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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Double diplomas The only thing better than one MIT degree is TWO MIT degrees!

  

  being pedantic. A "double-major" generally means that one gets a single ... , because I should be listed as a year 3 student with a second major in VII-A. You may notice there are no year 3 VII-A's listed. Yep.) The MIT

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pursuing multiple fields

  

  Aha! We have a question! Jon asks "Also, I was wondering (uh oh here's a question) if you could tell me how easy it is to double major in two ... DiffEq) math subject So, that's a total of 156 units beyond the General

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  “That is NOT an ice cream flavor.” wasabi + ginger + ice cream = disaster

  

  I think FUN would be a good way to describe this weekend. THURSDAY Thursday night, my friend Diana and I went to a free showing of Forrest Gump ... The Patriot which is a movie I have yet to see in it's entirety

  • by Bryan
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer days, driftin’ away

  

  A parent posted a great comment on my last entry, with too much to talk about for one entry (especially since I have a hockey game to play ... to a camp like RSI for admission purposes - other than for its own sake

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2004
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i will meet zendaya even if it’s the death of me a wide-ranging rant written while feverish

  

  I've always been a little bit of a hypochondriac, and while that is probably connected to a lot of deeper things than this blog can go into ... weekend here, a whole four days before classes started, I got COVID for the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 26, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  We’re Only Getting Older

  

  (a/n: My birthday was a few weeks ago! So this blog is just slightly ... twenty in four days.  I always cry on my birthday. I think this is a ... different. I’ve spent a lot of time crying recently.  I have a number of

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 5, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Sophomore Stupid It’s morbin’ time

  

  gave it my all. I used every bit of time I had left to slap together a talk and a fireshow, write a 10 page essay, and study for my two finals ... worked a little harder during the semester. I am satisfied with the things

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  17 Ridiculously Useful Tips Every Blogger Should Know i am the entire circus

  

  Whether you blog for a job and get paid by the hour, or you're writing yardlong screeds in a blog that no one reads, you probably know how ... . It's a great example showing everything I'm talking about! 1. Begin

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Sensations On Having Feelings

  

  behind and I cook the vegetables for a few minutes only, the fewer the ... illumination created by a single open window in a darkened apartment complex. The ... ’t have the words to explain it, but this poem has such a power to evoke

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 9, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Friday Night, Off-Campus Style come along on our evening of fish and wine

  

  options (such as: exploring the city, socializing, trying a new recipe, visiting a favorite restaurant, or catching a movie!) it can be a hard ... past midnight. These days, my Fridays tend to be a bit more low-key. In

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  love languages in the little things

  

  Here's a list of things that I consider love languages, because the ... .   Heart-shaped things are a love language. I love this time of year ... is currently having on my bank account whenever I walk into a store

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 6, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2021 Reflections & 2022 Resolutions

  

  resolutions I accomplished in this list, as well. 2021 Resolutions Go to a ... Celebration, a three-day conference for women in computer science. It was so ... really getting a feel for what is out there for me in the computer science

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  I've sort of been implying this on the blogs for a while now, but I've been having a crisis over whether to go to grad school or not. And as ... overwhelming amount of exhaustion. I am doing much less than I ever have in a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Regrade Request Analysis points, please?

  

  Several classes I've taken at MIT use a platform called gradescope ... , which features: Clear standards: Instructors can include a rubric ... which they award points. Students don't just see a total score – they see

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  finding direction reasonable goal-setting? who is she?

  

  any of the goals i set. i was HYPED about starting a bullet journal a few weeks ago, and dedicated a few hours to laying out everything and outlining my goals for this quarantine. i also made a habit tracker for some

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 23, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  An Origin Story Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the Jinchūriki

  

  start at the beginning. Now that I think about it, the beginning makes a ... students who are about to start a new chapter in their lives. So, where’s my ... high time for me to find a job and start my life. There was one problem

  • by kellen manning
  • January 28, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  🎶Jauntily Sauntering Ambling Shambler🎶 Yes, those are actual lyrics from the musical I was just in

  

  I thought I would be okay a whole three weeks out, but even during ... loudly. The diagnosis is clear: I have a solid case of post ... , you know the feeling. About a month ago, MIT’s Musical Theater Guild

  • by Powers '23
  • December 20, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Burnout (and what to do about it) learning how to recharge a low battery

  

  Burn-out is a syndrome conceptualized as resulting from chronic ... by three dimensions: a) feelings of energy depletion or exhaustion; b ... a bit absent from the blogs lately. It's not from a lack of ideas of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Holding pattern undergrad | me | graduation

  

  I never thought I'd say this, but I'm kind of bored. A combination of not being an athlete + a lighter class schedule + spring break + being a ... . Logistically, ~15 hours of my week suddenly opened up. Emotionally, I miss it a

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 6, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Summer in Boston what happens outside MIT

  

  to a big city. It only takes 10 minutes to get downtown from East ... shop, eat, see a movie, or simply take a walk down the Freedom Trail to ... ) Faneuil Hall is both a reminder of Boston’s glorious revolutionary past and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 3, 2017