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• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  wandering to new things – I wanted to do something that mattered, and for me ... for me in the mechanical engineering department.  The idea began to ... cons list for why I should switch my major to mechanical engineering. I

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Events

  MIT International Or how a local Model UN conference broke molds and expectations by going abroad

  

  Time to state the obvious: the world knows MIT pretty dang well for ... country, and your job for that weekend is to faithfully represent it while ... piecing that world together. Today for AIRMUN, that means going to South

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coming Soon! In which I briefly account for my I-haven't-been-blogging-so-much-recently shenanigans

  

  Sciences lab, or somewhere else? Do I even get to be paid for this stuff? And ... ideas down on the comments! I'm always looking for new things to explore ... rigorous course load. But speaking of work, I must return to my studies for a

  • by Emad T. '14
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tunnel66 bringing the borderline tunnels online for CP*

  

  to a project that preserves some of that energy for this year's ad ... I’m so grateful for this opportunity to make art more accessible to ... of the Arts at MIT to paint a 200-foot long section of the MIT Tunnels

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  A Late Recap of IAP 2020 externing at Microsoft, baking butter mochi, and more!

  

  IAP for short. It's an excellent chance to do whatever you want! If you ... posters for my room over IAP. It was pretty heartbreaking to have to ... 't known for having particularly aesthetic interior design. I was thrilled to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  school projects aka why i havent been writing in the last few weeks

  

  for a chunk of metal to perform almost any computation you can think of ... of the projects were interesting and enjoyable to work on   i ... theory classes at mit. it assumes the ability to read knowledge as well as

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Careers in biology Also known as "why on earth I'm applying to graduate school".

  

  clueless. So thank heavens for Professor Lois, who decided one day while lecturing for 9.12 that he needed to tell us "what you're getting into by ... not for the lazy. So back to our hypothetical biology undergrad -->

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Romance of Learning rainy days, language tests, and a book called Babel

  

  morning to study for it, scrubbing the sleep from my half-conscious brain ... reminded of my problem set for [annotation note="Introduction to Satellite ... feeling of crushing, immense gratitude for the opportunity to learn

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 23, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  chill week, which is a week filled with events for new people to have an ... , which I am excited for. I know it sounds like wishy-washy mysticism to be ... to your living community"]GRA[/annotation], a PhD student in Course 4

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  , surreal moment for me, and that quote was the first thing to pop into my ... to believe you; thank you for that. I'm so happy, and proud, and ... for some reason is still reading this -- I would love to hear from you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Way We Live Saunas make me think

  

  nothing. Paying to relax and get pampered may be on the calendar for the ... . According to a recent New York Times blog titled "The Rise of the Toilet ... while on the toilet. Blame it on all those apps for everything you can

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 7, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Deep Breath what's next for all our applicants

  

  going. Over the past month I've tried to unpack for you some of our ... . So I'd like to begin by giving a shoutout to my grandfather, who, in addition to being a WWII vet, was also ordained as a nondenominational

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday! 1 in 365 readers are really pleased that I remembered their birthday! ...or creeped out…

  

  blogger is honoring them for their birthday, not to mention a little creeped ... , continuously, for several minutes. According to some of them, people are actually ... ’t know what I want to teach for Splash, but I have some ideas… There

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Enterlude Brought to you by the letter "L", for Late, Lame, and real Life. Or something…

  

  , maybe, but save the complaints for another time. To briefly nutshell ... how I’m going to keep up with everything on my plate—but, for the life ... from “decent” to “huh, that’s a little weird, but okay” and “is that even

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017 fourth time seen, first time competing

  

  roof for 24 hours to code, hack, and build. I've been blogging about Hack ... were pretty creative. For example, Nasdaq wanted students to hack ... integrate a blockchain database, I had to learn Solidity for Ethereum. It was

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Setting up a Global Warming Research Center…in Antarctica Meet Zahir Dossa ’08 (Courses 6 and 15; Nu Delta), who could sell you your…

  

  profits from his NGO to fuel this expansion and establish a fund for ... ;What do you want to do after school?” “I’m going to set ... ’s going to sink fastest because of it?” I couldn’t argue

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  desire to stay in academia at least for a while yet. Hearing me talk, he ... science and ambition, for me, necessarily need to be opposed? As it turns ... I had something to show for whatever research I did. In other words, I

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday a detailed documentation

  

  10:30 → Wake up. Panic. No time for real breakfast. It’s too early to ... by a carefully selected playlist. I look forward to the commute for ... :00 → Second UROP meeting! Same place, different project. For this one, I get to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 27, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Valentine’s Day from MIT Because theobromine is delicious.

  

  , arriving in mailboxes across the nation just in time for everyone to celebrate today's excuse for the industry to make lots of money selling ... In case you haven't realized it yet, I'm going to let you guys all in

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Circle of Life Nance starts waxing about some deep stuff.

  

  made the 12-hour round trip from Boston to Ithaca, NY. When I departed Cornell 10 months ago I made a promise to return in each of the next three years to attend the graduations of all of the students that I admitted to

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • June 8, 2006