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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choosing a Major I hope this is helpful to you at some point

  

  I've been reading a lot of comments lately about which majors are ... "popular"? There are about 50 physics (full 8) majors each year (judging by ... , there are 22 majors. it's not as popular as say, course 6, which is home

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  talk to people! from the person least qualified to give this advice

  

  something? Are you missing out on something right now? Can you do anything ... (@dasharez0ne this is a credit not a plug) that made me decide to write this ... whole our entrances are facing backwards thing yet. (Tip for visitors: if

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Valentine’s Day Special Featuring calculus, people who hate me, and a picture puzzle

  

  all of which I attended because they came with free dinners. Once, I ... hour of free time. Despondently I searched the 2nd floor of Building 4 ... like myself and the Pope, and tourists are usually milling around campus

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  International Admissions Conference My review of the annual OACAC conference.

  

  conference I've attended where the participants are housed in dormitories. I ... mysterious super-humans. Hopefully, these blogs are helping you realize that admissions officers are just people, people who deeply care about education

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mormons and video gamers Bonding with strangers

  

  impressive!) after every joke. And there are a lot of jokes in Book of Mormon ... to Washington, D.C. Very groggy, I sat down and made it through two ... made it in one piece. This afternoon, I arrived at my hotel and for a few

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  In which Elizabeth tries something new. (My idea of thrills is changing the location of my bookshelf.)

  

  completely unaware of the fact that they are avid climbers - were going too ... , and I made our trek to Walker Memorial. It used to be a gym but now it ... again, I've only been there to take exams. We made our way up to the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 8, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Ode to the New, Part 3 "Your calendar looks like a clown threw up on it!" -my friend Jordan

  

  with my calendar and plug everything in, to figure out where decisions would have to be made, given the axiom “Anna is physically incapable of ... were clear violations of the axiom. So, decisions had to be made. I felt

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Take THAT, Microsoft Firefox rules.

  

  , so I only made a couple of phone calls, but I really enjoyed talking to ... grads who serve on the admissions committee) where he was. He heard me ... other. "Are you Dember?" "Yeah, hi, you're Laura, right?" "Oh my God, I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 19, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just a little advice…

  

  be able to say to you what Ben said to me (which totally made my day ... get it on Monday, which made my weekend a little anxious. We all arrived ... you're not." She knew exactly where I was going with this. She went into

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 31, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Productive, yes. Appropriately productive, no. You would think that my activities the weekend before finals might include studying.

  

  our stuff (the move date is next Saturday!), and made arrangements to ... of my friends from home are graduating college with about a zillion ... you graduate and are living on your own. Banks, cell phone carriers

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  confronting the self i am the captain of my soul

  

  . dan: why are we doing this? this is such an awful idea. why'd you think ... that made me all of a sudden feel better about myself. i did feel good ... ran out of money? what if your parents found out where we lived, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 30, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Alien in America A display of feelings; a post that might not make any sense.

  

  think vegetables are a *big deal*, but anyway, my point is, I don't think ... than say that you shouldn't be happy because others are suffering, I ... guy was saying, "are you African? African American?" and I responded

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 14, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Black Lives Matter until they don't.

  

  to pop up with surprising regularity. A lot of my newly made African ... , “You’re black! Where’s your Kendrick Lamar? Your J. Cole?” The word ... way. Next thing I know, his arms are around my shirt, and he’s shaking

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  what we mean when we say the people why we like “the people”

  

  neurodivergent person, being in a place where people are unopologetically ... - many of us come from backgrounds where you are the only one in the room ... "the people". What do we mean by this? I ask around. who who are "the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 25, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer to Remember – Interphase or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Institvte!

  

  grades where life is at its best. Where one stays up until 4am, not out of ... during Interphase is broken up into four classes that are supposed to model ... ), and Physics. Your Calculus and Chemistry classes are then also broken up

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  Set Theory and other Shenanigans *Literal* Set theory

  

  .” I’m still not sure whether he made that up or not. Math majors are ... cards that, for each of their four characteristics, are either all the ... sets are there? (1080) What is the average number of sets in a 12-card

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Profile On The Web: Can It Hurt You? Responses to questions on Facebook and other internet profiles and how they can affect college…

  

  applicants are in danger of getting rejected because of an internet profile ... privacy - sites like Facebook are designed to be a community, a playground ... are many more like it all over the web. Do you advise students to take

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC Presents: Black Panther 2

  

  -100[/annotation] MIT's Lecture Screening Committee hosted a special free screening ... able to get ready for the screening. During this screening, we had free ... refreshments worker, we made 5-6 batches of popcorn in advance to prepare for the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 11, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes, we care about your stories Reflections from the road

  that was a 15-minute drive from the house I grew up in (where I was ... several moments during my travels, including that one, where after I left a ... university and experience imposter syndrome; these are often students who are

  • by DJ Rock
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Reporting from… Doha! 🐫🐫 ft: the first time I ever rode on a camel

  

  "stopover program," for multi-day layovers with free/heavily discounted hotel ... with her at baggage claim"][/annotation] and made it through customs, where I got the first stamp on my brand new passport! Afterwards, we

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • January 18, 2025