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• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest post] Eating Your Way Through MIT The story behind Chop Stir Hack, an MIT student food magazine

  

  getting some information about the recipe to write a short intro blurb ... of the semester when we try to get the issue done and printed, but it’s incredibly rewarding to hold the finished product in your hands. The whole

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TESS Science Conference III My first science conference!

  

  Opportunities Program. Undergrads get to participate in real research with ... Muthukrishna, just graduated and is off to get his PhD. He helped catch me up to ... astrophysics. Coming from an EECS background, I had to Google some of the astro

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Events

  A not-so-typical day in the post-FYRE life Reporting live from ESP's Firestorm

  

  Milliseconds of 35 MIllisecond Pulsars How to Finish Your HASS Requirement in 50 ... to drag my nasty cold-ridden body (I knew FYRE would get me sick ... minutes or so to shield my book and get rained on. Then it was time. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Advice

  Crocheting With the Firehose Gauge your stitches, gauge your life

  

  : As you can see, it is best to use a hook size that matches your yarn ... could level out with your yarn, and you become acclimated to the rigor of MIT. Otherwise, you adjust your yarn to match your hook, and you create

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 13, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hello from seattle This blog post hopefully not brought to you with an NDA.

  

  reasonable pixel density compared to your phones. Yeah, text ... wasting your time; if you’ve read this far, who knows what else I can get you to read ;) -Cam *footnote: word on the street is that we’re getting

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 6, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Episode 4: A New Hope Addressing the concerns of undecided students.

  

  deadline for your college decision, I figure now is as good a time as any to ... decision? What more would you like to know about MIT? What are your lingering ... going to get to every question today. Amy wrote, "I saw people carrying

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how the first midterms actually were xoxo gossip girl?

  

  going to get canceled for the almost two years I had it planned, and the ... everyone takes anyway, so I'm here to explain how your first midterm seasons ... to others unless you're going to major/minor/concentrate in

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 15, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admissions Decisions

  

  you again get a choice: where do you want to go? Remember that no matter ... your talents to go on to do wonderful things with the education and ... We've come to the time of year when many of you readers will find out

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Take Your Blog to School Day Vol. 1 Standing waves and FIRE!

  

  So today we're going to take a little trip to 3-370 for some ... engineers may use in their career in order to measure certain properties, such ... have a 40 page paper to write, but such is life. The class is also an

  • by Bryan
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  quiet moments out in the rural English countryside

  

  ’s commonly asked, akin to “what do you want to do with your life,” and i ... Google when you search it up, way after its more famous homonymous beach ... excited to see how it impacts the environment. i can go on and on about

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 19, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Books write our life stories Philosophy, astronomy, religion, neurology - and my plans for the future.

  

  said that it’s not used for anything and it’s just too big to get out of ... that I want to donate. While I work on that, go take a look at your ... ?” -Anne Fadiman, in the preface to her essay collection Ex Libris

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 30, 2014
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How does pass/no record work?

  Here's something else to love about MIT! The first semester at MIT is graded on a pass/no record basis: if you pass the class you get a “pass” on your transcript;  if not, there's no record you took it. The
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT how we practice and pursue it here

  

  petition your classes for Hass-A credit! We have yet to do so, but should get ... to other local colleges! There is a blog section of our website where ... to get really busy. But we went on the annual New York trip a few weeks

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Balancing Act… ...or not

  

  getting a bus to Lechmere from right outside the station. We both have not ... decide to wing it anyway. We make it to Davis, but then get on a bus headed ... . Gets to my recitation class with cold feet, literally. Runs out of milk

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / Events

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

  

  when I started, and I get to look back at all I've done. Not gonna lie ... than just trivial occurrences to get me excited ("Oh, math joke, not ... MIT seemed to take all of the things I used in my application to get

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

  letter to my 2023 self from: 2024 janet

  

  better. You will get into the school that you were afraid to admit was your ... that you wanted to be more academic and rigorous, and failing your first ... yourself too good to get imposter syndrome, because didn’t you work hard

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 2, 2025
• Blog / Events

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

  

  . Then your left hand. (It really helps to trust the person holding on to your belt.) Then lean forward. (This is where you really need to trust the person holding on to you.) You think you're leaning as far forward

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  History of the Brass Rat with pictures of the bezel design from 1930 to today

  

  The Brass Rat, the MIT class ring. MIT students get theirs sophomore ... member from each of the Classes of 1930, 1931, and 1932 to design a ring ... Ring. They couldn't decide whether to put the beaver or the Dome on the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 23, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  Pigeonholing boxes = semesters, pigeons = classes

  

  , go to docs.new (the most useful website shortcut frankly), and put ... to help prevent burnout and introduces some variation in your life ... class. This is due to a few reasons: Firstly, I have never had a semester

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to MIT! blogging guilt eased...

  

  . Congratulations on your final decision. You are about to enter an intensely wonderful (but extremely intense) four years of your life. I was talking to a ... semester, MIT students tend to hide themselves in their rooms

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 3, 2011