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• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision

  

  that I don't want a job that comes out of a poli-sci degree, but instead ... just any degree and a passion for it. Part of me still feels weird not ... , because part of it feels "useless"? Which is a common dilemma at a strongly

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  i quit an internship on the second day cut your losses early

  

  until, at the end, one of the founders asked me how much compensation I ... Near the start of the pandemic, I decided not to come back to MIT full-time during fall 2020, since I knew I wouldn't get that much out of

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 6, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day

  

  : the rush of wind past a double-decker train (nothing) Breaking my “at ... allowed to say this! All of South Dakota—outside of the Black Hills ... few minutes listening to the two people—one of them a train conductor—at

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Christy ‘13 The first in a series of articles about students coming to MIT in the fall.

  

  matter of seeing the connection." During her freshman year at Stanwood High ... . It always has been my dream." Christy, one of four valedictorians at ... a series of articles about incoming MIT students. These articles

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 17, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Jugal Shah- Improving the technique of High Resolution Quantitative Autoradiography Sophomore Jugal Shah is improving a boron imaging technique that may potentially enhance a promising…

  

  highly lethal form of brain cancer, uptake drugs containing boron at higher ... opportunities offered." *Source of BNCT Picture: URL: http://www.cdic.bnl.gov/bio_bnct.htm* ... interests and sophomore Jugal Shah is living proof of MIT's success. Jugal is

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Holiday Gifts, MIT Style Some unique products from MIT people.

  

  more often talk about aspects of MIT that are freely offered to the world ... value of educational expeditions. At 22, Darwin seemed headed for the ... ." At the time of the publication of Bhutan, Hawley said the biggest book

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  siblings and I looked at him. I was the biggest of us at only 5’4” 110lbs ... Americans at the competition of almost 300 students, both stood at the ... that had never really been great at sports, music, or anything else of

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2028 are now ... to the MIT Class of 2028, and as of *checks watch* right now, we have offered early admission to 661. Though they are all different in their own

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Adventures Part One the first of several "a day in the life of Cyd" posts

  

  my book, the new day doesn’t start until I’ve had at least 4 hours of ...   One of my favorite questions to ask, when talking to ... know what the daily life of an MIT student (i.e. me) is like. So i

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Self Help I

  

  peace of mind when facing the unknown." At that time in my life, I felt ... stronger voice inside myself to tell me what to do. The book offered a way of ... them out of hand. She believed that the authors had something to offer

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’ve got Mail! And a LAPTOP! Why I can breathe again, and the 10 most recent emails in my inbox.

  

  these events? ALL OF THE FOLLOWING happened at roughly the same time: 1 ... usually has a pretty good cross section of current events at MIT. Therefore ... then, but I can't take advantage of any of their offers now because they

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Matt Damon’s Commencement Speech to the Class of 2016 Turn towards the problems you see

  

  . Matt Damon was too. Yes, when he got up on stage, one of the first things ... ’s just put that out there. I mean, I’ve seen the list of previous ... of the World Bank. President of the United States. And who did you get

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 6, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nuns, fret not! Like baby alligators in the sewers, you too will grow up fast.

  

  around them, if you can. So look for opportunities offered outside of your school that you can take on yourself; classes offered at local colleges or ... the exam and the season premiere of Lost. There's no guarantee that I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  FourFiveUnits all you could ever want to know about my semester schedule

  

  :   Hello dear readers. In keeping with the trend of bloggers posting ... blocks of free time, none of those "empty" hours will ever be spent doing nothing. In fact, I think this will be one of my busiest semesters so far. I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in Internet in the bathtub! And a bunch of stuff on choosing a major.

  

  any major. A list of degree programs is here (I find this list SUPER ... out the choice of major form and turned it in at the Student Services ... Well, I'm back home in the great state of Ohio, getting ready for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yes, eat all our shirts! See MIT through the eyes of my prefrosh.

  

  . One semester of chemistry is a general institute requirement at MIT, and ... orbitals, and learn more about the degrees of freedom than you could ever ... an explanation of atomic number and its implications at the atomic

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  This Entry is Really Long. And my pictures won't upload :(Edit: Actually, they finally did! Yay!

  

  , we fail at finding them though, so instead of gazing open-mouthed at elegant stone terraces, we trekked up a mountain, at the top of which was a ... time of my life – outside in perfect 75-degree weather, the one jacket I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 28, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an infinite nine year old and the infinite nineteen year old he became

  

  professor at a college in Dallas—had a conference in a city far north from our ... grabbing fistfuls of it, throwing it at my sibling and giggling as I ran away ... at MIT always brings a smile to my face. It’s a small modicum of life

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • September 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting a Physics Major – Part I I split this up because i need to start studying for finals.

  

  thing, than okay at 10. Of course, it's even cooler to be really good at ... really good at physics. (And cheerleading.) That digression aside, of ... Juniors in physics tend to complain a lot. The more of them there are

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday (in Snaps) and my longest Snapchat story ever

  

  wondering) 9:06: Aaaand it’s cold outside at a crisp 45 degrees. But good ... point. There’s light and beauty at the end of the hallway ... (Take a look at “My Monday” by Yuliya K. '18 for her day in the life

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 28, 2015