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• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision

  

  just any degree and a passion for it. Part of me still feels weird not ... . (and getting into politics with a stem degree is easier than ever, so ... . What follows is the very long and detailed crisis I had in picking my

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025
• Blog / Classes

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

  

  through [annotation note = "I asked her about it now and apparently the ... maximum, and then treat the first two weeks as ‘reading period.’ This works, in that I am currently alive and well, but those two weeks are fairly

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

  We open in Venice We next play Firenze, then on to Pisa (lots of laughs in Pisa), our next…

  

  further and now must be stabilized with cables. For those of you just ... front of European landmarks. You can go back and read that whole entry, or if you just want the gist of it, it's because MIT is awesome. And

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  hey kids you should apply there's still time!

  

  Sinus pressure and general malaise have prevented me from typing up ... strategy. I presented her with my list of colleges, mostly state schools with ... MIT until the coordinator suggested it. I thought she was joking, and

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  today is my birthday & i still don’t know who to become

  

  i. The days wheeled past like a flock of starlings, and suddenly ... correct about most things, and she’s correct about this: summer slips away ... in diary pages and used calendars. Another year until I acquired the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Entrepreneur’s Story How billionaire entrepreneur Pat McGovern '59 got his start.

  

  world's leading IT media, research and exposition company") and philanthropist behind such ventures as the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at ... , and, as it is here, it is often a very interesting story. Read on: I was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 22, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  GELcamp project management… in the woods?

  

  slack). Also, side note, it was -2 degrees this morning and my nostrils ... … Day One Hello! I am currently typing this in 14 degree weather, snuggled up in a remote New Hampshire cabin with 40-ish people from MIT and

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 6, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  40 Hours Left! The time is 0500 EST, 12/15. I am studying for finals. You are waiting for…

  

  Following the old tradition... Go and change the world! Buena ... . Proceedings, Third IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture ... -205. Taken from Hood, Clifton. 722 Miles: The Building of the Subways and How

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 15, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  One for sorrow, two for joy Never surrender your dreams.

  

  , and one revised essay) while still finding a decent amount of time for club meetings, having dinner at my fraternity, playing Brawl, and ... ...emotionally, socially, academically; as a friend, as a student researcher, and as a human

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Events

  SpaceVision 2010 Space is cool.

  

  the taxi driver and did my best to communicate (no mean feat, given how incapable I am of doing anything at all in the morning) and confirmed that he ... life. Twelve minutes later, suitcase packed and shoes on the right feet

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 13, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: CrowdMath, by Art of Problem Solving and MIT PRIMES, is a thing now a brief note in between committee breaks

  

  advanced math education and competition in the United States, which features ...  founder of Art of Problem Solving (AoPS), an online school and community for people who love math, and we occasionally talk about what's going on in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Al Kwon ‘08: Researching drug delivery Al Kwon, a Junior majoring in Biology, talks about some of his really exciting work…

  

  best-known biomedical engineers in the world. He holds 500 issued and pending patents and is in the National Inventors Hall of Fame for his ... Prize” for engineers) and author of over 900 papers, Professor

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Comprehensive Guide to Vending Machines at MIT Because it needed to be done.

  

  Center) and building 68 (Koch Institute) to locate every single publicly ... naturally, I set out for the nearest and most convenient source of soda ... Infinite, down the Infinite, and back around to building 14 before we finally

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  What Essay Questions Should We Ask?

  

  old applications, which got me down to the Institute Archives, looking ... , and think about whether we want to change them.  Strategically ... dress up like a Viking and light things on fire") but also how they

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 46 ‚ô•

  

  Look at this: And this: And this: And maybe even this: I ... that if you know what major you want to pursue, you can declare it and be ... requirement, Communication requirement, General Institute Requirements, major

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Photo Scavenger Hunt Let's give this a shot.

  

  -back, carefree, and a whole lot of fun. This year my summer is shaping up to be ... too much to try and blog about. So while I'm working on resizing my 3 TB worth of photos to put in my blog and writing my entries, I thought it

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 15, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-wedding update

  

  to catch up with many old friends, and of course to see my old roommate ... -6 years removed from the Institute are doing job-wise, here's who was around ... for Exxon-Mobil, city planner, chemistry PhD student, and, oh yeah

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On the DUSP Course 11: Urban Studies and Planning

  

  Student Profiles from MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning ... -disciplinary, flexible, and engaged with the larger world in ways many other departments ... find information about our current faculty, where we work, and how our

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Early Action deadline is almost here The only thing scarier than October 31st is Nov 1st (just kidding, no need to…

  

  MIT account. Don’t forget to provide your name and MIT ID, stating clearly ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... trouble submitting their Parts 1 and 2.) Your school/teachers may submit

  • by Kris Guay
  • October 31, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Standing Out [by C/3C Christopher Benson, '10] Before AFROTC, this abstract concept of "leadership" seemed very generic...

  

  excited to commission as an Officer in the United States Air Force, to have ... roller coaster, and gain an experience that very few people will ever know ... and exciting life. When I first signed up for ROTC, I thought of it

  • by ROTC
  • January 3, 2008