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• Blog / Academics & Research

  You should consider studying economics if… for those who aren't totally set on what to major in

  

  already be familiar with my experience of choosing a major. In summary, I ... thing is that it's been somewhat inflexible in terms of course ... -1) would be amended in a way that gives several options in places where there

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Growing Pains And Every Other Type of Ache

  

  bottom of a sigh, when you can feel some structure in your chest actively ... , though, is a precious commodity, and I’d like not to squander it, now that ... ’m disappointed in myself. It’s a familiar feeling. That sensation when you

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • December 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Replying to questions and comments

  

  ) understand the material is okay, especially in a class like 004 or most high ... 's a good question! The answer is that, for 6.004, you have to write your ... in this together" feel - this is one of the least cutthroat places I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What the end of the semester does to Conner 2 For one thing, no one does the dishes. And I mean no one.

  

  's left from last semester is a bunch of pictures that I'm about to share ... documenting, so I took a bunch of pictures. And now I'm able to show you just ... (known as reading period, which is when we're given a couple of days off to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  New Decade, New Me? some reflections, some resolutions, some hopes,

  

  hike and bike and UROP. I'm resolving to document my life offline a little better. I recently got a phone with a camera that is actually pretty ... ! Nisha wrote in her end-of-year post: I think that I’ve commandeered a boat

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Recap (Guest Entry) "a perfect introduction to MIT"

  

  building because of a potential fire. At 5 in the morning, it is freezing ... to put my stuff in her dorm.Here is the view from her dorm:And this is ... , which proved to be highly entertaining. The first act was a group of

  • by Bryan
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus Okay, so it's not even really half a bus. But I'M not the one asking…

  

  that it is really only one part of your application, and that in a few ... now, which is probably better for me since I've taken a lot of chemistry ... with classes every day at 3, which is great because I don't learn well in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Walkin’ Enjoy my expository, mediocre investigative photojournalism!

  

  up buying at the store. Ice cream is a catalyst for productivity ... was a joke. The following series of images is a visual journey through ... posters, however, is always quickly replaced with a wistful "Why didn't I

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  my MIT admissions essays a retrospective

  

  planning in some way, and this one was conducive to that (since planning is a ... human interactions in the built environment and data as a change agent. By ... themes appear in some way here. We know you lead a busy life, full of

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 14, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Coolest Thing I Bet You Didn’t Know Was Math (guest post by YQ L. ‘16) Clickbait title by me, not by YQ, because I really, really, really want you to…

  

  pictures can you fit in a blog post?” The answer, it turns out, is a lot! I ... rest of this post is by someone who, in addition to being an in general ... is a masterpiece. If you have the Internet for it, I strongly encourage

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Kids These Days Don’t Know How Good They’ve Got It and they need to get off my lawn

  

  some clever trick, but the truth is that I just invested a lot of time ... plenty of interesting stuff going on in a mathematician's head between ... ' (also a Fields Medalist) and John Baez's blogs in particular

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • October 26, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  A Major Crisis haha get it..cause..yeah,

  

  the city. And now that I've chosen a university that is quite a ways ... , but this means that flights just force me to think. A lot. In the time ... blog, but also as a reminder for myself that this is what I'm thinking at

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Got Us iPads! [UNBOXING VIDEO] ft. my cat and my new apple pencil

  

  day in August, I checked my parents' front porch for a package from IS ... birthday cakes in a simple 3-step process involving two safety trainings, a ... Back in July, when the Institvte first accidentally leaked their

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  gallery of my notes note taking progression

  

  "] the top left is a draft for a legal memo i wrote for my land use law ... possible in typed notes (unless you're a latex god, maybe)[/caption] This ... During high school, in many ways I had horrible study habits. Since I

  • by Victor D. '27
  • April 8, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 3) Thailand and Israel and Columbia, oh my!

  

  -sized, in fact, at least, in terms of cyclotron. The final machine is about a ... . Once the research is complete, I will co-author on a paper describing the ... '11 (Course 18, of Putz in East Campus): "I have a story that is a good

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 8, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Final Blogpost With a heavy heart, I say goodbye to the MIT blogosphere. The journey was all…

  

  shows that MIT is a series of nearly back-to-back all-nighters, except ... is always a cause for celebration. And, on the surface at least ... unfinished. They kind of just sit impatiently in my Documents Folder, bidding

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Upside-down and Reversed: Photography at MIT [by Biyeun Buczyk ‘10] I came to MIT thinking I’d put art aside for the…

  

  as a photography hub, but if you look in the right places you will find ... the planet. A few cameras, classes, and hours and hours in the darkroom ... of MIT’s fantastic photographers) documented the PSC fellows in

  • by ARTalk
  • March 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Junior Year: The First Week (Originally titled "Junior Year: The First Day" but I procrastinated too much)

  

  language that you don't speak - which will be documented in p-sets and even a ... . How often is it that you can say that you were in a place where it was ... 's already a reading assigned for 5.13? This is nonsense. This year is going to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Pythagorean Triple of Awesome Otherwise known as the weekend of the 4th of July. Just another long weekend in…

  

  least once a week, and my life is awesome. Case in point. During the ... documented in this flattering picture, with a small side of window shopping ... Boston this summer in my sorority house with a kickass river view of Boston

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • July 18, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Things You Won’t Have to Buy (or spend *that* much on) This one's especially for the incoming freshmen.

  

  first blogged about this back in my first year at MIT, so this is a perk ... think it through in advance. Also, having a car in Boston is a bit of a ... price that you end up paying. In short, this is my brief, informal guide

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 18, 2012