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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering your questions

  

  first half of the question. It's a good school, and I like science, and ... of all, I wanna know what the nightlife is like on the MIT Second, is ... ?" Well, you see, of the 11 undergrad dorms, only one, McCormick, is all

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT students launch Camp Kesem Camp Kesem is a five-day overnight summer camp for children whose parents have had cancer.

  

  esteem,” he adds. I am so excited to be a part of this new program at MIT ... Summer is well under way, and no child’s vacation is complete without ... University in 2000 as a project of Hillel at Stanford; since then, it has

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Process of Psetting And the technicals of technicals

  

  reputable sources agree on the definition of a pset, there is high variance ... The imperative of an Admissions Blogger is to write about life and ... common unit of homework assigned here at MIT. Excellent, in-depth high

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 23, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to survive your first winter: a college student’s guide written by a transplant from sunny Los Angeles

  

  'll be well on your way to staying warm on a budget. Maybe you'll even ... .  The good news is that you probably already own plenty of baselayers and ... winter break for a few days of ice climbing.  Temperatures dropped to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 12, 2015
• Blog / Events

  And if I had a million dollars Solve this problem and win a million dollars, SERIOUSLY.

  

  interesting solution would shed light on many of the mysteries surrounding the ... Read this book. Or you can just solve one of these math problems. The distribution of such prime numbers among all natural numbers does

  • by Bryan
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Resolved: MIT Rocks Even the Senate thinks so

  

  Barton Rogers, on April 10, 1861, the doors to a powerful new institution ... I came across a news article on a friend’s Facebook page the other day. The U.S. Senate congratulated MIT on its 150th anniversary in

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: “Nerd Epistemology” with Woodie Flowers from the co-founder of the FIRST robotics competition

  

  published on the MIT Office of Digital Learning blog here.  One way to ... understanding of one field—with tree-shaped education. On one side of the tree are ... ’s most recent freshman class. I have heard of many innovative ways to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 15, 2018
• FAQ / Transfer

  How do I apply as a veteran?

  for your service. More information about applying to MIT is available on our veterans page. MIT has a growing community of veterans on campus ... If you are a veteran and interested in learning in any way, shape, or
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If the roots are imaginary, then the dots will be blue… Diff EQ what now?

  

  trade. Meanwhile, Vermont suspects New Hampshire of smuggling Canadian ... number of arms each country has are dependent on how often the two states ... still am - I just got out of my 8.02 final, and I have 5.12 tomorrow.), I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 21, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Mine hands are broken reflections on many a year of carpal tunnel syndrome

  

  leaves. I would go on walks in the middle of the day, after work, and ask ... at the same time, avoiding injury. I have deep scars on both knees ... 't remember what it felt like anymore, just that I felt a bit of real fear at

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  First read

  

  makes a good summary of an application. I just finished reading and ... Welcome those of you who have just joined us! I encourage you to read ... gather for our meeting to get us prepared to read your thousands of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mistakes & the inspiration we need to move on

  

  pressures that we put on ourselves. Each of us here has high expectations for ... of evaluating ourselves based on what others are doing. I've never felt ... My lack of blogging this semester is largely a reflection of how this

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  classes i’m taking! (fall 2025) highways, storks, and movies

  

  to register for this course as a way of returning to my roots. So far ... for burying a highway and putting a park on top of it (gross ... lot of my time working on a PSET often isn't even solving it: it

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 5, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  the joys and frustrations of 6.009 this class will be the death of me, and i love it

  

  this class, on a lizardbrain level, is coding's cycle of lots of small ... goals for yourself! All of this sucks me in hard, and on the days I ... course of each week would make an amazing sinusoidal graph." She said, "You

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 4, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  4 Years advice from a freshly minted alum

  

  you pset? Are you keeping on top of deadlines? To me, Archit was always ... something of that nature. High on my list of favorite questions I've ever ... . Taking advantage of new opportunities is what will change yours. 2. Be

  • by Ana V. '15
  • June 8, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Preview Weekend ...begins a week from today!

  

  registration desk on the second floor of the Student Center (La Sala). You all ... , April 9 I'll be hanging around the checkout area on the second floor of ... ), please do so ASAP! CPW is my favorite time of year, as I get to meet so

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Seasons of Spam Next up: a Nostalgic entry about my frosh year. After Finals. Maybe.

  

  week ago - congratulations though, since one of the brakes on that bike ... , potential discounts? =D Yeah - aside from the great smell of new paint in the ... cans of Red Bull. In tooling, in frats, in lectures, in hacks. In ten

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Riddle Me This The return of the puzzles.

  

  The return of the puzzles. Try your hand at this one. An entry about ... . This puzzle is courtesy of my friend Evelyn, '07, Course 6. Prima Donna "How do I get to New Amsterdam?" "Just follow that road and don't be

  • by Bryan
  • October 14, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Boston Fun Tons of Boston fun, with a dash of Cambridge, too.

  

  Longfellow Bridge Newbury St. The new way to spell Greek food at ... , so I've been spending a lot of time wandering through Boston. Everything below is within walking distance of MIT -- and I'm not one of those

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  “i’m not depressed!” haha

  

  ate dinner with other friends on friday, and i got to play my first assassins guild games in a while on saturday, and i got a lot of work done on ... , good job at disappearing two weeks before my appointments and then

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 17, 2022