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• Blog / Academics & Research

  How do you know when you’ve chosen the right major?

  

  've taken have been invaluable for this. They've given me the confidence to ... Sometimes I get so engaged by a project that I forget to eat. Yesterday, I woke up at 7:35am.  Starving, I got a sandwich to-go at the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 17, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Associate Advising and the MedLinks Program I'm sick of unpacking, so here's a blog post

  

  New House to run events for, and mentor, freshmen within our dorm who ... advisees to register for classes! In the meantime, back to unpacking. ... collection of these for a while, and will start leaking them out) MIT Student

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Shot in the Life I now realize that this is probably a misleading title.

  

  I had literally never taken a screen shot until I got to MIT. Seriously. I guess I just never had needed to or something, but once I got here I started taking them all the time, just to remember that day the

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hello? Pick up your phones!!

  

  to attend MIT. Do people even have time for extracurriculars ... 't remember...) are offered for anyone who wants to place out of introductory classes. A good way to study for them is by using the materials (lectures

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 16, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  My Entirely Unexciting IAP see title

  

  Yerba Buena Center for the Arts to find out what the hype was about, but I ... So, compared to my IAPs of years past which I spent studying abroad ... low-key. ...I basically just went home for six weeks. But I had a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 28, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exercises in Style with apologies to queneau

  

  for certain whether this was related to the event or merely incident to ... gathering for some event, really, I couldn't care less about it. I wanted to ... , we were assigned to read Raymond Queneau's classic Exercises in Style

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 20, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  train of thought on feeling deeply

  

  conventional 9-5 job is valid as something to want for yourself. It’s an option that I’m considering for what I want to do straight out of college, but I ... passion for science that drew me to MIT in the first place.  Before hopping

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roundup Some Links to Summarize this Summer

  

  -Nehisi's spark-making June cover story, The Case for Reparations, and Roxane Gay ... . Learning to drive stick-shift in a car that once belonged to my favorite ... looks to me: like the sky is a shield, cracking open momentarily to reveal

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Students Are Cool: Brian Chan edition These are the kind of people that you will go to school with.

  

  MIT.  The honest answer?  THE PEOPLE!  So I'm going to tell you stories about some of the awesome and amazing people that I went to school with ... now after graduating from MIT. So today let me introduce you to Brian

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Reading What’s in your beach bag?

  

  is good news! It means you still have time to get some summer reading ... actually get to the beach or not, don’t miss out on the last few weeks of ... about you, but I love to be reading a few books at the same time

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Relativity Special (and vice versa) I took a test today that relied on practically everything I have ever learned from…

  

  'd like to thank the proud sponsors of Sesame Street for their generous ... my Special Relativity test required me to add (and subtract!) numbers with 5 significant figures, and the professor did not manage to include a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 18, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Love is Blinds A short, fairly irrelevent entry, as told from the perspective of the 7+ people who…

  

  : (thinking) Seriously? ME: (thinking) Seriously. (thanks to Allin for ... last night, in the hallway ANGELA MONSTER: Allin and I are going to Economy Hardware tomorrow morning. ME: Oh, can I come? I need to buy blinds

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 31, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How Do You Mic A Stripper? [by Harrison Bralower '11] It's a great question when you really think about it.

  

  interviewed to be the Sound Designer for the Musical Theater Guild's (MTG ... think about it-—how does one attach a microphone to a stripper ... joking around with the case. It takes more than two months to put a show

  • by ARTalk
  • May 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Impossible Design Project See what it's like to be a Course VI student.

  

  to try to solve it. This year, we have to create a controller for a ... giving you one of my problems to take a look at. 6.033 is Computer Systems Engineering. It has lots of different components to it - so far we've talked

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Work, friends, sleep – pick three In which I manage time effectively.

  

  about MIT. She wants to go (a lot), and I'm keeping my eyes and ears open. It sounds like all kinds of amazing. ^_^ P.S. Devin wants you to ... hours on a MONDAY. And I got to sleep by 1AM, and then I woke up in time

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Baby Steps It made tonight's newswire. The grass is still green in Boston Common.

  

  regular term classes has officially come to an end. My glasses could use a ... of data, visual or practical. Yes, always; sometimes to my benefit, sometimes to my detriment. My high school math teacher once likened my mind to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Carnival A glorious carnival is marred by the passing of a beloved goldfish. (24 pictures)

  

  . Sam offered to dispose of him for me. Hmm, urinal or toilet ... Last night, we went to a carnival that was sponsored by the ... '08, my suitemate from San Antonio, TX, returned to campus today, just

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 3, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eleven "And the award for 'least creative entry title ever' goes to..."

  

  really fast. Then I got the people standing in line for security to let me ... went for a bike ride and it's so beautiful outside that it inspired me to ... Cambridge for awhile to go somewhere with more trees, you will want to have a

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduled time my classes this semester, and how engineering and sociology go hand in hand

  

  as any to remind everyone that MIT's ranked top three in the world for ... responsibility!) to be a champion for social change and human rights. Look at ... Is this what it's like to be an upperclassman and only take classes

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Photograph-athon Because anything can be a catchy title if you add -athon to the end!

  

  typical pitch for a CPW event, thanks to the winning combination of gluttony ... fantastic transportational and recreational resource for those “inclined” to ... Photo Contest, in which I objectively judged photos sent to me by CPW

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 29, 2009