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  how to change majors in just five easy steps!

  

  , painfully, inch by inch. You will lose yourself. You will become someone new ... classes and so should legally not be allowed to register for more than I can ... scientist, that I didn't have to struggle and strive for a job coding 9-to-5

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fitting In Fitting in at MIT

  

  really big challenge for me. This would best be explained by describing to ... get the idea. So it's hard for me to often answer the question about how ... , culture, and diversity. I will admit that sometimes it takes a while to get

  • by Bryan
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do you live in Zambia? Malawi? Ghana? If you could send me some African dirt, that would be amazing! (And illegal. But…

  

  mortar to hold together. And of course the machine should be fast and ... -Lab to my schedule. This involved dropping a few other activities of minor importance (biking for fun, blogging, sleep) but hey, saving the world involves

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 11, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Emilienne: The Sophomore who does brain surgery Emilienne has been studying the brain through her UROP in the Fee Lab.

  

  birds called zebra finches, which are known for their ability to sing ... to talk personally with the professors. I was so excited by everyone ... , mostly because I thought I would be interested in getting a UROP for the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  Impulsive Decisions as expected, have consequences

  

  Global Initiative, which is a very new project aiming to connect MIT ... for the first time. You know, if you're a girl and you didn't get your ... considering getting my ears pierced for several years now, but  just couldn't go

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 25, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  shifting seasons something reflective

  

  my high-speed data for canada, there wasn't much to do on my phone so i ... didn’t want to spoil it for anyone. in my last group therapy session ... like trying to get a stray cat to come closer. sometimes your efforts and

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to my home Feel free to chill in here

  

  dorms at MIT, you get to pref who you want to live with, what floor you ... around you. This year, I was lucky enough to get all my preferences ... 's exam season, so I have been up late studying/youtubing for the past week

  • by Celena C. '12
  • October 4, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Day 3 A recap, with pictures.

  

  to meet all of you! But before we get to that, the rest of the day... Got to MIT early, worked the help desk for a couple of hours. Headed ... these blogs!). Back to the help desk for most of the afternoon. At 5PM, I

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The First Four Days of the Next Four Years (Guest Entry) "STUDY. SLEEP. PARTY….pick two"

  

  of my most exciting moments to life.) I started my CPW experience by ... the time everything was ready, I managed to get past the crowds to take ... " for "Next Act." During my time at CPW, I managed to visit every dorm

  • by Bryan
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  [JOINT POST] Travelling as a black female "Alexa, play Brown Skin Girl..."

  

  the word, and was thoroughly confused by whether the side to side head ... to me. However, by the end of the trip it almost became a sort of ... up with. I bought my tickets and headed toward the entrance to wait for

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 3, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  And it’s all beginning…

  

  intending to stay there. What value is there for me in looking at different ... views for granted. I had to learn about both sides, understand the ... passive way, by taking what was given to you instead of understanding your

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Have you seen your mother baby standing in the shadow? A visitor's guide to Harrisburg, PA, with original soundtrack by Billy Mack.

  

  "Friday the 13th Part 9: Jason Goes to Hell" and "Drainiac" for about 5 ... movie Kate decides to get serious, slits her wrists, and uses the blood to ... pretty much already over for me. Bill actually turns out not to be a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 18, 2005
• Blog / Events

  So much to do, so little time There's always something exciting going on at MIT.

  

  So, my wife just popped by my office; it turns out she and a friend are on campus to see a lecture upstairs by Nobel Prize winner Ted Hänsch ... for me to choose which to attend, if I didn't have to be working on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a semester in glass! i made a lot of things :D

  

  class for the second time: it's standard practice for people to repeat ... instinctive for me,  everything just flowed a little better, and I was able to ... long sticks that you put glass on the end of, but we'll get to the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 28, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Cristen Chinea Cristen Chinea '10, for whom MIT might mean "meteorologist in training."

  

  July 17, 2006 BY DEBORAH KOLBEN / The New York Sun If you've ever walked ... bedroom with her 80-year-old grandmother, Josefina, who moved to New York ... student was poor enough to qualify for free lunch. She was the only student

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 31, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 1) two trains, twelve states, 540 pictures, one Speaker of the House election, and more!

  

  me to San Francisco, arriving at 5 PM PST on January 6th, by way of a ... Chicago. That is, of course, if everything goes to plan. By the looks of it ... the edge of the unknown for me, personally. The path of the train up to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  Come together (and eat)

  

  which you get discounted meals but in order to break even, you need to eat ... for the house (if you're still confused as to why the FSILG houses care ... big kitchen. And most residents cook for themselves. Many people get

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mind Dump (Episode 4) What's going on RIGHT NOW!?

  

  happens here is that oftentimes there isn't enough time to get it all down ... year it gets to just be too much. MIT is much better summarized in little ... , we're going to try something new, something that's never been done on

  • by Snively '11
  • April 22, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Punt Puzzle A collaborative affair

  

  typically often used as a verb. It refers to an action or a series of actions an MIT student performs, one that usually leads to statements like, “I had to stay up all night working on that (favorite expletive) p

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  beauty is overrated

  

  value our relationship so much for that, but to paint it all as simply ... never failed to be astonished by lush foliage and volcanic mountaintops ... crossposted on Substack here. I've never really wanted to be

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 20, 2022