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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo and physics and math, oh my 57 units of academic fun fun fun. Now with humanities!

  

  , so I guess I'll find out how much I've learned pretty soon. [In case ... topics as a group, sort of in the Socratic fashion. Outside of class, much ... the fact that I was taking classes I was genuinely interested in, plus a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Second Semester Senior What you should do after submitting your application to colleges

  

  -related activities. Academically speaking, sophomore year is definitely a step up from ... academics, such as planning and executing a water project in Ethiopia, becoming a founder of a new FSILG, and playing with robots but that is all

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 22, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  rating classes from this semester the good, the bad & the underrated

  

  interest is in systems and optimization, but this was a great class full of ... have so much to do. In the last few months, my writing career got pushed ... winter still astonishes me. Okay, the air is spicy and the sky darkens much

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  November summary: books, playlist, gratitude

  

  looking forward to it. A few things that happened in November: I spent a ... too much time with my head buried in books--frigid weather, 4:30 PM ... parties, disowning parts of my previous self. It was a lot of fun, but in

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 25, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Look at Unified Engineering and the Aero/Astro Department Back in business.

  

  analogy to respond that Unified is hard in the same way that running a ... strong they are. Anyone who puts in the effort required (which is quite a ... to me, while many students develop a tangible interest in math or

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 30, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Totally awesome Incoming GEL students win big in the OnStar Student Developer Challenge

  

  functional since the contest is over. The features are demonstrated in a couple ... This is an entry I’ve been meaning to write for about a month because ... Innovation & Design (EID), a class in the GEL program, together last fall

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cooking for Myself I haven't set off the fire alarms yet!

  

  ’t know about you, but I like to eat. I grew up in a family where food is ... eating in my dorm, this usually is enough food to last a week. I typically ... on making yummy food, and making a lot of it. Cooking is a social event

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Living la vida lab rat So the moral of the story is that freedom is relative in science. And that…

  

  A few entries back, Lena asked "How did you get the job in the lab ... rules. In a proximal sense, the person with the gold is the professor ... on ur successes! :)) and how much it matters that you attend a HYPMS

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nothing Gold Can Stay some reminders

  

  The semester is over and I'm back at home, spread out on my much too ... drive from campus). In the midst of observing Ramadan and searching for a ... wind carried a coolness with it often. But in the past few weeks, I had

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 28, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  classes i’m taking! (fall 2025) highways, storks, and movies

  

  PSETs have a definite start and end, it's hard for me to gauge how much I ... submit a PSET and how much I was willing to study. Still, last semester was ... , some of which he shared with us during a class walk we took together in

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 5, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  College Application Anxiety what if your biggest fear is getting *into* MIT

  

  you can pass their classes. Instead, a college is interested in ... only do so much as a high school senior and almost-college freshman. But ... puts their faith in you, they do so believing that there is potential in

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Post-engagement, pre-Bahamas An exciting week!

  

  have a flowchart on my Degrees in Biology PDF!) The way this works out is ... " terms -- intro chemistry is almost always taken in the fall, so the spring ... , taking 5.111/5.112 in the fall frees you up to take 5.12 in the spring

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  work and the semester had barely even started. In some ways this is a ... thought in a non-rigorous way about how humans and machines process ... listening in on breakfast conversations. “The curse of this degree is that now

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Quick Update I am busy, this is short.

  

  owned- so we go on all the rides in both parks for free on our lunch ... , You do realize that General Relativity is a very advanced physics course ... Well, I'm back from Atlantic City and have 3 million things to do in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  T-Minus Six Days Ready for the best four days of your life? CPW 2010 ftw!!

  

  list of things to pack. Notice that one of the items listed is a camera ... -relieving things, a laundry bag (hahaha), way too much candy, and a bunch of other ... free stuff, I spent time cooking a gourmet French dinner at New House

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 2, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Pros and Cons, as Told by Residents "because EC is home 400ever"

  

  how to cook good food. It is a little annoying if you just want to grab ... door in building 66 in case it's miserable outside. - Living at EC is a ... is strange in a different way; living in EC, you get to see so many

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 20, 2017
• Blog / Announcements

  meet the baby bloggers! (some of whom are older than me)

  

  CANADA which is exciting perhaps only to me, sits on a hoard of unused ... , who is on language number 5, best friends with a milk frother, and ... Hi everybody!! As the first week of class winds down, it is my

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 6, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying in China on MIT’s Budget: a Guest Post by Saul W. ‘14 Saul double-majored in Math and Asian & Asian Diaspora Studies.

  

  . Also, as is typical in China, my hotel had a "massage parlor" complete ... ? ----------------------------- Given that I take a lot of photos in China and hate to see them go to ... of a developing country. This photo is from a hill overlooking downtown

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 14, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  I’m Poor!!! But I don't have to be!

  

  also worked a full time internship during the summer, in addition to ... set of instructions. Every once in a while you'll get lucky and they ... would blog just as much as we do now even if we weren't paid. MIT was a

  • by Snively '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Two opportunities for high school students And you don't have to live near Cambridge, MA this time!

  

  -Chairs --- Feel free to drop a comment if you’ll be partaking in these events, I ... the MIT Society of Women Engineers (SWE) is organizing for high school students interested in MIT and all the science and engineering that happens

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 28, 2012