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• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP, CES, and other acronyms I spent my MIT IAP with a CEO at CES in LAS, and now I…

  

  was offering two free tickets. Needless to say, I applied with excessive ... end of a prolonged battle with the flu. * I’m actually not sure about ... Markov Chain. I drafted most of this post in the eerie, apprehensive calm

  • by Joel G. '18
  • March 9, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes and Casting and Birthdays, oh my! What are "Things That Wake Me Up at 9am"?

  

  of math that'll apply to concurrent and future classes. Leaving 8 ... whether I double major or not.      5.111- Principles of Chemical Science ... taken, it's important to discuss what those random string of numbers we

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Video: Friendly Robots! Professor Cynthia Breazeal shows off her interactive robots.

  

  The PBS show NOVA scienceNOW had a wonderful story last week on MIT Professor Cynthia Breazeal, Director of the Robotic Life Group. It featured not only her robotic "children" like Leonardo and Kismet but also her

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Juniors: Sign up for SAT Subject Tests SAT Subject Test registration deadline is April 28.

  

  suits you, and the science test of whichever science course you are taking ... your science class -- is still fresh in your mind. And this also allows ... Level 2), and one in science (Physics, Chemistry, or Biology E/M). You can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 13, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Refactored

  

  buckets of mail, plus all of the online application pieces. It's pretty ... MIT portal, be patient. We still have a lot of application pieces to enter and ... League Ice Hockey Phi Sigma Kappa 3 MIT Alumni Club of Boston 1  

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2004
• Blog / Athletics

  Beat It, Bump It, Spike It MIT + NCAA: Two acronyms people don't normally expect in the same sentence.

  

  I always wondered what it would be like to go to one of those really hardcore sports universities, then I had the chance to get it at MIT. Last ... to advance to the semifinal of the NCAA Division III Women's Volleyball

  • by Bryan
  • November 10, 2006
• FAQ / International applicants

  What is the Secondary School Report?

  you submit your high school transcript with three years of grades and the results of any external examinations, such as the International ... entrance to universities in your home country. We understand that many grades
• Blog / Classes

  highlights: high points of a virtual fall Part 1 of a fall semester recap

  

  After about **checks watch** 47 days of not blogging, returning to ... multiply. With due time, I managed to bully myself into writing, and one of the topics that seemed to be the easiest to write about was a recap of

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 2, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

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

  

  of a mascot. Brandeis University has two mascots—Ollie the Owl and The ... )[/caption] Lasell University and the University of Massachusetts at Boston won't be ... evolutionarily related to each other? Of course not. If you said yes, then you

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 18, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  Slay the Spire as metaphor i didn't waste 60 hours playing for nothing

  

  You may have noticed that I've been playing a lot of video games ... 've been playing a lot of in the last two weeks is Slay the Spire, a ... , that's a lot of hours for a game I've only owned for eighteen days

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Embracing Change How I came to be a cook in a professional kitchen this summer

  

  is the universe’s way of telling me that I should stop trying and just ... This was my summer of new. Capital S, capital N. Definition: Going out of my way to do, see and experience things that I’ve never done

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 20, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Finals Blog but not the final blog unless something terrible happens to me in the next 48…

  

  Today I sprinted down Massachusetts Avenue in a noontime spritz of ... sidewalks of Cambridge. One of the Random Hall graduate residential assistants walked by, witnessed my torpedoing burst of undiluted energy, and crossed

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a few new things is it too late to talk about the spring semester?

  

  continue with the math part of my degree. At the very least, I knew 18 ... overwhelming sense that I need to talk about all the difficulties of spring semester in order to present you an honest picture of life at MIT. There is

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mathematics for Computer Science – “Top 10 Proof Techniques NOT Allowed” 6.042 has been a very engaging and entertaining class thus far.

  

  classes for junior fall. One of the classes I'm in this semester is 6.042, or in regular-speak: "Mathematics for Computer Science". It. Is. SUPER ... because of cyclical reinforcing feelings that math became uninteresting and

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Supposedly Fun Thing That I’ll Probably Do Again On July 4th, I reenacted The Old Man and the Sea, minus the old man…

  

  My first Fourth of July in Boston was spent on an inflatable 61-inch-long mattress in the middle of the Charles River, drifting underneath the hulls of ... illustration of my less-than-seaworthy vessel? Crafted from “heavy duty” vinyl

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 7, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  🎶Jauntily Sauntering Ambling Shambler🎶 Yes, those are actual lyrics from the musical I was just in

  

  it was all worth when I was offered the role of Bobby! I was so hyped ... loudly. The diagnosis is clear: I have a solid case of post-show depression :( If you’ve poured your life into some sort of seasonal activity

  • by Powers '23
  • December 20, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Infinite Magazine [joint post with Kidist A.]

  

  to reframe art, politics, culture, and aesthetics through the lens of ... [annotation note="generally, a spread refers to two facing pages of a magazine that are usually of similar content. in infinite, we expand this

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advanced Standing Exams: know your stuff, get out of a semester-long class! You should really consider taking them.

  

  AP credit—the worst out of any school I researched when applying. If ... MIT has A LOT of graduation requirements. Most colleges have some sort of breadth requirement. MIT, being a technical school, has a weighty

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 24, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Making Tracks

  

  of the humanities, and for others, math and science. Yes, even here ... I just turned nineteen, and the journey billed as the first year of the rest of my life is meeting an anxious end. I'm still in the same

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Done (this summer) or Why I Haven't Blogged in a Month

  

  a really bad word to activate the limbic system of the brain (science ... .S. military. The VA didn’t expect me to work for them either. One of my mentor ... the Bedford VA, a national leader in supporting the higher education of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 4, 2017