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• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Accidentally Double Majored How I managed to accidentally get a second major at MIT (hopefully)

  

  can be and how much I can accomplish. I can graduate from MIT. And that ... I would concentrate in, having taken three different subjects in three ... concentration in writing in one semester, and it got me thinking - maybe I could

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  Why I’m Baking Cookies Tonight. IAP is a beautiful time to do lots of something or lots of nothing. Or…

  

  I think I can/should do. “Oh yeah, I’ll take 60 units this fall, and ... the MIT crowd. Anyways, I can write a whole entry on french toast in ... year, I did nothing but eat, hang out with my suite (+ friends) in Burton

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 15, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i rode a train across america it took eighty-five hours

  

  catching up on blogging. Here are the notes I wrote in real-time back in June ... in the Bay Area, and I’ve been doing research (a.k.a. UROPing) at MIT ... color of where you can never go. For the blue is not in the place those

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After: A Collage living the MIT dream

  

  the floor in a heap of mandibular disarray. #obliviouscodemonkey *I can ... was the first time I’ve ever exercised it in an industry setting. MIT ... -weighted average of every location I frequent in Cambridge! This might not actually

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Real, live MIT students * IN HD* A look inside the world of MIT Admissions Interns

  

  Hey you! Yes, you, the one reading this sentence right now! How would ... -2013 Admissions Interns What role they play in the office Why they are interested in working at the Admissions Office Randomness Seriously, though

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  A person can develop a cough. Simultaneously the coldest and hottest entry I've ever written.

  

  morning, I felt a faint red soreness on my uvula, which can only mean that I'm developing my traditional mid-winter cold. I have way too much to do in the ... sheer force of will. I originally wrote "shear force of will," as in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Rrrrrrr. CPW! [UPDATE] CPW Smoke. Don't breathe this.

  

  blender. I was a skeptic (how can you beat WillItBlend?) but I decided to ... guys are excited, and in a little over a week you will all know just how much fun MIT can be. Being the blogger that I am (willing to spend far

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our mother shoulda just named you Laika! Come on Alex, you can do it.

  

  below an A or a B in your life. And though I know nothing I can say will ... demanding I finish this post in which he addressed me as "kamber", and I knew ... Course 16, although I think that's spelled "camber". Can you tell I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  my time in Japan comes to an end I find myself wondering how I'm ever ... (I wrote this entry after spending three months working in Tokyo for ... 't remember me, I'm a '10 graduate who once spent three months working in Tokyo

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Physical Education: because your body needs problem sets, too My adventures in completing the MIT Physical Education requirements

  

  , and so I randomly rank classes that happen to fit in with the rest of my ... how to swim, just not with any style or grace. So I showed up on the ... laps in our Olympic-sized pool. You can take your sweet time and do

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The swing of things MIT happenings.

  

  in Course 2 in charge of the 2A department so they can verify that I ... abroad or take internships in a foreign country. I might be getting an internship in Spain this summer, and I am super psyched. (I still have to send

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  fictional coping mechanisms learning to love unapologetically

  

  )"]something involving Aizawa.[/annotation] I really can't emphasize how important he is ... out, because I think there's something cool about how I can still make ... . I honestly feel like I can't talk about how much I love Eizouken

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 11, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  buy juice (the one flavor I’m not allergic to). We split up somewhere in ... you can see the wind in them before it hits you. 4:06 pm: I have desk ... Authority. 2:30 am: A layover in NYC in Port Authority. I buy some orange

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Observations of an MIT Sophomore Advice and insight.

  

  a UROP in their lab, or anything else. This is how Melis and I got an ... 's taught me how to keep walking, even when I'm going against the wind. It's showed me exactly the value of knowing exactly how many smoots away I am

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / Events

  MIT International Or how a local Model UN conference broke molds and expectations by going abroad

  

  proceedings of any number of committees in the United Nations. You're given a ... leave the world better than how we found it - in some shape or form. And ... sciences department in between. But course 17 (Political Science), though

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The end of an era Veronica Mars was canceled. That, or the seniors left. Interpret the title as you will.

  

  On Saturday, I sat in the floor lounge and began writing this entry ... Lost, so I've watched almost the entire first two seasons in the last two ... for no reason. Rar.) I was in the floor lounge to distract myself from

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Little Rectangles Thoughts from Junior spring

  

  that. “How can I be so stupid?” is common. “Why can’t I get this ... track progress this clearly in academics. How can you really tell if you ... How smart am I? I feel like I’ve asked myself this question a

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Openness This one's serious, no silly link. Read it.

  

  , college websites, read everything you can. Take everything into account. I ... do and how we live. Here's the way I write. I write about the stuff ... of context and that prefrosh understand the background In the past I

  • by Snively '11
  • October 26, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  I was happy with how fall turned out in the end, I was miserable for ... with Prajna and Jyotsna and since I can't talk about that in moderation ... activities. before sophomore fall, I chose classes I was interested in and I

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Think About This and maybe it will help you.

  

  does your computer offer you in comparison to how many units of utility ... because I got denied at MIT." I can't tell you how ridiculous that is. I ... commentary." "How is that possible? There must be something in there! I got

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 21, 2013