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• Blog / MIT Life

  Construction Thoughts on a major.

  

  *Ahem*. When I applied to MIT, I put down on my application that my probable choice of major (or however it is they ask you what it is you want ... , I built a bike. Working at MITERS, one of MIT's student groups which I

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 26, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Camberville

  

  I'd heard that Anna '02 (like Rax, an alum of my hall, and now a grad ... Ave, I'll be fine. Mass Ave is south of here, near Porter Square. Elm ... intersection of Mass Ave and Main, there was road work, so I turned down Main

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Am I rural or small-town? Read on to learn about what a taco bell index is

  

  from a rural or small town?". This is an iteration of one of the most ... consider {insert town name I have never heard of} a small town in their ... the inherent strengths of this experience. So this is where I come in

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • May 19, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Hitchhiker’s Guide to CPW DON'T PANIC.

  

  Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation ... to be taking over MIT's campus in five days. You may have heard of it ... but a pale imitation of the truth - valorous but vain attempts to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  IAP thoughts two weeks late, but with an illustration!

  

  -internship. I’ll be honest, I applied to this on a bit of a whim. I was sitting in ... the city and vibe, visit a ton of museums Clean my room and finally ... bit of a stretch, because I’m still catching up on the lectures for 8

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas a good semester ‘twas :’( the end of Pass/No Record

  

  took off, Boston dropped beneath me, a sea of darkness cut through by millions of nighttime lights. I pressed my face to the window, not quite sure how I felt. It was this strange mixture of disbelief and excitement. My

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 29, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  one weekend in March a play-by-play

  

  feeling pretty stressed and mentally out of it for a few weeks so I’m hoping ... trips to Denmark and the UK, when she encountered lots of people who made ... algorithm, which is a cool way of doing parameter estimation for complicated

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  .) (Or, actually, since last week, when a friend of mine from Tufts said I ... more productive. For those of you who can't conceive of inventing time travel, this might be the next best thing to help keep yourself abreast of

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Starting Over it feels like this every time but this time it's different

  

  , everything was new, from the campus to the classes to the experience of living ... orientation, and I felt [annotation note="I was older than most of the other ... started blogging junior fall because I wanted to write, and I chose to apply

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Hesitations about Choosing MIT our experience

  

  A couple days ago in the blogger slack, Petey sent a screenshot of a ... lot of ppl are concerned about choosing MIT due to it being more ... field, because STEM is what consumed most of our classes and time and

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 28, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fact: Architecture majors have to code I don't remember signing up for this

  

  4.113 - Applied Architecture Design Studio I, we have to code...with programming languages. A few of us have some programming background, but for the rest of us (me!) it’s like … I don’t know, catching up with the rest of

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 22, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions….. Don't Panic!

  

  applying so I hope you guys don't. D-day is a day of extremes, lots of people ... 't explain (the likes of which you won't see again until prom) and bandwidth-crippling refreshes of https://decisions.mit.edu/verify.php. If this sounds like you

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 1

  

  Part 2 of today's Q&A... Possible future MIT Mom asked in regard ... , after the winter/Christmas break). Regardless of schedules, MIT dorms are ... Campus dormitory; he moved his stuff in August of 1996, and didn't move his

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] art and things zine making + what makes us, us + thank you cambridge + yomp

  

  . I’m from the East Bay of California. I share a birthday with Mitski ... clear that this is a tech school. Outside of classes, people are making ... ’s part of what makes things exhilarating or exhausting, depending on the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I My Spanish adventures!

  

  sister of my friend Martín. (Their family used to live in Madrid when they were kids. Their parents moved with them to the US, but 3 of the 4 ... was in most of my classes in high school (Spanish included), and even

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 9, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an infinite nine year old and the infinite nineteen year old he became

  

  because of something called ‘snow.’” That would, however, be the most false ... it multiple times before the day of this story. I was nine and grew up ... believed that one of the most important things that you could do was travel

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • September 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  people, and so I will not apply that to myself I'm still kind of upset ... .600[/annotation] exam last week. At risk of sounding dramatic, I don't even need to ... asleep mid-exam; and, as a result, because I left most of it blank. cue

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Rush Course 12 what it’s like to study Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT

  

  Sciences (EAPS) and it’s one of the smallest majors at MIT, despite the breadth of our department. We study everything from the origins of life to ... lot of words, but more generally I’m interested in the chemical traces

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Flourish and Blogs how to be a professional harry potter fan

  

   side of MIT, and especially love their nexus, MIT's Center for Civic Media ... sort of a broad overview of media studies at the graduate level. Anyway ... campus as a CMS alumna, MIT lecturer, and cofounder of what might be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 30, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Call For A Good Time a weekend of coffee shop networking

  

  last year of blogging the year I started thinking about applying to MIT ... was whisked off for a day of exhilarating, platonic adventure ... : this weekend reminded me of it. Several weekends ago, I was having

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 2, 2011