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• Blog / Academics & Research

  A *Major* Dilemma Will you forgive the pun if I tell you that I just declared my major?

  

  , you can declare "undeclared", but most people do make at least a ... ), all you need to do is fill out a form and get it signed. Basically ... finding a subject interesting, and actually wanting to do it; research, for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  an essay writing journey one of my MIT essays, as told through revision history

  

  revision history. For those of you who don’t use Google Docs, a. Start using ... pleasure of it”: video games! “What do you want to major in”: 18C, with a ... , though! I’ve been meaning to do some sort of college essay post while I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Funnies An Appetizer

  

  't have a whole ton of time for an awesome entry right now, but I do have ... wearing a Google shirt and on the back it said "I'm Feeling Lucky!" I took ... stories. Shock Monkey I woke up the other morning and, as I do every

  • by Snively '11
  • February 19, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of Embrace the backstory to a gender-bending concept dance video, written by Ayomide F. '18

  

  concept video with him. What is a concept video you ask? And what do heels ... do a dance video, I knew it couldn’t be just any old video of us ... added I Do by Cardi B to the mix because we wanted something with a grimy

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 11, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Valentine’s Day Special Featuring calculus, people who hate me, and a picture puzzle

  

  they were doing. The result would be a mosaic of diverse happenings at ... with the discharge sphere of a 15-feet tall Van de Graaff generator as I ... students would rather do calculus than succumb to the byproducts of rampant

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Two New Kittens hundreds of pictures.

  

  " "Kittens getting a belly" "How do you tell if you are overfeeding your ... 2 Kittens from mysterious origins came into my life about a month ago. They had appeared in our yard back home lonely and hungry, and in just a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales From The Nance Effect Road Show My travel to the land of Boomer--Sooners, Miners. Wild Cats, Sun Devils and Rattlesnakes

  

  Meetings for the better part of September. Here is a quick update of what I saw and who I met. Tucson, AZ (A.K.A. Wildcats & Mr. Rattlesnake ... that my seat could be used as a floatation device even though the entire

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Hint of fall A Sunday adventure

  

  Last week was MIT in Hard mode. Psets, a midterm, papers, interviews, presentations, you name it. Plus basketball practices started Monday. My Google calendar was a solid block of commitments from ~8-8, and the remaining hours

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 21, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Potpourri Blog Post food... etc.

  

  traveling alone at night; all I could do was pray that Google Maps proves ... Coming off of a state-of-mind-altering weekend in Maine with people from the dorm, I knew a full Pre-Thanksgiving week of MIT won’t be pretty

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 21, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  you can run but you can't hide

  

  do it anyway. In recent weeks, I've realized that I've been running. I ... stayed here for a long, long time. I thought I could drop the things that ... . Assuming a new identity, almost hiding in plain sight with every costume I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 24, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Cost of Living at MIT alternatively, how to spend money at MIT

  

  B, Example C from a quick Google search). However, with enough ... expensive" Fun Stuff Boston is a major-ish city! This means that doing ... A couple months ago, I wrote about how to make money at MIT. Much to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6-3 not a definitive guide

  

  every week that revolve around a cute robot that will be able to do a ... representative of the fuckload of work you'll have to do for it. I struggled a lot ... 't do too much in terms of giving you hot marketable ML skills a la 6

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  walking into the MEng thoughts about a 63-mile trek

  

  —research, TAing, etc.—instead of doing six classes and a dozen activities. I wanted ... day to doing it, and a day to recovering from it, and everything was ... feel ready to do that. So, the walk was a great idea, or maybe the walk

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 8, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Evil Institute of Technology Mystery Hunt, Day 1.

  

  Anim(a)l, Nutter But(t)er, Or(e)o, Ge(n)eva. ... : The kickoff was a swanky event (formal attire suggested), with ... for the occasion. More swanky formalwear... at left, Dan '03, a team

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Untitled Pigeon Post 🐦💕

  

  Hi. I’m Andi. I’m twenty years old and already a pigeon addict. It ... .” Initially, I knew better than to trust a book written by a gas company. I ... eyes, took a deep breath, and flipped to a random page. Little did I know

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  MISTI-India: Community Health Internship The MISTI experience of Gilad Evrony '07.

  

  satisfying and meaningful experience - a chance to do good. If you have any ... were not at MIT. I backpacked through north India with a friend of mine ... saw how easily preventable diseases placed a tragic burden on society

  • by MISTI Program
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  Six Recent Life-Changing Thoughts on Food There's six lessons (and a recipe) somewhere in there.

  

  I. Emergency Dinner Sunday afternoon catches me cooking for 30+ in a ... with a miniature avalanche of lentils, peppers, onions, brown rice, fat pungent mushrooms, like a million thimble-sized cans of tomato paste, tempeh

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tour of Phonology, Part 1 fənɛtɪks ɪz fʌn!

  

  vocal cords do not vibrate when producing it. Here is a diagram that might ... there are some sounds that are not quite possible (try doing a glottal ... Middle [o] load [ɔ] caw Low [ɑ] hot We can also say a vowel is rounded

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 12, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  wherever you go, there you are alive internet theory

  

  it probably still is]: https://youtu.be/0UtWNmlkHw0?si=-iajO981TGV4a35 ... like this. videos with under a hundred views, from some regular person ... still alive."]alive internet theory[/annotation]. I saw this video a few

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 30, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  winter in Brazil adventures in WGS.245: Race, Place, and Modernity

  

  . Pinacoteca de Sao Paulo, a museum which celebrates activism and especially ... [/caption] When last weekend came around, we went to Rio de Janeiro as a class to ... Modernity. It’s a class focused on Afro-Brazilian and Indigenous Brazilian

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 10, 2023