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• Blog / Academics & Research

  year 2 of the course 2 how do you become a mechanical engineer, anyway?

  

  advisor)'s office on Tuesday in search for the answers to life, the universe ... you were wondering). And after chatting with Professor Seering for 15 ... 's just skip to the next point), Even with his whole morning booked up

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 5, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Aftermath Literally.

  

  This week has been a battle for all of us – I just finished my Multivariable final this morning; let us waddle in the Aftermath for a little bit ... , looking for answers – why you were rejected, deferred, or accepted, how you

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 17, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  In which I am no longer new here ...well, it's true.

  

  , and manage to look awesome every day when they show up (on time!) for ... love for pie is still only surpassed by my love for bacon and Arrested ... spend my life playing with brains, blowing stuff up, and curing cancer. My

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 11, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Full Circle Here's to yesterday.

  

  -school senior, I enrolled in Harvard's Secondary School Program for four weeks during the summer. Unfortunately, the science options for the summer were sort of lacking...so, instead, I signed up for an art history class

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Ambulance! Ambulance! So I'm in this serious long-term relationship.

  

  fact, today was the first time I've been back in my dorm for more than half an hour since returning to MIT on Sunday, and I was only home for ... chipmunk preparing for a very grueling natural disaster. Anyway.) Our service

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Classy celebration, 5E-style

  

  's Club" on hall, which included guests dressing up. The only problem was, I didn't have any "formal" clothes, especially not for warm weather. I ... discuss our respective plans for the Institvte. So I went to the Garment

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Last Lap and hoping to finish strong

  

  I've consistently done this type of post for [annotation note ... "]almost[/annotation] every semester till now, I figured that I'd do it for old times sake ... (Current Debates in Media): This is the capstone class for the CMS major

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Freshman Summer plans and progress

  

  Spring semester is here, which means summer is coming up soon, and while I’m excited for the sunny weather and the shorts ... frenzy looking for something constructive to do. Believe it or not, I

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Classes about the Brain That Blew My Mind and I just had to share

  

  for Biotechnology and Neuroscience, 10am-1pm. Next up is 9.24 Disorders ... back-to-back 3-hour neuroscience electives. I only needed to register for ... classes you can only take at MIT. Every week, we get a new guest speaker for

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

  Flourish and Blogs how to be a professional harry potter fan

  

  : Media Theories and Methods, the introductory course for the Comparative ...  side of MIT, and especially love their nexus, MIT's Center for Civic Media ... cofound what was, for a time, the largest Harry Potter fanfiction community

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

  I Love Lucy: Continued This time, the title even makes sense.

  

  : I said "BRB, homework", and it took a week. That's not unusual, for ... about keeping a car in the city. I love to drive; I've for a long time ... 've grown up on the stations in MA; my presets are ordered such that 104.1 is

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When Econ Comes to Life This has nothing to do with econ, but you should watch it.

  

  During your first day at MIT, after you check in for Orientation ... up in her room. At last count (beginning of the year this year), I ... , who won the 2002 Nobel Prize for Medicine for his work with the genetics

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not my college essay It's Blog Action Day and the topic is poverty.

  

  heaters and electric blankets for the coming winter. Although I'd love to ... shelter for the southern Californians here at MIT, I think we can agree that ... 's probably also difficult for you to think about the world beyond MIT (don

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  present tense “you've got to let go of the fear”

  

  . "you're in the water and your body tenses up. why? it's because of the fear. it's natural, it's instinctive, it's thinking that tensing up the ... viscerally remember shaking out of fear as i walked up to the doors leading to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Things Fly for a living.

  

  Unified Engineering your sophomore year. Mostly, you get to wake up at ... atop my mini-fridge for a long, suspenseful day before its first chance at the launch pad. Will it live up to its name? Will it make it through

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2017 FAQ You've got questions, I've got answers

  

  for Early Action, and up to December test scores for Regular Action. Q ... This is a blog entry specifically for finalists in the Quest ... form), and if you are applying for the Match, check off that you are

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 18, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  kindness friday and affording myself a little bit of grace

  

  ! After waking up at around 1 PM, I got out of bed and finally prepared for ... , more importantly, we talked. We talked for a while. We caught up from not ... Raise your hand if you love exams!  Is your hand up?  Yeah, neither

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • March 26, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  for getting lunch, catching up on email, or working on a p-set. I mostly ... career so far was simply planning my class schedule for this semester. For ... back during IAP, before I'd started having to actually do any work for

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An MIT Week general structure and personal experience

  

  the middle number greater than 0 (for example, 3-2-7). Other options are ... to Proofs, the materials for which are available here). Now, these ... students, 12 unit-hours may mean anywhere between 6 to 20 life-hours. For

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2015
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] STARS@MIT: A Year in Review By Claire S. '25

  

  the right fit for us. So as we wrap up our first full academic year of ... recap of everything we’ve been up to this past year. Spoiler alert: it ... for advice in my small town. That’s why I’m so excited to share what

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • April 23, 2025