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• Blog / About Decisions

  Finding Your Match and why it matters

  

  enroll, I wanted to take a few moments to speak directly to the Class of ... them, and they used the Common App. I picked my first college because it ... fit in. For the first time in my life I didn't enjoy school anymore. And

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Blogographical Biography ...although whatever 'blogographical' means, I somehow doubt it applies to a blog containing graphs.

  

  Institute of Technology, class of 2012. The topics of my application essays were: the process by which I knit a replica of the spawn of Cthulhu coding in history class...instead of playing Starcraft FIRST Robotics and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42 classes i'm taking this semester

  

  I learned on the first day of Stats is probably one of the most ... . Breathe. Your time at MIT isn't defined by the number of units you're taking. If you're the kind of person who can maintain your sanity or enjoys the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 2

  

  major in Biological Engineering: The Massachusetts Institute of ... , in biological engineering, the first entirely new curriculum established at the Institute in 29 years. MIT is the first university in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 17, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2020 i3 videos megapost your annual Interactive Introduction to the Institute

  

  and culture of their residence halls.In the ’90s and early ’00s, these were recorded to VHS tapes, and later DVDs, but with the advent of You ... fall. However, the residences put a lot of effort into i3 videos, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Whoa…You’re Old Bryan returns from the crypt of grad school

  

  that the life of a graduate student is not as exciting as an ... fortunately, I remembered my password today and given the start of a new school ... academic reasons). The past two years have been full of excitement from

  • by Bryan
  • September 8, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January in Paris and two weeks of speaking French

  

  standout moments from the trip! A private tour of the Paris Opera. The first ... in France. The students of JSF 2018 and our chaperone, Prof. Perreau (on the right). Photo credit to Sophie de Loubens, one of our JSF guides

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 23, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  Low The first in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring Zinedine Zidane.

  

  ? We first made note of the television tower, which has been turned into ... year before The Origin of Species was published. Berlin is truly an ... , gets nine-tenths destroyed in World War II, has the lasting symbol of the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things That Happened! Since I've been gone~

  

  for some logistical reasons, and then the start of the semester was ... ! The experience of college has so far been incredibly fast-paced and ... community--I recently ended my term as president of the Ethiopian

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  I Feel *a* Last or at least, I'm trying to

  

  hated the first day. I'd feel this slight sorrow of knowing that I would ... bedroom, but a classroom. The camera pans over tens of student's heads bent ... (more often) that I hate it. This is how I talked about my first day of my

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soldering Things pronounced "soddering"

  

  and glob that third piece of metal onto the first two pieces." In any ... This weekend marks the notable milestone where, for the first time in ... tens of thousands of dollars of payload into the emptiness of space just

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Majors

  

  seems that many of the admitted students already have an idea of what ... chooses a major at the end of freshman year.* *n.b. Actually, you need not choose a major until the middle of sophomore year, though most students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 2, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  A Comprehensive Guide to Psetting on Campus ft. an updated mapping system

  

  better mapping system than a poorly edited PDF. The first map that I ... access. Click on the name of a location on the sidebar to see pictures and information about it! Some of the pictures aren't working, but I'll try to get

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 4, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship Conclusion Rock the vote!

  

  Speaking of deadlines coming up really soon, the blogging scholarship ... . This week was pretty crazy - due the combination of the some illness and ... more of this to come later, but for now, thank you so much for the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 27, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Circus School Mitra flies like a trapeze artist; fruit flies like a peach.

  

  Francisco School of Circus Arts. After some short training on the ground ... secured into a harness. First, grab the [9 pound] bar with your right hand ... jump! Wheeeee The goal of our session was to get our legs over the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Opening doors How being an MIT cheerleader can help you get a job.

  

  my internship at the National Institutes of Health the summer after ... what I spent my high school summers mostly doing. So at the end of my first semester at MIT, I decided that it was the perfect time to apply to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 1 Yay, power tools! A look at places to find them around campus.

  

  ... Safety first, of course. =) The good news is, this isn't even half of the ... hands on some power tools- of the large variety. One of the principle ... was the setup for a lab where we analyzed the gas velocity profile of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The City On A Hill The "M" of " MIT"

  

  , one of the most important aspects of being here is the world directly outside MIT. The "M," if you will. After graduating, I kind of felt like ... Massachusetts College of Art and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. The

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nerdin’ Out algorithms are too cool

  

  Algorithms), one of the classes I'm taking the semester. We have a test coming up this Thursday ( O.O ahh ), and in the process of studying for it, I ... screenshot of class notes; it describes the concept of interval partitioning

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dream Machine Wooden slabs and oil paintings

  

  process, with all the tranquility and order of the Republican National Convention, except that at the slightest hint of instability we throw out our ... ‘18 and I moved into Dream Machine, a cozy double in the third floor of

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 21, 2016