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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keep it simple, stupid I try to choose classes for the fall. Things get messy.

  

  have cool things to talk about. I'm sure you're all excited. In the ... -epiphany where I kind of sort of maybe started thinking about majoring in 2A ... .900 because not only am I interested in the subject, but it fulfills two HASS

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Round here we stay up very, very late Vignettes on my last day at lab, the Counting Crows, grad school, and pets.

  

  crying in baseball? Well, there's no crying in science either ... crying in front of people. On Thursday, my postdoc took me out to lunch ... school, and about careers in science. He gave me a lot of good advice about

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  See me, feel me, milq me, heal me Picture entry! Don't read if you're on dialup! DON'T DO IT! Sorry, but it's for…

  

  , remember in the summer when you used to get nice, well-cropped color pictures in immaculately-high resolution? That's all over now. There's an ... , please don't read any further. Just enjoy my witty repartee in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobody’s Got No Class! I was browsing through the MIT Course Catalog, and thought these classes looked pretty thought-provoking.

  

  changes in gender role and expectation over the past two decades and the ... experiences of characters in "Sex and the City" are generalizable to people of differing racial, ethnic and economic backgrounds. Students enrolled in the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  that simulation can give you a better idea of how plasma behaves in a ... project—and college—thinking there were just a few big problems in the world ... apart in every direction. I quit the plasma physics research: to get any

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024
• Blog / MISTI

  A day at Seaborg Technologies interning at a nuclear startup in Denmark

  

  The day in question is Thursday, one day before the end of my ... notification in the social channel of Microsoft Teams. In my office, the ... many people go on vacation in summertime, this happens nearly every day

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [joint post] unsubscribe a post about fortune cookies

  

  seven times in this calendar year, and, also, spoilers for a future blog ... in the post to get derailed, CJ. The people have come here for fortune ... phrases in the English language. CJ: Business, then. It was a dark and

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  On keeping on keeping on It's pretty much the only option.

  

  that we are all experiencing feel strikingly familiar. Airlines were in ... (although in my hometown bedroom community of NYC, people were buying pallets ... topic no matter where you went: at home, at school, on the street, in the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 30, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Middle School To those who are having or have had a bad experience

  

  realized we started reading the MIT blogs when we were still in the thick of ... to Miami, Florida when we were 10. We started 5th grade in Miami at a public elementary school, lets call it school A. In school A, we made

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA and How to Extract It Messy, slimy, colorful science from a class I taught for Spark.

  

  Covert Operations in Deep Cover and The Game Mechanics of Pokémon. There ... interested in the nucleus of the cell, which encloses the DNA. Your DNA is a ... using only four letters. Each word in the story is three letters long. The

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 31, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Everything You Ever Wanted to Know All your wishes have been magically granted.

  

  the exact same credentials, I'm not confident I would get in. Admissions ... things you should do before turning in any essay, so they're pretty common ... . Don't flat out say X event changed me in Y way. Show how it changed you

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Prefrosh: My ‘Year On’ ...and why you should listen to Matt McGann. [by Vicky Thomas '12]

  fellow '12s in an effort to get to know them better") Matt's entry to see ... one of the best decisions I've made in a while. Before I dive into what ... -by-play of my year so far. After I graduated from high school in June '07, I

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  then and now a reflection on the very bad

  

  was in fifth grade, right before spring break. I was called into the ... . In a car ride to my dad's place, he asked me "Why would you say shit ... month after this. 2. The second time was in my freshman year of high

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  . What follows is the very long and detailed crisis I had in picking my major, organized by what I considered, in a roughly chronological order ... , but in sophomore/junior/early senior year of high school, I told

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what makes fear worth it musical theater and anxiety

  

  Despite being a brief and shallow fan of Hamilton in middle school, I ... , to me, existed as a series of songs someone had compiled in a YouTube playlist. Somehow everyone in the comments was stringing together a coherent

  • by Kai V. '25
  • February 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall 2024 🍂 aka, things settle down.

  

  note="until AC came in and confused the shit out of me"]coolest thing ... a sense that I’d really learned a lot in those three hours. My ... well with my learning style. I found it really cool to program in a

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done with the b.s. 4 years of mit by the numbers

  

  robotics research internship in the UK :)   433 units taken Over my ... classes number-wise to double major if I had taken them in the same area ... I’ve taken a 9-unit Drawing class and been in a 6-unit music ensemble

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  a time capsule of east campus multi-media, community-built

  

  i've been in a funny little writing rut, far away from the keyboard and tightly wound up in my thoughts. this blog overwhelmed me because i ... world, and people sent in truly wonderful digital artifacts, so i

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • November 12, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  like a freight train a schedule post

  

  [annotation note="well, 4.66, as in 5 until mid-April and 4 after that. But that ... campus for the first time. The novelty of that comes in waves. I love ... who walk with me after in-person classes. I wander alone down the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 19, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  where is home? leaving your home is easy / it's keeping this one that's a struggle

  

  one Living alone is easy It's keeping someone that's impossible in ... on in my life: it feels like there's nothing going on. or maybe, more ... . since moving in to simmons, i went on a subway trip with alan, which was

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 27, 2020