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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where do Trees Come From?

  

  also want your input on something else for 11.125. I need to sit in on ... how to keep students from cheating on them. Yesterday in 11.125, we ... does that huge increase in mass come from? I want to hear your answers

  • by Kim D. '09
  • February 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back-to-school special i'm a senior now :o

  

  have been UROPing, starting to work on my thesis, and trying to spend as ... volunteer/service opportunities. on thursday night, i also went to the class ... weird adjusting to a new dorm culture as a senior, particularly because

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Retrospective Wait, what? I'm done with my first year?

  

  Center and got to look out on the entire city: Fenway Park I love ... ready to go to Germany (more on that later :D ) ... for this day to come, for this year to end. But now, a large part of me

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 25, 2010
• Blog / Announcements

  For those impacted by Hurricane Michael (and other disasters) clarifying our policies for applications affected by catastrophic events

  

  an FAQ to explain what to do if your application is disrupted by ... future, remember that: You should focus on taking care of yourself, your ... be as flexible as possible in these situations. When you’re able to do

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 22, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Folding with Flair Adding a third dimension to boring old paper

  

  semester), but now I have a brand new batch of internship origami for your ... -by-step folding instructions on a single sheet of paper. But when I came to MIT, I ... “adoption” in my company’s Slack. And I’m pleased to say they’ve all found new

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • August 4, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 0: from DC to Quito A rough morning, a long nap, and a kindly neighbor

  

  January 10 On the plane from Panama to Quito What a goofy ... things for an hour. I eventually had to give up on ever fitting my laptop ... bags and took a very sketchy cab ride* to the airport. I made a quick

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Touring an IS&T Datacenter, and How My Dad Crashed the Internet I promise they're related.

  

  environment and make sure it can talk to the other devices on that network. This ... network, it would send messages to everything on that network and tell them ... Internet, unable to reach their new trusted gateway, reverted back to their

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 2, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  talk to people! from the person least qualified to give this advice

  

  two comically oversized suitcases down dorm row to MacGregor, but on the ... pretty tan! How was your summer? me: Good. I went to the beach. pgf: Oh ... you're supposed to ask them how about their summer. Unfortunately, as is

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  101 questions we’ve asked ourselves at MIT we're all just trying to figure it/life/ourselves out

  

  on the green line at Fenway but am I supposed to? What's the best ... my friendships were limited to class time and extracurriculars. I ... my shock when I began college and discovered many new, unfamiliar

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 27, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Get It Done Keep On Keeping "On"

  

  time to relax, to enjoy your dwindling time with high school friends, to ... you must get in touch with your alumni interviewer by October 20th to ... consideration is November 6th. So take time to breathe, but keep your wits about

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  difficult difficult lemon difficult the end of senior fall

  

  so hard to remember that "you do not have to walk on your knees for a ... an email on my radar as something to send, and then forget about it for ... chance to start reading again, and to reflect on the semester which had

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  a huge achievement and will still lead to new beginnings; welcome them ... There were many wonderful applicants to MIT this year, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down some great students. For those of you

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  or stressed to work on anything but your psets. Here are some truths ... stopped saying, “You can do everything you put your mind to!” and instead ... , and must learn to manage your time. Everyone has certain doors, though

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  If strangers meet life begins you shall above all things be glad and young

  

  me to meet at least five new people each day of Orientation. But he ... one on my flight back to Boston. So I wasn't too surprised when, just ... I. Flying back home to MIT from home in South Bend (not a typo), I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 23, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Freedom costs a buck-oh-five Question: What are two broke twenty-somethings to do on a pristine summer day in Boston?Answer:…

  

  Series is going on outside your window. 6. Old North Church At the Old ... like to go to Haymarket on Saturday mornings and make a nice cheap ... a) sitting in the Common reading the newspaper on my lunch break and b

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Room Where It Happens my two year tale of student governance, up until the bitter end

  

  led to that very introduction. But, I’ll touch on that in a bit. I was ... at New House. I went to a panel about housing at MIT because my parents ... them all weekend in favor of rush burgers. I sat next to my parents on

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 13, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  finish writing a script, and are about to plot your data in a way that you ... screenshot and e-mailed it to him. He was so amused that he put it on Facebook ... presentation on Poisson statistics, I got torn to shreds. Instead of defending

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Leadership Training Institute My first guest blog!

  

  program, the new members had to participate in numerous icebreakers and team ... definitely helped me make a head start on that process. If you want to learn ... One of the things that I try to do here is to write a little bit

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2009
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do students apply to a specific major?

  Here's one less thing to worry about when applying to MIT: Students apply to MIT for general admission and select a major at the end of the ... asks students to list their "course of interest" only, and the choice
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art Keeps Me Sane At MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] The beautiful irony is that the analytical, obsessive, and perfectionist mindset…

  

  tabs on what I'm learning at this fancy college I go to, which is why she ... year knowing three new ways to juggle and talking about how I was being ... juggling as well. One day, an upperclassmen on my hall started to contact

  • by ARTalk
  • January 21, 2008