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• Blog / Admissions

  New MIT Viewbook Is a viewbook as useful to you as it might have been for my (pre-internet)…

  

  Just got back from interviewing design firms. We're embarking on a redesign/updating of the MIT viewbook, a process that will take almost a year from beginning to end. We'll choose a firm in the next few days, and the

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 3, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The New Iron Man is a 15-year-old MIT Student and lives in my freshman year dorm

  

  Meet Riri Williams.   Riri is a fictional 15-year-old black ... recreates a rough version of an Iron Man suit using parts "borrowed" from campus. Presumably, she spent a lot of time at the Stata Loading Dock

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I don’t have letter grades for some of my coursework or have chosen to take a class pass/fail?

  help us get a better understanding of your mastery in a subject. We ... confidence you have the minimum proficiency in a course to successfully pass ... has impacted your performance in a class, or a decision to take a course
• Blog / Academics & Research

  classes im taking this semester! the classic

  

  schedule, here it is: 6.1010: a.k.a Fundamentals of Programming! I mostly ... )weekly recitation + weekly pset class format, this class only meets twice a week in ... a total of 18 open lab hours a week that you can go to if you need any

  • by Angie F. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  rearview reflections newly-minted cruft rambles on post-mit life

  

  dream the whole thing. I get a little bit jumpscared when I get an alumni ... career pivots, self-discovery in a new hobby, or newfound interest in ... apartment hunting, and figuring out how to use a dishwasher. Not entirely

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  6.115 Microcomputer Lab! literally the coolest class i've taken so far

  

  needed a lab class to fulfill a course 6-9 requirement. 6.115 is known as ... this kind of stuff, I wanted to appreciate hardware. It helped that a ... lecture wondering, what even is a microcontroller (or microcomputer)? When

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 16, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Secret Lives of Machines 🤖 In which the machines in my life get the spotlight they deserve.

  

  notes during class. SLP is a tough, no nonsense master of productivity, with a work ethic I admire greatly. Offering me free academic tools and ... parents dropped you on the head as a baby. Now picture that resentment

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 22, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  21M.712: Choreography — Making Dances theater arts classes >>>

  

  I'm taking a choreography class this semester! I heard about it in my ... setting. every studio session feels like a blissful respite from the ... that I'm a senior. the class has a mix of trained dancers, self

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 22, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Halfway Through MIT Where I’ve been, and where I’m going

  

  Mel: This is a guest post by my friend Mitali C. '24, a course 20 and a very lovely soul, who I invited to write a post anytime. This is the wonderful result, reflecting on the midpoint of a journey through MIT as well

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 25, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unnecessarily long post on how much i like spotify why did i ever think iTunes was good

  

  EDIT: Petey mentioned in the comments that we should make a blogger ... ! This summer, I've come to realize my love for a certain being that has brought a lot of joy and happiness into my life. If you've read the title

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 9, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Spring break in Canada Snowboarding ramps, waterfalls, poutine, butterflies, and lots of noodles.

  

  Montreal. Montreal is pretty easy to reach from Boston and as such is a ... because we had to fly through Newark airport. We got a hotel room in the center of Quebec’s old town, but really it was more like a small apartment

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 4, 2018
• Blog / Events

  “Where art thou, O Higgs?” *insert shimmering transition into the past here*

  

  Hey, there, it's been a while. Sorry about that; it turns out that blogging momentum is really hard to start up again after a certain point. I'll be trying to atone throughout April. In the meanwhile, here's a story

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 7, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s been 3 weeks the firehose is still alive and kicking

  

  , three expectedly busy weeks. I’ve gotten sick for a brief period, seen ... meaning of midterm is fatally lost on MIT). There’s a lot that happens, and I think I sunk a bit too deeply into the Institute these past few

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing is useful for science. Surprise!

  

  Sometime last year, a prospective student e-mailed me asking about ... absolutely essential skill for a scientist.   ... . What a guy.   Professional astronomy rarely involves sticking

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  +/- 1 years old and decided to make a space-themed board game. Here's a ... rediscovered a diary that I kept in first grade. My favorite entry reads (unfortunately I don't have a picture): "One day I went to Nasa! It was fun, very

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art is Everywhere! [by Emma Frank '15] Public Art at MIT

  

  as a sterile place. Labs stacked on top of classrooms and everything having its place and assigned number. It didn’t seem like a place ... . But it is! And after a tour of MIT’s public art through my

  • by ARTalk
  • October 17, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Thoughts on coming home With guest appearances by MIT's Dean for Student Life, the communist dracula, Roman lasagna, and…

  

  Thanksgiving morning was a groggy smear of coffee, subway, and airport, a rhapsody in grey shattered once by an outburst of sunrise over ... eyelids. 2.5 hours later, while on a plane streaming through this clear

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 29, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  proof of life hmm :thinking-face:

  

  , very loosely stitched together because I gave up on trying to have a ... took a lighter academic load, two classes, so that I could work an ... vestiges of 1900s industrial Cambridge. The image is vivid: a placid fall

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • August 16, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  what I’m doing this IAP mostly physics and musical theater

  

  the month of January: some people treat it as a four-week extension on ... colder and hungrier) and a whole host of possibilities are available that ... ="The MIT Outing Club runs a winter school every IAP where people go on lots

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Announcing new blogger avatars! all-new, all quality

  

  The bloggers' old avatars were drawn by a talented professional in a recognizable and well-liked style. But some of us thought, what if we could do a ... a new, anti-cohesive style for the MIT Admissions blogs. We

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 1, 2023