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• Blog / About Decisions

  Hesitations about Choosing MIT our experience

  

  A couple days ago in the blogger slack, Petey sent a screenshot of a ... want to do. We were in this boat as prefrosh, and then in our freshman ... other schools, and for the first time in high school, we did. When we

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 28, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes 2.0 what i am/am i doing with my life

  

  Here’s to a basically mid-semester check-in to what I spend my time ... half in now, it’s safe to say that I will have learned a lot by the end ... merge sorts and Dijkstra’s shortest path. I fluctuate in this class from

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 27, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT of the Late 1800s, According to the Students snippets of history from the first 10 yearbooks

  

  committment to diversity. In fact, as early as 1917, the Boston Daily Globe reported that "few, if any institutions, in the United States have a higher ... start in the 20th century. It started in 1885, when the first MIT yearbook

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 27, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jon and me how I came to see the world

  

  September 11th, 2001. I was a freshman at a new school in a new town in a new state; in fact, I was still living in an extended stay hotel with my ... make sense of them again. I watched TDS nearly every night in high

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Champagne, pistols, and my new UROP blogging in a power outage. that's hardcore. though anna beat me to it.

  

  There are many legendary stories of perseverance in history.  Custer ... you may know, legend says there is always a light on in the Green ... working.  And if there ever comes a time when there are no lights on in the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt. 3 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Techiya and Beyond.

  

  Jewish, but a few (such as me) aren’t. Many of our songs are in ... all necessary. In the past, most of the non-Jewish members had at least ... wanted to be in Techiya, not because they wanted to be in the Chorallaries

  • by ARTalk
  • May 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A major problem is not a major problem Why the text next to my picture is lying to you.

  

  major in Course 2 or 6 (translation: Mechanical Engineering or Electrical ... still in its embryonic stages, shuttled off my finished webpage into the abysmal depths of the Internet, and didn't capitalize any proper nouns in

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT women Rockin' the two X chromosomes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  

  I've noticed, in my travels around the country and the internet, that people are really interested in the experience of female students at MIT. I ... people are interested in this question, I find it decidedly odd... sort of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Michael Xiang: Double UROP Extraordinaire! Michael Xiang has two UROPs, one at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and another…

  

  investment. On average, UROPers spend eight hours in the lab per week and a lot ... . You can imagine how awesome Michael Xiang, a junior in Biology with minors in Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering, must be for having not one

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 7: Philly Part 4 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  At the end of my last entry, I was sitting in the Tampa airport ... landed in Philly around 10PM. After getting my luggage, I took the shuttle ... . You're in spot A-12." Okay, I thought. A midsize instead of a compact

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goldilocks and the n HASS classes too hot, too cold, just right. on picking a hass class.

  

  interested in the material and can therefore contribute and participate more ... semester in her blog, and since Mitra is just so cool, those classes that also appear in my list will be marked with an (M). Here are the classes

  • by Bryan
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bruno Recalibration

  

  It was 86 degrees F in Boston on Wednesday! A blooming tree in front of the Senior House dormitory Now, I'm in New Jersey for the ... coming in for the festivities. Most of us know each other as we chose to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  the first day of work lessons i'm learning

  

  one. it's nice to have slack in your schedule. and by slack, i don't mean laziness, or the messaging app. in business, before slack became ... referring to free space in a schedule, like a buffer period. but there's a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  bloggers.addAll( newBloggers); System.out.println("Hello, World!");

  

  Snively). In addition, we are welcoming a new guest blogger from GEL, the ... recommend trying again next summer. I got in as a sophomore, the second time I ... sprites and an undiagnosed dark force. Right now he lives in East Campus. He

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Poetry Prescriptions Things I've Made and Consumed. Sophomore Fall, All of It.

  

  Scene: Monday night in a green boarding house. Poetry books, cookie ... lively murmur and a beat in the background. IAP is one week in. I spent ... hours in the architecture studio and a full day of presentations and

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Systems and Light [by Miren Bamforth '15] Even MIT's art scene is a little nerdy.

  

  and two other ARTalk bloggers in 21M.A12 (Arts at MIT), I would like to ... endeavors have included sitting in on Senior Lecturer Anna Kohler ... exhibit. We went to Litchballett (literally, ‘light ballet’ in

  • by ARTalk
  • October 28, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Radia Perlman ‘73, Mother of the Internet Radia Perlman has three MIT degrees and more than 80 patents.

  

  To follow up on my recent entry about women in engineering: did you ... earlier this year. (And, for the record, I think in the picture at right she ... the few women in the field. At a vendor meeting where engineers were

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  statistics. Daniel Kahneman won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2002 for showing, among other things, that people in general are terrible at ... and a 2/3 chance of saving none. In this version, people prefer the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Why Is There No Water? One of the most important things in your life is invisible to you until it…

  

  A lot of people living in the United States don’t understand how ... inspired to write this post by a tumblr question I received while in Ethiopia ... is the village in Kaffa, Ethiopia where I've been doing the water

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Memories I know this feelin', yes I know it very well (Thutmose)

  

  you all. When I left MIT in 2018, I "graduated" with the first class I helped admit. It felt poetic, in a way. I embarked on a new career as a ... acclimated to my new community, the louder the whispers in my head became

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • January 25, 2025