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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choosing a Major I hope this is helpful to you at some point

  

  easy for you and bore you to death. Some majors cover some really ... . To be quite honest I was 2 weeks ago leaning toward 8-B for the option ... Sophomore Year: Deadline for deciding to stick with your major unless you are

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: What do those ROTC kids do during summer…? guest post by Karen C. '20

  

  back to MIT to mentor for Week 1 of DynaMIT, a free STEM summer program ... responsible for training and evaluating over 100 cadets in their transition to ... , and the occasional puppy labs. For several of us, there’s so much more

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 23, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  . Happiness is not a place. In the following months I went to CPW, shopped for ... question 11a on our application ("what do you do purely for fun?"). Try to ... energy into doing it for me. If you by any chance like to solve puzzles

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m sitting on my bed right now so sleepy

  

  time to unpack them anytime soon, so for now they remain an extra coffee ... tried to put any of that in my mouth. The evening made up for a ... my friend Daniel's jade plant, that he's had for 63.6% (to 3

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / Residential Life

  [guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes notes from a hall exchange in 2017

  

  always on different dorms, live in each other's rooms for several days to ... place to call home for a week. agent jynnie’s quarters are warm, ambient ... Campus is a “cook-for-yourself” environment, which better translates to

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  the life I could’ve lived it’s like one of those “what if” episodes

  

  For most of high school, I knew exactly which college I wanted to go ... didn’t think it was possible for me to actually get in. And if I couldn ... for my life to stay awake the entire time. But Jana had a physics exam

  • by Hala K. '29
  • April 12, 2026
• Blog / How to MIT

  24 Things I Learned in My First Semester and a Half for the lovely 2024s!

  

  terms of what to do and what not to do, what works best for me and for the ... health just for a "P" to show up? It's learning to look at how the grade is ... works best for you, so yes, you'll actually have to study for your

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling old and coming home

  

  for me to get back. Over the course of the last semester, my room has ... BC. I'll check to see who's around, hang out for a bit. I'll make tea ... my younger friends ask me for advice, I'm able to give it. I barely go

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  gone was any trace of you i think i am finally clean

  

  am terrified for what it means to graduate with a significant other, for what it means to graduate and have all your friends scatter across ... and New York and every other tech city there is to see what works for us

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Least Responsible Purchase I'm an impulse buyer but THIS was a bit much

  

  delivery for late February in order to make sure the house was sold and I had ... immediately sold (less than 12 hours) for far better terms (I didn't have to pay ... to have the money I needed for a late February delivery so I had to

  • by Snively '11
  • July 17, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Emergency Morale Booster Night! One of my favorite e-mails of all time

  

  least one hug for every other participant, to be distributed at random ... outside to throw a Frisbee around with two non-French House friends for an ... , sent out an e-mail to the house. It made my day. The subject was

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  GTL the secret to a successful summer

  

  A couple of weeks ago, Chris Peterson tried to describe my life as ... ://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=GTL) -- and no, not gaming, table tennis, and library. But if you asked me for a recipe for my amazing summer, I could only tell you what I

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 4, 2012
• Blog / Events

  TELETHONNNNN brought to you by Domino's

  

  After my kickboxing class today I ran to the Bush Room and just finished a three hour shift of the Admissions Telethon, calling to ... Iwasjustcallingtocongratulateyouonyourearlyadmissionanddoyouhaveanyquestions?" The first few calls were just as surprising for me as they were for the

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 1, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break! *frantically waves arms in the air*

  

  , spring vacation. I used to go home for spring break, but since I don ... It's always exciting to get not just a three-day weekend, but an ... have spring break a week or two earlier, meaning we don't get to see many

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Human Factor And String Theory Two links to start your weekend.

  

  Stu, Matt, Nance, Daniel and I are all down in NYC for the College ... are pretty busy by day, but at night we've been heading to this sports ... being in Boston or Cambridge. Sortof surreal to experience that in

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Laundry Lists And other things. Okay, so just the list.

  

  :30 twice a week (for 24.900 - Intro to Linguistics - which is at 9:30 on ... Things I have been doing since my last post: -Moving up a floor to a ... allowed in Senior House and no one wants to live with Institute White if

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 9, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Ring delivery! Saturday night was Ring Delivery!

  

  Here is my delayed entry on Ring Delivery!!! (To learn about the ring ... , which I had never been to before. Here are some pictures: As you can ... to before. So, we arrived at 7 pm and immediately got into line to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Doctor Who?

  

  present that Steph and I made for Russ. Here we are giving it to him: And ... planning to eat anything for the rest of the day. Thanks to Varsha '07 for ... soup spoon tied to his reactor for good luck. And he says that he gets

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  on anger understanding and learning and navigating

  

  exact same classes for those four years. You really got to know some ... infinitely more worth it to stand up for myself and be considered a "bitch ... things just shouldn't happen. It shouldn't be okay for women to be told

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Day of School Fall term classes began today at MIT.

  

  , for some reason, chose to enroll in MIT's hardest physics class, dubbed ... " declaration. We all wish to thank Dr. Auroux for his outstanding fall 2006 18 ... Corridor was abuzz with activity, people excited for the new year of classes

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2007