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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

  

  pursue the field explicitly stated on their degree. Thankfully, for me ... major isn't for everyone and please don't feel like you're an inferior ... navigate MIT and attempt to reconcile my diverse interests in both biological

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 5, 2014
• FAQ / First-year application

  May I include supplementary materials with my application?

  , visual artists, and makers to submit supplemental materials. If you must mail materials to MIT, please use this address: Massachusetts Institute
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007: Where even your smallest part matters The 2.007 competition has come to close!

  

  humanities, and only one graduate ball represents the coveted MIT diploma ... .007 has come to a close. If you're saying, "2.007, huh?" click here and read ... , Junior, and Senior platform, where wooden and rubber balls represent

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not my college essay It's Blog Action Day and the topic is poverty.

  

  keep my room at a feisty 80 degrees this winter and start a refuge ... , and walk past a large chunk of Boston University. On the plus side ... grossly underpaid and need your donations (PayPal preferred) to buy space

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Exam Cram a comic in which my friend tries to save me from chem

  

  Bonus: 3.091 (Solid-State Chemistry) class has a weekly meme contest. Because I'm a try hard and didn't know how to make proper memes, I drew a comic. The topic was on orbitals and hybridization. I really like it, so I

  • by Anika H. '26
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  University, and enjoyed a relaxing senior spring. So did I, but it was ... I took a gap year after graduating from high school, and it was amazing. I wrote this essay during my freshman fall here at MIT and thought

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Mathematics of People Guest post on Economics

  

  University of Sannio about the productivity gap between the North and the South ... a masters degree, who loves psychology, studies/practices Buddhist spirtuality, and lives in his head. My mom is a former bartender and studied at

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 28, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  The First Snow of the Year! Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. Also, what to expect for the…

  

  month, yay for IAP). - The record low for November is 8 degrees and the ... me and another one of my best friends who goes to MIT. We were walking across the Harvard Bridge and bang, we felt a snowflake (the first

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 29, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  What is weather? ...and what is rain?

  

  degrees and sunny. That basically sums up my prior experience with ... degrees Fahrenheit. Not too bad, but warmer and more humid that I’d prefer ... refreshing 72-degree and sunny day. That was a welcome change. And then today

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 9, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Recap—The Book Launch Oh hi there...yes, I'm back!

  

  near-universal surprise a little amusing. They’d ask how I’d done it, and ... . Between then and now, a fusillade of transformations has taken place. Rather than present a disjointed patchwork of events from here and there, I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Home is where the heart (of Texas) is Going away to school isn't such a bad thing.

  

  of other people just wanted to see what was beyond state lines and ... So I've been spending some time in my hometown over Winter Break, and ... before I go off and become an adult. It's kind of strange and at the same

  • by Bryan
  • December 30, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Starbucks. I'm getting a little too familiar with it.

  

  expected. The high for today is 59 degrees, with a low of 51, and while I ... , thunderstorms, 98-degree days, followed by rain and a 40 degree temperature drop ... degrees and that things like ice cream runs are a necessity. My lab, being

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 14, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are we going?

  

  assumption that there is no institutional memory and that attitudes are ... . Our housemasters of several years, Prof. Julian Wheatley and his wife ... housemasters, Student Life staff, two GRTs, and two residents of the dorm. We

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thank Goodness! "There are bridges you cross / You didn't know you crossed / until you've crossed."

  

  stereotypes and conceptions towards MIT (or prestigious universities as a whole ... midterms in three of them (Spanish 4, Biology Lab, and Organic Chemistry - that's 21F.704, 7.02, and 5.12 for all ye eager beavers) this week

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tasty water, the Charles River, and other things that are not synonymous First post!

  

  , unspringy mattress involved creaking wood and 45-degree wobbling. I had about ... hundreds of wonderful and intelligent female students but also the best ... from sheer exhaustion, found out that minesweeper and tetris can be

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Unpacking Surprises to sum up 4 years at MIT

  

  Architecture seniors at graduation and awesome USB wristbands from the department  It’s been exactly one month since commencement, and I ... September and I’m not at MIT registering for classes and trying to squeeze in

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lecture Notes: Biology of Culture highlights from Brian Farrell's open lecture at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (spoiler: contains…

  

  have Star Wars technology, medeival institutions, and paleolithic ... Biology of Culture: Bridging Art and Science Straight from the scribbles in my notebook, a smattering of quotes, points and diagrams: "I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No time for your stupid question. A posthumous entry about the Ig Nobel awards.

  

  and three degrees of firmness. Though, in his own words, it took him "a ... Nobel Peace Prize went to Claire Rind and Peter Newcastle University for ... English language... and I'm so dedicated to you, gentle reader, that I would

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maybe I’m Amazed ...but not until Season 13, at least.

  

  and a crest proudly stating, "WINNERS OF THE AMAZING RACE 2007". So, you ... people behind us were from State College, and they were trying to get here ... season of the Japanese show and have to switch to a new season of the show

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Goodnight Moon Or: The Senior Who Desperately Tries to Put Off Bedtime By Saying Goodnight to Every…

  

  universe, and everything. If it were up to me, I’d sleep at least 9 hours ... universe, and everything. My roommate and I finished preliminary work on our ... It is currently 5:26am and even though I really truly definitely

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2016