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• Blog / Academics & Research

  How do you know when you’ve chosen the right major?

  

  Sometimes I get so engaged by a project that I forget to eat. Yesterday, I woke up at 7:35am.  Starving, I got a sandwich to-go at the ... if you've chosen a major that fits you? Fit is a fuzzy concept, hard to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 17, 2014
• Blog / Events

  LeaderShape 2012 Six unforgettable days.

  

  joined ~50 other MIT students and boarded a bus to the Camp Wonderland ... come up with a vision to change the world and a plan to put that vision ... students; it felt surreal to share a meal with both the Chancellor and the VP

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Availability Heuristic with applications to pledging

  

  finally gave out bids to some awesome freshmen (and a sophomore!). They' ... did give Rush a fair try may have been surprised to learn that MIT ... non-fraternity men. There are legitimate reasons not to pledge a

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Rapids My last day at work was bittersweet. And if there's one thing I've learned from…

  

  different ways. It's kind of a fun place, unless you happen to be under the ... anyone who doesn't know how to swim jump into a pool ten feet deep???" That ... intend to spend on the beach), followed by two days to shop and pack, a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime I am often asked what we admissions officers do during the summer. Frequently, people assume…

  

  . I'll do a series of entries quite soon about how to visit MIT this ... the months to come. For example, next month I'll be attending a ... . Frequently, people assume that we get a several month long summer vacation like

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 10, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Adventure’s Out There….. in Boston! Summer shenanigans at MIT

  

  /Cambridge! During the school year, I don't have a lot of time to go out and explore ... photos a short blurbs to show you all what I've been up to! Walter Lewin ... a special series of lectures, so I've been able to watch him live

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • July 20, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  ‘Just Chillax’ [about your college essays] My little brother is wicked smaht.

  

  get a point across.) The essay is your chance to show that you're not a ... in this ridiculous focus, my obsession to finish a perfect drawing. As ... you get all A’s!!!” Everything I need to know, I haven’t learned from

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  On APs Trying to clarify the role of AP courses in the MIT admissions process.

  

  for love of learning is a great reason to do so. In our admissions ... : One thing we are trying to do is dispel the myth that a curriculum loaded to the brim with Advanced Placement courses—with no regard to a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  H I C C U P S takeaways from a Bollywood film

  

  and tiring week) to watch a Bollywood film. All I was really looking for ... with me past a good night’s sleep. Hichki (which roughly translates to ... to make uncontrollable noises and movement. For a career as speech

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 15, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Burchard Scholars Program (old time stamp: 11-21-09) - this entry is five months late >___

  

  to provide a 40-minute seminar in their field of research to the group ... arranged by Professor Lindgren of the Music Faculty for us to all attend a Yo ... Silk Road Ensemble, and we were treated to a luxuriously exotic medley of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  insanity tldr some of my habits make no sense

  

  intelligent things in conversations, which tends to begin as a deliberate choice ... with being productive was a way to simultaneously be happy and satisfy ... and is able to be happy solely through a conscious effort to live in the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  when apocalypse strikes… on being preemptively torn from my home, living group, and nearly everything i love at…

  

  floor formal. Formal is something I’ve been looking forward to for a while ... hurt like hell.  So I proceeded to get a tattoo and then party until 3 ... regrets. It’s taken a lot of time for me to process my emotions, but I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 16, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes from the Road: NorCal, Netherlands, Nick Cannon, and Nerd Camp where I've been, what I've been doing

  

  summer is a key time for us to travel, work on dormant projects, and take ... as I should have liked. I'll have to return at some point to get a ... -generated censorship. It's only a few pages in a truly massive tome but always nice to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  My First Week as an EMT It was quite an experience

  

  felt, unlike any other.  I helped her to her room.  I got a bowl from the ... her a glass of water and some paper towels. On the way back to my room ... , grabbed a bag, some paper towels, and followed him down the hall to her room

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • March 7, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [april fools] interview with james e. tetazoo and isn't discovering part of the fun?

  

  many times we tell them, there’s always a few people who don’t seem to ... staircase in a particular innovation corridor — visitors respond to our ... some reason. for a late-night snack, i’ll often go to the [annotation

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • April 1, 2026
• Blog / Events

  Consilience From college essays to a Medieval Studies @ MIT Colloquium

  

  got to MIT, however, consilience took a spot on my mental shelf, where ... down to 14E-304: a cozy little seminar room with a central table and ... voiceless people": the ones "without the ability to wield a pen." Ancient

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s driving me nuts Did I tell you about the time when we hijacked a harbor patrol boat?

  

  an accomplished songwriter. However, if you were to use a common ... to take a pirate-themed boating/camping trip to Bumpkin Island in the ... set off on a commuter boat (really!) from Boston Harbor to Hull. Here

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In the Jungle, the Mighty Jungle @NatGeo, pls hire me

  

  During my trip to Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa I spent two days on a Game Reserve. We stayed on the very top of a hill in Hluhluwe , sleeping ... reserve at sunrise and sunset to experience the animals in their natural

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 23, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventure Coming full circle at MIT

  

  spent long hours in lab to finish our products :) It's a great celebration ... , a prosthetic socket that will allow the user to reshape the socket for ... Now that it's break, I finally have time to sit down and actually

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 21, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  One More Look At Our Snow Globe Life with moving parts

  

  mean...) school is open tomorrow, so it's back to a mostly snowballfight ... a lot of snow now -- and the only vehicle is a plower. Nothin' to ... forge on... 3:57 pm -- you got 3 minutes to get off the road cars

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 10, 2013