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• Blog / CPW

  Who’s psyched? I’m psyched! It's gonna be stitchin'!

  

  am employed this year, in an industry that wasn't absolutely devastated ... Crossing marathons or glorious relaxation. Not-so-sadly, this means I ... in a new house that my wife and I just finished building. Well, we didn

  • by Snively '11
  • April 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Accidentally Double Majored How I managed to accidentally get a second major at MIT (hopefully)

  

  like a writing major from MIT in addition to my 3A would allow me to do ... writing seriously, creatively, and/or experimentally. I write about polymers ... classes to graduate, an average of one a semester. I waved around that

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some reflections Post decisions, a few thoughts.

  

  "every government dollar invested in energy R&D returns 40-fold to the ... 40-to-1 return on investment." In the same way that President ... very well in the job market when they graduate, and will continue to do

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 29, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  whether I want to double major in math or be a 6-2 instead of a 6-3, and 18 ... Tuesday morning and learn the material for the week, then go to lab hours in ... go to lecture, and having a good lecturer is basically what makes or

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Recap: SHASS Lightning Talks @ CPW some projects in the social sciences and humanities at MIT

  

  MIT's School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, or SHASS, to ... typically don't have to advertise our programs in science, engineering ... from DUSP, which conducts its own talks once or twice a year to let

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week Robot and sports and owls, oh my

  

  or worse, it’s going to be over in three hours.  Projects, however ... didn’t know what state our robot was currently in, or if we were going to ... been working in teams to design, build, and control robots to assist a

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 9, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  self care define it or perish

  

  week and walking to classes every day, but now i just sit in my room ... , but i found such solace in the sporadic episode or two whenever i was tired and wanted to be alone. playing guitar — i started in quarantine

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap (again) About deferring admission for a year, also known as a gap year.

  

  when I get a chance, but in the meantime, this is a good time to talk ... year. In the interests of time, I'm going to reprint an entry (edited ... 's been in newspapers and on websites from Kentucky.com to San

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculating a Quantitative Snapshot of Fall Semester Skip to the end for a picture of peas

  

  – perhaps misguided – attempt to sum it all up in a quantitative manner ... nothing wrong with dropping a class. Or two. Or three. It is important to ... classes can only be taken in either the fall or spring semester and if you

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 20, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Talking about a difficult subject Answering an FAQ.

  

  hard or stressful; certainly, MIT's rigorous curriculum will lead to some ... related. Usually, it is related to personal problems or preexisting mental ... in undergraduates. More often, suicide is precipitated by family or

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / People & Identities

  [Guest Post] One Year Later Some things changed, some things didn’t

  

  out resulting in being kicked out or disowned or worse.  My coming out ... -American heritage often have to come out “in actions rather than words.” When I’m at ... . Not at all. My dad doesn’t believe in science, or educated people, and

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  An MIT Community Vigil for Black Lives

  

  to say about the struggle for racial justice in America today, they ... . Whether you see yourself in their words, or learn something about how other ... virtual vigil. As the announcement for the vigil read: We gather in the wake

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Flourish and Blogs how to be a professional harry potter fan

  

  lecture on fan studies. And who should walk in to deliver the lecture but ... convention to be held in Florida in June. What do you do at MIT? Like I said ... , to be Henry's student in the Comparative Media Studies program. And

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 30, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Doctor Who?

  

  to his thesis defense in full uniform: Doesn't Professor Tester (my ... can see exactly what our soldiers actually get to eat out in the desert ... summer, where she gets to "work from home" one day a week and sit in her

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Events

  science bowl we ran! a competition! virtually!

  

  can, [annotation note='speaking of buzzing in, RIP to Alex Trebek, who ... time in years to see what I wrote, and wow I still love science bowl just ... competition that middle schools could compete in to qualify for Nationals. I

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • November 16, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Good Will Mystery Hunting 63 hours of puzzle solving: a classic part of the MIT experience

  

  those who are morally opposed to clicking on hyperlinks in my blog, here ... -meta-puzzle allows you to run around wildly on campus in search of the hidden item ... flaunted in our admiring, frustrated faces. Examples included (1) an Apples-to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 21, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Making friends by learning languages Welcome to the Language Conversation Exchange

  

  wasn't really something I expected to continue in earnest in college ... channel. In order to help people find language partners, the LCE has a ... interests to you, and get in touch with people open to hanging out and

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 6, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Monologuing a mock-up for the MITMonologues

  

  resulted in "weird" conflicting feelings I think are interesting to hear ... never having to use my legal name or tell professors I go by a different ... ="emails sent to all dorms"] dormspam,[/annotation] emails that were flooding in

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Craziest of Weeks I had one.

  

  's supposed to start in less than 48 hours. Figure 2. MIT's travel agent ... . Friday: I mosey on over to Logan Airport not-so-bright and early in the ... know much about what I'm supposed to do there. I arrive in Heathrow

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Swing of Things I've been getting into it.

  

  : One of Petey’s former students came in to give a talk about his work at ... Phantom with the Reawakening at East Campus. If I had to sum it up in a ... when I was in high school, I would have said something like “prolly

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 18, 2017