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• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  Picture this. You’re trying to shuffle past a gaggle of camera ... ’t have to tell me about that. I knew it. Hours spent fixated on a problem ... problem your friend figured out in the time it took him to pee. You sit in

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  location on the Infinite Corridor to its new home in the MIT Welcome Center ... instructions on page 27. 4. Give the SECONDARY SCHOOL REPORT FORM to your high ... grew, so did our footprint on the Infinite. We eventually went on to

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  reflecting a lot on what it means for me to be a computer science major and ... meet with our team to talk about the app we're working on. Every day in the afternoon, we meet with our coaches to talk about our progress on

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  wouldn't have to keep reading as my stomach sank. I decided on a restaurant ... extracurriculars. On my way to the first one, I realized I just couldn't do it. I ... sick, and headed to my other extracurricular, where I proceeded to sit on

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  : Off to Steam Cafe (to which people submit their own recipes), on the ... , and decide to make quick pasta for dinner with Phyo, another TA and '10 ... wants to work on the problem set. Hike over to Next House (ex-home that is

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  off-by-one error on your application: But even if you didn’t discover ... afford to relax. I read an interesting article in the New York Times a few ... your dreams for dear life, meet your decision head-on, and emerge with

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  aerodynamics testing there, and I was sent on a reconnaissance mission--to get ... problem! If you happen to create your own, we’d love to see it in the ...   Chris asked to meet with me last fall, in late September. We

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  portions to some classes. Old buildings are gone, new ones have popped up ... commute killah. Need to be on a bus/train/plane for a long time, but not ... the keys don’t fall all the way to the bottom, nor jangle around on my

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  from putting a firetruck on the Great Dome to subtly sabotaging the ... something done quickly, such as in a computer program. hack (v). - (1) To ... of January at MIT, and one of the best times to be on campus. IHTFP

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  sharks. Highly Self-Similar Sharks on a Plane? CJ, Matt: Sounds good to me ... hopped on a Zoom call and invited whoever was around in ESP to join us. We ... staging, and getting ready to launch things on the day-of. The community

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  . However, before I commit to working on a new spacecraft, I need to think ... what kinds of problems I want to work on. Recently, my PI asked me what ... want to work on satellite and spacecraft controls for NASA, and I

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  a lot of fun. In the car on the way home I pulled out my phone to ... dog didn't know what was going on but she was down to party anyway. S ... the couch at home and hoping I'd be able to load the website before

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  'll hear a new story and remember it, find new hope and latch on to it ... students thinking of applying to MIT, his response was quick. “Do it,” he ... have so many opportunities. You can hand them off to your children. I’m a

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  every excuse to keep working on them. Ok, now that you have sharpened your ... definitely opened up a brand new skillset for me to flounder in and ultimately ... thinking that you're writing a report I would like to share with you an

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  So you don't know what to major in. You have no idea what to do with your life and you're kind of interested in a lot of things and everything is so cool but also you have to pick something. Or else. *ominous music

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  right now, but I thought I'd take a quick break to tell you a little about ... moving on to the more important parts of the application -- that is, who ... that she has a 760 on the Math SAT. As I was about to tell her that her

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  ;would love to interview an admissions officer from your prestigious university to measure the impact of the admissions essay on today's college ... be helpful to you. The rules are simple: write your own essays. That

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  major delays on the Red Line, or a stroll to Jamaica Plain on a summer day ... enjoy using math and science to construct new things. It is safe to say ... dot the Charles’ 80 mile span. I’m only going to focus on eight of these

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  the premises quickly, chuckling lightly to ourselves, and my voice was ... always count on the fire hose to spray those out with constant velocity ... need to sleep occasionally, “Hell Week” has become my new steady

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  Question #12 on your 18.03 problem set, which happens to use a lot of ... was hard to deny that MIT does in fact wipe the hard drives of your high ... software on your language processors. So, for the gentle edification of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009