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• Blog / Community Projects

  Food for Thought [guest post] On food and our culinary club, Mince

  

  ’m Sophia, the past head and creator of the Massachusetts Institute of ... often marks the start of a recipe, and by that understanding, 'mince' is ... by presenting the goal of MINCE and (attempting to) explain why we care

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prizes in your pocket Computers are so cool omg this is why I’m a course 6

  

  whole world… in the pocket of each and everyone Magnetism is kind of like ... and emit light under a voltage. The discovery of these amazing materials ... backbone of the internet, and for good reason too. They transmit information

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 9, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2021–2022 application cycle as well

  

  their personal health, as well as the health of their family and community ... personal lives of millions of people, and for the public health of the entire ... our applicants:  We will not require the SAT or the ACT from first

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 6, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The MIT Application is now available! You can now access the MIT freshman application at MyMIT.

  

  MIT recommendation forms and cover sheets, and the ability to track the different parts of your application. On your MyMIT site, you will find the ... with each recommendation letter. You will submit your part of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  self-destruction my entirely self-inflicted problems

  

  story understand explores the consequences of superintelligence. in the story’s climax, he introduces the idea of self-destruct commands - since the brain is just a collection of neurons that have no choice but to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 27, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] Duolingo Champion How to immerse in education while learning nothing

  

  recollections from this week as a whole, the first and foremost being that I never ... ’t know, Duolingo is the result of some talented programmers and language ... Spanish, and recently decided to get back into the habit of using it once

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  majoring in 21E: frequently asked questions what it's like to study humanities at a stem school

  

  more classes of computer science jargon and decided to just make the leap ... every day, to hear all the tidbits of wisdom my classmates and professors ... become fans of things and the role of media in our day to day lives. CMS

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  How to Survive in a Cook-for-Yourself Community and why meals plans are terrible

  

  me: I cannot cook. I had a meal plan during the first semester of ... once I quit the meal plan, and I saved a ton of money. The cost ... variety of diets. They all offer cheaper options and discounts for first

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 10, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear Prospective 2020s Passing on advice that good people have given me

  

  't quite empathize with the feeling of your whole life riding on a decision ... you to apply to MIT in the first place – wherever you go. And I believe ... compiling a list of distractions for the final stretch. Distractions are great

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  What We Did In High School pls don't be as stressed as we were

  

  on campus, and towards the end of this past semester, she invited us to ... have friends! Sometime at the beginning of 9th grade, we made our first ... school, the music instructors saw our lack of these skills, and placed us

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i (kinda) studied for finals brought to you by "a PNR mindset"

  

  of advice: enjoy it. Naturally, a mental battle began the first week ... weekend of the semester would be crazy and fun and exciting, but instead it ... went back to a classroom in building 4 and redid all of the midterms on

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 22, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Short Dining Guide to Cambridge Where to find food within walking distance of MIT, other than in my fridge.

  

  most of the dorms and ends at Trader Joe's/Whole Foods). 3. Harvest Co ... difficulty of recipe and whether or not it contained the LN2 that you ... task involving three aisles and a compass. Also, one of the employees

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 23, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  New Year’s Resolution …of sorts. Since New School Year’s Resolution doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.

  

  more along the lines of “okay, cool?” And boy did I feel guilty about it ... council of strangers. And now I’m climbing a mountain (as the metaphor goes ... ) the fact that I was admitted for who I am. Plus a whole lot of luck. I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 4 Odyssey Looks like my James Joyce karma isn't that horrible after all.

  

  the class 21L.702 Studies in Fiction: "James Joyce and the Legacy of Modernism." Joyce's Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man were ... ,000 words), and hundreds of jokes/puns/foreign phrases that require 700 pages

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Big Dreams, Small Mind The troubles of being in school and doing research for too long.

  

  this: if you are completely ignorant of what's in the ocean and all you ... and just try it. Unlike a lot of other fields, due to the high cost of ... push myself to think out of the box this year and come up with some

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 24, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 3 is third time the charm??? questionable

  

  The hell of fall semester is finally over and I have resurfaced from ... wardrobe and this has not changed for the past two years. You get tired of ... in-depth analysis of a TV Tropes page for T.L. Taylor's Games and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  stories and decision paralysis

  

  with the socioeconomic effects of widespread automation) and these ... , refusing to make decisions of my own and simply waiting around for the end of ... few dozen extras in the background, so they made a big group chat and

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 8, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Narrative of Discovery Most people would be hard pressed to tell a story that has both James Watson…

  

  , Nancy Hopkins provides a passionate, first person account of the ... Watson and Richard Nixon in it, but at MIT, anything is possible. The MIT ... Watson. Zebrafish and Cancer: What's the Connection? is a rich narrative

  • by Laurie Everett
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of UROPing in few words

  

  The first month of the year is a beautiful time for students here: no ... different fields to make work that can help the lives of many people, and 3 ... end of the paper, the paper won't immediately tear like you might first

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  at least it’s not covid sick day

  

  of tea through the whole day. it was a ridiculous amount of tea. go ... . i finished the first season of the melancholy of haruhi suzumiya, a ... the same thing, so i only watched the first, second, fifth, and last

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2022