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• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the intervening…

  

  decisions were just recently released. First of all, congratulations to all ... school, we were only allowed to send one applicant to each of the programs. My high school puts out a newsletter to the parents with all kinds of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Nerd Camp tales from TDI

  

  to many of you. But it's true) Being a nerd, I did nerd things. I read ... Physics of Baseball. Also, I went to nerd camp. In 1998, when I was about ... , camp. "Talent Development" turned out to mean "do a lot of really cool

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  Lies in MIT, lies about MIT these are the lies that i tell myself at night

  

  't that bad. That was one of my last reservations about committing to MIT ... of junior fall, I lied to my advisor for the first time. He looked at ... dropped none of them. The next semester, this semester, I learned to hedge

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  how can i keep from singing? a midpoint check-in

  

  get to show up, sing with a lot of extremely talented people, learn some ... care so much about this sense of independence, but suffice it to say that ... talks about the importance of music, about how we cling to it in our

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 22, 2021
• Blog / Class Projects

  Make a Lamp! and cart the pieces of it from IDM to IDC, the forge, Metropolis, and back…

  

  learned about all types of making, from woodworking to 3-D printing. I was ... most of the processes. The class seems to be designed for business and ... of my Harvard classes overlapped with a weekly lab, and trusted me to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  Samantha: The Automated Nerf Gun Turret a personal project by raymond t. '23

  

  . Essentially, MIT students get the month of January off to do whatever we please ... lot of torque due to its size. The Nerf Gun In order for this to work, Raymond had to get a hold of a fully automated, fully electronic nerf gun

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 3, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.2050 – Field Programmable Gate Awesomeness Featuring my “aggressive and weird” cat robot

  

  sorts of applications, from real-time digital signal processing to high ... ’re using to read this post works. At the heart of any general ... problems but also come with their own set of flaws – they often take years to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Merritt ‘13, Carlos ‘13, Edward ‘13, and John ‘13 The final edition of a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  don't force me to do things," he said. As a matter of fact, he said they ... the stars so I think astrophysics would be a lot of fun to study," said ... scholarship while also being accepted to one of the most prestigious schools in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  want to keep up with the time committment, and that was the end of Team ... of students from several local high schools), but I decided to join ... talking to one of my friends who was experiencing her first regional as an

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  24 Things I Learned in My First Semester and a Half for the lovely 2024s!

  

  terms of what to do and what not to do, what works best for me and for the majority of my friends, and how to essentially survive my first year at MIT ... 's only .75% of your grade when you only need a 40% to pass the class

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hi again (and goodbye) (For real this time!)

  

  messaged Petey, “I am reluctant to write because I am afraid of what will ... came out of these groups was experiencing what it means to be held and ... seriously in the professional world, I had to be literally serious and kind of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  The Undecideds VI: The Undiscovered Country Even more undecided students' questions & answers.

  

  new course 20) was limited to 20 students for the class of 2009. Was it ... (yay for bio!). Is space really only limited to 20 students for class of ... Engineering) to 20. But closing off majors really isn't part of MIT's culture

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Feeling Good And mostly musing

  

  defrosting, bits of ice forced into my intestines (by Cambridge’s spooky ... seems kind of hard to do while thinking of solutions, so I like to walk ... , MIT is going to split my mind open. My vague appreciation of how the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  to MIT certain of one thing: I would never be an engineer. In eighth ... to do something, and the result of physics felt a little too close to ... else. So, what else fit the bill? Well, I turned to the idea of

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  dear kuya i promise this post is mostly in english

  

  instead? where's that sense of nationalism, of the want to enrich my own ... it to data from boston. i'm trying to think of the times i've ever went ... what this word means. google translate claims that it's any of "giant

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 8, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello, I’m Anthony.

  

  regard to how I felt or what I wanted to do. I was an instrument of a force ... It's nice to meet you. I'm a new freshman at MIT, a member of the ... schools and committed my near future to the progressive locale of Cambridge

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  2.009: the product engineering process the best class at mit

  

  Launch – the biggest party of the year. Equipped with enough fanfare to ... 12 weeks to create a prototype and present it to a live audience of ... opportunity (which turned out to be somewhere in the middle of broad and

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Reflections from the STARS@MIT Fly-In a 15-author guest blog, featuring the small town/rural students that visited us this october!

  

  best of the best, and I figured it was worth a shot to apply. I’m so glad ... specifically for me, as soon as I saw the website I knew I had to apply ... was interesting going to the Public Garden because of the different

  • by Sara N. '28
  • November 11, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  every day it gets a little easier but you gotta do it every day, that’s the hard part

  

  brush and floss every day for the rest of your life to have good oral ... distracted and needing to walk around or check social media. part of it was ... idea of what i wanted to learn or focus on, and part of it was me

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Unwinding how i destress

  

  to see and one of them suggested that I talk about how I personally ... bit late to the OfflineTV train. OfflineTV is a group of content ... ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cuh79mMl3c[/embed] I have this crazy dream of inviting OTV to give a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2020