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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Christmas in February Shiny new toys MIT gave me this semester

  

  work with at MIT these days. There's a lot to unpack here. (Indeed, I ... blog post about this class from a year ago if you want to see a more ... .2060. (Yes, we still do some things on paper at MIT.) A digital oscilloscope

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 14, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Resolved: MIT Rocks Even the Senate thinks so

  

  Barton Rogers, on April 10, 1861, the doors to a powerful new institution ... I came across a news article on a friend’s Facebook page the other day. The U.S. Senate congratulated MIT on its 150th anniversary in

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Product Design, MIT style Sometimes, lab is the best place for a dance party.

  

  that apartment dwellers can use to split a bedroom in two to save on rent ... "constrained space" team building a WALL was not lost on us when we had to start ... into a beautiful chick, or to fried chicken, depending on how hard you

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thinking Positive Sophomore year was kind of awful. But there were happy things! I'll focus on the…

  

  can be fun, but it is hard to find a way to balance everything. The good, and the bad.  I want to focus on the happy things. Here are the happy ... , and I even got to read some of my own work on my friend Valentina C. '16

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  40 Hours in Cape Cod Take note, I typed this entire post with a broken shift key. Please appreciate the…

  

  . Provincetown in the dark was a stunning approximation to the iconical New England ... On the first night of my mandatory vacation, I walked to the beach ... . Pulling up to the speaker, Eric ordered two baked-not-fried apple pies for a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 27, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in China through MIT’s China Development Initiative A week-long mentorship program in Xiamen, Fujian

  

  adventure. I broke my big toe into a bunch of pieces, then flew home to ... following e-mail to my mom on December 2, 2012: “So, I spontaneously applied ... students on the subjects of leadership and service through a series of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  rage, as explained by thermodynamics I had a bad day and soon a thermo exam

  

  Tuesday I had a bad day. I want to talk about what bad days look ... there's a constant battle about how everything is going. Minute-to ... got major-major-major stuck on the project and had to wait to go to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 25, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  ICIC A journey to deliciousness

  

  Harvard and MIT meet up on Thursdays for a nice bike ride to a new ice cream ... cream. A bit afterwards, I began to realize we had gone pretty far and ... going half a mile an hour to get up it. I've never biked up a hill like

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 30, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Less Than Perfect Bottle Rockets, Crossword Puzzles, and Half-Marathons

  

  activity, no one on my team knew how to build a bottle rocket. We relied ... . Sounds like a pretty perfect afternoon to me. Part Two On the last Friday ... while trying desperately not to cramp or throw up in a bush on the side of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Break To sleep or not to sleep?

  

  So I'm trying to figure out a matrix issue while studying 18.03 and ... (fortunately?) before I got a chance to comprehend the next problem I saw the ... ? AB --> BC Calculus in high school is designed to take about a year

  • by Snively '11
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Recapping Trashion 2015 sustainable fashion == trashion

  

  supposed to do with this mountain of trash bags now on her hands? Make a ... cut and glued on the body suit to embody a mirrored collage. The collar ... on a creature, the scales are meant to protect and shelter with things

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Pink Hair Problem What do you do for your college interview if you have dyed hair and a…

  

  college interview is not the best place to try out a 'new look.' It's good to take a position on a subject in an interview but it's also important ... On a recent blog entry, I got a question from a student I thought was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Events

  An Interview with the Tetris Grand Champion Meet Fractal161, an MIT Student who's the second person ever to beat Tetris.

  

    place for us to meet up and hang out for a bit with Tetris on the side ... Scuti became the first person in human history to beat tetris. It’s a ... ="97323" image4="97297" image5="97326" /] After watching a video on the topic

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 19, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Life Changing Classes at MIT ft. ec-discuss

  

  a life in the tech industry." "MAS.863 - how to make almost anything! Really taught me how to actually make most anything. Expect to spend a lot ... ; arranging circuit elements and software to make a thing that thinks (6

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 20, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  bday burnout no more spiders please

  

  to Killian Court. We set up next to some trees on the right and figured ... thought about taking a shower, but it was like I was glued to my bed. Just ... the kitchen to get ingredients for a smoothie. I pulled the fridge door

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 18, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Humans 101 @ MIT introductory SHASS classes this fall and recapping the lightning talks

  

  purpose of the list is to provide admitted students with a basic roadmap to ... : Anthropology 21A.00 Introduction to Anthropology: Comparing Human Cultures; HASS ... . Greene GSL offers language instruction courses at a variety of levels to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Tracking now available You can check the status of your application components now on MyMIT.

  

  . MyMIT Application Tracking This is a good time for you to check up on ... wait a while longer before having it evaluated to give you time to send ... no impact. The best way to get us a missing piece is by fax. Our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  certainly nice. I’m not trying to sell you on Microsoft – there are a small ... to do. ***actually, I just found this blog post on a bar stool in ... from a while back) Oy! Welcome to the much-belated “what I’m doing this

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 6, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  MIT classes are assigned a number of units to roughly scale their ... ), there was a class each term which had the curious tendency to absorb all ... ), I decided that I wanted to try a different approach: below the 48 unit

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  everything is actually going okay and i think that's pretty cool

  

  -conscious about how often i make blog posts. my ideal is to make a post once a week, but i've been slipping on that recently, because blogging has taken a ... two things: a way to vent, and a release from whatever negativity i feel

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2021