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• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Choosing a Major there are so many

  

  , some have less, but you do kinda have to map out a courseroad if you ... majors here, and it’s hard to choose. # “What course are you?” a tour guide ... anyone who goes to MIT,” a bearded farmer told me when I worked on a farm

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 20, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  four weeks in the life a google calendar time capsule

  

  something fun to do — go through (approximately) the same week every year that ... commentary about the things that I am (or was) up to. Without further ado ... : we have a weekly meeting on Sundays to help plan our competitions! With

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 4, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Unity

  

  simplicity of daily routine, implicit enough to be anything but noteworthy. Grades seven to twelve of my education in Nigeria were spent in a boarding ... . Early morning wakeups led to grumbling sounds and shuffling feet; a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 30, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some virtuosos play $4 million violins, and some Trojan heros wear brass rats $4 million violins, not 4 million violins. Joshua Bell isn't *that* intense.

  

  the great fortune to be an MIT Arts Scholar I attended four EXCELLENT ... I cry. When my kids perform in the 2030s/40s they're going to hear ... walked to Killian Hall and was totally astonished when the ticket collector

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Alpha Delta Phi To Be The Best of Men

  

  -lost enough to tread memory lane, at least two events stand out in my mind ... -generation... If both your parents went to MIT... If you intend to major in the ... to political identities, from cultural backgrounds to academic

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo and physics and math, oh my 57 units of academic fun fun fun. Now with humanities!

  

  general excitement to begin my second semester at MIT (keep in mind this was back during IAP, before I'd started having to actually do any work for these classes), and you can hopefully understand why I was so excited to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Collective Apprehension Seems like my last entry freaked everyone out. No worries guys! You can do it!…

  

  So, a quick recap of my week before I launch into repsonses to the ... , people kind of freak out. So they want us EMTs to be familiar with the facility and to be able to properly deal with radioactive contamination

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore accumulations because i miss show and tell

  

  This week, as classes began to die down, I told a friend: "the only thing I gained this year was academic hardship." Sophomore year tends to ... myself working harder than I ever have to keep up. But there's much more

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • May 6, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Night at da Opera A Jolly Splendid Time!!

  

  trip options, we agreed to go to all three [an opera, a concert, and a ... how long this was supposed to be, and they told me FOUR HOURS. I signed ... ="111897" image5="111896" /] We went to see the opera “Lysistrata, or The Nude

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 1, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  Jill Biden waved at me D.C. during inauguration

  

  surreal moments that have happened while I've been here. *** Cut to the ... shops and randomly decided to eat at a fancy restaurant (Brasserie Liberte ... , "Just books?" As much as I wanted to impulsively blurt something sarcastic

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Events

  look at the stars hacking mit, six months at a time

  

  hackathons from around the world, and do everything else necessary to run a ... HackMIT, the club I sold my soul to at the beginning of freshman fall and ... this is a weekend where you spend a short amount of time trying to build

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 17, 2024
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Some Art About Other Art it's super meta

  

  my bookshelf, at the perfect vantage point to scornfully watch me. It ... ’s house. I underpainted it pink. It looks bad, and I don’t have the time to ... of guilt, pushing down the desire to grab my paint brushes, because I

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Chalk of the Week chalk art at the welcome center

  

  This summer, I got a side gig to put up chalk art in the Welcome ... wheels on them so you can roll them out into the lobby for visitors to see ... wondering how large of a range of places people are coming from to visit the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 27, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  10 Fun (and REAL) Facts About MIT! Incredibly Correct Facts about MIT!

  

  its contributions to the fields of science and technology. But do you ... alumni club living in the Charles River in an effort to convert MIT students to the "Way of the Beaver," a doctrine created by MIT students in

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  school projects aka why i havent been writing in the last few weeks

  

  of the projects were interesting and enjoyable to work on   i ... theory classes at mit. it assumes the ability to read knowledge as well as ... project is to compose a movement of a string quartet, and it’s cool because

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / Public Statements

  Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic) tl;dr: mostly the same as during normal times, but clarifying some points of anxiety

  

  /disrupted], and my 11th grade teachers barely got to know me. I feel like my ... have known me for a few weeks]. Who should I ask to write letters on my ... of regular and advanced classes, but..." — but they all boil down to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  sunset/sunrise swiftly flow the days

  

  [/annotation]at[annotation note='the actual result from psychology is much more specific to pedagogy ... .[/annotation]In contrast to Mel's remarkable recovery of her sleep schedule, however, my ... this is not very impressive to most high school students but it is very

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2020 i3 videos megapost your annual Interactive Introduction to the Institute

  

  first years typically consult MIT guide to residences while choosing where to live. This guide includes the Interactive Introduction to the Institute (I3) videos, which are produced by students to show off their life

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the Love of Darties and ChemE An audio journey

  

  .” Okay, it’s actually supposed to say “one week ago” but it definitely wasn’t good a week ago. Come to think of it, it wasn't necessarily amazing two ... a topic in mind to guide the conversation, I just wanted to see what

  • by kellen manning
  • March 26, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memory of a Greatly Beloved Establishment rip the stud subway

  

  Center is no more. This past weekend, Subway closed abruptly due to issues ... the entirety of the MIT campus. Indeed, what does the Stud have left to ... Dunks? Without a question, the only place the Stud has left to its name is

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 3, 2019