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• Blog / Academics & Research

  How do you know when you’ve chosen the right major?

  

  core design with new eyes.   I declared Course 2 (Mechanical Engineering) a year and a half ago.  The most valuable lesson I've learned in ... semester off and accept a 6-month position in Apple's iPhone Product Design

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prizes in your pocket Computers are so cool omg this is why I’m a course 6

  

  ! OLED Displays How can plastic become conductive? In materials science ... you can buy on Amazon for 7 cents each. You can find blue LEDs in any ... Do you ever stop to think about how incredible computers are? I don

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 9, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  ! =) lowered their total self-help. At least, I think that's how it happened. In ... 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

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

  A letter for you (yes, you)

  

  how MIT can play a further role in your story. For others, it will be an invitation to explore other options, and, like a puzzle, figure out how you can find what you like about MIT in other places, or how best to showcase

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And the End Closes In My last semester as an MIT undergraduate

  

  I’m finally in my last semester as an MIT undergraduate, and the ... related to photography. I’ve taken plenty of HASS classes in my day, but ... at least results in good photographs). The other classes I am taking

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Christmas in February Shiny new toys MIT gave me this semester

  

  never quite materialized, I still got to experience Christmas in February ... received all of this shiny new stuff in various classes today! ... okay, it ... Instrument Design). Still, I think it's amazing how much physical equipment I

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 14, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Off six months of things being just a little weird

  

  reading about topics in philosophy when I have downtime. I don't know if it ... -a-glitch-in-the-simulation-but-unnerving-enough-that-I ... can gently scratch [annotation note="I'll admit to some number of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 23, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Short Answers to Big Questions Stolen from the MIT Housing Panel.

  

  , a living group in New House. 2) To be perfectly honest, I don't know ... dinners and parties. In French House, I've learned how to feel responsible ... let yourself rotate under the stars. On a good night in Boston, I see

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 18, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Feel Old Senior year? Already? #indenial.

  

  , Bunker HIll monument, and more. (and more that I can't think of in my current I-can't-believe-I'm-graduating-this-year state of distress) O.O It ... I can't believe I'm a senior. Seriously, I can't believe it. I have

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Thing I Love About MIT… Is how easy it was to use an assignment to pick up a cool internship.

  

  ’s backyard). I'd like to share how I found myself working for this 1.5 year old ... life after college, and how following leads and networking can help land ... few days later, I found myself in an office with Hardi Meybaum, co

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Where Have I Been? Oh, what a bad blogger I have been.

  

  't really see, but I can see it, and it makes me happy. You'll just have to trust me. :-) Second, I've been trying to build some new relationships ... launched some new recruitment initiatives. While I love the writing and

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Merritt ‘13, Carlos ‘13, Edward ‘13, and John ‘13 The final edition of a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  to the opportunities available in the United States and how anyone can ... Cross student going to M.I.T. in the Fall By Jarett Henshaw Published ... , Cornell, and Berkeley. He decided to go to college at M.I.T. in Boston. "The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  happy LFDOC! my last semester of undergrad :)

  

  of my other 7 semesters, this semester is one that I can do whatever I want with.  So, here are some thoughts swirling in my brain that I want ... -than-the-usual amount of freedom this semester. It’ll be fun to reflect on how I thought

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 3, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  On Essay Writing A guide to essay writing for the express purpose of obtaining admittance to an institute…

  

  the highly specific title in this post's tagline, they can be applied to ... in your life when something happened but you can’t quite recall all of ... aware of how you act in certain situations and reflect on whether or not

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  summer in boston that summertime, summertime, uh, gladness

  

  Bridge ⁠— god i can't even describe how happy this makes me. i love how the ... my face and how i can see the river stretching out on both sides of me ... Lower Allston. Boston is a completely different place in summer and i

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 15, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  the senior mindset gnothi seauton

  

  -deprecating quip about how I never skip lecture. Now I can make the same quip without ... . How could I be a senior when I had never even been a junior? I was very ... less. It's still here, in little bits and pieces: when I realize that the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Info for the Class of 2013 The "Next Big Mailing" is on its way out, and with it lots of goodies…

  

  (e.g. how many, when, how) that I can provide, but I'll update more when I can. In the meantime, admissions questions are always welcome here ... as the "A60" for historical reasons we can no longer remember, the NBM

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Indiscipline Taking a break from finals studying to explain what I've done instead of finals studying.

  

  Yo, I've been getting a lot of questions lately in the comments and I ... , when my mind's off finals. That way, I can focus totally on your ... profoundly effective movies I've ever seen. I highly recommend it. I can see

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Class Projects

  Watch the “Wild” 2023 Final Presentations for 2.009: Product Engineering Processes something to watch while awaiting decisions

  

  early in the term and you'll see what I mean. https://vimeo.com/893853200 From the website: 2.009, Product Design Processes, is intended to provide ... 2.009: Product Engineering Processes is a capstone course in Course 2

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  I've been living in New York City, in a cruft house named LoTaD, short ... new job in a few weeks. I took the offer. I told some teammates. I told ... , or the day before? When I think about endings, I think about how, in

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025