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

  

  explain how I chose mine. How Anna Chose Her Major Once upon a time, in a ... website Basically, I decided that becoming a physicist would bring me ... would-like-to-graduate-in-four-years thing: if you took zero aero

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Behold, a day job! Still with ultra-short travel time!

  

  -classy picture of how far I walk every day? It still applies. (The fun part ... chemistry. I came across the lab's website last year when I was looking for a ... is what I thought would happen - it's hard to find a UROP if you start

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  add that I'll buy Jonathan's description, and that it's amazing how much ... telling people my major in words instead of numbers, and I always say the ... degree in that major/sub-major in 2005. (Yes, I made it in Word. Yes, I do

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Asking for Directions Two weeks of pondering, photography, and prose.

  

  computing than MIT? And so it went. I got in and my dream of being some ... at it as a job... so out went Course 6 and in went Course 1. I really ... more on Dheera's website) In my transportation seminar, we

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Accepting criticism please criticize this blog post

  

  read all of it. No matter how many "it's a wonderful post" or "I loved it, by the way"s it was wrapped in, the criticism still stinged. When I ... trash" to "barely acceptable". I knew that the puzzle would be poorly

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  how not to be a mathematician on taking time & not running away

  

  , if I would have been better off someplace else. In classes, I ... thought they would find out how little I know and how stupid I was and I ... school preview in many ways and I wanted to find out whether I would like

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 15, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  had a problem.   In my head, work is an escape. Working is how I ... buy it again in the future as I plan on taking more Spanish classes. I ... do not want to do; working is how I run from my fear that nobody will

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Magic Of fluorescent cells and robots

  

  since I arrived in Boston. I have been up to my ears in work, dance ... summer! This summer, I am doing research in synthetic biology as a member ... community and collaboration. In 2012, iGEM spun out of MIT and became an

  • by Linh V. '13
  • August 20, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Lessons Learned While Hiking and what they'll teach me here

  

  start walking early in the morning and sometimes I would sleep in and walk ... . I finished just in time to cruise back to Boston for 4th of July ... taught me exactly what I need and what I don’t. Much how extra stuff weighs

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Seasons of Spam Next up: a Nostalgic entry about my frosh year. After Finals. Maybe.

  

  -hours How do you measure, MIT time? In psets, in physics In midnights, in ... frosh year? How about spam? How about spam? How about spam? Measure in ... refuse to buy an iPhone - I didn't even own an iPod until just a year ago

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  Finally, I Wrote a Post about Grad School "grad's cool"

  

  even still I was not sure it would be high enough in light of the ... experimentally, what results I got and how I interpreted them, what I would do next ... interviewing at my first school, I was convinced that I would probably get in and

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest Post: Think Pink 2011 [By Cory Hernandez, '14] G@MIT, the SAO, and Residential Life present a guide to living…

  

  thing in particular—how accepting would that group be of my sexual ... doing the Housing Lottery—reading and watching i3s, visiting dorm websites ... knew that one was right for me. Senior Haus had a line in their i3 that

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogging About Blogging CAPTAIN FAFSA!

  

  for another, I was actually interested in what they had to say. It ... FAFSA has a mascot and I met it. It's strange though, we wondered how ... website is interesting and raises the number of applicants, and how Web 2

  • by Snively '11
  • February 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My night with 8.03 MONSTER ENTRY AHHHH

  

  in a very long time. So I heave the pretty incredible stash of lined ... . Which is certainly not the case in engineering. Yet another derailment. I ... : Now throw in the background light and voila: Anyways, I think this

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Transfer App Is Live For current college students hoping to enter MIT in the Spring of 2013

  

  . Students who are admitted in this transfer cycle would begin MIT in the ... Ahoy! I hope you arrr having a great September. The MIT Transfer ... be another cycle in the Spring with a February 15 deadline.) There

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 19, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Senior Ball 2008 MIT will even help you find a date

  

  irrational when I am around you. --How can I know so many hundreds of digits of ... baby, how about I tinker with your software while you turn on my hardware ... the entire class in one place, I even ran into some people that I hadn

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  This week’s Questions Omnibus

  

  the two? Would you ever toss a coin to decide, in this case?" I get ... , cheaper, faster...I miss Anna's now that I'm in ohio and all I have is ... for a MIT ID number. Do I have such , or how could I obtain MIT ID

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Magic Cards and a Farmers’ Market And frozen advice for the 2019s

  

  room as a last resort to putting off psets, I buy groceries whenever I ... busy, it’s that I haven’t been busy enough. Last Monday, in MAS.S66 ... in a standard deck, and wrote an unique ID to each one. Then I wrote an

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Musings of My High School Senior Self bring your best cringe face

  

  kickboxing every now and then so I know how to duck now. In attempt to ... the air. I didn't know how to get around campus, I didn't understand the ... I felt in myself when I had to drop and retake courses. I remember

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 16, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Felicitation Answers... and hopefully minimal snark.

  

  arrival... I'm wondering how long I can get away without buying a real ... other people in the world are shallow in what I editorially find to be a shocking way, so I'll answer anyway. Look at yourself in the mirror -- there

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 16, 2006