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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a college student’s life My life consists of library visits and pizza delivery, because I'm totally original and stuff.

  

  have to order out. Thank God for credit cards and the internet. Within a few minutes I had placed an order for Hawaiian pizza and a side of ... hadn't been grocery shopping for weeks, and after making a meal out of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  , for all you haven't-learned-MITese folks), I UROP'd in a really amazing ... . But how can this be? This is an unallowable paradigm shift! I'm a ... when I went from biology to EECS, but a nonetheless unpredictable ride

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  everywhere. I didn’t have a car in high school, or a license for that matter ... close, until I came to a place where suddenly, I didn’t know anyone. I was ... Hello Everyone! Firstly, I’d like to publicly apologize for not

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

  would’ve, could’ve, should’ve a newly minted senior's freshman year regrets

  

  Camp Kesem this year, but I found a screenshot from freshman fall where I ... feels like a weird limbo where my senior-ness remains up for debate. This ... option it was to study abroad for a semester! In retrospect, I would have

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • June 2, 2026
• Blog / MISTI

  pole dancing and punching things trying out new classes in Copenhagen

  

  them: I did jiu jitsu for a minute back in high school. My studio ... grappling. I felt that I was grasping the arc of a fight, where everything ... pounds of me, were to get in a fight, the last thing I’d want is for it to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 16, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Episode 4: A New Hope Addressing the concerns of undecided students.

  

  deadline for your college decision, I figure now is as good a time as any to ... , where I think I could get more of a literature-based, "Dead Poets' Society ... how MIT and CPW can be overwhelming. I, too, had a hard time adapting to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Integration Bee If this were televised, nobody would watch the Superbowl.

  

  towards sleep at -9.81 m/s^2. In 12 hours, I will be in class. For now, I ... , s, i, n, h, e, l). Here's the gig: The 12 top scorers on a quick ... ones I managed to bootleg off the PowerPoint display from my seat in the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 2, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Life Lessons From Pistol Class But they don't buy pajamas / For pistol packin' mamas!

  

  time ("ReMOVE the magazine. RePLACE the magazine"). I can hear his voice in my head, as I type this. It's soothing to step through a routine ... . One afternoon during high school, I had a bad break-up during lunch

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  A question for you… No seriously I have a question

  

  to understand? I'm going to try to doodle explain it the best I can (I ... subject, but if someone comes up with a good chemistry question I'll take a ... " things like fluids, thermodynamics, etc. Computer science (I have a very

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eastward ho! Don't US people normally go to Canada or Mexico before they cross an ocean?

  

  cardstock that entitle me to a non-reserved seat on what I can best describe ... climb Mt. Fuji, overnight I might add. That’s a view from the mountain as ... . Next stop for me – I’m going west from Tokyo to Osaka and then Hiroshima

  • by Stanley G.
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The land of the free and the home of the internet Back to life, back to the internet

  

  finally back from Maine, where I managed to survive on only dialup AOL ... Professor Sheng's lab, where I've worked for the past two summers (and, for ... scan on his computer. I guess MIT is an environment where you can learn

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^(n+1)

  

  It's a beautiful day here in northern Virginia, where I'm celebrating New Years Eve with some of my friends from MIT. Since there's a bunch of ... taking classes for credit at a local university? What should they do about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 31, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  doctor worm not a real doctor but i am a real worm

  

  a more balanced relationship with work. i can't let the worms take ... between steps. i still have a lot to do. i have papers for a discussion-based class tomorrow that i haven't read yet, and i have a quiz for my other

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 8, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Can you patch me through to the blimp? "Can you patch me through to the blimp?"

  

  So I can't take an ounce of credit for this artistic endeavor, but I ... calling our local Fox channel. I really wanted a live person to answer the ... ?" Unfortunately, I had no such luck and ended up leaving a message on an answering

  • by Bryan
  • October 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing…Stan! Passing the blogger torch

  

  accept a challenge (within reason). I’ll let him take it from here ... from Weinerschitzel (or if I got a long break to travel the extra block ... school and for the last 3 semesters here). In terms of school, I’m a course

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 24, 2012
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How can I get a course catalog?

  MIT has an online course catalog called the Bulletin that provides details about MIT, the campus, and undergraduate programs, including requirements and course descriptions for majors/minors.
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Building the Yearbook [by Ken Haggerty '11] An inside look at Technique 2010 (shhh!!!)

  

  you can buy it at our booth in the Student Center in early May for $65. ... year's yearbook might not actually get done, I can confidently and quite ... ask for an extra week), I am proud to say that we are completely on time

  • by ARTalk
  • March 29, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello, I’m Anthony.

  

  old. I'm a carefully sensitive romantic and a sucker for international ... something or another. I have a propensity for puns and humor that makes people ... thing. I am not exactly a traditional student, though for a while I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Grad school admissions My (limited) insight into the graduate admissions process.

  

  , although a bad score can hurt -- for example, the average engineering ... Well, I'm packing tonight for my interview at UCLA's ACCESS biology program! I'm leaving from Boston tomorrow at 7:50 AM and coming back Tuesday

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  passionless had a crisis, got a tattoo

  

  never seem too far but four years can feel like a lifetime. But I digress ... want, so where do I start? It's a privileged and pretentious question ... never been to them that I can think of them this way: means of a better

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 7, 2025