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• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  to MIT certain of one thing: I would never be an engineer. In eighth ... exact, but it just never seemed to work out.  By the time I had to choose ... , and, to be honest, I wasn’t even interested. You can therefore

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s All Going To Be Okay I won The Game!

  

  's not, I do have two quick pieces of advice I would like to share before I ... - really, it is all going to be okay. Whether the admissions decisions are ... embrace and dedicate yourself to whatever options life throws your way will

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Fun in NYC Part 1 Never be afraid to go straight to the top.

  

  . The show is claimed by the promoters to be the largest toy trade show in ... jovially all the way there. When we arrived we were greeted by a giant ... main street we went into the cafeteria and were spoken to by many members

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  18 and Counting Congratulations, Professor Diamond!

  

  ", or the costs attendant to searching for employment in down labor ... committee are mysteries to me, but if I had to hazard a guess, it'd be to Tim ... excellent age for wine, or so I'm told by the sommelier app on my phone. It

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 11, 2010
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Walking the Kerry Way journal of my fourth day in Ireland

  

  :45 and vowed to turn around by 4:30, so that I could be back by 8:00, an ... ’m trying to be polite, hence being curled on the sofa outside of our room. I ... -cooked oats. It goes way faster in a pan than a pot, too. Perhaps the thing to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  How To Fumble Your Way Through MIT and Still Turn Out Pretty Okay Step 1: Fumble. Step 2: Turn out pretty okay.

  

  ago, I decided I wanted to be a doctor when I grew up. (A brief ... student, I did not want to be a doctor when I grew up.) As a result, I ... working full-time, because that seems to be a thing that self

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  a farewell to my phone which hurled itself repeatedly into the icy arms of death

  

  being insufficient to guide me, and set to eke out directions on my own. I ... walking directions, but I was so used to being able to double-check that I ... another repair shop that stocked 3a screens. “By the way, sorry if I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 14, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  informed 1,622 students that we will not be able to offer them admission this ... can be a difficult decision to receive, but honestly, it works out okay ... Class of 2024. I'll be closing comments on this post to focus the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Misconceptions initial thoughts from a first-gen college student

  

  before coming to MIT, so I knew the learning curve would be pretty significant, but I quickly learned I wouldn't be able to handle the class along ... to the humanities, but I’ve quickly learned that this just isn’t true

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 30, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Color by Numbers

  

  Economy Hardware? Sam's blog, of course.) To be fair, it's really not that ... lot of fun, especially after we decided to make a quick stop at Star ... .) After this, I had to leave for field hockey practice. I knew I'd be gone

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist and transfer: quick update No decisions yet, but some notes & reminders.

  

  here's a quick update. Waitlist It's still too early to know whether or ... students choose to enroll by the May 1 deadline. After that time, we will ... letter, or a phone call. Keep us up to date all the way through May 1 and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  ways of saying goodbye joint post with CJ '23!

  

  being, and you can be grateful for them, even if they were never meant to ... of our favorite media. goodbye mit :’) for a fun challenge, try to ... And I still think back to that summer And I hate that I still remember

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Two New Kittens hundreds of pictures.

  

  what happened to colin's computer: If you go into my google search ... having to be rescued and then getting a shower afterwards my vacuum cleaner being woken up and held by people just cause they're so darn cute being

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 12, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i ran out of social energy and other great ways to say no

  

  courtyard for rush, and this year is no different. in fact, i signed up to be ... quickly. it's kind of been something that's occupied, maybe four to eight ... that's specifically designed to get lots of sign-ups, kinda like search

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 18, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The O.C. My first Central Meeting of the year.

  

  geographic traits to New Orleans, Venice. A quick Google news search produced a ... " O.C. on September 28th). My visit to Orlando, by the numbers ... prevention is always the best cure. "We have to learn that things have to be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Be A Blogger 2015! TAKE THE PLUNGE

  

  " 3) It's time for those of you who might want to be bloggers to TAKE THE PLUNGE What does it mean to be an admissions blogger ... authentically. We can’t write about what it’s like to be in a Sadoway

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 14, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Class of 2010: Wondering Where Everyone Is Living? Find orientation housemates/roommates.

  

  ! If anyone wants to add themselves, his email address is on the page. The address is: https://scripts-cert.mit.edu/~paniagua/tempdorms/index

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Way We Live Saunas make me think

  

  showed me...it might be time to pencil in some downtime. Although the ... to the jimjilbang, happy to be sheltered from the brutal winds of ... nothing. Paying to relax and get pampered may be on the calendar for the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 7, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day at the Forge blacksmithing!

  

  . Everything else you have to hammer by hand. Iron bends more easily when it ... of the heart has to be long enough to poke through, and the circles have to be wide enough to let it. Everything needs to be sized precisely

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Stories from High School you wouldn't want to be caught with MMS

  

  , whose bags were packed, who was waiting to be kicked out by force. We ate ... shortest queue, and mumbled to him, “After you”, a way of securing our spot ... students—from grades seven to twelve—occupied a distinct row or two. And by

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 5, 2017