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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  was like this for me, too. Specifically, I got better at math ... for being “good at math” or winning awards at math competitions. (This ... : There are four types of math major at MIT—pure math, general math, applied

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 2 Many more of your questions and my answers.

  

  we'll keep them for at least another year, if not longer. Ajymurat ... , contact the Educational Council office at [email protected]. Michael B ... at all in Norway? 2. There are very few extracurricular activities

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  Campus and Memories low-quality pictures and some memories

  

  show for it but stagnation. I’m bitter. I’m sad. I’m angry. There were posters for events from more than a year ago hanging in the infinite. Worse ... .  I’m trying to be hopeful. I’m staying in Cambridge for the summer and

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 24, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  I’ve been reading applications And I'm still reading them

  

  at 4 PM, my apartment’s heaters start to kick in and create a truly ... kitchen, somnambulant and predictable in my unending search for caffeine ... ’re wondering about the process we follow to evaluate applications here at MIT

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear prefrosh, a letter to you

  

  on Discord would one day come in handy for something as important as ... something that was meant for all of you to read. I've been getting a lot of questions and concerns regarding MIT, like: how do I know MIT is right for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 25, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Food, glorious food In which I learn that Simmons Dining is not, in fact, the best that Boston's…

  

  option for student events at MIT, but I'd never eaten at the restaurant in ... it makes me sad."]more recently[/annotation]). Despite having been at MIT for almost four years, I had not yet explored Boston's food scene as

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PE classes are…great!? catch me at the 2028 summer olympics

  

  for every major. Most of this was out of curiosity and [annotation note ... junior year of high school I would look at major requirements and think of possible class schedules for colleges I didn't even apply to. Something about

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  the senior mindset gnothi seauton

  

  what's best for me. I know I'm not the best at everything. That ... 's. More on that later."]last year[/annotation]at MIT? Packing up and leaving ... others' mouths, the last time I was in this classroom it was for a class I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Sound Like an Old Man I'm really not that old...according to CVS cashiers, I apparently look 17 =p

  

  freezing cold) - and how scared I was at beginning this class for the last ... spent Western Blotting at midnight*, sleeping till noon, and hauling my ... failed for 21 times (...I succeeded on the 22nd try) I guess I don't have

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2011
• 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.

  

  museum box for people to gawk at. After the Stravinsky piece, Joshua Bell ... semester Having musically-inclined friends (and a relative) at MIT Having ... concerts in the past week, for free. Concert #1: Verdi's Stabat Mater and Te

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

  8,726,400 SOS: Self-Discovery Within An Internship guest post by Grace C. '21

  

  guest post series*   It’s the end of finals. I’m sitting at a ... as I stare at my completed 7.014 exam. I get up to hand the thick ... this much intensity. For the first time, I feel like my life is sort of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 27, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  probably best saved for another blog post; the important thing is that I did ... dream life. Well, no! No! It’s not fine at all! The first few weeks of ... school already. Of course, they eventually did, and for a long time, I was

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breadsticks and Business Just remember, undergrads are like puppies in the eyes of an alum

  

  restaurant hangout for the students at Lima High School. I am here to say that ... where advising groups often meet for dinner; it’s where we’ve had a few ... order pizza, but then ask for a bag of those famous pizza dough rolls to

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 24, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Q&A: Food on campus, UROPs, decisions Qs from prospectives and prefrosh, As from me.

  

  -specific. If, for example, you lived at Simmons, you could eat breakfast there ... pricey, so most students opt for shopping at Shaw's (about a 10-minute walk ... [the Koch Cancer center] takes people on for UROPs?" 4) "If you had to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Which I Get Schooled By My Professor This video does not contain an improvised song, but it does contain Peter Reddien.

  

  -up routine at an open-mic night? Who knows. For those of you who were admitted ... determine how happy someone would be at MIT.” This school is not for everyone ... ’ll table it for another post. Moral of the story: chromatin is a lot like me

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Shortest Blog Ever (update 3 =p) 19 days till Taiwan!

  

  present ready for you at Meet the Bloggers. Actually, I did have that ready ... failed for good I am back to having all those B's With one test, I will ... class, but for some really dumb reason, I lost a bunch of points on this

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 4, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  All The World’s A Stage On theatre and artsy stuff

  

  as a set designer for my sophomore fall production of The Crucible, and ... , get excited for upcoming shows, and then promptly feel the echoing ... limited number of as-yet-unclaimed tickets that you can buy for $20-40, let

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TERMinal Velocity My last term is flying by!

  

  Hard to believe but my time at the institute is starting to wrap up. I'll save the sappy gushing for a later post though. Most people ... sorts of projects. I, for better and worse, am not most people. My term

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  some thoughts i have a few

  

  blogblock. I'd like to also say that I don't fault MIT at all for any of ... it's about time I tackle some of the more difficult things for me to talk about. These are pretty hard for me to talk about, mainly because I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 10, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  -graduation life, here's a sweater I knit for a bunny at my local rabbit shelter, who ... -obsessed Course 8 major with a penchant for iconic phrases like, “Could this ... entire school year.) Besides a global pandemic, at least three decent memes

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025