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  I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision

  

  This coming Tuesday, the major declaration form is due for freshmen. What follows is the very long and detailed crisis I had in picking my ... to go from general physics to anything astronomy-applied is far to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [Live Writing] MARC 2024 A big meeting about small things

  

    January 23, 5:00 pm Today is the first day of MARC 2024 (the ... this year! MARC is two days of very bright people from MIT (Makers of ... about these ideas, but such is life when I can only use the top ten

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  like a freight train a schedule post

  

  concept is introduced, and the cycle starts again. This class is making ... switch lanes or else you miss your exit. In contrast, 18.02 is a rural ... somewhat excited for this class. This is a seminar class with discussions

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 19, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  My Rejection Resume working up the courage to look failure in the eye

  

  actually getting an internship or a job. But as somebody who is now removed ... school. That's totally okay. In fact, the point of this post is mostly to ... is an honest-to-god life skill. Those of you who applied to MIT had to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Logistics and Planning packing, housing, strategy, and events

  

  Class of 2020 (<3), now with fewer minions memes. CPW 2018 is next ... matches visitors to hosts definitely works. Now, for us, CPW is a familiar event. The excitement of the new Class exploring MIT is extremely

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  day, which she analyzed by hand, because she was (and is) a beast. A ... is signal from sources a) here on Earth, that interfere with what ... telescope in West Virginia (where my data is collected) is a National Dark

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Pythagorean Triple of Awesome Otherwise known as the weekend of the 4th of July. Just another long weekend in…

  

  , I’m UROPing in the Doyle lab in the basement of building 66 (which is ... least once a week, and my life is awesome. Case in point. During the ... required to get across the bridge, even if you take Saferide, is sometimes

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • July 18, 2010
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining As it stands now

  

  This is another one of those entries that's going to make admissions cringe when they see the title. Dining is the current hot topic at MIT for ... short of it is that there are very few people on campus who can grasp

  • by Snively '11
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choosing a Major I hope this is helpful to you at some point

  

  harder than others and omg my friend says this class is impossible and don ... address the topic in a proper way. First, some questions. Is Physics major ... makes up ~7% of the class each year. Is that a lot? That's hard to say

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2009 Brass Rat My highly biased and personal opinions about Ring Premiere.

  

  Premiere, as its called, is one of the largest milestones of the MIT ... is anything like mine, it's got a pretty simple design. There's a ... things...a little differently. First, some history: the MIT class ring is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2007
• Blog / Announcements

  We are reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles in order to help us continue to build a diverse and talented MIT

  

  At MIT Admissions, our mission is to recruit, select, and enroll a ... education and culture. Everything we do in our process is grounded by our goal ... otherwise demonstrate their readiness for MIT. We believe a requirement is

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maseeh Hall: Pros and Cons this is a pros and cons list re: maseeh hall

  

  years. However, I’m sure not everyone is ok with this wily-nily method of ... in Maseeh. Note: This is not meant to be the definitive guide to ... . Convenient location on campus – Maseeh is located in the middle of campus

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 15, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT, Medicine, and Success from Any School thirteen years in a thousand words

  

  famous HM case, which is what spurred my interest in neuroscience in the ... out, proposed, got married, and the rest is history--we've been happily married, now with two dogs, for eleven years. The impact of meeting her is

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  updates cook or get cooked - summer boston edition

  

  and information - 6.7800 This is MIT's grad inference and information class. It is challenging. Each lecture has a bunch of content and it ... you learn a few things in this class, but mainly: what is the formal

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 30, 2024
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  We Stan Matt Parker i'll try not to mention the parker square

  

  lecture, and at some point thinking: "is this what mathematicians do all day ... questions was frankly a bit of a shock. And don't get me wrong, calculus is ... mathematician with a PhD is sitting in their office "researching" how to solve the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / MISTI

  go alone or you may never go at all

  

  "] ‎[/caption] The water is painted with soft teal waves and tinged with an amber ... market scene is just beginning to liven up. Crowds of people are shuffling ... .   1 There is an innate human fear in being by yourself. Survival

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • January 6, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  unpolished, initial form, complete with pauses and rephrasings, is here ... guess this is the right place." Most days, though, I just felt like ... —and is—a lovely museum, with so much to see. I had just started my journey

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  major, not a major crisis necessarily, though it certainly is a question ... true that is anymore. I think, in a vacuum, I love physics. But I don ... 's right there in my pset, how cool is that?? I just know my friends thought I had

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  gone was any trace of you i think i am finally clean

  

  thinking, "Is this it? Is this the love that everyone had talked about ... is a terrible pit of fear that it is not going to work, but I ... all the "Hi my name is..." or the "My deepest fears are...". I want

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  conversations with friends so many different ways to feel lost

  

  have direction again i think most people don’t maybe direction is kinda ... : okay so my take is that mit selects for people that like to or have a ... the other hand i think there is a portion of mit that does know how to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 21, 2021