEx. The World on Time.* *note: The author of this ... bouts of insomnia for no good reason), but I've found that if I ask myself

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Making the Switch: Chapter 2 Making new friends at MIT

  

  themselves and that way I got to know a lot of people. Taking classes with all ... blend more often than not. So as far as the question of "will I make new ... In the first installment of "Making the Switch," Melissa '11 asked

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New ZigZag and more A new episode of MIT's video podcast, and Susan Hockfield speaks out on energy research.

  

  check out relating to this mission. First, there's a new episode of Zig ... only decades away, at best, from the point of no return on greenhouse gas ... Georgia Tech, encompasses an impressive range of new and evolving

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Being Home and Answering Questions some changes, some constants, and the end of pass/no record

  

  people are ready to take it on without the training wheels. Both of my finals were on Monday, which meant I could spend all of Tuesday sleeping in ... --that's one of the best ways to get closer to people and ensure that you keep

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 21, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Urinetown I blame my absence on musical theatre.

  

  : "...thanks!" They went on their merry way, and I returned to a brand new hope ... enjoy it." Rational Part Of Brain: "You like sleep way too much for a ... Musical Theatre Guild was putting on "Urinetown", which I had never heard of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  happy lunar new year the year of the tiger

  

  of the tiger, I was in sixth grade. Nicki Minaj was on the radio, Gossip Girl was on television, I went to a nerd school where people were ... Happy Year of the Tiger! It is my birth year, which means that I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 1: Classes My academic plans.

  

  Eric G. '14, who's been a good friend and pset buddy of mine for a long ... TIIIINY amounts of force on TIIIINY objects, and measure the effects. For ... that there are new factors informing my class choices: 1) I only have

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day at the Forge blacksmithing!

  

  pieces. On the first day of the IAP class, I stared at it and clanked it ... copy on top of each other almost exactly.  This was my last project of ... In the middle of an already-packed IAP, I received an email: I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  For the next two weeks we will all use fewer words here

  

  It is a New Year now and I hope it is good for you. Ten years ago ... every day. People thought this was very good. We now do this again, but ... kinds of them — from people who are still young and also some who are old

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 15, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  a jaunt to Philadelphia We went to the AWP writing conference!

  

  I’m sitting on the floor of my dorm [annotation note = "I am actually ... going to these ones; I think the titles give a good sense of some of the ... full of thoughts on how to iron out the next several chapters, how would

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 26, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 A Questions Omnibus is a post where I answer your lingering questions left in the…

  

  For those of you new to the blog: a Questions Omnibus is a post where ... of other spots). 2. On the section where you list AP courses, can I ... not accelerated in any way (fault of the high school). In addition, i

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  One Month of Baby Steps my feet hurt

  

  drove up from New York with (way too many) of my remaining bags and boxes ... Hi, I’m Kathleen. I’m a first-year student and a new blogger here at ... me is saturated with newness. I’m still adjusting to making new friends

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 26, 2018