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• Blog / Majors & Minors

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

  

  1. Why I didn’t think I would be a good fit for engineering. I came ... , messing up, then starting all over again. I was frustrated by the meticulous ... cognitive sciences as my major for one simple reason: because it was cool, and

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  close your eyes and put your finger on the map and other ways to make grad school decisions

  

  school” anymore — I want to try for a master's. I’d been playing with the ... engineer in my company had a master’s degree or was studying for one. This ... funded study, and master’s programs in the UK are only 1 year, freeing up a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 22, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  spring break in San Juan journeying to none other than the most popular MIT spreak destination

  

  headed to a pop up restaurant for some arepas. when we were sufficiently ... group's senior class, as well as two stray juniors, which made for the ... for MIT students that I'm aware of are Puerto Rico, Aruba, Mexico, the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 11, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2020 if you read even one of these i will be happy

  

  's list. UPDATE: Here's the 2021 and 2022 posts. Things I read for class None of the readings for 24.900 Intro Linguistics, were especially ... is down, thanks in large part to their parents' concern for their

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 23, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Senior Fall Classes Better late than never

  

  MIT. We signed up for three, attended all three for the first week, and ... place was just to work our way up to this class. And after taking it, we ... worked on: Splines Splines are basically curves. For this assignment we

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Feeling Good And mostly musing

  

  up something that wasn’t a p-set or a study paper, a consequence of the ... try to think things through. For rather difficult problems, sitting ... ’ve held your breath for way too long, spurts that come typically after

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 1

  

  Hindi course (though Mandarin is up next for me). hedwig asked, "i was ... eastern culture is awesome to discover." Well, I'm picking up a bit of Hindi ... email was filed by the email staff. As for the interview, we do not assume

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback 1.0 What was I like as freshman? Wouldn't you like to know.

  

  handle the class, not me. If you want to sign up for something that you ... So, a few weeks ago, Matt gave me an excellent idea for content ... be the poster child for "people who get headaches listening to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Holidays with the Huangs a nondenominational celebration of capitalism and duck

  

  I've been home for almost a week now and I've done nothing but sleep ... being on break has let me catch up with some of my closest friends, make ... .) And finally, I've been catching up on a number of DIY projects I've been

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 26, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT Goes To Senegal Like Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, except with fewer filibusters and more dancing.

  

  and stayed out until sun up dancing to mbalax music - a type of modern ... - and sometimes they even invited our teacher Lamine up to play with them: And finally, just for fun: here is a love song we wrote about Chocoleca

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 18, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s like finding candy in your pocket… MIT in the media - Always a treat.

  

  now it has become you know, a staple part of our day? - Hey whatchu up ... the Occupy Movement and worked to figure out shelter possibilities for ... your work done - at all. But it does bring up points of interest. The

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things That Have Happened To Me Recently in no particular order

  

  The other day I tried to hard-boil eggs for the first time. The first ... heckles me about this a lot. "Man, you could look up [that thing you want to look up on Wikipedia] if you had a smartphone. Except you don'

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • January 28, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Untitled "The work is untitled because meaning is always changing in time and place." ⁃ Félix…

  

  : "For some artists repression had a psychological upside.... If what ... up in random queues!?! Little do they know, it's an anonymous ... ;lining up" in a soviet state was simply a sign of inefficient resource

  • by ARTalk
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  A Brief Addition to My Last Exposition (Or was it a narrative? My FCAT Writing skills are long gone.)

  

  the Center for Talent Development at Northwestern University. Many of ... up at a good college doing something I loved once the whole application ... 't nearly as certain anymore. Pooooooop. Meh, it'll be fine. I'll end up

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 20, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  Practice Safe Hacking No, there are no LEDs

  

  , but I'll let you be the judge of that. This morning I woke up and saw ... up using their own explosives to "detonate it," deem it inert, and then ... concrete sphere to Kresge anyway? So that's the excitement for the day. Giant

  • by Snively '11
  • April 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Love is Blinds A short, fairly irrelevent entry, as told from the perspective of the 7+ people who…

  

  . ANGELA MONSTER: Sure, I'll come wake you up at 11. this morning, leaving ... way home YING-FEI: Hey, Jess! ME: Hey, Ying-fei. YING-FEI: What's up? ME ... : (thinking) Seriously? ME: (thinking) Seriously. (thanks to Allin for

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Impossible Design Project See what it's like to be a Course VI student.

  

  to try to solve it. This year, we have to create a controller for a ... store what you want. My friends and I spent multiple days coming up with ... hard time coming up with something that works. You can not solve this

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Baby Steps It made tonight's newswire. The grass is still green in Boston Common.

  

  tense about a funny story from our lives. If nothing else, I'm waking up ... . I began searching for answers toward the end of last semester. School ... be marooned in the desert. Sure, I arrived on campus, picked up my new

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to Life, Back to Reality Did you know that you can make an equation out of anything?

  

  stayed up until 3 am studying. The next morning, I woke up having had the ... , in the world of math, while I was deriving the equations for the heat

  • by Bryan
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  Music for Pre-decisions De-stressing manifesting calm and cozy vibes to get you through it

  

  Waiting for college decisions is difficult. Trust me, I've been there before. This is a collection of songs that helps calm me down before going ... was waiting for decisions back then. Hopefully, this playlist will help

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 8, 2023