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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher

  

  deadlines that I never had time to appreciate and absorb the material. Some of ... questions correctly. I felt like I lost sight of the forest for the trees, and ... Alewife and just took an Uber to drive us the rest of the way (Uber is

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Three More Tales of Junior Year the sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year

  

  loved the niche I found here, and stayed because of my friends, my hall ... because I’d miss the First East random lounge craziness, and the gorgeous ... monologue before, so that's not new. How do I move out of the comfort zone and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 31, 2017
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [joint post] blogston commons with Allison E. ‘27, Ellie F. ‘28, Jebby ‘25, and Sara N. ‘28

  

  of other things too! eating, crying over problem sets, and idk like the ... -lived episode of m*thbusters and bust out the party music because WELCOME TO ... saturday afternoon for the both of us and we wanted to enjoy the view. boston

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 11, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Junior Year: The First Week (Originally titled "Junior Year: The First Day" but I procrastinated too much)

  

  years of this and I'm gonna run the w-OH MY GOD WHAT IS HAPPENING THINGS ... even read the first chapter of each textbook. Bring it, junior year ... through the majority of my GIRs and my premed requirements - and while all

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 9, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  These are the drones you’re looking for Aerospace engineers: what do they do in their free time?

  

  , Ohio for the first day of freshman orientation in fall 2002, but I’ll be ... finishing my postdoc in Boston, and frankly we are pretty tired of this whole ... , but the proliferation of new bits and bobs available in the past few

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The Minerva Delusion the political economy of an educational scam

  

  (former head of the New School), and Pat Harker (president of the University ... for Schrödinger's student, who simultaneously is and is not one of the ... and all of the other things that make Brown Brown. But just like that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 6, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  Crocheting With the Firehose Gauge your stitches, gauge your life

  

  , appealing is subjective and ultimately depends on the values of the maker and ... , then we must each have our own hook and yarn. The size of either depends on a number of factors, and the capability of one is relative to the

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 13, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Enigma Gold Star Winners! Don, tell them what they've won...

  

  visit the Quadric Designs website. Until the next time, stay tuned to the MIT network... All Numbers, All The Time. First place six-axis and ... of you met the challenge. Initially we had planned to only award one

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give MIT Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance Yultide Day 5

  

  page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover ... experts in the field, and often the world at large. And all of the HASS ... taught by the director of the Human Genome Project and a pioneer in cancer

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  Surprisingly enjoyable experiences exactly what it sounds like

  

  . The whole project just felt like something so huge and so untouchable ... pretty time-consuming. Towards the end, people got suspicious of me and ... part of my life, and the class has gotten me thinking about these things

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Experiment in Independence all by myself for IAP

  

  . (side note: my condolences to all those left high and dry when the IAP ... brother had reserved, as well as the cute fluffy snow-and-ice hat that it ... the trunk's corners and pockets to find...nothing. Uh. Fortunately

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 5, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Robo-CJ writes a college app do neural nets dream of electric essays?

  

  past, and how much of it was just luck. It’s even picked up the impostor ... a house is not part of the basics of college. The first time I ... with GPT-2-small, and waited for an hour or so. The first attempt was

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 28, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Gettin’ Fancy Two formal events in two days?

  

  ) and the end-of-season fencing banquet. Here are some thoughts if you ... sophomore year and the halfway point of their MIT career. This peculiar brew ... assume any form of water, and Jayna (the female) would be able to transform

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 3, 2014
• FAQ / Afford

  Does MIT provide any academic or athletic scholarships?

  MIT provides financial aid on the basis of financial need only. We don't offer money based on any measure of merit—academic, athletic ... , please visit the Student Financial Services website.
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Sorting Hat of Sorts Where you live may be one of the most important parts of your time here…

  

  insultingly shallow and biased descriptions of the dorms, each in 144 char. or ... speak of, since this will be the first year it's open! EAST CAMPUS: Older ...   Ahh summer. The fresh air. The copious amounts of free time

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  More on deferrals

  

  report. You can download one off of the website if you need one. Your ... regular action, regardless of when the application was submitted. In each of the past few years, we have admitted hundreds of deferred students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  , and this Saturday has been the first time I’ve really been able to ... anthropomorphic dog that sheds all the time. My first exam of the year was for 5 ... was catching up on sleep. Tuesday night was the first night of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Alive and Kicking I kick, therefore I am ~taekwondo~

  

  experience. It’s one of the only first come, first served things, and classes ... "]instructor[/annotation] to eventually grasp the first part of the form: low blocks and punches ... , maybe try and improve at one of the many sports you know how to play in a

  • by Waly N. '24
  • August 3, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  dancing at MIT (and beyond) continuity vs. fulfillment and the perils of stagnation

  

  time, and where I felt the same pride of being on a dope team that I ... being on exec and watching most of the people I respected graduate ... burning out were a universal Mocha exec experience, and part of the argument

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

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

  

  and stored the results on Google Sheets. Out of the 45 schools listed, I ... of a mascot. Brandeis University has two mascots—Ollie the Owl and The ... )[/caption] Lasell University and the University of Massachusetts at Boston won't be

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