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• Blog / Academics & Research

  majoring in 21E: frequently asked questions what it's like to study humanities at a stem school

  

  humanities. This means you get to choose one humanities field to concentrate ... all its worth, but I still gets lots and lots of questions about being a ... blogpost in an attempt to talk about it. What is 21E? I am not the first

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Some Saturday Thoughts a meandering, journal-type blag post

  

  --I worked really hard to get into a place where I would have to work even ... to at least get a decent grade. But now that’s mostly over--my classes ... ’t know, why sadness or burnout or all of those things seem to only get more

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  childhood and disney world trips

  

  getting excited to take photos with characters. I didn't allow myself to get ... , who gets excited to see Lightning McQueen, whose favorite movie is Cars ... twenty minute drive from Disneyland, I had plenty of opportunities to go to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 25, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Spring this time, with on-campus features!

  

  out of bed at 9:30 to get washed up. Morning stretching; Recently I ... classes like these are such a great way to get your body moving and back ... before, but I'm just excited to get a project down and ready. Friday

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our Room (formerly, THE Sal Khan’s Room) is Being Converted into WiFi! we made this post just for the title

  

  professor left the room, she turned to Danny and said, "Did you get the email ... .100 (Intro to Comparative Media Studies). The professor handed out ... email got sent out to the both of us and to two others who live in a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 29, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Is MIT too hard? warning: metaphors ahead

  

  .  And the reward? Getting to work on and take some ownership of the ... impossible.  And yet world-class marathon runners are able to run twenty-six back to back 4:45 miles.  How do they do it? The answer is that they

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 18, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 2: Hiking up a volcano at 15,000 ft (~4.5 km) Altitude sickness and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #3

  

  girls were lying on their backs, refusing to get up - and the guy from Sweden was promising them chocolate if they would only get up and go up to ... songs exclusively about beards!" - but they didn't really seem to get it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Last All-Nighter on mortarboards, machine shops, and graduating from MIT

  

  The night before graduation, I was about to turn in for a good night's sleep so that I could wake up early the next day to figure out how to pack ... and used to let my cat in and out when I was away, tumbled all these

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 13, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Going Social Thinking about MIT Admissions and social media.

  

  across otherwise. You get to be the dude or dudette who provides the hook-up. And we get to spread our message to people who might otherwise never ... cap and gown and preparing to walk at my high school graduation. Pomp

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  The Grandest of Road Trips Reflections on a cross-country road trip, on an international plane flight, on a full bladder.

  

  is many people? How did they get to be on this grand decision ... meal that doesn't come with fries. I'm also pretty excited to get totally ... I'm on a 13-hour flight from San Francisco to Tokyo, connecting

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 1, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and ends and Canada A study break, plus some other highlights of the week

  

  slices of bacon, which was equivalent to a 6-unit course in Not Getting ... , it's a time for residents to get together, enjoy free food, live up to ... My mother called me this weekend to ask if I was washing my sheets

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Freedom costs a buck-oh-five Question: What are two broke twenty-somethings to do on a pristine summer day in Boston?Answer:…

  

  too cool for this sort of thing. When you get to MIT for orientation ... to act like a tourist, but after that you have to pretend to be a jaded ... surviving building. Right next to the statehouse is a marker commemorating the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 8, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Entrepreneur’s Story How billionaire entrepreneur Pat McGovern '59 got his start.

  

  savings from my paper route and went down to the local hardware store to get ... organization in Philadelphia, and I ended up getting a scholarship to M.I.T. I ... MIT. I'm always interested in how such successful people get their start

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything is cool tl;dr I want to study too many things

  

  and noticing yourself getting better and being able to express more and ... policy. Now we’re getting to the area of unexpected whims. I took an ... , because ~college is a time to explore~ and the closer I get to my future the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  goodbye after so long and with so much love

  

  adventures, people with whom to get into trouble and then out of it -- was ... I was probably one of the youngest people ever to read the blogs. I ... newspaper. Sam and Mitra and Mollie, the earliest bloggers, were MIT to me

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Last Times waving goodbye to my MIT experience

  

  strategize to get the buy one get one free deals, and somebody would a Starbucks account would pay for everybody to get the extra stars. On Wednesday ... to the last times in my life, especially because I've realized recently

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 22, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  since i’ve been home

  

  seems ancient"]winter break.[/annotation] i'm trying to get better at ... it gets for basslines and for joe dart. now i'm trying to learn beastly ... convenient with respect to the current situation we all find ourselves in. if

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 3, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Holding pattern undergrad | me | graduation

  

  , but still managing to get through the questions with varying degrees of ... senior = I just want to graduate already. Let's break that down and ... ) mechanical engineering class, and (1) thesis in order to graduate. And that

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

  An unexpected discovery, from a few centuries ago It takes more than four years to get to know a place

  

  myself to not let myself get buried so far in my classwork that I don't take the opportunity to explore what's around me. It's really easy to get ... baked (here's the recipe, in case your mouth just started watering!). To

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wearing the apron This was written on an empty stomach

  

  out there, in the Real World™️, getting to use all of this cool ... while longer. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to get back to my stir ... cafeteria- you don’t have much of a say as to what goes on it. SAT Prep Pizza

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 8, 2017