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• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Want to Declare a Double Major? This is why/how I'm doing it, in case you were curious

  

  , from TV shows and video games to social media and the concept of spam ... I'm going to start this out with a quick disclaimer: no, a double ... you happiest :D Okay. For me, a double major is how I've decided to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 5, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  relearning what i know now or: hi, i learned wrong my entire life.

  

  when it came to academics. Throughout high school, you see, I was taught to learn for the test. For an AP. For a final. The singular goal was to pass. And this was good enough for high school. This was enough to get

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Physics A short novel.

  

  I'm going to be honest - The first five academic weeks here were not ... , thinking that it sounds fantastic and you'd love it and you can't wait to try it. But actually, the transition can be pretty painful. I'm here to

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you want to be when you grow up? Worst. Question. Ever.

  

  Now that I'm a junior in college, I'm supposed to be almost an adult ... apparently, this means I'm going to have to go find a job- also in the real ... pace, is that I am constantly being asked what I'm going to do when I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 2, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Piercings! sorry mom

  

  in my dorm went and got piercings together. Their excitement and joy reminded me of my own experience getting piercings my freshman year. To me ... gained from going to college and getting my first paid (on-campus) job

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  A Tribute to the people of South Africa

  

  leaning close together to hear one another. I ask them about their world ... be filled with all kinds of sights and experiences that I would want to ... week that I didn’t find the time (or the energy) to step away from it all

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 17, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Selling Point How to tell the difference between MIT and an infomercial

  

  us to work together as we will when we leave the shelter of a college ... chair, working together to finish a pset or a project. Student ... wasn’t a couch potato by any means; I loved to go fishing with my

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some comforting blogs to read while you await decisions

  

  wanted to take a breath and collect some words of encouragement from ... thought were especially comforting, and might quilt together into a nice, cozy blanket to curl around you while you wait. here comes a thought by

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Life, the Universe, and Everything I’m significant! …screamed the dust speck.

  

  process to being on campus, when you are starstruck. Starstruck by the ... the slight urge to huddle under a blanket with a warm cup of tea and mutter to yourself, "what have I even done with my life?" Oftentimes, this

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 13, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s going on inside my head It might not have been so very important.

  

  despite my inability to skate, I have played exactly one game of IM ice ... conversation. I discovered that spinach, which I previously considered to be the ... I have to cover it in a bacon-sugar sauce before eating it. Actually

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  A Mentor to Remember – Patrick Winston (1943-2019) Celebrating Professor Winston

  

  prioritize togetherness (especially in a place like MIT where it is easy to ... feeling when someone is explaining something to you multiple times, but you ... early this morning”.   It’s really difficult for me to process that

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 24, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Nightmarket Two (unrelated) celebrations of low-priced office supplies and Asian culture. (~15 pictures)

  

  ) and I went to Harvard Square for some errands and dinner. Weywey dug ... for 18 cents each! Needless to say, I was thrilled. (I bought 12.) Unfortunately, one was a casualty of some rainy weather today. Anyway, back to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  To All the Blogs I’ve Loved Before Hello? Is this thing on?

  

  up running around madly and using the compass on my smartphone to ... different. When I graduated from college, it actually didn’t even occur to me ... related to diversity and inclusion, which had been long-time passions of

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • December 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT of the Late 1800s, According to the Students snippets of history from the first 10 yearbooks

  

  committment to diversity. In fact, as early as 1917, the Boston Daily Globe ... students was international. MIT has since worked to increase this number, reaching out to nations all over the world. By 2015, 9.77% of the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 27, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2016 Ring Delivery! MY RING IS SO PRETTY!

  

  Last night, MIT sophomores dressed in black-tie attire flocked to the beautiful State Room in Boston to receive their glorious Brass Rats! Michael ... rings to show to the world on our beautiful 2016 hands! LOOK AT MY PRETTY

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fantastic Course Numbers and Where to Find Them A List of Ways MIT is like Hogwarts

  

  together to make a better world. That is MIT. Nothing can change that. And ... was feeling a more light-hearted, nonsensical post to take my mind of ... Hogwarts! (I also recently watched Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  All the Feels introduction to me and my thoughts

  

  together passion and hard work to produce so much energy and drive that they ... inside the MIT bubble, I feel myself growing in so many ways. I want to ... you ever wanted to know what someone was thinking when they met you

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 14, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Terrascope Save the world. Go. (:

  

  , you could answer in a multitude of ways and I wouldn’t be able to say ... to ask you. What do I mean by “meaning”? Do I mean to ask what the ... life is? You can’t prioritize to determine whether you should answer it

  • by Ana V. '15
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  hike the desert pretend i am a lifestyle blogger

  

  quiet mountain, and then realize we had to walk back."]in fall,[/annotation] I vowed to go hiking. Tucson is gorgeous; and, importantly, in Tucson I have a car. I had some daring plans to go hiking every other day

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2023
• Blog / Travel

  spring break! so much happened, but also so much didn't happen

  

  together to form the never-ending firehose, and there's really no escaping it ... -filled time, a time to relax, hang out with your friends, and have the ... of the covid restrictions at the time (not that I would've wanted to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 16, 2022