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• Blog / Majors & Minors

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

  

  for a new major. I had always been interested in physics, mostly ... to MIT certain of one thing: I would never be an engineer. In eighth grade, everyone in my grade took a mandatory woodworking class. Even

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Why Leadership? (guest post) Inclusive leadership and vision-building at LeaderShape 2018.

  

  a new friend committed to improving mental health in our community ... Wonderland Camp and Conference Center in Sharon, MA for the MIT Leader ... yourself in a flurry of work and deadlines, postponing and forgetting about

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers I know an atomic particle's speed, AND position!!

  

  email me and I'll get to it when I can. Please put "Question about MIT" in ... huge variety in what people wear to class and to what extent people care ... on clothing vs. time spent getting ready in the morning. This is known

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 30, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  classes i’m taking this spring study abroad edition

  

  MIT. there are some key differences in academics between MIT and here. firstly, people mostly take classes in only their own major. i had the ... math classes or, as many math classes in the same semester. the other

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 22, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day at the Forge blacksmithing!

  

  In the middle of an already-packed IAP, I received an email: I’d gotten off the waitlist for blacksmithing!  I was in a phase of trying to ... important task in my life, such as a semester, ends, and I am adrift

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  like I’ve grasped a new emotion. Admissions essays are intimidating. You ... your application will know you in a way you might not have known yourself ... person In other words, MIT wants to see from your application that you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / Events

  tEpikazoo Thoughts on cooking and gratuitous prefixes

  

  penned dining section articles for the New York Times in my head while ... four bacon apple pies, as featured in the New York Times. (The reporter ... In the past three months, my relationship to cooking has swerved from

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Burton-Conner Floor Rush and Rooming How does it work?

  

  choose to either stay in the dorm you are temped in or readjust to a new ... ? Back in the fall of '74 (before there was a New House for all the ... works. In some respects that's tricky to answer, but I can give it a shot

  • by Snively '11
  • August 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Communication Intensive Jumping on the semester-in-review blog train

  

  writers and orators. A large part of that comes from exposing us to new ... two classes. Assignment 1 – A White Paper (3.010) In true MIT fashion ... spectroscopy to characterize the surface structures of electrocatalysts used in

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Done (this summer) or Why I Haven't Blogged in a Month

  

  up in 3 alarm snoozes. There’s a two-step strategy to this: first, say ... the Bedford VA, a national leader in supporting the higher education of veterans, in collaboration with Bowie State University, Maryland’s oldest

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales From Turning Twenty They range from "a little peculiar" to "utterly bizarre."

  

  lung capacity. After that, I hung out with friends in New House 3. At ... this reflects a general trend in my life, or is just a phase) so here ... sitting in the kitchen at 6am, one hand writing an equation to show that the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Liveblog] MARC 2025 A sciencey science conference, feature Anika '26 and me

  

  most disruptive new technologies get created. Q: “In your respective ... English words, I can describe things in a non-caveman-like way this year ... . Anyway, after all that excitement, we got to the hotel and checked in. I

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Applying While Transgender #InHonorOfMarshaP

  World Pride in New York City and celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots – a momentous occasion in US history that many argue sparked ... the same time, we were sadly reminded that while some in our community

  • by DJ Rock
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  month in response to my choice of dorm has been astounding: “What does your room look like? Does all the furniture in your room hang from the ceiling?” “Are you this quiet all the time? You must be crazier in everyday

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Al Kwon ‘08: Researching drug delivery Al Kwon, a Junior majoring in Biology, talks about some of his really exciting work…

  

  best-known biomedical engineers in the world. He holds 500 issued and pending patents and is in the National Inventors Hall of Fame for his research in drug delivery that has revolutionized cancer therapy. As the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Home on the range Dorm choice timeline and advice.

  

  with people you don't like in a shiny new one. You can use amenities to ... , and send in the form to be run in the housing lottery. The form is ... % of students got their first choice in the summer lottery and 26% got

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 15, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  ‘Til the Net Breaks Championship Szn

  

  huge success! In our conference, the [annotation note="New England Women ... : where we show up two weeks before school starts in order to start training ... the calendar. Postseason: where we play in our conference tournament

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  social groups a different angle on the 'i found my people in college' trope

  

  the notion of squad wealth has been increasing in popularity recently ... other or coexist in the manner the article describes. to be honest, the ... for help or participate in groups; when i happen to be in the midst of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 27, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a compilation of creative projects creativity? at MY institute?

  

  through different lenses, or to implement a new feature in Curveship. I ... .[/annotation] In the process, I ended up doing a variety of creative projects ... Eva D. '22, who is also in my acapella group. In this song, the Baker

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  next to normal on mental health

  

  living in the same room all day is anything new to me, because during my ... these stories end with someone seeking mental health services elsewhere in ... experience has been positive. i guess i lucked out, in a sense, when i have a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 3, 2020