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• Blog / Academics & Research

  You should consider studying economics if… for those who aren't totally set on what to major in

  

  world works In a class I took last semester, we would often be assigned ... already be familiar with my experience of choosing a major. In summary, I came into MIT not knowing what I would study, ended up going with

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 8, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Blogs Featured in NY Times "[N]one of the [other colleges'] blogs match the interactivity and creativity of M.I.T.'s, where they…

  

  when I felt like I didn't really fit in at M.I.T.," she wrote. "I nearly ... deprivation. I was bored out of my mind." Still, in other ways, Ms. Chinea ... example, wrote: "I didn't know about the anime club. I would have never

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where are you going, where have you been? (Part I) Academics.

  

  other college in the country, right?".   A few months ago I was ... miss out on something, that is. I know all about waking up in the morning ... place. And how many days have I've sat until my butt was sore and finally

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 27, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Neglect Your Creative Side And I don't mean the side of you that thinks up math problems while you…

  

  meet on MIT's campus, but hopefully I'll see you around in the real world ... Physics , I'm struck by how much this place seems like an academic ivory ... pure science in the class The Science Essay (which I highly recommend

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Events

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

  

  world and consider how I'm taking steps (however small) in the right ... would not have known that I could and do inspire others in a way I don ... covered in the curriculum, but I do remember how our group facilitators sat

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 21, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  A Week in the Life of a Student-Athlete feat. women's soccer & meche

  

  selected idea and how we would move forward.  Right after that, I went ... hangers on it. My teammate Remi and I went together, and we were taught how ... what I would imagine the fire bending from Avatar the Last Airbender to

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On the DUSP Course 11: Urban Studies and Planning

  

  take classes in course one, I realized I would definitely get the ... office in Ghana   When I came to MIT I knew I wanted to major in ... traveling to Ghana, I got more excited about planning. Many people in Ghana

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding My Way Around MIT (Guest Entry) CPW was so hugely difficult to take in all at once that it's hard to…

  

  living in developing countries and how people could help. She talked about ... involved in. For lunch on Friday, I met my awesome friend Daniel and a ... . I'm not sure if the TEAL would help me learn better, but it's an

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  10 Lessons #IAP #Italy #LearningByTeaching #wow #Pi(e)DayCountdown

  

  Florence!   So I don't know if you could tell, but I was teaching in Italy over IAP. In October, I applied to MIT's Global Teaching Labs ... 't blame the polar vortex, this time it was all me. In the JFK layover, I

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Big Dreams, Small Mind The troubles of being in school and doing research for too long.

  

  nothing would be cooler than a public lab where I can walk in with an idea ... and I came up with almost nothing. At one point in time I would have ... , I spent the last year of my life in Shanghai studying Chinese at Fudan

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 24, 2018
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  living the dream: UROP edition! in which i run experiments on children (well, kinda)

  

  in my head, I was planning how I would update my resume. One cover ... a UROP in linguistics: I mean, research experience would be useful ... basically the moment I read it, there was no question in my mind that I would

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 22, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i will miss learning and dressing up everyday happy last first week of classes to me and seniors of the world

  

  , to reflect how I see myself to those who see me.    In high school, I ... play that game. And even if I did, it would only be in the summers. But ... wanted nothing more than to go back in time and take those classes. I spent

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / Class Projects

  weld your own bike and other IAP activities

  

  in and weld your seat tube. This would be very simple had I in fact ... time for thinking. My mom, back in Tucson, would still be awake. I called her and told her about how much time I spent in workshops, how I was

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  how much I would be making. I’ve been on the other end—I’m weirdly ... summer because I'd know more people in the city/the intern program would be ... mean, I bet you live in one of the cleaner parts.” I imagine a big label

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  I had a terrible week Also, I think that making puns about the President is Obaminable.

  

  week and didn't even have to wait in line. If you asked me about how I felt last week on a scale of 1-10, I would have said negative 15 +/-2. On the other hand, if you'd asked me how I felt about feeling like negative

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 26, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Past, Present, and Future This all "began with a single blog by a student five years ago, at the…

  

  , I would have emailed him in September. Good thing I was on pass ... I've worked in corporate America for about 5 "semesters" now (they don ... . During my CPW in April 2003 (wow), I took some photos of all the madness

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  my shattered laptop in the midst of pre-finals season

  

  body change? How would you measure the buckle of the display? In ... there. When I returned, I was surprised to see someone in my seat. I ... breaking it, and offered helping in any way he could. I was baffled by the

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Fixing a trapeze! then hanging upside-down on it

  

  One time in Boston, my roommates and I were studying outside near ... how the process went.   I went to a hippie middle school with ... the strength to be graceful. I kept taking classes in freshman and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Touching grass scenes of spring

  

  I go outside and trudge through snow or suffer in freezing cold, when ... wrong was when I woke up and saw light streaming in from my window ... ago. I tried to reproduce the first picture in the post I linked. But

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 18, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  必须好 – pt. 1 just keep swimming

  

  the many lol"]many things i would change,[/annotation]i think i generally did an okay job representing my feelings, and i'd like to keep it in ... and not changed my perspective. I am an angry crier. In high school

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 23, 2024