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• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Accidentally Double Majored How I managed to accidentally get a second major at MIT (hopefully)

  

  . One thing I really like about MIT is that there is a HASS (humanities ... classes to graduate, an average of one a semester. I waved around that ... , 3 my fourth. Each student must focus on a HASS subject eventually

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Perspectives from Deutschland Ich bin Anna und ich studiere Astronomie!

  

  German language class, down a steep hill with a beautiful view of the ... train station, cross the Lahn river, and enter a building across the ... . I was a blogger until very recently, so hopefully you haven

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Still Alive! sorry, this has nothing to do with portal

  

  Hey all! It's been a while. I've had a busy last month: 0. I said ... solving puzzles using a novel game mechanic, although IMHO, Braid is way ... metaphorical plot, it's a true inspiration for my secret pipe dream of becoming

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 22, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Hospital Trips and Dance Parties MIT campus is where it's at over the summer.

  

  the summer is a beautiful thing. No psets. No exams. No pressure to cram ... 'm laughing with a friend, in his/her room, and not because I'm moping over an ... out over a few posts, but thought I'd begin with two stories: one

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 29, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt. 1 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Audition for everything.

  

  musical, but I assumed that when I came to MIT, music would play a much ... decided I wanted to be in an instrumental group and a vocal group. I didn ... , there was the Chamber Chorus, the elite group which required a prepared

  • by ARTalk
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  N.Y. Times, Page B11: “MIT Guard Shows Brains and Hoops Can Mix” Jimmy Bartolotta '09 leads the 16-5 MIT Men's Varsity Basketball team.

  

  section and saw a giant article on the MIT men's basketball team, and guard ... the academic bar isn't lowered for athletes. Earlier this year, we had a speaker series in the Admissions Office. We asked a number of faculty

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 6, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seminar Advising There is nothing funny about this entry...but please read anyway.

  

  . As a Nextie, I had a choice between traditional and seminar advising ... it sounds like. You're assigned a supervisor, you schedule meetings ... your advisor every semester to talk mano-a-mano about which classes to

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Examining exams Sometimes, grades matter less than photons are matter.

  

  It's October. Cambridge is cozily snuggled into the cusp of a cold front, the air is crisp like tempura in the cracks of a deep ... with an unearthly chorus of low self-esteem for the past week. Take a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Next Generation Of College Campus Tours? My interview with Michael Epstein '04, covering his MIT experience and the genesis of his…

  

  I'm hoping to make a habit out of occasionally interviewing members ... Michael Epstein, who graduated from MIT with a Masters in Comparative Media ... school for a Masters in Comparative Media Studies. Basically, there is no

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Some Time in New York City I'm not much of a man by the light of day, but by night I'm…

  

  DID YOU KNOW? A long time ago, before the Fleet Center was built ... Sergeant Pepperz on a Boston Duck Tour I went on this afternoon with Tau Beta ... grandparents, but they're a little too touristy for a future Boston resident to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do in four years?

  

  resources MIT has to offer for a student?" In a word, no. No matter how much ... better or would have liked but never got a chance to meet, and more. The ... . IAP provides a huge number of experiences to take advantage of. Here is

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Culture, not the bacterial kind Some questions you should be asking about all the schools to which you're applying.

  

  -graduate-student perspective that I never would have thought of a few years ago. Two weekends ago at UCLA's interview weekend, I was lucky to have a faculty member tell ... need to figure out in order to decide on a program, therefore, is which

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  blog! Back then, I was a starry-eyed over-caffeinated food-obsessed Course 8 major with a penchant for iconic phrases like, “Could this brutalist hallway be any more translation-invariant??!” A lot has happened

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?

  

  ’m early in my grad school journey. There are a few major differences ... was a nightmare—the day the portal opened, the website crashed almost immediately and almost every option disappeared. So I don’t live in a grad dorm

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 9, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Downtown if you could see it then you’d understand

  

  Saturday, 11 AM. Alan Z. ’23 sends me a message. Alan: what do you ... the Green Line. It’s warm out. He’s wearing a long-sleeved button-down and slacks; I’m wearing a t-shirt and shorts. “Couldn’t be wearing

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Imbibing the Nostalgia Punch More akin to jumping on the bandwagon than drinking the kool-aid in that it is…

  

  tinged with a deceptive dearth of day to day drudgery (how do you get a washing machine up stairs? why doesn't my apartment have a pot rack?), her ... now-me in the heart with a blast of nostalgia or inspiration that stings

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT: Round 2

  

  Grad Student”. I start my second year of a dual degree program in transportation and city planning in a few weeks. I am rushing to finish up my ... heading back to Cambridge for a quick apartment move before the start of

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  undergraduate has to have a "concentration" in one of the Humanities, Arts, or ... classes within that department. The idea is to get some depth in a HASS ... " compared to what you might find at a big liberal arts institution, but that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Love Lucy: Continued This time, the title even makes sense.

  

  : I said "BRB, homework", and it took a week. That's not unusual, for ... , those weeks are far enough apart that it's worth it. So, now, a post about keeping a car in the city. I love to drive; I've for a long time

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 22, 2010
• Blog / Events

  In pursuit of freedom MIT might not be free, but plenty of things are.

  

  FASAP, an advising seminar for MIT freshmen that has not one, not one-and-a ... say that my participation in this program about which I've told you a ... a time when I would otherwise have been studying or not doing laundry

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 21, 2008