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• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have such cool friends! A guest post by a good friend of mine from my undergrad days.

  

  't interest you and figure out a way to combine those things that do. You'll be ... . Building robots turned out to be harder than I had anticipated. I had built a ... first UROP at the robotics lab. In the same way that I had wanted to

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2009
• Blog / Community Projects

  Affirmations not unnecessary

  

  learn and get better at math. In a way that allowed me to be me. I guess I ... understand just how brutal mathematics can be. As if, I was lying to myself by ... to be. ... Beyond being an optimist, I'm a mathematician. Or at least

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

  So You Want to Declare a Double Major? This is why/how I'm doing it, in case you were curious

  

  I'm going to start this out with a quick disclaimer: no, a double ... being nice to them will be integral to the smoothness of your major ... that I've taken so far, though, I've found the CMS department to be much

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 5, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity, Part 2 How your laptop screen works

  

  ; white is the sum of all the colors, and all colors can be described by ... " as another? You might be tempted to suggest that twice the amount of ... significant with greater amounts of light. Your eye works this way because being

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sleepless Nights And how I've been spending them

  

  thought there was no better way to summarize second semester than by ... there’s a way to balance the three as long as you're organized and realize ... , reservations were (understandably) very hard to come by. The only available time

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 26, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  A Day at the Beach: Quick Trips From MIT The ocean is only a short train ride or drive away!

  (or going to college) in the Boston area is a real luxury because the ... train or a ferry. This means that the trips wind up being really affordable and you don't need a car. If you want to stay closer to MIT, though

  • by mitblogs
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Splash. Was. Awesome. I taught: 3 classes, 5 sections, 246 kids.

  

  Room, for teacher registration. To be fair, it's no less chaotic in here ... my pizza horizons - I used to be a strictly mozzarella, or mozzarella ... , and elbow my way through the hall and up the stairs to my first

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1

  

  -science/engineering department. Michael wrote, "I'm hoping I'll be able to double-major in 6 ... can be in your HASS major, which goes a long way towards completing the ... advisor during Orientation in the fall. Before that, you'll be introduced to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Food Truck Song What do food trucks dream of?

  

  area has recently become home to several food trucks - from quick and tasty quesadillas at Jose's Mexican Restaurant to $4 pad thai at ... bucks a sandwich.. Well then we'll go to Cosi. I'll be here all week

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Since U Been Gone While I was out, the world changed. (UPDATED)

  

  that it would be best not to chance it, even with a concurrent entry by ... spring break it would probably be hard to implement a fully functioning T ... by Ruth Graves Wakefield in 1937. She was working at the Toll House Inn

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  all amazing- driven, motivated, really smart, and fun to be around. The ... really really pretty inside: There were way too many events that I went to ... , which mostly everyone went to, as evidenced by this picture: There was

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Always the Art Kid many many many identities

  

  remember the first job I ever wanted to be was an interior designer. I drew ... smile. While my desire to be an interior designer[annotation note="I soon ... [annotation note="which will thankfully never be read by anyone"]started a Wix book

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 28, 2023
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Thoughts from the Other Side MIT through a different lens

  

  was going to be us after our exams were finished... After all, we ... to be A TON OF WORK (ie, I'm working on the weekends) which can be ... about Cambridge- Being able to explore such a beautiful little city on

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 30, 2014
• Blog / Summer

  my summer! a belated blog

  

  the closest I ever got to be consistent. I also made an effort to eat ... transportation by myself was to get to a local university for my summer internship ... to Cape Cod for the first time! I went to Boston Commons way too many

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 18, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Waiting Game hit submit time to quit

  

  "You're good to submit!". I was kind of doubtful seeing as how quickly I ... basically going to be my MIT essays copied into the UC portal and an easy ... ?". After years of never really finding an answer, I had come up with ways to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Moms We stand on the shoulders of giants....!!

  

  this would be an especially good time to recognize my mom for her ... always been my strongest advocate, and pushed me to be a better version of ... (which I found to be one of few high school classes that was actually

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Write Academic Papers a look into how i wrote my final paper

  

  be really interesting to do my paper on spectatorship and Twitch and ... , as well as some keyword searches on Google Scholar. I decided to look back in my Google search history to see what phrases I looked up to find

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What happened since the end. Bringing you up to speed on life since I finished all my schoolwork. FOREVER. (You're…

  

  last thing I'd like to be doing right now. I'm actually pretty miserable ... deciding to go to sleep so we could be in lab within 3 hours to finish the ... really, really just wanted to finish. I told her I'd only be another half

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  prospective students ought to be asking about schools they're considering ... work is the virtue at MIT. MIT is often said to be more egalitarian than ... being with it and in it, and having motivation and desire to keep on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  biologist, I was always going to be a biologist! Biology was like the best ... . I did a thing that I had believed all my life was supposed to be a ... quick question to a nearby SIPB member, this was fixed. And "pony" was

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012