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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slam Dunked Long crazy week...a few necessary lessons

  

  physics p-set due and a bio midterm on Wednesday. I spent the rest of Monday ... on work, and vice versa. I guess that’s what this freshman semester of ... school’s ultra-small math olympiad class, and spent a significant number of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  As some of you may know, I am majoring in math and economics ... requirements, of which I have taken very few, and general math has super flexible ... has been firmly on the pure math track for a few years and who hasn

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ushering in a New Era An open letter to Pass/No Record (with footnotes!)

  

  freshman anymore, so while most of my fellow freshmen will be on the ABC ... now****** and next fall, you’ll meet the wonderful class of 2018 ... and general life skills without the stress of worrying about grades. For

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Report on the Status of Undergraduate Women at MIT in honor of International Women's Day

  

  class of 2016) released a report on the status of undergraduate women at ... responses of white women, Asian women, and underrepresented minority women ... thoroughness and rigor--but it is a window onto a truth that many of us like to

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths

  

  millions of things on my to-do list. I wanted to feel whole again. And so I ... For most of the semester, I've lived and breathed in the ever ... at my laptop screen, scrolling through pages and pages of Janice Smith

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 7, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Taylor Pons from the First-Gen Program #FirstGenPride

  One of the coolest parts of my job is that I actually get to spend a lot of time outside of the Office of Admissions (or currently, on Zoom ... with 4 outstanding students talking about their experiences and all of

  • by DJ Rock
  • April 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What did YOU do this weekend? Laura's jam-packed-action-filled adventurous fin de semana.

  

  's chill and didn't care anyway, plus she got a free meal out of the deal ... booklets of information and free condoms. Speaking of, those things are ... hung up on the details of your test scores. Besides, most MIT students

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  bursting the MIT Bubble when 🅱️ig 🅱️ome Energy gets too real

  

  with what's going on in the world becomes something extraneous and not ... Taipei and that kind of alarms me)   i have, however, notably ... freshmen and sophomores of my floor ventured into the woods of Andover, MA

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Colors! Burton-Conner:12523 kbps1649 kbps140 ms

  

  light switch, and why is it withing 15 feet of TWO different 802.11n ... to paint murals! The mural I'm working on is a scene from the end of ... Newsweek "How to Get Into College" magazine is now on shelves, and features

  • by Snively '11
  • September 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “…being a geek works out…” A UROP at the Center for Sports Innovation.

  

  overall drag of bike and rider when compared with a rider wearing a regular ... cyclist, he also keeps himself and his peers on the MIT cycling team ... real world," Cote said. FACT SHEET Home: Born and raised in Sanford

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Residential Life

  A man’s reach should exceed his grasp My roommate and I built a lofty heaven!

  

  Humanity in Toronto was really helpful and kept me from cutting any of my ... ; and as a prefrosh, getting a glimpse of the amazing things my future ... drills, and everyone I talked to had done tons of robotics, and it felt

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 23, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Look at Unified Engineering and the Aero/Astro Department Back in business.

  

  to my entry #2 about bottle rockets. The pains, and gains, of being a ... one of endurance, that you do it over and over again for 26 miles and it ... , those are real tests on each of our desks) (answers passed out

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 30, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  run on one of our laptops overnight, and in the morning, we were very ... process in and of itself) to continue learning computer graphics topics that interest us and apply those things to the creation of a short film. We just

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 18, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Over is the Wait Just thoughts...

  

  was made of. Now fast forward to today and what is on my mind. Today, I ... To all of this year’s applicants: Pi day is long gone, and after 6 ... being waitlisted, and a whole spectrum of feelings in between. I remember

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 18, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  batteries recharging because that's what IAP is for

  

  every weekend starting on the 25th, and practice every day of the week ... all of these mistakes. i went to NYC and went on a ~15 hour bender with ... , because my boyfriend is doing GTL and SO MANY of my friends are gone as well

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 22, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wake to sleep An application to a telescope asked me why I learn and where I'm going. It…

  

  , depending on how you look at it. I was 8 and lived on the outskirts of one of ... with my grandparents, and we had none of the technology, especially none ... massive objects and space-time and the various wavelengths of light, the sky

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-ing the Weekend (Guest Entry) ...even though it is technically two days longer than a weekend.

  

  MIT campus sits on the side of the Charles River, and the sororities and ... were designing some type of robot and were focusing on one aspect of it ... in the bible and there was something going on at that moment. I stayed

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Color by Numbers

  

  challenge. Neither of us had a tape measure, so we did what any good MIT ... finished at about 3 in the morning and spent the night with all of the ... said (in reference to climbing on top of the cabinets to paint the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Events

  This is the end I couldn‘t decide whether to put "They‘re beautiful, aren‘t they? The stars" here, or to…

  

  Simmons Dome and Green Building Tim Flopped on the Bridge (reminds me of ... of my blog entries and you'll see that my role on these blogs isn't to ... 've graduated!!! Holy smokes, four years of MIT and now it's over. It seems like

  • by Snively '11
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  this is fine some thoughts at the end of the semester

  

  being on campus, and my freshman year in general. I don't really have any ... ] and sitting on a lime green couch or on a ledge of building ... surprised at it being April, now, it's the middle of May, and it seems like no

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • May 17, 2021