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  Choosing a Major I hope this is helpful to you at some point

  

  I've been reading a lot of comments lately about which majors are ... 't be concerned about the difficulty of majors it's all about what you love!-- there's obviously a lot of strife here, and I just wanted to

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advanced Standing Exams: know your stuff, get out of a semester-long class! You should really consider taking them.

  

  MIT has A LOT of graduation requirements. Most colleges have some sort of breadth requirement. MIT, being a technical school, has a weighty ... these graduation requirements was “But I’ve got a ton of AP credit…won’t I

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 24, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  what I’m doing this IAP mostly physics and musical theater

  

  the month of January: some people treat it as a four-week extension on winter break, some people take classes or work on campus, lots of people are holding cool events and workshops. IAP is my favorite time of year

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  checked off 101 things to do before you graduate...

  

  this one on April 2nd. Of last year. I was looking through my blog drafts and realized I have a lot of half-finished blogs, which is a bit tragic ... -year gets a list of 101 things that they should do before they graduate. Since

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 2) 12 hours of coastal biking and other Spanish adventures

  

  host of factors—but its time has finally come. Originally, Gosha was going to write the bulk of this blog, but he’s no longer blogging ... ’ve taken it on.[/annotation]In addition to travel journal entries of Italy

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 11, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  ‘Til the Net Breaks Championship Szn

  

  for games. Regular season: where we play all of our official games on ... championship, which is three games over the span of a week. In the NEWMAC ... the game like a crack of lightning, and you can instantly tell what type

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  love is stored in the yarn help i can't stop crocheting

  

  Over IAP, I joined the ranks of bloggers who have fallen into the black hole of fiber arts. (It could happen to you! It could happen to anyone!) At the end of last semester, the [annotation note="the undergrad

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 14, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Today A Trader Joe's monologue

  

  a particularly long time, so I opted to walk down eight flights of ... door on the first floor of the tower sounds an alarm, so I exit the ... carefully pruned flowers and walkways warped by the overgrown roots of trees

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  my summer! a belated blog

  

  This summer was a summer of many firsts. First time actually living ... of balance, at least the attempt of finding one. This summer was a summer of growth.  Internship Most of my summer was spent working as a

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 18, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  most of high school letting academics, particularly science, overwhelm me ... thought that it would be more of the same; but I couldn’t not go, for it ... changed after months of milking goats and carefully calculating whether it

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tunnel66 bringing the borderline tunnels online for CP*

  

  Borderline is a club at MIT that started in Spring of 2017 (our freshman spring), when a group of upperclassmen got funding from the Council of the Arts at MIT to paint a 200-foot long section of the MIT Tunnels

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year playlist 2/3 of a year in 25 songs

  

  playlists is one of my favorite things to do, so i decided to create a ... freshman year was cut abruptly short, i'm doing this post now instead of in ... associate with cool experiences. as of my last [physical] day at MIT

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo turns out that at mit, even the non-academics are incredibly hard and deeply rewarding

  

  [annotation note="Quick loft backstory: East Campus gives us a lot of furniture ... week of school, and then write about it. And here we are, in the fourth week of school. But hey! I did build that loft! And she is BEAUTIFUL

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester customary end-of-semester blog post: sophomore spring edition

  

  of it, not a mere tourist or spectator of the rush hour crowd. I go to ... the sense of overwhelming relief. MIT has been home, sure, but it doesn ... pay for in full, where you are the master of the domain, kitchen and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Fall Recap Entropy, Research, and Other Out-of-Class Happenings

  

  in the winter of my freshman year. But life matters were really ... certainty is wildly oscillating. You can not compute the derivative of its ... . That was the first surprising turn of events. I was (mostly) certain I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 17, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Music Scene by a non-musician

  

  exist, I can confirm). It is the one form of art where I am perfectly ... that music is one of the most relaxing things, ever. Whether you’re strumming a guitar wistfully pretending to be in a 90s kids coming-of-age film

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 23, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Day, the Year I Applied what I learned in college about application struggles

  

  made the room burn. Whatever manifestations of worry there are, I felt ... of APs to the warm spreading feeling of “but I’ve taken X number of APs ... ? Defining my senior year by the future of "college." I can’t tell my past

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Uncreative Post with an uncreative title

  

  complete all those hopeful post beginnings, reenact the thrill of days long ... the essentials of IAP and Spring semester.   During IAP, I took ... of an educational video on fractals. I see fractals everywhere now. It

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poker, Mountains, and Magic The four words of this title have no other exact match on Google

  

  beautiful, inspirational maxim: Nearby were posted similar words of wisdom. Clearly, I’m not a fan of trite platitudes. I got a collection of ... finished redecorating my dorm room to constantly remind me of my

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 6, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One new blog, three post-college thoughts just popping by to say hello

  

  from The Other Side of college: one on where I live, one on what I do on ... live - It's nice to feel like I live in a city, instead of feeling like ... long it would take me and my fellow undergrads to notice if all of Boston

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 1, 2014