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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  The First Snow of the Year! Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. Also, what to expect for the…

  

  excuse to drink ungodly amounts of hot chocolate. Nothing beats sitting by ... warmest gloves, and the most durable boots. Get ready, it's going to be ... me and another one of my best friends who goes to MIT. We were walking

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 29, 2005
• Blog / Events

  BLOOD MOON FEST IS REAL!! "the blood moon rises and the blood moon falls but the wave of whimsy it…

  

  had the added bonus of being a great excuse to procrastinate studying ... to lunch, and then glassblowing, where I was sniped by Jeremy in all my ... the blog and immediately told me that we had to make it real. Despite

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Fall Recap Entropy, Research, and Other Out-of-Class Happenings

  

  would not be swayed by other major options. Second semester freshman year ... and young adults. These workshops will be delivered to healthcare ... . Life’s entropy continues to increase. It’s a paradox: the more time I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 17, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Common Misconceptions and Un-Expectations a list of things i've noticed

  

  freshmen to have time to explore and socialize, rather than being cramped in ... infinite MIT mailing lists to communicate quickly with certain groups of ... ~ maybe once or twice. It's a really convenient way to navigate campus and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And the End Closes In My last semester as an MIT undergraduate

  

  short feature piece. To be honest, this class does scare me. I don’t have ... being a second semester senior. I don’t quite know what to do with myself ... related to photography. I’ve taken plenty of HASS classes in my day, but

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  . Let me be frank: If you were to look at my external transcript, you ... the knowledge that if I horribly messed up, at least I'd be able to no ... easier due to symmetry. I quickly caught on to signs of spherical and

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Comprehensive Guide to Vending Machines at MIT Because it needed to be done.

  

  on the internet did not turn out to be helpful. You can find things ... inexplicable desire to drink soda. As in, I had to drink soda immediately or I would fail my test even harder than I was already going to fail it. I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mind Dump (Episode 4) What's going on RIGHT NOW!?

  

  year it gets to just be too much. MIT is much better summarized in little ... these blogs. This is going to be my official "Mind Dump" entry. Whenever ... 's athletics program due to budget constraints, one of them being my sport

  • by Snively '11
  • April 22, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  The Gender Problem Reflections on a year of Silicon Valley upheavals and confused HR departments.

  

  in her blog post, discrimination can be pushed forward by other women ... are largely still expected to be the primary caretakers of children. If women are expected to raise children, then they should be given the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 8, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing…Stan! Passing the blogger torch

  

  opportunity to be able to link some of the lessons I’ve had in engineering ... writer, but also a well-rounded student. He’s also known to be an ... life in Arizona, I always considered myself to be from California; I like

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  teaching web.lab aka what i spent all of january on

  

  hours trying to snipe piazza questions and answer them as quickly as ... to get project help. host extra office hours by yourself when one of ... how to write code quickly. isn’t it a biological miracle how you can go

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 2 and the power of the many

  

   N log N of these to be correct). A single majority answer is obtained by ... sum to 5 + 9 = 14, and so on. In this way, you don’t need to actually ... k to be 40 (this works out well for mathematical reasons, but many

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time! I walk you through a physics/dynamics problem.

  

  Oftentimes the best way to learn something is to teach it. I've decided to try this approach to study for my 2.003 test coming up. WARNING ... problem as its posed to us: A wheel of diameter R, consisting of a thin

  • by Snively '11
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  home is where the whiteboard is a tradition, continued untraditionally

  

  My dorm, East Campus, is a space made to be shaped by the people ... inside our individual rooms tend to be a bit more utilitarian, still ... occasionally be very useful to be able to just glance up and check if anyone is

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  things i’ve made and/or consumed art, movies, shows, and more

  

  imperfect whose faults can be interpreted in different ways by different ... learned a lot the hard way lol. I also should've taped the sides to get ... hate, and I think it’s because people expect it to be a second ATLA. What

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 28, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Days in lives that aren’t mine in a parallel universe

  

  first one to wake up. I curse the morning air for being too cold to go ... are seven of us crammed in this apartment that's supposed to be for ... or Epsilon Theta, an independent living group that happens to be

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  “So what’s being a blogger like?” i spill the (lukewarm) tea

  

  Being a blogger is a bit of a weird job. Your only task is to write ... expressly intended to be published on the internet for thousands of people to ... what blogging is like, how the job works, and how it feels to be famous

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 1, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  intention via YearCompass

  

  ways in which I can learn how to use it for good, rather than just being ... being as "chill" as I would like to be. I'm still quick to anger and I ... the person I want to be. The biggest risk I took...was moving to San

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2015 FAQ All the questions!

  

  to follow up by mailing a fee waiver to us. Q: I am taking my tests ... your testing by October, do not worry; you do not have to remove MIT from ... application is incomplete, we will not be able to match you. However, we would

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Transfer Admissions Released Next Wednesday, 12/21

  

  I wanted to post a quick update for our transfer applicants. We will be releasing decisions for transfer students next Wednesday, 12/21. Emily Sheldon, who coordinates transfer admissions for our office, will be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 15, 2011