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• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Declared My Major :D aw yeah i'm a College Student™ now

  

  need for students to understand both the science and engineering of ... At MIT, students are able to declare their major starting sometime during the spring term of their freshman year. I'm a fairly decisive person

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toilet @ MIT The Ben Schreck Shits 2015 Calendar.

  

  to figure it out. I'm pretty sure I don't want to work for a big ... parts of your personality, because you're going to get enough of the ... we're donating 50% of the profits to Doctors Without Borders. Is this

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday vacation An atypical (but more entertaining than average) day in the life

  

  with my head cut off for an hour, I went to 5.60 lecture, where we ... Fridays, since many bio/BCS classes meet for an hour and a half or two hours twice a week rather than for an hour three times a week. This term, I only

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m Not Normal About Friends (Part 1) i lost six nights of sleep to perform amateur data analysis on a sitcom

  

  for each Friend—to generate data from the Friends script and make sense ... for all of this? To find out who's the best Friends character? No need ... Py and pandas for my calculations, and matplotlib and seaborn to make

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  how dorm structure shapes social life in more ways than i can count, actually

  

  started to form their own mechanisms for deciding room assignments within ... students to stay in their assigned hall for their entire time at MIT. It also ... to Taji Manning '25 for creating these! Architectural Principles There

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Art Imitating Art well, at least blogs.

  

  Alcide from True Blood! I waited in line for maybe 30 minutes to get personalized autographs for my girlfriend, who loves the show (as do I) for it ... will be until after I give them to her. Hooray for expensive accidents

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 5, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The mail, and more

  

  (say, Senator Foo or Congressman Bar). It's rare for these letters to say ... asking the aide in that politician's office that they worked for to write ... -school cassette player to listen to it? :p" Relatedly, Arvind asks, "Matt, for the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Engagement Party Salsa dancing with Benjamin Franklin and Optimus Prime

  

  knew I had to attend. I put down "Jane Austen" for my favorite historical ... figure. Not only did we have to figure out who the person was, but also who ... MIT, and at first I was going to spend the weekend in NYC, but then I

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  I’m leavin’ on a jet plane… and another plane...and another plane...

  

  :30am. I begin my drive to Ann Arbor to meet up with a friend for lunch ... to another nearby hotel, but cover the cost to make up for the ... ) call, and let me know that they are shutting down for the weekend due to

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Forget your plan for a minute The beauty of collage

  

  ) some advice for how to quickly finish his art notebook cover project ... managing to get things done and maintain the high standards you all have for ... according to plan. We do this for a good reason. In all my years as a mom, as

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Am Excited a day in life of a student

  

  neglected for a minute too long. Then I’ll head to the west side of campus for ... necessary to marvel at its results and review the pages of in-class proofs with a fervor of a child who has just learned to read. I am excited

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Up The last of the post-finals, pre-internship adventures.

  

  Boston for the summer. One fistfight later*, I landed in DC, fully resolved to pack every minute of the weekend with something awesome. No summer seconds to waste. *Not my own. While I waited for my connecting flight in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded. 573 students, 10 hours.

  

  , among other things) and the kids were all too eager to suggest ways for us ... fence foil and sabre (Thank you, MIT PE!) For "how to pick up chicks," I ... . The Multicolor Universe was a class that I've been wanting to design for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Application advice Read this. Now. It's important. Promise.

  

  the floor, asking for people to celebrate her last night as a humanities ... to the GAMIT's review (and now I can proudly say, personal experience ... program I was applying to was looking for people who were passionate about

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just 41 Pictures I Took in 2017 Yultide Day 2

  

  Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day ... in this case being the 1E cats" - credit for caption and images goes to ... Bunnies for my birthday (credit to the wonderful Kristen Y. '19 and Jamie C

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 26, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Going for the Au An MIT alum will compete in Olympic skeleton.

  

  Karvinen (TsK) Antaki, who was born in and will compete for Lebanon, lived ... , sailing, and, of course, UROP. Pat Antaki isn't the first MIT alum to go to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments, UROPs, field trips, and OMG HP7! The most awesome blog entry ever. Because...okay it's probably not. But it's all about how…

  

  for me to leave for vacation on a high note. (That's right, vacation ... around like a crazy person. I'll let you guess which one I work for. =) Anyway- tune in this Wednesday at 9 to ABC to watch and vote for the winner

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 20, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Hate Superman. (I Love Superman.)

  

  ’s hard to create a coherent thought for an entire blog post. Especially ... person that he wants to be. He’s not too strong or a boomer’s superhero. He ... unique power, like density control, or to control friction, or to forget

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 16, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  about it. my only threshold was to not be super mega unready for the ... to all the course content but you do not need to do any work for the ... nice and accommodating, but was sometimes too smart for me to understand

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i’m back .gif not an undergrad, not a grad student, but a secret third thing

  

  . This city was where I learned how to advocate for myself and form a ... be that anchor for myself. I'm grateful to have been welcomed back to ... a personal time capsule, immortalizing all my worries and hopes from

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2022