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• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  it did.  At the end of my freshman year at MIT, I declared brain and ... going to learn anything at all? And that scared the crap out of me – the ... those of you who don’t see your interests aligning with engineering at

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Let’s do a puzzle. Ready to flex some cranial muscle?

  

  performing all kinds of outrageous intellectual feats at the whims of the ... they could possibly mean. At some point, one of my friends decided to try ... the 31 passages. Combing through "The Eye of Argon" at 3am with two very

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you give a girl an assignment… ...she's going to ask if she can blog about it.

  

  . Luhrmann actually abuses the line in this context instead of at the end of ... each character is gazing at the reflection of themselves. Does loves show ... -screencaps If you think you’ve just stumbled into the wrong part of the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 2, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  2.009: the product engineering process the best class at mit

  

  waving rainbow pom poms and cheering at the top of their lungs. The day ... importance of iteration. We performed this test several times at the local fire ... For some schools, the biggest events of the year are rambunctious

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Class Projects

  Watch the “Wild” 2023 Final Presentations for 2.009: Product Engineering Processes something to watch while awaiting decisions

  

  (Mechanical Engineering) and one of the most famous courses at MIT. For my fellow FIRST alumni out there, it’s sort of like FRC, but for products ... experience in a design team at a modern product development firm. As part of a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  recently read words absorbed by my brain

  

  portrait of Asian Americanness. “At the Clinic” by Sally Rooney I love ... of the Rice Chest” by Monica Youn My friend Alec attended the L.A. Times Festival of Books recently and heard Monica Youn read this poem

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 3, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MITWE Goes Digital We stan Fred in this household 😤

  

  With all the WiFi problems in [annotation note="One of the big ... . Luckily, the MIT Wind Ensemble (MITWE) is always ahead of the curve, using ... -ever rehearsal with digital sheet music this Monday! When I joined MITWE at the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2016-17 Application Essay Questions For those of you rarin' to go.

  

  As the summer rolls on, we're starting to get a lot of questions from ... weeks, I know many of you are eager to start thinking about how you ... to get to know different aspects of each individual. Here are this year

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • July 26, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Greetings from Honduras: D-Lab students in the field D-Lab students Chelsie, Miho and Nina report from Honduras

  

  D-Lab is an interdisciplinary program at MIT committed to working ... technologies. This January, teams comprising a total of 35 students are working ... Nina writing to you from the computer room of the Fundacion, the NGO we

  • by OEL
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Me again (but with flamethrowers this time) yup, it's a shameless ploy to catch your interest. But it's working, right?

  

  wrote to the president of MIT at the time, and asked for his opinion first ... befitting an Institute of Technology. (Just writing that sentence made me feel ... hipster. You just don't TALK about this kind of thing) For example, I

  • by Alina G. '11
  • February 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Where You’re Going, Where I’ve Been CPW! YEEAAAH!

  

  would be good to have at least a rough outline of what you'd like to see ... as many of your options as possible. Campus visits really helped me ... generation of MIT students. CPW will be all kinds of fun. Click here to browse

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline November 1 is the Early Action deadline.

  

  't much of a party, but the title at least made the task of opening envelopes seem more fun. We are now receiving a deluge of mail each day, buckets upon buckets of pieces of your applications to be opened, sorted

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Bienvenidos a Miami Updates from South Florida.

  

  lucky enough to secure the Clark Educational Center at South Miami Hospital for the meeting, thanks to one of our Educational Counselors who works at the hospital. It's a great space, and the hospital served some

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This title is irrelevant In which I discuss two important aspects of undergraduate life: scientific research and climbing stairs.

  

  happily ever after. On the downside, the sight of stairs makes me foam at ... letter to MIT, I glimpsed a beautiful future in which all of life's hardships and stupidities were swept away from my little corner of the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 28, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Always Rooting for the Anti-Hero it's me! hi! i'm [the problem?], it's me

  

  out of all the places there are to be at this time, they chose to be ... hours and hours just talking and shirking off work. At one of these ... where i am Since the beginning of the fall semester of my senior

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 29, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  points. If you lose control of your attitude, two things happen: (1) you ... is one of the most crucial parts of flying a spacecraft, which is why they’re equipped with suites of sensors and actuators dedicated to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  wake up at like 8 or 9 every day regardless of when my classes are. Stop ... and listen to music at the same time. I'm really envious of the people ... low points, but it takes a certain amount of humility and retrospect to

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  [Guest Post] One Year Later Some things changed, some things didn’t

  

  fine clay particles of my life, and suspended them into a cloudy mess. It takes a long time for sediment to collect at the bottom of a liquid ... was more in-between, meant different things for each of my parents, and

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  importance of being emotionally open, but in real life I am not like that at ... ) today and saw three of my favorite people at MIT, all of whom I met ... what happens when i don't. The week before my freshman year of college

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what makes fear worth it musical theater and anxiety

  

  ’ powers of inference. When I saw Firebringer in my freshman fall at MIT ... sound and lights and set and orchestra. Finally at the end of IAP we had ... Despite being a brief and shallow fan of Hamilton in middle school, I

  • by Kai V. '25
  • February 27, 2025