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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  things in high school (I harboured this dream that I would ace every test ... the UROP website. 4. "I'm not sure what I want to major in.  Is that ... pretty sure that I would be majoring in something bio - Course 6-7, or 7

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you could track minute-by-minute data on yourself, would you? 4 Weeks of sleep, activity, heartrate, and computer usage data reveals something

  

  ; DISCUSSION I would like to conclude with an insightful discourse on how MIT ... , I want to see who is interested in demo-ing a Fitbit for the remaining ... view of what I do when I'm not sleeping, or walking, or in class, or

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  . 3. Minh and Lizzy asked how I found my UROP position. In the middle of ... plenty of dorm rooms open, but I'm not really sure how it would work ... virtue at MIT. In fact, I don't think I'd be exaggerating if I said hard

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A blast from the past Looking back at things I wanted to do at MIT

  

  more piano songs - in fact, I think I've forgotten how to play some of ... I'm sure freshman me would be pretty upset about that. But I guess in ... when I came across a list titled "Things I would do if I had more time

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  iCyd This, my friends, is a GREEN APPLE!

  

  couple courses in the department, I determined that this was not the career ... (Mechanical Engineering with a concentration in Management Science). I found that I really enjoyed the classes I had in course 15 but the course 2

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why did the engineer cross the road? Maybe there was a cape for sale on the other side

  

  qualities, which leaves me wondering how in the world it makes such a ... machine. Coffee was only a quarter in those days, and Gary would say ‘where ... that can benefit: “I would often also emphasize this with my ROTC

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home safe Bad guys don't hang out in the Infinite.

  

  if I was in mortal peril or not. I still don't really know how to tell ... at MIT in physics and math and I was wondering how you managed to take ... I am back in Boston, sitting on my comfy couch after a lovely weekend

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Attended the 148th Commencement From two thousand eight hundred eighty miles away

  

  Hi. I'm in Reno, Nevada, right now with my grandparents visiting my uncle. And although I am 2,880 miles away from MIT, I still attended the ... would be the 38th economically richest country in the world, a statistic

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  quick thoughts to keep up my new years resolution

  

  In my New Year's Resolutions post, I wanted to make a promise to blog ... I've blogged twice in a week so it basically makes up for it. I ... happier! I have a lot more time in the day, now. I can use the time to go to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  Samantha: The Automated Nerf Gun Turret a personal project by raymond t. '23

  

  were pretty hard to come by in Boston so Raymond ended up buying one off ... Back in January 2021, my boyfriend Raymond realized he was bored ... ."]IAP[/annotation] period and decided he wanted to make an automated nerf turret. Here is how

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 3, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  It rocks to be me. I put on my Sunday clothes and see the whale!

  

  their website, but I'm not good at this kind of thing anyway. Anyhoo, four hours of karaoke country music later, I was in New York's Chinatown. There ... had hoped that both of us would win (Mitra first), and then I would have

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to survive your first winter: a college student’s guide written by a transplant from sunny Los Angeles

  

  ^ how not to do it.   "Help! I'm from [Los Angeles ... midlayers! (1) Baselayers When I'm in the city, I usually just wear cotton t ... ItForLife, but I think that particularly with coats and boots, buying quality items

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Share the joy

  

  could share in the joy!" Well, now you can share the excitement! [I ... The selection process continues here, and there's not much I can ... admits and mailing the early action decisions as soon as we can. I'll keep

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 8, 2004
• Blog / Classes

  Collections Simple

  

  've reached this strange turning point in my life where I want to do things more than I want to talk about them, which was not how I thought about things ... the self, in an autonomic sense, and how we might begin to attempt to

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Majors

  

  extremely excel in. For me, I'm not an extraordinaire in any one subject, but I do relatively well in just about all my classes. My interests are ... The other day, Katharine wrote: Matt, I have a question/concern. It

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 2, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  College must-haves My advice on what to get for college!

  

  Things I would highly recommend bringing, in no particular order: 1. Cell ... , thanks to free nights and weekends, I actually get to keep in close contact ... . Getting a bicycle is not absolutely necessary, but I would recommend it if

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Invitation to Cross-Register Guest post by Katherine W. '17 :D

  

  to invest time in making the trek over there, I want it to be worth it ... lectures. I am unsure of whether videotaping is common, but my classes in ... ;               Every week, my friends would get snaps marveling at how yet another

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  hazy mid-semester days what i've been up to lately (mostly, psets...)

  

  just on the horizon. I wanted to share what my daily life looks like, in ... much. No matter how I procrastinated or fooled around on Friday, I wake ... our weekly house clean-up from 11 to 12. After that, I settle in to work

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Today A Trader Joe's monologue

  

  . I like their windows, and how their tenets leave them open. I like the ... covered in chalk drawings. Then, I feel an overwhelming feeling of nausea. I ... exactly how they smelled back home. I'd never seen a woman smoke a Marlboro

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  I would have been in Random Hall, on BMF, at my desk with the door ... me an excellent view of anyone coming or going. In January 2015 I would ... your occupation or field that you work in? I am a computational

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025