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• Blog / How to MIT

  THAT’S RIGHT! AP scores and computing at MIT, these are a few of my favorite things...

  

  one is 10 pages! Just the first one!), and my other misadventures.... ... started screaming and running around the kitchen. My parents are kind of ... various programs you can download for Windows. (There are tabs at the top of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Unedited notes on gravity, etc. Brief thoughts on gravity, science, and consciousness that I plan to elaborate later when I…

  

  a pen with which mass writes on the pages of spacetime. science ... shadows peeling off like blue paint. In the sleep-killing luminosity of a laptop display I searched for comfort amidst the suburban silence of post

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 11, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Return of the Frog Queen Okay, it snowed this morning, end of story.

  

  me 6 whole minutes of sleep passed out on the floor in my clothes. In a ... DID YOU KNOW? The entire state of Wyoming (population 509,300) has ... , as the remainder of this entry should prove. So I stayed up until 5 AM

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My first real internship

  

  (whichever comes first). The implications of high-temp superconductors is ... Quick, what does an atom bomb, the plural form of a famous Texas ... the word "Superconductor" leaves you with an image of the world's lamest

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 16, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A typical first semester more or less

  

  first problem of the first problem set and wanted to cry. The second pset ... of time management. For me to put in the maximum amount of work into all of my classes (which includes going to all the lectures, reading the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair #1 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  leather bound incunabula from the 15th century and first editions of Twain ... (See #2 Boston Adventure at the Institute of Contemporary Art here) As part of my weekly Boston Enrichment Trip, I ventured today to the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 15, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Faster than a speeding locomotive. E=MC^2 serving up the most delicious physics problems since 1905.

  

  No, I'm not talking Clark Kent here. I'm talking about the speed of ... me you don't know! (gasps) It's the WORLD YEAR OF PHYSICS! Actually ... 100th anniversary celebration of the creation of E=mc2, Einstein's most

  • by Bryan
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am Treasured :) Graduate school visit #1 (Updated)

  

  , I awaken to the sounds of wheels skidding on the landing strip. Woo ... then the whole scene would freeze except for him? Yea, I experienced that first hand as I stood in place as the TSA officers wandered through the

  • by Bryan
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Isaac Lozada Isaac Lozada comes from Texas to MIT.

  

  the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, and announced she ... her dream come true through her first-born son, Isaac Lozada. The 18 ... this morning and land later in the day in Cambridge, Mass. - the home of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Most of You Will Be Deferred Option three

  

  't read the rest of the email. I turned the windshield wipers back on. I ... lot of attention to MIT Admissions. I didn't read the blogs. I didn ... 've believed you. Now, a year later, I'm looking at the statistics for the first

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

  FIRST Robotics Kickoff Things go into Overdrive at a reception at Dean Kamen's house.

  

  Last night, after a day of reading the first batch of regular action ... , winding driveway, one of the first things you see is a large wind turbine ... battling traffic caused by the likes of Barack Obama and Ron Paul, I arrived

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A fortnight of Boston summer +1 for using the word "fortnight" outside of an SAT or literature class

  

  it got to the point that, by reading the first sentence of a practice ... the day. Better yet, I had two weeks of days like this before helping at the hooding ceremony for MIT doctorate students and shipping out of

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (My Third) First Day In which I attempt (and fail) to do a timelapse vlog

  

  First off: I apologize for the shakiness of this video. For some ... timelapse component of the video kind of failed, too. It turns out that when ... that were equally disorienting. After the massive struggle of me vs

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 7, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  the last twenty days burning out before the semester even starts

  

  following day, with our first event on the evening of Saturday, August 29th. I ... day. The first few days of classes are never very intense, but every day ... we welcome first-years to the dorms around campus

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

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

  

  sure that I can claim the title of being the founder of mascot ... )[/caption] The initial idea I got the inspiration for this from one of my favorite ... mascots were going to have varying levels of accuracy based on the data

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

  Answers To Your Questions Dec 2006 This is a big one!

  

  you officially unenroll at the end of the first semester, you can still ... have errors on the essay pages because several of the essays 'exceed ... Finally seeing the light at the end of the EA tunnel! Here are the

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2006
• FAQ / Afford

  How do I contact Student Financial Services?

  Contact information for Student Financial Services (including phone, fax, email, and mail) can be found on the SFS contact page.
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Filled With Cute Babies The story of my IAP in India.

  

  MIT students love to make change happen. This could be in the form of ... Fellowship and join "the next generation of tech visionaries." Perhaps this ... years already?!?!), this was the page I took to heart: The Match Between

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback A useless guide to MIT undergraduate housing.

  

  to MIT. So I thought, why not share my thoughts on some of the less ... videos a few minutes in length about each of the dorms so that the incoming ... course, most of the videos are nothing more than 5 minutes of someone with

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / Classes

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

  

  the structure of this class; reading an entire 200-350 page book per ... information the next time the question comes up, instead of "🤔 I don't remember ... Transportation was what got me into urban planning in the first place! So I decided

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 5, 2025