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• Blog / Majors & Minors

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

  

  ).  This creativity can be expressed in any project: I’ve built my own robot ... to MIT certain of one thing: I would never be an engineer. In eighth ... though the class was three months long, the only thing I can remember was

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  i’m catching up a blog about all the things i wanted to blog about but couldn't find the…

  

  over, I can finally blog about all the things I wanted to blog about but ... ;feature=youtu.be 2. Whenever I need a break from the house, I drive around in circles ... Designers, this semester and I’ve been very grateful to have scheduled time in

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 20, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus & Fierce Forever More questions answered, with a few words about yesterday's Fierce Forever 6.

  

  competitive in the international pool. Beyond that, there's little more I can ... a copy of the site in a CD and send it to MIT or can I refer them to ... material? I mean, I can't really send in the medals, but maybe photos of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Changes that I’m making this semester wow it's already March isn't that crazy or what

  

  . There's these corners that I can hide in and do my work. It's quiet, but ... . It wasn't until a few months ago that I rediscovered an interest in ... need to have in order to graduate."]7.014[/annotation] to my schedule. I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Take Me Back to Tech (Guest Entry) So hurrah for technology, 'ology, 'ology oh.

  

  less than glorious. It can be summed up well in one picture yea ... entrants: I was, at times, in the chat group with Omar (in the picture of ... here are some pictures/videos I have to add (in roughly chronological

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cellular neurobiology The more syllables it has, the cooler it is

  

  This morning I went in early to image neurons on the confocal ... for you guys -- I wanted to take them when I was in early, so I wouldn ... camera. Hey, I'm not a morning person, and I can't remember to do

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 1, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m Still Here (for now) quick reflections on the last ten years

  

  I’m sitting in the quiet car of a Northeast Regional Amtrak train, writing a blog post for the first time in almost four years. Since I started MIT in the fall of 2015, I’ve taken the trip from New York to Boston

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Better Late than Never I wrote this post a week and a half ago. Note that the "better late…

  

  following: These are the contents of a care package I got in the mail this ... fast, sometimes, especially in calculus, but I'd rather be a little ... the end of the day. I don't know how one can can feel so long when a

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  then and now a reflection on the very bad

  

  long in too much detail. To this day, when I think back on it, I can ... things can change in the span of a year. I can't help but think of how much ... was in fifth grade, right before spring break. I was called into the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 5, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  memorial for a dorm goodbye east campus (for now)

  

  east campus and the death of this room in particular 62h306 today i ... , but i do know enough to have gotten to know you i've done enough in ... right now i felt the need to do this because i will miss you, in a way

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 6, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break! *frantically waves arms in the air*

  

  class. In fact I'm in an Athena cluster right now, supposed to be working ... which eventually does research in a UROP, but surprise surprise. I won ... 't really like home that much I decided to stay at my boyfriend's home in DE

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some F Words ****!!!

  

  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 facing more questions about identity in general in college. This year, I

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

  Thanksgiving Reflections Be thankful.

  

  brighter and I can see the first rays of the new day. I remember writing in ... , "Wow, I've been in America for three months." To be honest, these three ... things I think about coming to college is complete freedom in learning to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 24, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  from me to you burn it all down

  

  Sometimes, you need to let things go up in flames. . . . I have ... in me. I look back at who I was a month ago and it takes me some time ... stop chasing perfection. I wanted to talk about moving in, finally

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear prefrosh, a letter to you

  

  responses in one document so someone can read it. MIT is stressful and I don ... questions in my DMs and asked publicly and on the IG live that I really wanted ... in a couple of weeks, and I still have moments when I walk past little

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 25, 2020
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can first-year students conduct research?

  the world. MIT offers research in every field you can imagine, and students in all majors and all class years (including first-year students) can participate in research through the Undergraduate Research
• Blog / Classes

  Screaming on a page (kinda) about 6.009 Please excuse what's about to follow

  

  like basically ending and I can just become *one with the nature* here in ... FRACK was wrong with my code. I wrote in so many print statements; I ... a mile long. But still, for 15 hours, I was stuck in the exact. Same

  • by Powers '23
  • April 12, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Average The benefits of challenging yourself in high school

  

  As a freshman in college, one of the most important things I do is reflect on my experiences here at MIT. How am I doing in my classes here ... , I remember being average was "BAD" in high school because you needed

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / Residential Life

  1.1 miles as the crow flies and it takes me forever to run there

  

  mischief every time I jump on at 9:05 am. Fix my home-cut bangs in the video cam while the chat room explodes with questions. I’m scribbling notes in ... thought you once had that you can no longer grasp. I will never have REX

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i will miss learning and dressing up everyday happy last first week of classes to me and seniors of the world

  

  wanted nothing more than to go back in time and take those classes. I spent ... took everything in me not to add to my schedule.  Above all else, I love ... in LA and got back just the day before the first day of classes. I

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 12, 2023