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• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  likely to be young and male. In the 1990s, the average MIT student was both ... (and it's difficult to think of a school which would be a good control ... -- i.e., that that would be measured by an very large MIT in the limit of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  all the notes i took in (another) week but it was midterm week so it's just crib sheets

  

  .001, the first version of this class. Our professor encourages us to think of ... -elasticity. We were allowed one page of notes, front to back, which you can see ... last thing I had to do before spring break, so you can really see my

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • March 30, 2026
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day in the Life see what we're up to

  

  normal day, and post them on the website. To be honest, I'm not sure how ... neat ^_^ The day runs midnight to midnight, so if you'd like to see ... now, back to my regularly scheduled tooling*   * except I

  • by Piper '13
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Giant Cows Eat Venus; Earth Next Breaking apart and growing, fireworks, and a story

  

  , where two summer interns were supposed to be observing the century's last ... be going very well, but I might change my mind by the end of the day ... week pretending to be a tomato. Hold on to those. I’ve learned that

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 25, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT: The Sunsical The sunshine of May 12th

  

    a musical by Erick '17 sung to the tune of "Summertime" by ... Spotify's on and you're by my side Feels something like summertime♪   ♫These days life goes like this Wake up, go to class and then Gotta be a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 12, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Row, row, row your boat aka varsity sports at MIT

  

  , across the street from Burton-Conner (not to be confused with the Sailing ... to be playing a Division I sport (though most teams at MIT are Division ... because I know my team depends on me to be at my best each day at practice

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 27, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Disappointment I know how it feels...

  

  time, lol): Me: "idk i'm trying to be positive and i more or less am ... application processes as a way for me to simply learn more about myself and get ... ! ~ Hamsika p.s. It might be a while before I get to blog again; I'm not

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule parete legi novembri

  

  lying. In the midst of this shitshow, the last thing you need to be doing ... freshman fall is the time to learn how to do that. It is not the time to be ... already stabilized and it's hard to work your way in. This is obviously a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  you can run but you can't hide

  

  fantasy. Being surrounded by familiar California blue skies and those ever ... being just undeniably and overwhelmingly good. I give expensive gifts to ... mistakes." It's a learned habit, something taught to me by my dad, as he

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Classes of Semesters Past, Present, and Future since you asked.

  

  thing now, but it's 12:07am and I was supposed to be in bed 7 minutes ago ... think that this should be a GIR. It used to be!) 8.044 Statistical Physics ... you leave a post with your course history? I want to take every class

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bachelor’s & Master’s in 5 Years An attractive option offered to undergraduates in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning.

  

  'd like to focus in the future. The topics are wide-ranging and can be ... This will be the first in a series of entries focused on my department and opportunities available to its students. :) Well, you may have

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 15, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  College Admissions and the Public Interest

  

  be admitted to college, and why? Thresher’s insight anticipated today ... to publish it as a free PDF for anyone who wants to read it. Now that it's up, I wanted to direct people to it. The foreword sums it up well

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduled time my classes this semester, and how engineering and sociology go hand in hand

  

  Is this what it's like to be an upperclassman and only take classes ... societal objects, so I thought it'd be good to take an engineering class ... 's important to remember that being an engineer doesn't preclude your ability (or

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 14, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  time travel is overrated conversing with my past self

  

  email to our future selves, which would be automatically delivered to our ... to be sheltered within the station’s dry warmth, even if it meant ... now-fleeting memories. but would it be wrong to say that MIT is also a

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • November 2, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Time! All my classes managed to schedule tests within a week of each other.

  

  pretty manageable. I studied as much as I needed to and went to bed by11 or ... ’re apparently low-stress enough to be called “quizzes,” even though the one on ... then this is a CI (communications intensive) class, so that’s to be

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 5, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  church gardens some paintings!

  

  North Wales. Unfortunately getting to South Wales would be 8 hours ... skeletal remains by tending to it as a garden.  The Welsh word for children ... separate blog about that soon.  Thankfully, I got weekends to hop on a bus

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXachusetts Institute of Technology your guide to the daily confusion

  

  guide online. Reading it can be a uniquely good guide to understanding ... . According to MIT's Dormitory Council: Residence Exploration, or REX, is a four day experience for first year students to explore MIT dorms and find

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  MIT Mini Maker Faire Celebrating STEAM and creativity

  

  wants to comment about their experience, that would be wonderful. I went ... according to MIT News) it was a huge success! My photography skills are less ... written already, even by people at Make Magazine, and I’m not sure I can do

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 11, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Study Break!

  

  sounds weird. Trust me, I remember coming to campus for CPW and taking tours of all the different dorms and being so confused about this study ... breaking abilities. But now I know. =) I first learned to appreciate the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Literature Tea & Mural Contest Artwork on cookies and walls.

  

  On Monday, I went to an afternoon tea sponsored by Course 21L: Literature. The event (which occurs weekly!) is open to everyone, so even if ... themes... in German. She introduced me to her housemate (at Student House

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 21, 2006