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• Blog / Academics & Research

  they want to see you fail managing others' envy

  

  . I switched to a math major (from a humanities major) in fall 2019 ... confidence in the area. Some cool opportunities came my way: I was invited to ... mathematics, which I’d attended in high school. I was accepted into well

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Rewriting my Blogger Bio more like brutally revising i guess

  

  's cool is that I can now attribute the changes in myself and my interests ... ="yes, everybody can tell that you are a freak obsessed with final fantasy 7. i guess ... that is a big component of what i look for in good friends. freshman year

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ROTC Is Life (In a Good Way) Everything you ever wanted to know about ROTC at MIT (and then some)

  

  Rachel, who I lived with in Simmons during freshman year, are in the ROTC ... detachment, you can still participate in ROTC at another school in the area ... in the program. You can find a lot more information about that at

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Three More Tales of Junior Year the sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year

  

  dinners in the fall. Also, this is an old draft. I can now attest that ... , in my months of deliberation, I fell in love. With my life at MIT. I ... else—with a spice of the technical in the liberal arts. I'd miss seeing

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 31, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week of UROPing in few words

  

  teachers and students on Course 2 work. I talked about this in my last ... interests. Back in high school, I was really interested in the art of turning ... /Course 2 reasoning behind how it worked, 2.) it can be used in a lot of

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hilarity with Jeremy "Hi!" *awkward silence*

  

  chuckles and blogging. While I'm sure I'll have more Jeremy-isms later in the ... have indigenous wildebeests) "Okay, we're in Kenya, smartypants. I don ... ...but I mean that in a good way. It's all in the name of education, right

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  College Fair! v2.0

  

  's going on? At CollegeWeek Live! you all can participate in a real-time, 2 ... Hello everybody! I'm still alive, I promise, just not at the computer. I will, however, be at the computer tonight from 8:00PM EST to 10:00PM

  • by Snively '11
  • March 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where I’ve Been All this time ...

  

  . All I can see are challenging, wondrous things. ... hostage; not completely involuntary I would say. It’s so easy to go into studio and not come out…till the wee hours of the morning. I think I recall

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 30, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  old east campus working through feelings caused by news

  

  not have. i can now say that i've stayed in ec for all four years of ... four months ago i made a post about being back in east campus saying ... . someone lived in this room five decades ago, and i don’t know anything about

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Reflecting on the great memories of my freshman year ☀️ When life gives you lemons, share them with others >:) ☀️

  

  First, I want to thank my amazing roommate-in-exile Cami for letting ... I’m officially 2A, planning to minor in Energy Studies and Theatre ... While I have studied in the US for two years before coming to MIT, I was

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 21, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Room 251 a room tour!

  

  it in another post, but for now, I wanted to give a small room tour! I live in room 251, which means I live on the second floor. More specifically, I live in 2 East, or 2E for short. 2E is like a family to me, and I

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 1, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  Holding pattern undergrad | me | graduation

  

  happening. If senioritis has already punched me in the face in March, I can ... still chugging along in the background. Still, I'm looking at senior ... pleasant surprise. Plus, I volunteered to be a lab assistant in 2.00b: Toy

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 6, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tweet, tweet plus: swarming, oil spill cleanup robots and virus-made, clothing-embedded batteries

  

  coming across all these really cool stories of MIT in the news that I ... !), I'm looking forward to yet another interesting year. In my plans for ... I know it's been forever since I've posted anything - things have

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  How Albatross Fly Without Flapping Their Wings, And other Lore™️ I learned this semester.

  

  my time in [annotation note="Physics 1"]8.01[/annotation]I was failing ... hemisphere that spends 90% of its life in the air. An Albatross can go up to 6 ... sleep in the air, meaning they can spend years without having to go to dry

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 10, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments-ment Webcast A few comments on the past week.

  

  hours. As an exercise in uncreative writing, I will demonstrate this by blogging in real-time for ten minutes: 10:23 pm: I cough for approximately ... typing it out in words if I calculated it in my head right now. Guess I won

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 5, 2009
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  From East to West: An American’s Cross-Atlantic Voyage The start of my MISTI UK experience

  

  I’m currently in the exotic land of England. Over a week ago, I flew ... knights from London to Bristol, where I currently reside in a castle. I ... Initiatives. Through MISTI, students can either participate in internship

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 10, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT = Home the excitement of a freshman

  

  missing my family intolerable. But then I arrived in Cambridge, walked past ... , and fell in love. I sit now between the columns that support the mighty ... either. I still have not unearthed a pattern in the numbering of its

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being a n00b at MIT Guilty as charged.

  

  phrase to NYTMITSISATEE?), because, well, I’m a n00b.* As in, I-can ... even more by saying that there are many ways in which I am a “typical MIT ... what it all means!) But in many ways, I’m really not your “typical MIT

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / Summer

  The Summer Before College (what not to do)

  

  . And four, I can finally kind of sort of walk (more like stumble) my way ... about four years old, my family and I got into a car accident in India. As ... sofas. But more or less, I had this confidence in my own wellness. And

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 12, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Yeah, I’m turning twenty, it’s terrifying one year of mit

  

  Building, past Hayden, all the way to Building 6. I thought living in East ... Memorial Drive?" "Oh, no. I just moved. I live in 3 Ames Street now." "380 ... . One of the only things I remember from The Catcher in the Rye: What

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 28, 2020