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• Blog / Majors & Minors

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

  

  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 ... because I would be able to do anything tangible with it. And before anyone

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The things that can change your life…

  

  we wanted to do hall rush the way it was supposed to be done, not to ... ), but we moved 5th East up from 9th to 5th in our rankings. It was the ... us, and it turned out to be the right place for both of us. But if it

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Sneak Preview (to next) Weekend let's just pretend I managed to backronym CPW in the title

  

  somehow forgot to submit the event on the left on time, it's not on the ... . Plus, it's a lot more fun to roam freely through events and around campus ... 's incredibly creepy (not to mention unhygienic). You can just talk to them

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How To Make (almost) Anything

  

  normal How To Make.) Anyway, last week's assignment was to use the laser ... neither one can hide that I usually live my life lost in abstract-land without anything to tether me down to things that actually exist. So to

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  On Tortillas and Community An update from a year and a half ago.

  

  myself, “Well that’s something, ain’t it?” I quickly called my parents and ... my transition from pueblerina to big city girl. A year and a half has passed since that blog post and I’d like to give you an update. When I

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  A person can develop a cough. Simultaneously the coldest and hottest entry I've ever written.

  

  world is? Well, I will tell you. It is going to the Zesiger Center to go ... the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System can do to you. Despite my cold, I ... thing I said to the lab assistant was, "Can you give me a hand? I have no

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done done done end-of-semester happiness

  

  it, still struggled to wrap my head around material--but i guess i managed to scrape through it. it was the kind of thing where i felt like i ... of problems i like to think about using the sorts of tools that i think

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 24, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  area; it can be in any of these fields. You don't have to concentrate in ... RIAA to see it. Answer: I used to use Kazaa. But I do not now, partially ... your bed to be, although the highest you can get it is about 3.5 or 4

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How do you know when you’ve chosen the right major?

  

  quantify or plot. But this is what it means to me: Fit is having at least ... these 18 months can't be described with equations or Greek letters. It ... . Confident enough, as it happens, to break away from MIT - to take next

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Parliamo Italiano! And some other languages too.

  

  at MIT: And individual tape recorders you can use to listen to them ... rooms which you can use to watch a foreign language film with some friends ... have a lot of similarities, so I'm already used to conjugating verbs and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside the box In which I start a new life at pika, etc.

  

  dear to civilization. No matter how gingerly, how mildly I tug it open ... takes on average 20 seconds to wriggle the drawer back into its proper ... seconds to spell “hierarchy” successfully, but it's summer after all and I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 25, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  The Swim Test Saga Four laps (and zero displacement) closer to graduation

  

  drowning. If drowning seems plausible, an individual can opt to take an ... ?" Me: "Hi. I'd like to take the swim test, and I was wondering if I can arrange to take it now since there's a lifeguard free." Swim office lady

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 22, 2013
• Blog / How to MIT

  loftblogging 3: liberation via customization i <3 process

  

  tutorial hours to help teach residents how to use the equipment and with loft ... practical piece of furniture opened my space to all sorts of customization—it ... static piece of my room, it's a living structure that will continue to grow

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 26, 2025
• Blog / Personal Projects

  The Oreo Post i tried them all* !

  

  . I think it would almost be true to say that I've tried all the flavors ... it to the end (or if you give up early due to length :P) I think you ... through each flavor in the order I tried it and give a quick review and some

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 29, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  growing over time continuing to become myself

  

  I can be good at it when I have the right environment to help me ... manage than it used to be. I went to therapy regularly during the last year ... like my thoughts can be pretty weird. Maybe people mostly come to these

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 31, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Profiles in Courage My neighbor could kill you or save your life with her bare hands.

  

  turned in a problem set that was 47 pages long. CPW rocked it, yo. Special thanks to my prefrosh George for being really independent and finding his ... top of it. So I woke up Monday morning to find that there was a five

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  You can get anything you want… ...excepting Alice. Or a good blog entry.

  

  It's been hectic for past few days; I had my first German vocabulary test yesterday and I had to learn like ein bazillion words for that, and I've also been really busy working on problem sets. It'll just be

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 17, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  institutional memory cruft are cool!

  

  "institutional memory" a lot. it refers to the knowledge that's shared between the ... meetings. but it takes time to set up the infrastructure for good knowledge transfer, and it's easy to forget something small, like transferring a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  We’re Only Getting Older

  

  satisfaction of acquiring knowledge, and the opportunity to use it. It is ... general. About aging, and feeling so… lost. About how difficult it can be to ... this happens; It’s probably some combination of the pressure to be happy

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 5, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  College must-haves My advice on what to get for college!

  

  can buy from Bed Bath & Beyond or something) to make it easier to ... the price. You can also look around your hometowns for used bikes or ask ... 't live without my fridge in Next. You might be able to get a used one, I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 2, 2006