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• Blog / Academics & Research

  A *Major* Dilemma Will you forgive the pun if I tell you that I just declared my major?

  

  lot... Extra credit to the first person who can tell me where this is ... everything first. Okay when it comes to picking a breakfast cereal, but not so ... approaches particularly helpful: 1) Doing things 2) Talking to people First

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  a salmonella saga weekend outing tingz

  

  't bother trying to venture out into Boston very often. over the summer ... few weekend trips to New York. these helped me realize how feasible going places is, which means I'm definitely going to spend more time off

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Finding my place at MIT It's an ongoing process

  

  hard to build the friend group that I craved. And for my first year and ... group first semester. I was so happy to be around people that I liked and ... I saw going to college as a rebirth. I really disliked high school

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 2, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mexico things my MISTI experience

  

  public health issues. So the first project I was given to work on was a ... UROP" to anyone who asked about summer plans, when truthfully I had no idea what to do. Then some time during March or April, I heard two

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 10, 2016
• Blog / Advice

  Taking the L: Part ✌️ My goal was Heaven anyways.

  

  . Something has to go. I decided to drop 6.101. At first, I didn’t want to drop ... [i think i need to drop another class] Hey gang, it’s your favorite failure, back to fail a little bit more! I think that the weather has a

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017: Friends ❤, Food, and Flying Deloreans (Guest Post) Or maybe not quite that last one

  

  challenges we develop each year. As a reward, the first 50 teams to complete ... !   --   P.S. I'm currently trying to crack the first puzzle ... had the chance to learn some web dev with my friends, meet industry

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 11, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hitting Rewind on 2013 a summary of posts I never ended up writing from IAP till now

  

  overwhelming than I thought it was going to be - a confusing whirlwind of psets ... finals week rolled around, I was desperate to be done. I stumbled through 1 final presentation, 2 final projects, and 2 final exams then flew home to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT XC, looking sharp In which Maggie unveils the most awesome flowchart ever!

  

  Now, I know I’ve had a tendency to bury the lede a bit, (although I’d argue the sample size, n=2, is too small to draw conclusions from), so today I’m going to shake things up and show you what I’ve got up front

  • by Alina G. '11
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Quidditch: The Best Thing EVER? Yes.

  

  . This afternoon was the first warm, sunny, beautiful day we've had here for a while. I bike year-round, but today was the first time since fall that I went on a bike ride for fun, instead of just to get to class

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 7, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  For the Admitted Students Welcome, Class of 2013!

  

  First of all, Welcome to the MIT Family! (click to see full ... statistics. It's always interesting to see how you fared (especially since this ... peeled on the myMIT portal. Sign the guestbook to introduce yourself to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing Two New MIT Students… ...classes of 2026 and 2028 respectively.

  

  ecstatic to hear, "Your Epidural is in." Upon seeing Miles for the first time ... you know I recently added a new member to our family. Miles Nathaniel Nance made his way to the world on January 11, 2006 at 10:40 pm. My wife

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We even learn stuff here! There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

  

  's talk about them. First there's 18.01 (Calc I), and I have nothing interesting to say about it. Not to burst anyone's bubble about MIT or anything ... school, and you still have to go to classes, and I still don't really like

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  .13, then I'd have to guess that I lacked an amygdala. The first exam ... If you go to MIT, the odds are good that you'll get a B at some point ... . Let me be frank: If you were to look at my external transcript, you

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roombaaaa The longest trip I've ever taken in my life

  

  couldn't believe it at first to be honest. As an added bonus too, I was ... to make my way through the hustle and bustle of suited up MIT students in the Z-Center... I tried to orient myself to the layout of the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My advisor won $3 million Unraveling the mysteries of the universe, and helping Anna make life choices

  

  our first meeting, he helped me pick which classes to register for. We ... physicists worldwide just won $3 million each for outstanding contributions to ... . Classic Big Bang theory, this professor likes to say, “says nothing about what

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 4,5,6: NACAC Conference Part 3 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  to network and ask questions. There are keynote speakers at the ... hysterical). I got up at 4:30AM on Thursday to make it to the airport in time for my early flight and didn't get to sleep until after 2AM, so that was

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TESS Science Conference III My first science conference!

  

  , so we got to present a poster! Considering that this was my first ... Kresge Auditorium. It was my first introduction to the world of ... their poster is about. I was intimidated at first to be in a room full of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A poem for every day of August or nearly; I wrote 25 in all

  

  books, from a tiny copy of The Rubaiyat bound in leather, to a weathered e e cummings collection, to W. S. Merwin’s Shadows of Sirius found in a ... Alan sent out invites to join a summer poetry group — summertry, we

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

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

  

  useful to the lab -- the first truly useful code I've written. I am so ... bonuses ((I want to say boni)): one of my friends (who I first met at CPW ... break, I applied to a UROP (an undergraduate research opportunity, aka a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 22, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give the girl what she wants Ruth '07 wants pictures, she can have them.

  

  'll be your first MIT math class but you have to start somewhere. And trust ... , my last few days at MIT were a blur- I had 3 exams and lots of stuff to ... limited amount of storage space in Burton-Conner and only had access to the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2006