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• Blog / Majors & Minors

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

  

  to MIT certain of one thing: I would never be an engineer. In eighth ... and parts from three different angles – and I would always turn in my ... studying something cool would make me happy. I spent that next summer in

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Plot Twist And what MIT Architecture has taught me about design and life.

  

  I’m standing in front of my presentation boards, trying to string ... mid-reviews sat three feet in front of me and I can already tell they’ve stopped taking in the words that are coming out of my mouth. Before I knew

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  rating classes from this semester the good, the bad & the underrated

  

  days, I would be the only one in office hours. But I ended up learning so ... -inducing, so I would recommend this class for people interested in this area! ... . Right now, I'm sitting in Hayden Library, watching the sun sink over the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In which I “get a life” again reclaiming my childhood hobbies

  

  plenty of things I did in high school that brought me joy, fulfillment, and ... frequency in get-to-know-you questionnaires), so I was still a little disappointed that I didn’t have anything to share. In elementary school, I was

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 12, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions process reflections from a crusty Junior Try not to bite all of your fingernails off.

  

  posts, which only made me more nervous and sure that I would never get in ... time gone??? I feel like just yesterday I was in your shoes, nervously ... rejected, I would have to spend my Winter Break moping AND writing

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m a physics major (for now) feeling scholarly, part 2/2

  

  ). This would give me a deeper understanding of the techniques I use, in ... ," and it's really flexible. In 18C, I would take a variety of course 18 ... was originally meant to be a one-off post, but in writing it, I found

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 26, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Twenty thousand paper cuts and twenty thousand leaves

  

  would be the third time I've moved in the past year, and to be honest, I ... , which was weird in the sense that I had to actually get up from bed to ... claimed it arrived when it, in fact, had not. I checked my mailbox, I asked

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  fake it ’til you make it what is a healthy way to be happy?

  

  that would decrease one’s happiness (think living in a pandemic, taking ... -motivated work). But in the times when these pressures do exist, and I am not as ... other people while I’m in the room -- that I’m always happy. And I say

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  I'm interested in would be unsustainable. I need to choose something ... the difference in the sheer number of classes I would need to take to ... Last time I wrote a blog about my academic life, back in November, I

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEING WAITRESS TWICE (sorry in advance for the obnoxious amount of CAPS)

  

  the seats would be in an obstructed view area, we all looked at each ... enough sense. 11) One of the first pies she invents in the show is “I don ... WOULD BE LYING IF WE SAID WE WEREN'T TRYING TO GET STUDENT RUSH TICKETS

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / Hacks

  A Brief History of Hacks Unfortunately I couldn't get Stephen Hawking to narrate.

  

  was the most difficult and awkward sentence I've typed in a long time. I ... friend". In the interest of furthering the human language, I propose we ... friend^2s and friend^3s were there, so I felt like I wouldn't fit in. Plus

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Application season

  

  year (or next year, or in five years... whatever, I don't discriminate ... . Who would have thought I'd need to remember how to do things like ... 's one thing I hate in this world, it's physics). So, applicants, gripe

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  reflecting on 2020 goals and planning for 2021

  

  interests in college because I would have more time since I wouldn’t be in ... , I figured beginning to develop good money habits would be in my best ... In high school, I neglected many of my personal interests to make

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  on regression the to your shitty high school self, and not linear, kind

  

  reminiscent of the time in high school where i would overcommit myself in my ... all, really. i would fill the empty seconds in my day with audiobooks ... i'm currently in the midst of my second week of online school. things

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Writer’s Bloc

  

  (and I know you're out there) can buy it here. Dylan is currently hard ... story. Wow! I also have a friend who wrote a one-act play that was ... acquaintances from MIT who are also writers of various sorts. Before I came to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 20, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Useful items to bring for dorm room

  

  which to furnish their (or their student's) dorm room. While I am not going to list obvious things, like soap and shampoo, I want to say that ... of drug stores in the area, so unless you have a particular surplus of

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 1, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Makibaka! Huwag matakot! black lives matter! junk terror bill!

  

  I feel like I have stake both in what is happening here and what is ... party for dozens, he gets to walk free. In two different senses, I feel ... . People are being killed. And in two different ways, I feel powerless about

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow! Getting out and saving your sanity

  

  my disappointment when I'm eagerly waiting for a huge storm to blow in ... would be the year we had no winter. And for a long time, it looked like I would be right. We in the outdoors club even called off our "Winter Circus

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 2, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some F Words ****!!!

  

  I know, would have me help her take apart computers, and in our free ... Lately I’ve struggled to blog, due to being in the middle (!!!) of ... younger, but I found myself facing more often in college, as I found myself

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 15, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in China through MIT’s China Development Initiative A week-long mentorship program in Xiamen, Fujian

  

  back in time, I would high five myself, then say "don't wear your big ... , shimmying through little alleyways I would never have thought to enter in ... something was probably wrong after I had been sitting alone in the x-ray room

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 17, 2014