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• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Choosing a Major there are so many

  

  wanna graduate on time. The only problem is that there are so many cool ... anyone who goes to MIT,” a bearded farmer told me when I worked on a farm ... … engineering, but with an environmental focus?” I’d seen it listed on the course

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 20, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  bday burnout no more spiders please

  

  to Killian Court. We set up next to some trees on the right and figured ... where I'm...t-posing with the rest of my bio summer camp on Killian ... individual bristle. I picked up the bubble wrap lying on the floor from an

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 18, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  four weeks in the life a google calendar time capsule

  

  : 2021 Yeah, uh. There’s not exactly much going on here. Some things on my calendar of note (aka, all of the things on my calendar): Science Bowl: we have a weekly meeting on Sundays to help plan our competitions! With

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 4, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  sundays in the parks with friends a post title based on a musical based on a painting

  

  temple bell "found on a scrap heap in Yokosuka...in 1945." [carousel image ... . [carousel image1="57835" image2="57836" /] On the other side of a gnarly ... , instead of continuing on to the Common, we headed back to MIT over the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 15, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  “Take care of yourself.” "Can you post something positive please?" - my mom

  

  back on it now, I know she was doing that because the kids at my school ... to do a post on my skincare routine, but unsure if there's interest. Hm ... useless repetition. Senior year, I focused on making a change to put less

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / CPW

  the two sides of CPW CPW as told by a prefrosh and an upperclassman

  

  screenshot of my spreadsheet. I went to 18/33 of the events I put on my ... actual event, we also had to go on a few shopping trips, including one to a ... cake on fire" event. Apparently to set a cake on fire, you need a LOT of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 24, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: When in South Africa guest post by a fellow '21

  

  11:52 AM on June 9th, a cool but sunny day in Johannesburg. I took an uber to my Airbnb and after meeting my host and getting the run down on ... that early on in my trip I could see clear distinctions in the variety of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 31, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A reading list for a week at MIT All my classes have required reading this semester!?

  

  my time on weekday nights has been dedicated to studying scientific ... or systems that use it. For instance, the second week, we focused on ... algorithm that makes the Kinect work, and based on the frequency with which

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Experience FAQs from high school counselors

  

  participate. We heard some great questions from the audience, worth sharing on ... not represent the views of other students. For diverse personal takes on ... currently live on the First East floor of East Campus.   What are you

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biological Engineering at MIT My thoughts, feelings, and opinions (and slight ranting) about biology both at MIT and in…

  

  ), they would never come anywhere near biology. Group B on the other hand is ... cancer detection, how can I simulate this phenomenon on a chip, etc. I ... ) which is always a surprise to students at MIT course 20 and not. On the

  • by Ben O. '19
  • November 20, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chang Ning District, Shanghai 上海，长宁区

  

  kind of works on my phone, and since I have the VPN I can access everything on my laptop (thank goodness, because my life depends on Google ... ) was MIT’s graduation and I was looking at all the pictures on Facebook

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 4, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ROTC Is Life (In a Good Way) Everything you ever wanted to know about ROTC at MIT (and then some)

  

  program, typically on the days when we wear our uniforms. So here are our ... inspection on the left photo. In the right photo, Rachel is on the left and Tessa is on the right, excited for an incentive flight on a KC-135

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  ’t worry so much! You’ll be happy wherever you end up!”, and so on. Okay ... ? Well, I’m not on any admissions committee, so I can only speculate ... . Focus your application on some of these points. Or at least keep them in

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  through some possible courses of action, and settled on: moping. First, I ... "advice you can give me on how to move forward from here." I thanked them ... had discussed me at the grading session, I arranged to meet with him on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ultimate Recognition You probably don't know what that is.

  

  essays for our awards applications, was on the drive team at the regionals ... , because MIT only accepts the most flawless human beings on the planet." NO ... , when I'm no longer on the team, that all my hard work was part of a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Telethon FAQs from a small but enthusiastic sample of prefroshies

  

  , excited prefrosh and have a great 45 minute conversation, and ride on a high ... student events, talks, and dorms than you would by visiting on any other ... around the clock; there are never less than five or six events going on at

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 5, 2012
• Blog / Events

  The Making of a Mystery A James Grimmelmann Guest Blog

  

  ever written on the subject of Facebook privacy. So you can imagine my ... competition on a grand scale. Teams of up to 200 people attempt to be first to ... that has been hidden somewhere on the MIT campus. This past year, my team

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Go West, Young Man my mountain travels with yale and brown

  

  : Arrived in Billings, Montana at 12:30 PM MST, on the same flight as Bowen ... (maybe - in order to digress, don't you have to be on topic in the first ... This all took about an hour. Then, we would, depending on the size of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus visit, revisited In which I dissect the campus tour/ info session and forget to clean up afterward

  

  cobwebs instead of on the interwebs (Pun #1, check). Check out what I wrote ... that night, the lights in the building would be turned on to spell SOX ... of my day goes on to include a lavish, adjective-laden description of a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MY college essay 498 words of angst.

  

  blog ,it may help her. Thanks Oh boy, I could go on for hooours about the ... 's perspectives on the topic here. I said: I'm off to grab some food, head to a 2 ... get off campus for awhile. I'm even more confident to not continue on

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 12, 2008