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• Blog / MIT Life

  Construction Thoughts on a major.

  

  given me my freshman year of high school; everybody had told me that ... eyeballing my handiwork, I had built the table to within 1.3 degrees of level ... probable choice of major (or however it is they ask you what it is you want

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 26, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Alive and Kicking I kick, therefore I am ~taekwondo~

  

  , it do be bad now. This form (both of its parts) has a lot of 90 degree ... , maybe try and improve at one of the many sports you know how to play in a ... (tennis)"]organized sports teams/clubs.[/annotation] This hope of exploring

  • by Waly N. '24
  • August 3, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Working at a Toy Company! I promise you, my job was cooler than yours.

  

  I feel less guilty publishing this during IAP since IAP is designed to be fun time at MIT. I wrote a large chunk of this entry back at the beginning of the semester in August but never got around to finishing it. I

  • by Snively '11
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Answers, and live updates Live from a lecture by architect Steven Holl.

  

  architect of Simmons Hall. I'll update you on the lecture and also answer some ... that some of you have not heard from your host. Do not worry. I assure you that you have a host, and that you will be well taken care of while

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  , MISTI, career fairs - MIT offers a lot of resources, but you have to take ... advantage of the well-equipped Z Center. Benefit of going to a nerd school ... Let's face it: none of us are getting younger. In fact, I'm getting

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m Still Here (for now) quick reflections on the last ten years

  

  Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. In the last three, almost four years, I ... Killian or the design school backyard. I hold these experiences so close to ... I’m sitting in the quiet car of a Northeast Regional Amtrak train

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Molly Pounds Chicagoland's Molly Pounds '10.

  

  admission to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - as a high school junior. Pounds will graduate from Crystal Lake South High School in June ... LONG / Northwest Herald CRYSTAL LAKE - Molly Pounds' love of horses

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything is cool tl;dr I want to study too many things

  

  international relations class during my senior year of high school because I ... engineering school and i think my cs degree would have the word engineering in ... The theme of my (very short) MIT experience so far has been that

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Preparing for the real world An alum's perspective!

  

  are intentionally designed to be solved by one or two people, ideally of ... advantage of one of the best opportunities MIT has to offer. You won’t regret ... her for life outside of the MIT bubble. I love hearing other students

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 18, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  Do Welsh Robots Dream of Electric Sheep? teaching kids robotics through GTL Wales!

  

  within the limitations of the secondary school’s resources and budget. A ... went a lot smoother (with the exception of the fact that the school ... mention navigating school bureaucracy, taking care of their own families

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Passions (No, not that kind)

  

  this year Kevin, a friend from my high school, is like many of you -- e ... volume of work most high school seniors get themselves into -- e.g. the ... -description attached to this post may have, despite my best efforts, given some of you a

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Ethics, AI, and the College of Computing some student voices in a campus controversy

  

  crucial that the school be clear of how the money is being used and the ... of Computing. Even though a new school provides a fantastic opportunity ... outside Kresge that was the venue of the College of Computing celebrations

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Blogs ...for the price of one! (a.k.a. robots)

  

  's team before leaving to start a team at my high school, with three of my ... You've all heard what most of the other bloggers are doing for IAP ... must be dying to hear what I've been up to. I expect the barrage of

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 13, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  scootin’ and zoomin’ a transportation saga

  

  .E.M.E. degree. i have enough sayings that you can make a soundboard of me and no ... levers. If you don’t want the hassle of owning a bike, MIT offers ... Way back in September, I had the difficult, difficult task of writing

  • by Phi A. '21
  • May 18, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Is this the real life? Guest writer for Sam's Blog, Ruth '07 goes home to Georgia, gets ditched by most…

  

  . * Most people never left high school. Most of my friends live very close ... adventure down memory lane. And for those of you who I haven't told a billion ... , Georgia, but the Dukes of Hazzard TV show was filmed in my hometown of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The City On A Hill The "M" of " MIT"

  

  school case of little town blues - that's just not worth it to me. Hey, we ... diversity and proximity of other schools and even New York, nothing ... Massachusetts College of Art and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. The

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivered celebrating halfway at the finish line

  

  on the path to receiving an MIT degree. The Class of 2022 (my original ... tasked with designing their class’ Brass Rat and organizing all of the ... the new Brass Rat design. I went to the Class of 2022 Ring Premiere in

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 22, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: When in South Africa guest post by a fellow '21

  

  *written by a '21 as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of Summer guest ... technology I would design. Flash forward 11 years and not much has changed, I still want to travel the world but am now thinking of pursuing medical

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 31, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You should consider studying economics if… for those who aren't totally set on what to major in

  

  already be familiar with my experience of choosing a major. In summary, I ... economics (Course 14), realized over the course of the following year that ... undergraduates in terms of the number of people who do it. As of some time in the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking ahead to IAP One more week left to go! Feel the burn!

  

  called Design and Manufacturing I (2.007). The challenge of the class ... different from UROP. It is an internship program sponsored by the School of ... Three days of class: 20 sheets of notebook paper Four days of non

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2005