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  Majors

  

  term, departments will have individual seminars and open houses to get ... careers they would like to pursue or have one or two subjects that they ... exploration at MIT and if MIT has its way to help people find interests and in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 2, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  Affirmations not unnecessary

  

  learn and get better at math. In a way that allowed me to be me. I guess I ... who could get paid to research pure math? At what point did I stop ... to be. ... Beyond being an optimist, I'm a mathematician. Or at least

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask A VC Boston 2016 networking with over 20 venture capitalists all over the startup scene

  

  could pitch their startups to the venture capitalists and get feedback on ... networking afterwards because I had to get to another class, but I did learn a ... them were able to make it but I did get to talk to the ones that were

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a few new things is it too late to talk about the spring semester?

  

  easiest way to get me to do something is to convince me that I am either ... entire dorm mailing list, hoping that I'd get at least a few people to come ... my poetry getting better, could see the ways I was starting to use more

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] 10 Reasons I Joined Rocket Team

  

  leave for the launch site (if you were lucky enough to get some sleep ... Hi, Cami here. I'm so excited to bring to you this guest blog post by ... and loves talking about it so I wanted to give her the platform to do so

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 11, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  MNL → BOS → SFO we live in a so(ci)e(ty)

  

  tricycles, it was always possible to get from point A to point B in an hour on ... most reasonable option to get places. The size of the Bay Area also ... that I get to expense things, so it doesn't feel like I'm buying things

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Rush Course 12 what it’s like to study Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT

  

  as early as sophomore year, allowing us to get both depth and breadth ... ), which means you get to know your professors and the other students really ... everyone has to do field work, I’ve really enjoyed getting to go camping and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 6, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2014…The Parent Edition Suggestions for getting the most out of CPW when you are a parent

  

  all this time, I never cease to be thrilled to get to finally meet all ... 'll provide you with a full schedule when you get here but to get a head start ... over the next few days, there are lots of things to choose from and

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Real Snow! Real pictures this time.

  

  supposed to get 15 gallons of ice cream on Thursday morning that never showed ... and let everything defrost, but some of you were lucky enough to get ... week and it was blissful to get away from MIT and have some fun in the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / Community Projects

  Mystery Hunt mile markers portrait of the blogger as a young puzzler

  

  . I did move back, and now I'm delighted that I get to now help shelter ... Not only the blogs' birthday—in trying to decide what to write, I discovered one of my old draft blog posts turned 10. Ten years ago, almost to

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  papurgatory I am demolishing my print budget and my solitary working habits

  

  would also get me to actually read these papers. It did not. I carried a ... note="in fact, I started this blog to avoid reading it! but it has now ... ’t start out this week expecting to be in this position, but here we are

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! part 1 of art, food, and churches

  

  .S., getting on a flight to Milan was quite a struggle. All flights to the New ... customer representative for an hour and a half to keep the second leg of the journey valid, I booked a bus to NYC and booked it there. Hence, when I

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 5, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Seniors let's talk

  

  corner. You’re excited about getting to finally be your own person.You can ... essays are not unique enough. You’ve put in years of hard work to get into ... year left and a whole lot of stuff to do. And whether you choose to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 17, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF, BAMF, and other west coast adventures planning my next two weeks

  

  . ISEF will take up lots of my time, so I won't get to do much else in LA ... 'll get back in Boston on Saturday morning, just in time to catch the final ... to San Francisco. I'll be spending two weeks on the left coast for a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On the DUSP Course 11: Urban Studies and Planning

  

  few of my friends in DUSP, and their stories about getting here ... office in Ghana   When I came to MIT I knew I wanted to major in civil and environmental engineering because I wanted to eventually work on

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  New Year’s Resolution …of sorts. Since New School Year’s Resolution doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.

  

  Thanks to the agrarian principles our society was founded upon, a new year within a year is beginning. The school year, to be precise. Crops ... (here are a couple). And every new year, I find his musings to be just as

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doing What You Love it's both priceless and utilitarian

  

  . And getting paid any reasonable amount to do what you love is basically ... major, biology, 'useless'. Shocked, I asked her to elaborate. She felt ... 's a terrible metric for uselessness.) But the same is true, to varying

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Musings on Colorful Balls (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ramya '14!

  

  ). Basically I wanted to get the most fun out of my stay per unit time. Hey, from ... that getting into MIT was for real, and not an accident. I didn't want to ... Wesomeness." (The C didn't want to join the little acronym party, because its still

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-ing the Weekend (Guest Entry) ...even though it is technically two days longer than a weekend.

  

  , and I had to leave before the second round finished to get some ... the bible to free food, free stuff, parties, meetings, and other activities that spanned the course of the four days. Have nothing to do? Look

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Because one story just isn’t enough My tale of being admitted. Laugh. Cry. Both. Neither. All of the above?

  

  would be fun to read. Be warned - I may (read: will) overdramatize a good ... day tubes made it to South Florida, Neha '10 (that's Mr. Neha to you and ... came, so she drove to school to give her the tube. Kris '10 and I were in

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 14, 2006