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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT is just another place An article from The Tech - MIT's school newspaper

  

  honeymoon is over and you find out that it is a lot of work. The work is manageable, but only if you are not in 10 other activities outside of classes ... , we found science/engineering fun and easy; thus allowing time for us to

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Re-introduction A summary, for those of you just tuning in.

  

  there were 9 of us who applied; I only know of four, including myself, and ... I've been unbelievably hosed the past few days doing a combination of ... rough draft of my paper. This is my last week in the lab, and I'm trying

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  Associate Professor of Applied Science and Engineering at Olin College. At MIT ... we don’t normally think of entropy as applying to mathematical ... the 2600-Year History of the University, Online Learning Resources from

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 1

  

  hundreds of students solely with Indian citizenship apply each year, and in ... ) and Math (Course XVIII), but ultimately I graduated with a degree in Management Science (Course XV). Saad Zaheer wrote, "i was really wondering last

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Froshmore oh to exist in a state of ~liminality~

  

  meche."]almost certainly[/annotation] finish my computer science degree ... a relatively new interest. During my freshman year of college, I was ... year of calibration for me in many ways, beyond just adjusting to a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 2, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Do These Numbers Have in Common? 7, 8, 12, 17, 18.

  

  offer an alternative from learning from large freshman lectures (all of my ... also offers a more abstract approach of evaluating history through ... day, I'll be hopping on a jet plane, bound for the tropical island of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 13, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  At What Cost A summary of my fall semester

  

  second degree on time. A pretty good understanding of E&M and cellular ... dropped the second degree. And when I apply to grad school, I’ll never know how my second degree affects my chances of admission. Would I do it

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • December 21, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Senior Bucket List, Pt. I Do ALL the things!

  

  . This is Professor Junot Diaz. This is a book that wrote, one of my all-time favorites. When I accepted my offer to come to MIT, one of the first thoughts ... varying degrees of notice (1 day-5 minutes). Left: Well, these guys kept

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 18, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Visiting MIT & Boston colleges Some tips for checking out MIT and Boston this summer.

  

  than 50 colleges and universities in Greater Boston, making it easy to visit a variety of colleges from one base. Most of the major universities ... offers something interesting for the entire family. (I know my parents

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Day, the Year I Applied what I learned in college about application struggles

  

  made the room burn. Whatever manifestations of worry there are, I felt ... of APs to the warm spreading feeling of “but I’ve taken X number of APs ... ? Defining my senior year by the future of "college." I can’t tell my past

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

  disproven it. And that my smartphone – its tens of billions of transistors ... modern understanding of quantum mechanics. It's just... none of it... feels ... , anyway. Sure, I’ve seen demonstrations of the photoelectric effect and the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summertime When the Thrills are Cheap and the living is easy.

  

  'd like to major in a life science. Biology is boring in my humblest of ... Sciences. The departmental requirements are full of classes I would like to ... leaders at the Museum of Science where we will be testing, and in the next

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All Over Again Applying to college all over again.

  

  piece in a larger puzzle. So as many of you begin to apply to college and ... Four years ago, I started to apply to colleges. Four years later, I ... natural progression of life events was school followed by college followed

  • by Bryan
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Somewhere in between Trying to find out where I belong at MIT

  

  along the lines of applying or choosing a graduate school, med school, and ... course 20 degree, so I am technically a 19 but kind of a 20…….” Seems like ... , my degree will say 2020, and for the most parts my day to day

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New Year, New Semester Celebrating Lunar New Year and a new spring schedule

  

  exorbitant amounts of Chinese food, and watch a variety of different performers ... with the arrival of the eastern seaboard’s very own polar vortex, so the ... degrees Fahrenheit. For perspective, I saw a chart on the internet that

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Events

  This… is… Jeopardy! [UPDATE] Jean '09 knocks off a 6-time champion; watch her defend her winning streak tonight on…

  

  prize of a computer and a trip to Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida ... the bottom of this blog entry. You may have caught this news item ... . I.B.M. plans to announce Monday that it is in the final stages of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Aftermath Literally.

  

  or a vapid deferral offers no reward for many years of hard work. But ... This week has been a battle for all of us – I just finished my ... . This is understandable behavior. The past few months of your life were

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 17, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Radio Radio

  

  an offer to buy them. Since the purchase of call letters was not yet ... Class of 1922 Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Wednesday, May ... station. The answer is yes! WMBR 88.1 FM, former winner of Best of Boston

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hwæt! Did you know that you can study Old English at MIT? The language of Beowulf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Rohan

  

  you a fan of the Lord of the Rings universe? JRR Tolkien studied Old ... advantage of MIT's subject offerings any other way. ... of the Old English epic Beowulf, and in this class you will learn to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome Home Like what we've done with the place?

  

  information released by the admissions office of almost any other university ... legendary, landmark effort. Ben's central use of blogs to speak honestly and ... feel the same way. With that said, let me give you a little tour of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2011