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• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision

  

  major, organized by what I considered, in a roughly chronological order ... great for me to care. Nonetheless, I did apply to some schools as a ... 't going to go pre-med or do a PhD, bioengineering felt more useful as a

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes Time may change me, but I can't trace time..

  

  [To be honest, I've had a little bit of writer's block lately, under ... to take a step back and look at my choices and think, "well planned ... 's a word that gets thrown around a lot these days. Big change, political

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 28, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  ICIC A journey to deliciousness

  

  going half a mile an hour to get up it. I've never biked up a hill like ... Harvard and MIT meet up on Thursdays for a nice bike ride to a new ice cream ... cream. A bit afterwards, I began to realize we had gone pretty far and

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 30, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Party pics

  

  reawakens - hence the name of the party. We help him reawaken by staging a ... pretty white dress and a crown of black roses, and is being led to the ... hit the floor. Next to her, Mike '09, who I'm sure some of you know as a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Rush Course 12 what it’s like to study Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT

  

  get a UROP in EAPS - generally all you need to do is find a professor ... as early as sophomore year, allowing us to get both depth and breadth ... ), which means you get to know your professors and the other students really

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 6, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Monologuing a mock-up for the MITMonologues

  

  never having to use my legal name or tell professors I go by a different ... about quite a lot. To name a few of these memories: A friend at Random ... this blogpost is meant to be a mock-up of my monologue for the MIT

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cute! an MIT mood meter – Are you smiling today?

  

  through can look up to a screen and see if there's a hysterical green face ... need to get that happiness barometer up. The best part is walking the ... First off, I hope everyone who came here for CPW had a great timeeeee

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 16, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things that are hard. Though not as hard as this.

  

  they come one right after another. I happen to be a bit of a nerd. I ... to MIT entirely barefoot due to a massive blister, and have a tendency to laugh when people get really mad at me. I’ve wanted to go to MIT

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sewing minus the machine Costume Design: Featuring the best non-stick-figures I've ever drawn!

  

  , so I decided to compensate by only taking two technicals and two HASSes ... . Everyone at MIT is required to take one "HASS-A", or "arts" class as part of ... theater to painting to game design--you name it. I even found a HASS that

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 21, 2017
• Blog / Events

  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  different ways to use them. You will not get the answers only by guessing ... end! I think it is sad when most teams only get to see a small piece of ... with a small number to the right of them. ANYWAY, [annotation note

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  There is no solving for x thoughts on moving to and away from Maine

  

  Context: I wrote a post in March called "I Moved to Maine" . You can ... in with my parents. About a month ago I decided to go back home for the ... a female friend, which forced me to come out to myself. It ate me

  • by Powers '23
  • June 29, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting always waiting

  

  decisions, to get an email back about a potential UROP, waiting for something ... my team can get back on the water again, and waiting to see if my ... safely do so. [annotation note="me? oh, I'm still w a i t i n g to launch

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 12, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus Okay, so it's not even really half a bus. But I'M not the one asking…

  

  won't teach you as much about the SATs, it's a good way to get you ... 's really expensive to get other people to motivate you. If money IS a big ... discovered we have a trash chute. I took my dinner up to my room just so I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / Personal Projects

  A Recycled-Material Selfie Stick Engineering and problem solving in developing nations (the most important problems only, of course....)

  

  himself out of spare parts as a fun project:     You have to ... cheaply available. To build that speaker, Gedion used a soldering iron to ... ratchet, or a screwdriver, or even pliers--he just has to use the tip of a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The Number Game A few words of advice before applying to college.

  

  So I had a little free time this morning so I paid a little visit to ... their SAT, and got H + 5 A's. They applied and did not get into MIT. Does that mean MIT made a mistake by taking me and not them? Maybe, but it

  • by Bryan
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How do you know when you’ve chosen the right major?

  

  Sometimes I get so engaged by a project that I forget to eat. Yesterday, I woke up at 7:35am.  Starving, I got a sandwich to-go at the ... if you've chosen a major that fits you? Fit is a fuzzy concept, hard to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life A play-by-play of my day, along with some pictures.

  

  papers to write and a problem set to start, it’s clearly the perfect opportunity to blog! I’ve wanted to write a “Day in the Life” entry for quite a ... we went to Sunny’s Diner (just up Mass Ave) for a good ole’ artery

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 11, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  IAP? No.. YOU’RE AP Possibly the worst title EVER. (Also, answers to your questions, but under the worst title…

  

  prodding, as long as he gets to bite back. Aside from class, there's a huge ... posted about getting a new Macbook. What's it like switching from a PC to a ... (Yeah, okay, that was a really bad title. I GET IT. Not everyone can

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Livin’ La Vida PRoCa I take my clothes off and go dancing in the rain... with Clay Aiken.

  

  getting them all for her, one by one, but to expedite the process, she ... minutes to sing the first chorus, highlighted by a thirty-second "why do we ... may not post offered to make a Clay-themed nametag for me, featuring

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Saturday Roadtrip Out on the open road.

  

  opted to paint. Over lunch, we were approached by a nice old man who asked ... a 9 pm flight at 7 pm, it was too late. I need to get my eyes checked ... friends for a little fun outside of the city. Step One: Acquire vehicle

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2006