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• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  team's Credit For Reddit final project (click for hi-res), in which we ... So you don't know what to major in. You have no idea what to do with your life and you're kind of interested in a lot of things and everything

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  but useful for me -- for example, an IRC bot that broadcasts shuttle ... , Thursday nights will often devolve in the following manner for the less ... something useful to your profile in the near future, I experimented with an

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  beautiful summer day in Boston[/caption] I stayed in Boston last summer. For ... programs for high school students). This is the worst option, in my opinion ... ) than the dorms. Rent a room in an MIT FSILG. Most off-campus FSILGs

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  worst of the bad ideas I took part in. It was so bad that I wrote an ... pressure, in front of a large audience – a recipe for success! I'm planning ... clearly bad ideas, whether it was climbing up an 18-story building for four

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  ” does not succeed in that one goal. For me, MIT was a golden opportunity ... , assuming a newer and better identity in college was a common aspiration. The ... yourself”. In the novel, James Gatz created and became Jay Gatsby - the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

   I experienced Splash this year. For reasons I’ll talk about later in this post ... ’s some contents: Part 1: Hi, are you interested in teaching for Splash ... interested in teaching for Splash? No ESP work allowed Part 2: Twelve

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  anachronistic conceit. I love that, as Alyssa Keiko once wrote in an influential ... Stanford gym in my wallet, for whenever I'm in the Bay Area. No one tell ... strategizing. I live in a second floor apartment in Central Square. It's an old

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  expired. I’d bought too many pairs in anticipation for college. {First ... . 96 hours seemed vast. Not in retrospect. Take out 36 hours for sleep ... excellent treat. Like this one: “There were once two mathematicians in an

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  ideas, which were then converted to kits and assembled by students in an ... student’s only sleep in 2 days was 45 minutes lying in the back of an ... -wearing rabbit. For the Technical Review, however, we're in decidedly worse

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  for a week, for a weekend, for an afternoon. In the end, it was just ... Square. My lifestyle has changed in ways subtle and profound. For example ... much. Having now lived in the Boston area for 23 years, the question I

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  other words, in a world that humans have built for themselves, the roach ... wings yet and appears rather small for an adult (American cockroaches are ... creatures. They’ve nearly perfectly adapted to an urban environment, with a

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  of a nerd. I spent a good amount of time feeling sorry for myself in ... felt like I was going to an event "in the water," as if I had not been in ... flags for anybody in the house who wanted them. One of the options for

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  consensus was, in the best-case, five years. The "upper limit" for how long it ... dinner. I've never done anything in exchange for all their free food, and I ... submit a pull request to get something changed. In theory, if there's an

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  fitting in, about studying for classes, and about joining clubs. For those ... GIR, and, of course, the overall decision to pursue an MIT education in ... preparing for the future. The number of decisions you have to make as an

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  Admissions Office for an official meeting (with INTENSE snacking involved). In ... have previously received an A/A+ in a class might be asked to be a grader ... requests, people in the community needed a college student for literally

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  in Boston.'" I never thought about it, but if you must press me for a ... minuses in GPA - grades are assigned strictly by letter grade for the ... MIT doesn't give extra GPA for +'s and -'s) as As in science classes

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gangnam Style Yes...........this exists.

  

  Influential People in the World" in 2012 for his liquid metal battery research ... In case you haven't been on the Internet recently, a music video ... came into my room who had never seen it, and I had to educate her. For

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  person you will meet at MIT (and for that matter in your life!) knows ... . If you wait for every selfie in front of the admissions door, you ... every once in a while. Get a foam pad for your mattress. It makes a world

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  lifted in (almost) all of them and chronicled/tier-listed them below for ... convenient for those living in [annotation note='now referring to the dorm ... everything you could want for your workout: three squat racks, an assisted pull

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  .[/caption] Some Tips for Recruitment Keep an open mind! In high school, I would ... , and seeing girls all around school in my sorority. It was comforting for ... partners in crime for the week. I was on the orange PRC team, and it was

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024