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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I painted a mural for Borderline! bird-erline mural

  

  Since coming here, I've had two items at the top of my bucket list ... 2017, where students cover the walls of one of the campus tunnels with murals. Some of these are also animated! If you use the Artivive app and

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s bigger than you, and you are not me. Consider this entry the hint of the century.

  

  , claims to have the largest selection of cold drinks on the East Coast. I ... first asks: "Hey, how's it going?" Confidently (but also tiredly), the ... -sympathetic acknowledgment: "Yeah... I just finished my fourth pset of the week and have to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 22, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rosalind Franklin and Kent State Two more short book reviews and some news of my summer not (directly) relating to…

  

  Bookstore the first time I ever visited the campus back in my junior year of ... struggling to get the whole thing to fit together just right. All of their ... reading Rosalind Franklin: the Dark Lady of DNA by Brenda Maddox. I say

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Astrophotography Courtesy of 12.409

  

  : pass, get a D, or fail). You learn the basics of amateur astronomical ... Observatory. There, I sat outside in the snow, huddling in six layers of ... sincere when I say that those were seven of the happiest, most peaceful

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Blending In (Guest Entry) Of singing, eating, and shopping (sorta)

  

  By Maggie Liu '12 So, first of all, let me start by saying that I ... completely blown away by the diversity of the campus life. I knew that MIT was ... by the prospects of attending such a seemingly homogenous academic

  • by Snively '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Relaxing Weekend Did you ever hear about that whole firehose analogy?

  

  crazier. Coming this week: the rest of the Machine Tools Class, my first 18 ... After two weeks of pure torture (that's what MIT is in the end, don ... course, I did nothing of the sort. (That's in the true MIT spirit as well

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Don’t worry, the king lives…

  

  responsibilities in the Admissions office and my assumption of said responsibilities for this period of 12 months.) By the way, my name is Chris too ... might see me in person) is the clever hallway trick of, "I don't remember

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • August 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  12 / Let’s try law school What's a computer scientist doing in DC?

  

  important?[/caption] Hello, hello! I finally have WiFi (most of the time), a ... took 6.S978 to try my hand at the intersection of law and technology ... the day GDPR was implemented, and in one of my classes we discussed the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  Seven Years of Good Luck MISTI paid for all the MIT Japan interns to meet up this weekend in Kyoto.…

  

  we reached our first temple before it got to the back of the bus and I ... . As the first Zen Buddhist temple out of several we had to visit that ... up in Kyoto for a whirlwind tour of the temples, food, and more temples

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017: Friends ❤, Food, and Flying Deloreans (Guest Post) Or maybe not quite that last one

  

  MIT campus. Over the course of 24 hours, attendees form teams, enjoy ... MIT 2017 will take place this fall, over the weekend of September 16-17, 2017 ... (check out the animated GIFs on our social media pages). In our newest

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second First Week Quick update at the start of term.

  

  of MIT's Teaching & Learning Lab and Bernd is the associate director of MISTI, MIT's international studies program. The course is held in ... !). At the end of a recent class, she took us on a tour of the Language Lab

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Experience with Real Analysis epsilons, delta, and the technique

  

  got assigned the first of 7 biweekly problem sets, and I completed it ... about how I wanted more of the proof and verification for all these ... was based on one-variable calculus. Now, I knew the focus of the class

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • June 10, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Nerd’s Paradise Phi is a "h" of a lot cooler than pi.

  

  Ever since I first visited MIT in the summer of 2007, I knew that the ... first classes, turning in my first p-set, the clubs I've become part of ... talk to some of the current students. I was on campus for a grand total

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Listen to Admissions: Holly on applications, art, and action team an experiment in the sounds of admissions

  

  the interview below:       This is the first time ... demand in the comments below, here is Holly's list of scams (TM): Living ... Earlier this summer I sent out an email to the office asking if

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 4, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  summer’s end

  

  --i'll fix it) done the whole esplanade - fourth of july - fireworks - picnic ... this is the first time i've spent a summer at mit as a UROP student ... , started and finished an entire novel finally visited pika for the first

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 5, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Start shaping up in January! I like.

  

  to the official rules page of the program website, “Any physical ... Despite the constant intrusion of multivariable calculus, I think I ... tomorrow! OK – not really true. But the sense of freedom and spontaneity, the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i will miss learning and dressing up everyday happy last first week of classes to me and seniors of the world

  

  in LA and got back just the day before the first day of classes. I ... later for my 9 am class on the first day of classes. I was beyond tired the whole day. I’m too old to not get eight hours of sleep. But, it

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 12, 2023
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT use my test scores?

  evaluated alongside other components of the application such as curriculum, grades, and other examinations. Test scores are not the single factor that ... our Tests and scores page.
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 1 More Q, and more A.

  

  the moon(that was used by my school's team( I was a leader of that!) that reached the finals of the International Space Settlement Design ... condensed it to a 8-page report? Where can I add it in the MIT application

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Blogs ...for the price of one! (a.k.a. robots)

  

  You've all heard what most of the other bloggers are doing for IAP ... must be dying to hear what I've been up to. I expect the barrage of ... MASlab, and is one of the few MIT courses I've run up against so far that

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 13, 2010