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• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Urban Studies and Planning at MIT! On the DUSP: Part 2

  

  engaged in real-world issues. Since the posting of the last blog featuring ... , I came in as an [annotation note="Mathematics and Computer Science"]18 ... very... abstract. After bouncing around for a while, I'm now a double in

  • by Victor D. '27
  • December 3, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  how not to be a mathematician on taking time & not running away

  

  learned anything in my classes at MIT. By the end of my sophomore year, the ... , if I would have been better off someplace else. In classes, I ... nothing is impossible (and in some ways, it did that for me), for the most

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 15, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  “@Andi you know how with ultra hand you can rotate objects in 45 ... up in my room playing the new Legend of Zelda game instead of exploring ... many new abilities our hero Link gains in his quest to defeat Ganondorf

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  love languages in the little things

  

  , and physical touch--are fine, but love can be found in so many places ... products that I feel the immediate need to have in my possession: Sanrio ... icing. "I wonder if there's a pink food coloring deficit in the world

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 6, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  things that went well reflections on my first semester

  

  course, in all the things that we’d like to be able to leave behind. But at the same time, in some ways it’s too easy to for me to feel like the year just flew by in a weird sort of emptiness. It didn’t, of course. I

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 25, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  my impressive vocabulary. Being word-limit averse and untrained in the ways of the humblebrag, I was challenged. In addition, I was confronted ... (and still am). In addition, I felt like each of the essays I wrote could

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Growing Up bringing it back to 2007

  

  one thing now, you will be alive in 2016 -- breathing that sigh of relief, I see ;) You see, I wanted to drop in and, you know, tell you a ... you that in the world that I come from -- and you'll get to experience

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  Haley C. ‘18 is a sophomore living in East Campus and studying Course ... , most recently in 11.124 Introduction to Education. I loved hearing about ... , and I’m a sophomore in EECS. I also really love teaching. Unsurprisingly

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2015! Happy New Year

  

  I’m in my Uncle’s home in Virginia, typing the word ‘word’. And now ... joke well in advance, and is currently staging a protest in form of a ... from everything, what with 2015 finally in the horizon, and delve a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Imbibing the Nostalgia Punch More akin to jumping on the bandwagon than drinking the kool-aid in that it is…

  

  . I haven't revisited these blogs in some time; the public ramblings of ... now-me in the heart with a blast of nostalgia or inspiration that stings ... true. Other blog posts recanting the more mundane remind me that in many

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  “There is No Place Like Home” ...especially when you are a long way from home

  

  four years living in Baker House and I loved it there. When I returned to ... my younger brother who lived in fraternities and independent living groups when I was in college but sororities such as the six whose members

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • July 12, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m sitting on my bed right now so sleepy

  

  away in the back; he very wearily said no. Maybe he gets that question a ... 'm back in my room. My windows are open, because it's gorgeous outside (and ... conversations waft up to my room - heads up, in case you ever find yourself on a 1

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  senior year in Course 7 (which is awesome! Everyone should study biology!!) with a minor in Applied International Studies and concentration in Spanish. I was a beekeeper/researcher for a summer in high school

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer to Remember – Interphase or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Institvte!

  

  considered morning. Summer is a time for pools, Pokemon, and playing in no particular order. While my last summer was spent cooped up in a cubicle for 40 ... half month periods that defined my childhood. For the first time in three

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Finding Your Match and why it matters

  

  't always obvious. Other important factors in your college decisions process ... , match wasn't foremost in my mind. Or in my mind at all. In fact, it wasn ... at a rural but well-resourced public high school in New Hampshire. I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being an Upperclassman Less than two years left

  

  It’s hard to believe that I am now in the latter half of my college ... as well, but for now I am enjoying myself in the moment, even with the ... have reached the point in my major where I am taking classes that are

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Days My traditional end-of-summer recap post, in technicolor.

  

  that girl who sits in front of me in class. I also took out the trash and ... taking strolls around the park in my walker, my summer consisted of: Walking to work. I walked a lot this summer. Living in a place where public

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A Snively CPW By: Snively' 11

  

  arrived in Boston Wednesday evening to catch an MIT Wind Ensemble rehearsal ... was actually seeing people in person that I've been seeing online ... a dorm has a ball pit, I need to stay in it, because it is

  • by Bryan
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Antietam? I hardly knew him. A Fourth of July fable, while I'm stuck in Germany.

  

  having a little bit of down time in your typical day. Especially if years ... new work arises, and you're actually learning something in the process. In many cases, it may even be something factual. This morning I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Come together (and eat)

  

  comments I read in other blogs. But I saw one I just couldn't resist over in ... walk in anytime and find some friends to sit down with, and I feel like I ... hear a lot from non-MIT people and prospective students. In order to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 15, 2005