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• Blog / Personal Projects

  An emoji alethiometer to help you make decisions I'm not saying I will use this in committee, but I'm not saying I won't

  

  graduates might consider their obligations to their fellow humans. In a way, I ... whether you're new to HDM or returning, I've got a fun little Internet thing ... alethiometer app to give people the experience of carrying around a golden

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  What should I be doing now? Tips for regular and early applicants.

  

  to give bad news to so many students, but it's a reality that we all ... , and hope for the best. As the year draws to a close, start talking with ... If you are applying to MIT this year (early or regular), here's an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Good Stuff yeah, man

  

  As a freshman, I made the conscious decision not to live where I knew ... like math. The story I hear too often is that they loved math up to a certain point, then got a terrible math teacher, then it stopped making

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my year in music, volume 3 i am starting to feel very old

  

  memory lane and I hope to keep making a playlist for every year that I’m at ... is such a good song and i cannot wait to make an emo cover of it The ... [/caption] joon also made this DOPE WEBSITE for a final project. to clarify just how

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  W.M.

  

  me a while to get used to all their quirks, but eventually, W.M. became ... Last semester, I met W.M. in one of my classes, 3.019 (Intro to Symbolic and Mathematical Computing). They didn’t speak much and expressed a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Bryan Nance Name: Bryan Nance; Job title: Director of Minority Recruitment; Hometown: Queens, NY

  

  : Bostonians only have a 25 Letter alphabet. No one knows what happened to the ... : Too many to name... Here are a few: Seventh Samurai, Dr. Strangelove ... Married An Ax Murder, Love Jones, Dolomite. If you ever need to settle a bet

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  reviewing MIT’s Intro To Deep Learning the highs and lows of the beloved IAP class

  

  deepfake specifically making the rounds in 2020. Given the opportunity to take such a famed class, I decided to give my [annotation note="have I ... class ran from Monday to Friday with a scheduled 1:00-4:00 P.M. lecture

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 12, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  So who is this Laura person, anyway? Hello and welcome to the single coolest blog on the entire admissions website. My name…

  

  website. My name is Laura and I am a member of the MIT Class of '09, which ... to declare Course 2 (Mechanical Engineering) as a major and possibly ... ever, ever, EVER refers to it as "Joisy." This is a Brooklyn accent, not

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Mechanics of Blogging How do I do it?

  

  MovableType publishing platform. Instead of being a website like blogger or livejournal, MovableType is designed to fit into a webpage that already exists ... 't want to give away any surprises, but as you can see there's a lot of neat

  • by Snively '11
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivery Potato martinis at the courthouse

  

  courthouse. Not very impressive, is it? Every guest had to pass through a ... Saturday at the Moakley Courthouse in Boston. The event was a smashing ... . The roof of the cylinder lobby ring area. A jazz band played for the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 15, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  e3 2k19 at long last, i got to go to gamer christmas

  

  immediately rushed to the website to buy a pass. i then realized that the ... managed to make it into the middle of the line to get a ticket for the 10 ... closed, and i would have to purchase a gamer pass, which is a whopping $350

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 14, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Interning Remotely my verdict is that it definitely could be worse

  

  person I had planned to use my entire housing stipend on a very nice ... wanted out of my life. I have a lot of other work to complete this summer ... - so I wanted to be on a functional adult 9-5 schedule. Seattle is

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  Hello Internet! I had a very writing major day, which is to say that ... to my dad so I could get a second opinion on what I’d written. The ... I’d had it hammered into my head by a counselor or a website that I

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  14.11: Putting Social Science to the Test—Field Experiments in Economics A new class on experimental social science, including: race discrimination, gender differences in behavior, persuasion,…

  

  semester it's being offered. I think the website is enrollee-only, so here's some information on what we're going to study: What is 14.11? 14.11 is a ... Social Science to the Test - Field Experiments in Economics. From what I

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Let’s do a puzzle. Ready to flex some cranial muscle?

  

  instinct is to do what you ALWAYS do when you have a question about her MIT ... -codes everything makes it impossible to extract any useful information. You give up ... to appear (to your disappointment, incendiary doves do not make another

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My night with 8.03 MONSTER ENTRY AHHHH

  

  hours worth of work? God I hope not. Come to think of it, a part of that ... are a strange beast to me in E+M. 5:10am. Still thinking about SI units ... strategic locations as to create the most natural and flattering look for a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Passing along some e-mails, and my responses to them.

  

  batch of them here, and I think that the time has come to do so again. A ... prospective student said: Hi. Awesome post...Just thought I'd bring a typo to ... you go to MIT? What's bad about MIT? I responded, after taking a moment

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP, CES, and other acronyms I spent my MIT IAP with a CEO at CES in LAS, and now I…

  

  January is “supposed” to be an off-month for MIT students - a break ... obligated to continue. Sometimes I feel like I’m slowly devolving into a ... awesome because they’re accessible to anyone and are a bite-sized, low

  • by Joel G. '18
  • March 9, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Friday Night, Off-Campus Style come along on our evening of fish and wine

  

  past midnight. These days, my Fridays tend to be a bit more low-key. In ... Annie team mentions their goal is to “be a center for community.” I think ... around us: to our right, a slightly awkward pair (perhaps on a first date

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST fun And now...the much anticipated (but never duplicated!) photo-filled account of the coolest robotics competition ever!

  

  was a lot more reserved as usual. You want to make sure you're not ... . In early January, a challenge is announced to the teams at the kickoff ... -packed weeks to design and build a robot that they think will do well at this

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 29, 2006