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• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BASICNESS!!!!! a major major update

  

  very sure, but in essence"]I am declaring[/annotation] a (double) major in computer science. Specifically, [annotation note="Computer Science ... -7. I originally came into MIT thinking I wanted to major in 6-7, and then

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 30, 2026
• Blog / Uncategorized

  things i’m thinking about a brief series of incomplete thoughts

  

  anything at all. So, in defiance, here's a series of thoughts, none of which ... . I moved the couch to be in a more 'commanding position.' I think it ... reminded me of thermal-fluids engineering. In 2.005, everything could be

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 7, 2026
• Blog / Uncategorized

  scuba do or scuba don’t? under the sea

  

  [/annotation] in my Crocs, pool towel in hand, for my PE class. The locker rooms ... .  Scuba has been five weeks in the making, since I passed the swim and boat ... time in the day for all of that, and there’s even less time on Thursday

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • November 17, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My design won an MIT merch contest I don't know why

  

  .   Back in March, the Harvard/MIT Coop announced their very first ... “What inspired you to draw your design” question in the submission form, I ... only one with an odd taste in graphic design. I got this email in the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 23, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  concord market is finally here!!!!! feasting at MIT's on-campus grocery store

  

  . Maybe it's existed since the beginning of time."][/annotation] Sadly, in ... more quick lunches in between classes, no more much-needed energy drinks ... beautiful sight in front of me: a crowd of students coming in and out of a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 21, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  This blog post was written by a winner my entry for #BlogstonCommons

  

  Author's note: I wrote this for a challenge that I participated in ... ;   Did you know that there was a great molasses flood in boston?? Absolutely nuts! It was somewhere in North End where [annotation note

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  a fun bet spicing up the admissions process

  

  When I was once a high school senior drowning in college applications ... represent everything about who I am as a person in 250 words? I couldn’t, so I ... research , or swing from a giant rope in the trees, I held it with such high

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Boston’s college mascots, placed into a Tree of Life a project that nobody asked for

  

  universities in metropolitan Boston that were listed on Wikipedia ... submit, if it's in NCBI's Taxonomy Database then the site will build a ... an image file, which I did and then polished up in an image

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 18, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tips for applying to UROPs

  

  of the process in obtaining a UROP[/caption] It's a great opportunity ... notice you in the first place can be a daunting task. But it doesn't have ... that requires you to be a junior and proficient in, like, five different

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  Bright IAP a post in two, kind of unrelated, parts

  

  .[/annotation] The day after I turned in that application, Saturday, December 14, 2019 ... ="I mean, later that day I got an email from MIT with my deadname in it also ... to do this for me. Later (in a silvery package) I received an official

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  beauty is overrated

  

  compel stirrings like that in other people. I never saw what was powerful ... who seem too preoccupied with aesthetic, because aesthetic can get in ... Harvard and have this distinct memory of sitting in seminar, watching a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Becoming a better programmer and why i'm excited about software engineering

  

  experience in the "soft skills" department, but this post isn't about that. It ... existed in the first place. And now that I think about all the things I don ... 're having a conversation. What happens is that: I have this big picture in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 24, 2022
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Declared My Major :D aw yeah i'm a College Student™ now

  

  and how we may be able to replicate intelligence in machines. 6-9 is an ... more unsure about majoring in 6-9. Wasn't really sure why I was feeling that way, since the obvious option is to major in something I liked to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 21, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Most of You Will Be Deferred Option three

  

  In the near future, MIT Admissions will release the EA decisions. To ... windshield wipers off. I felt a nervousness I hadn't felt in the weeks prior ... one of over 10,000.   II) March 14th, 2021 In the months after

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 6, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Working With WashLava Time management in low places

  

  dumb"]enroll[/annotation]in[annotation note="Intro to Computational ... 's technicalities. Okay, can I perform in the class? Honestly, I'm grossly unprepared ... . Do I really want to major in 6-9 or 11-6, or am I actually just

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 7, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  sometimes when it rains I feel seventeen and seventy all at once

  

  sticky buns are really good, and all I want in life is to sit here and ... class in the morning. Part of me still feels like I’m seventeen and back ... graduation will be in two months; that I’d get to have one gloriously carefree

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fangirl Moment kinda silly, kinda wholesome

  

  were in Italian: margherita, bianc, prosciutto. The Indian food was ... him before, and his name pops up in my lab’s Slack channels and the ... image “translation” model. In this demo, it takes a line drawing as input

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  The First-Year Application for the MIT Class of 2026 is now live

  

  match everything in your record much more quickly You should configure ... , and instead to store it safely in your inbox. How you do this will depend on your email provider; in GMail, for example, you can write a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Take Care of Us asking for change

  

  of work in a regular semester. I am...so sick and tired of being ... overwhelmed and it's difficult having to look 2025s in the face and say 'Yeah, I ... 'm still participating in CPW and why I still honestly and genuinely tell

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  just vibing tough times out here

  

  ) is the value of time. In high school I thought I was learning this ... manage your time, certainly, that crucial skill you can show off in a job ... 't walk quietly through a room in the early morning, think about how

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 30, 2021