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• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to change majors in just five easy steps!

  

  ="IAP = Independent Activities Period. In January, MIT has a brief J-term where you can ... sophomore year, shortly after I declared a major in [annotation note ... classes and so should legally not be allowed to register for more than I can

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  on friends / minsan in which i ramble about friendship

  

  competitions. I’m in the weird situation where I just happen to know a lot of ... can explain why. I have this very specific picture in my mind. I ... groups are suddenly smaller. It wouldn’t be like MIT, where I live in a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Next Generation Of College Campus Tours? My interview with Michael Epstein '04, covering his MIT experience and the genesis of his…

  

  that you may find useful. At least in the beginning, I'll focus on ... other. It's a unique program where I could pursue sociological questions ... always have a really cool card in the hole. I.e., a theoretical

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet TOFU Warning: post may contain dangerously high amounts of "daaaaaaaawwwwww"

  

  , but it is no different. But before I once again immerse myself in the ... over at the MIT Media Lab in the Personal Robots research group. I often ... First of all, apologies for the radio silence. I've been sequestered

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And sometimes why? A reality check on the state of my MIT blogging.

  

  in September and resume my life as an MIT student. Until then, I can ... was "I went to the mall and bought a pretty shirt." So, in my fifth semester at MIT, I enrolled in German I. My high school math teacher had told

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Hardest Thing Ever FOP, family, and how I'm doing so far... plus some findings on frisbee and free…

  

  rocky Appalachians. I was all over the place. The meditation camp in New ... Minnville, where I've lived almost my whole life, and spent a frenzied week saying ... was leaving. I'm in love with Oregon, and I'm obsessed with my family

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 4, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  yo-yos, comics, and other adventures my junior spring schedule!

  

  same professor that I’d had in Brazil. This was too tempting, so I am now ... off each other, and I'm excited to see where this goes. I'm also hyped ... about the research process in MechE. I'm planning to design an experiment

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  Another year has begun Welcome to my world

  

  bodybuilding buddies at the gym next to where I lived, I found time to contribute ... working in Mexico City, I got to go home for three weeks, the longest ... . Being at MIT is like living in a bubble, but it is definitely a bubble I

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Monologuing a mock-up for the MITMonologues

  

  number of reasons, I really like how this turned out. In this piece, I talk ... resulted in "weird" conflicting feelings I think are interesting to hear about in a performance piece. I didn't include the numerous amazing and

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 13, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a walk down memory lane in the form of albums

  

  where I started out. You can see a playlist I made based off of it here ... weird soft phase I had you can see in this playlist Memorable albums ... Recently, I've stopped listening to new music releases in favor of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 1, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  the ear in which it was played. I couldn’t have told you where “left ... -wife’s fridge?  There is no version of my brain where I can neatly chop off the ... directions.  I still remember a quiz I had about plotting points, where I

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  what the f*** am i doing this summer still don't know if i'm going abroad or not lol

  

  'm EXHAUSTED. I was supposed to do [annotation note="a program where MIT ... excellent contingency plan. in my sophomore fall semester, I haphazardly ... students in my major don't typically go to sophomores. at a certain point, I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 12, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Why yes, I’m with the news I need a good fedora

  

  I work at Hasbro in Rhode Island, about a 1 hour train ride away from where I'm staying on campus. Kim '11, who was also in Toy Design with me ... while Kim got all checked in I flashed my ID and got my hand stamped for

  • by Snively '11
  • August 7, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  day one, six out of eight am i doing too much?

  

  ended. the classroom was in 34-101, and my next thing was in 34-501, so i ... some lunch, and sneak in some stardew valley before my next class. have i ... because during my 6.UAT recitation the next day, in an activity where we had

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  mit made me rational on decision-making

  

  dollars. "Yes," he said. "Because the amount of good I can do in my lifetime ... I can do in my lifetime is worth ten billion dollars, but I care about ... morally wrong choice. But how can anyone truly blame him for it? Back in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 19, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Me and the Firehose on balancing classes, and choosing next year’s schedule

  

  , in that I am currently alive and well, but those two weeks are fairly ... tendency to try and take as many classes as I can, then promise to drop some of them. But I’m extremely averse to dropping classes later on in the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 30, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  making meaning exit right in 0.1 miles

  

  (QS) in marine microbes, where bacteria produce molecules and behave ... try to submit it again, but maybe i put it in wrong at the fasta level ... sequences I've put in are way too similar, and essentially, the tree search is

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 30, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving season blue blue blue

  

  the same. and the yearning to be in-place will forever stay. i will always be leaving.   once i was in the airport, once i was past where i could look back, once i had left, i was fine.  i boarded the

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my last first day every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end

  

  master's student, I can't live in the[annotation note="There are graduate dorms you can choose to live in, but I wanted to get a place with my ... ’ll just try to appreciate where I am. And that’s all I can do. See you for

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  last first day (take 3) there are so many other blogposts with this title

  

  't even quite understand what right means in this case. I spent the first ... missed being in a proper routine. This semester I am taking the most classes I've ever taken in my MIT career; not out of a dislike of myself or

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 8, 2023