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• Blog / MIT Life

  GUYS IT SNOWED!! yayayayyaayy

  

  ’re just on autopilot. And then the site loads! And for the first time, I don ... >:([/caption] After fooling around outside for a while we headed to ... for the last month or so, and every once and a while a [four days from

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How phonology explains wordplay in Tagalog songs armchair linguistics

  

  music, although it's rather dated. I draw on Tagalog to show ... , exactly, is a phoneme? There's substance to this question. For example, when ... pairs to play with. For example, [annotation note="All song links go to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can I apply for first-year admission if I already have a degree?

  bachelor's degree may not apply to MIT for a second degree in a new field. To pursue graduate study at MIT, you need to apply to one of our ... MIT doesn't accept applications for first-year admission if you
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That fear of “falling behind” Exploring options @ MIT

  

  really, you can't afford to (with the default fear of not graduating on ... want to do. And that on the flip side of fearing "falling behind" is ... would tell my freshman self to explore more and don't be rigid for

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  Cells, Cells, and more Cells you've met me at a very course 20 time in my life

  

  the second project was focused on peptide engineering to capture heavy ... courses, classes, and post-grad plans, but for right now, I'm happy to feel ... to hopefully catch these blogs up to my current life, but instead of

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • December 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  making solar cells lessons from my nanotech class

  

  ’s too much technical background to explain. for now i’ll just say that you ... manner. for that reason alone i’m very grateful to have taken this class ... that i was taking the class nanotechnology: from atoms to systems (6

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 15, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Collections Simple

  

  thankful to MIT for letting me do something so niche for such a massive ... best two weeks of my life. I am so thankful I got to leave America for ... to for the entire duration of the trip. I am also thankful that I could

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments-ment Webcast A few comments on the past week.

  

  . Life after it happens is at least semi-solid enough to serve on a plate for dessert after you've poured it into a mold and refrigerated it for 4 ... Blogging, for me, has never been about immediacy. Life as it happens

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 5, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Epilogue An open letter about blogging, growing up, and the end of my first year at…

  

  experience, gently tugging on the writer's (aka, my) natural tendency to share ... MIT for a week. I was comparatively oblivious to the importance of ... 's equations. I couldn't have imagined that I would cook for 30+ people on a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 21, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Experiment… featuring Emily '22, Felix '23, and Alison '23

  

  . These emails weren't scheduled to send for another six months, [annotation ... draw MIT-inspired art similar to what you would find on Chilled Cow or ... things to grace this earth pls experience it for yourself if you haven

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second Home You're in your room doing a pset. I'm in my lab making science happen.

  

  while waiting for gels to run or blots to transfer :P) But yeah. I want ... sure you keep the lid on to reduce to the noise when you spin samples. B ... "practiced" by pipeting water from a beaker to another beaker for a good half

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 30, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Fam Takes the MFA Photodump of semi-artsy pictures ahead

  

  't until 6 AM by MIT rules. Elizabeth was kind enough to organize a trip to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts for us. It happened to be somewhat early ... and the blogger fam for the great study break, and here's to many more!

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  've taken have been invaluable for this. They've given me the confidence to ... Sometimes I get so engaged by a project that I forget to eat. Yesterday, I woke up at 7:35am.  Starving, I got a sandwich to-go at the

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

  Curseroad MIT class roadmaps that shouldn’t exist but theoretically could

  

  . That’s why we have CourseRoad – a website for planning what classes to ... even the average number of hours for each class (based on course ... on your planned roadmap. Want to schedule 200 classes in your sophomore

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Little things that remind me im not home

  

  had to wait for a natural break in the traffic before you step on a ... -student-friends for suggestions, and I’m too lazy to format this in any coherent way, so ... and had to get to the other, you went on an overpass. A footbridge

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 15, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions

  

  things going on but it would be cool to hear people's thoughts about the ... and i'm sure that they have more than enough fun to compensate for ... never expect to find there. For example, while hanging out with some

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Rats ! Foiled Again !

  

  I did… kind of poorly on an exam recently. This exam (which was for 6.s966, Symmetry for ML) means nothing, in the end. I’ve finished my major requirements; I’m taking classes for my MEng early, so, in theory, I

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Firehose Warning: insomniac blogger on the loose.

  

  's enough time for me to assure each and every one of you, right now, of this ... 'clock last night, with some breaks for sleeping and eating, I have spent most of my time immersed in the intricacies of addition reactions to alkenes

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where are you going, where have you been? (Part I) Academics.

  

  every night, to have missed out on this education. It doesn't even ... cooking dinner with my boyfriend and he was telling me about his visit to UCSC. He had gone to see a friend from high school who was either a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 27, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  stories and decision paralysis

  

  there really isn’t any reason i need to be working in stem. for instance ... , refusing to make decisions of my own and simply waiting around for the end of ... a few weeks ago someone wanted to shoot a music video and needed a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 8, 2023