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• Blog / Academics & Research

  A *Major* Dilemma Will you forgive the pun if I tell you that I just declared my major?

  

  -solving approach elsewhere. In the website's words: “This option is designed for ... ’re assigned a faculty advisor in the department you’re interested in, and ... would-like-to-graduate-in-four-years thing: if you took zero aero

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  Parting Remarks Part I: Leaving Marks reciprocal changes

  

  time soon, but my time [annotation note="In LiGhT oF rEcEnT eVeNtS r ... to its end. And I do not want to be just an entry in the registrar's records, a person who exists on paper but not in living people's lives. I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  Home is where the Heart is visiting my grandparents

  

  China for the first time in 6 years this summer. Although 9th grade of ... , bringing just a few clothes for the week, we brought 8 suitcases in total ... , and got picked up by an auntie to go to my grandparents’ house in Fuxin

  • by Anika H. '26
  • August 4, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Milk, Cookies and Dangerous Secrets Somewhere at the cloying helm of exponential senselessness (weird post incoming)

  

  Mass. Ave, swathed in darkness that small glowing arcs from streetlights ... whistling through the air, striking fast-paced pedestrians clad in sweatshirts and unfeeling bulky vehicles whose owners are lost in thoughts of their

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 29, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Journal of Negative Results, among other things Absurdities I encounter while livin' my life.

  

  goal in life during class two weeks ago, when we were discussing the isolation of the Clock gene in mice. Clock is the result of a point mutation in chromosome 5, leading to an extension of the circadian period from

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Holiday Gifts, MIT Style Some unique products from MIT people.

  

  attention when it was introduced in 2005. It was featured on Good Morning ... associate at the MIT Media Laboratory in Cambridge. "I've been known to hit ... , repositions itself, and eventually comes to rest in a place far enough away from

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bubbles and UROPs OK, so we're going to follow up on this white water rapids question, because I…

  

  chlorine in the water might have something to do with it. Now, I know Mollie ... hours, in pool water, in salt water, in fresh water, in the ocean, where I ... crest white. Plus, there aren't any sloughed skin cells in my drinking

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 2 Many more of your questions and my answers.

  

  care if recommendations come from the subject you wish to major in or not. Emilia wrote, "I live in Ecuador, am about to enter senior year and am very interested in applying to MIT. I have one question about the application

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1

  

  undergraduate students at MIT actually major in subjects other than math and ... primary major in science or engineering. I (like today's birthday girl) was one of these students, majoring in Management, and I had many friends in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas thanksgiving and warm fuzzies all around

  

  Currently drinking: Odwalla Superfood Currently feeling: warm and cozy in the ... in the 3+ months I've been here. Being at MIT has really opened my eyes ... our friends in Fremont!), who came to Boston to hang out over break. On

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 30, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Delivery! "Ring delivery" is more like "ring takeout," actually, since they don't bring a brass rat…

  

  Last weekend was crazy. Crazy good. So good, in fact, that I needed a ... employers, and my family. All of them believed in me, and told me I can do ... met a few of the friends, my entourage for the night, in front of the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 20, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Passions (No, not that kind)

  

  might also know, as I gave away some spoilers. Brought to you just in ... you get up in the morning, give them the reason you stay up late, and give them the reason you like being you! Or if there's something in your

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-MIT prep How to prepare yourself for life at MIT -- hint: watch Chappelle's Show. Everyone else…

  

  trekking to an Athena cluster in the middle of the snowy night (uphill both ... fine without buying your own personal printer. Go on the Orientation ... Nobel Prize Winners' theses, and hold meetings in group study space. If

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  Seen and Not Seen I wonder, twice, if I might have made a similar mistake.

  

  turkeys into oil and blogging, I actually don't have time to participate in ... caught up in some of my other musical projects, and it turns out that the ... . Also, I wasn't too interested in the prize of a VIP card to any of Boston

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Nibble of Music

  

  coherence of an album keeps me focused. But yesterday, in honor of Daniel ... , My Front Porch Looking In. Yes, the first one is country! Country isn ... Opera here in Boston. I love the costuming, the movements, and of course

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer to Remember – Interphase or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Institvte!

  

  considered morning. Summer is a time for pools, Pokemon, and playing in no particular order. While my last summer was spent cooped up in a cubicle for 40 ... half month periods that defined my childhood. For the first time in three

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  8.021 and my favorite moments the class that taught me to love physics

  

  .021, Physics E&M. I failed the regular version of 8.02 in the spring, so I ... class really fun. He's a really down to earth guy who has been really in ... loved this class so so much and wanted to ~ memorialize it ~ in some kind

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 17, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  History of the Brass Rat with pictures of the bezel design from 1930 to today

  

  . Legend has it that it is the third most recognized ring in the world, after the Superbowl Ring and the Pope Ring. The tradition began in the spring ... forward in leaps and bounds. Then we considered the elephant. He is wise

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 23, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just Desserts No metaphors here...

  

  not THAT bad. This craving is just strong enough to make you go off in ... treat that you could ever dream up was in this case, but one item ... it belongs in Plato’s theory of Forms; it exudes the very essence of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 13, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Life + Sciences = Life Sciences

  

  : !!!!!!!! Decisions in 6 days! I honestly cannot believe it's been nearly two years ... /Cog) student, I can definitely say I don't feel lonely in either department ... almost every MIT student participates in at some point during their MIT

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 8, 2011