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• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is CSAIL?

  When people think of MIT, they think of computers, robots, and the internet—CSAIL is all of those things. The Computer Science and Artificial ... of the world’s most important centers of information technology
• Blog / MIT Life

  one hour in which i am Holden Caulfield (but more tragic and less hero)

  

  regarding choosing between two sets of double majors, or how i’m applying to ... one hour. one chunk of my day that i’ve set aside for writing because ... host of other things i’m anxious about, many of which aren’t even my own

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As I Was Saying… My second internship entry AKA "How I copy and pasted my way to a new…

  

  offer recommendations on behalf of my organization. They also designated ... When I was applying for the GEL program as a sophomore, I heard a lot ... since it was a thing of the then distant future. Now, here I am, smack dab

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  's Department of Materials Science and Engineering created the Breakerspace a year ... spectra that someone at the University of Tartu in Estonia measured ... % pure silk” scarves as gifts. However, I was skeptical of these scarves as

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  the gridwork of Tucson. There’s a Target with an “Apply now!” sign, and ... science -- the complicated devices, tray on tray of things like mummy ... now and then, I’d stare out the window -- of my car, of a plane, of a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ingredients for a black hole: 1. Hydrogen 2. Soda 3. Bottle Irish pub-lic outreach

  

  science, and not just astronomy. After we marveled that all of the elements ... every couple of months to give a talk, teach some science, spread some ... 's missing one of his front teeth. The typical eight-year-old's look. "I'd just

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Which I Get Schooled By My Professor This video does not contain an improvised song, but it does contain Peter Reddien.

  

  weird gene expression with varying degrees of histone packing and… actually, on second thought, I had a lot of good doodles from this lecture. I ... , you already had your college days. No applying to MIT!), and some of you

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT campus lost power! Updates from a blacked-out physics colloquium.

  

  universality. According to Anonymous Fourth Guy, "young people are terrified of ... problems of an 8.05 problem set, a science journalism essay, science ... hadn't been collected yet) and dashed to 10-250 (one of our big lecture

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Chomsky and Infinities illustrated highlights of an MIT October (part 1)

  

  the Beaver (as seen on the collaborative blackboards of Stata Center): For me, the second month of college has ended, and what a wonderful time ... curiosity. Below are some Highlights of my October, occasionally enhanced

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  out of the prompts for the 15 colleges that I applied to (number one was ... system, but doesn't offer any examples of the problems. At the end of the ... QUOTE: (i) Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  from the other side of the veil: I applied EA to MIT a few years ago, got ... applicants with those who aspired to join the Class of 2027, and to add to our ongoing record of what happens after you don't get into MIT.  From @Wox, in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  One year later MIT is like a surprise birthday party, but without the birthday or the party.

  

  rush of inspiration mixed with Google calendar.) Exactly one year ago ... for an entire 12 hours. Cambridge was wrapped in a wet blanket of cold, drippy weather at the time with hardly an ounce of sunlight to spare, and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  I've sort of been implying this on the blogs for a while now, but I ... the school year has progressed, I've sort of come to the conclusion that ... overwhelming amount of exhaustion. I am doing much less than I ever have in a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  dating while asian to love & be loved freely

  

  perhaps it was because our school was 80% Caucasian and in the heart of ... most of my time doing math. I haphazardly dyed my hair at home and ... university I attended, but he clarified he wanted to know where I was from. “I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT writing faculty comment on GPT and other AI assisted writing in education

  

  . You've probably seen some of the recent news about GPT-3 and Chat ... language text in response to prompts.  There has been a tremendous amount of ... college (or even admissions application) essay, to say nothing of broader

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 24, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  echoes through the universe in defiance of conventional physics as ... : That was East Campus, video by and courtesy of Eric Lujan ‘19, screaming ... , not all of which is residents, from 7:07pm Sunday, May 3, through 1:47am

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our Independent Studies the making of a (very) short film

  

  interest us and apply those things to the creation of a short film. We just ... At the beginning of this semester, we were really unsure of what ... Computer Graphics, but it is unfortunately only offered in the fall. So, we

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 18, 2020
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What are GIRs?

  the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. During your first ... social sciences to getting rigorous training within their area of ...  (GIRs). Basically, you must take two semesters of math, two semesters of physics, a
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Holy Grail of Classes Think of the coolest class you can. Then think of one that's a million times…

  

  Yesterday marked the beginning of classes, but today marked my first day of real classes. That's because I got uber lucky and only have one ... anticipated it being difficult to get back into the swing of things but was

  • by Snively '11
  • February 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  High Stakes Because it’s you who makes you.

  

  you're applying. But before you base all of your hopes on coming here ... winter around here. I'm done with yet another MIT Wednesday, consisting of ... mid-afternoon. It's been a busier than usual couple of weeks though

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2006