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• Blog / How to MIT

  [joint post] the MIT picture scavenger hunt or, how to drive yourself insane by looking at floorplans

  

  half-flight of stairs that connected to the second floor of Stata, so on ... feels like a leading question. CJ: The correct response is “I’ll get to ... around campus, taken from interesting angles, and the goal for each is to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  my summer! a belated blog

  

  nice to go through the past and reflect on it from a better place ... the closest I ever got to be consistent. I also made an effort to eat ... ’t struggling to hold my water pitcher when it was full. The thought of getting up

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 18, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Building the Yearbook [by Ken Haggerty '11] An inside look at Technique 2010 (shhh!!!)

  

  as much as necessary to work on the book. The book is divided into ... would look when printed. We then started working on the second 200 pages ... ), it was my duty not only to come up with a concept, design the book, and

  • by ARTalk
  • March 29, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Return of the Frog Queen Okay, it snowed this morning, end of story.

  

  last night working on my ICE-T ("ice tea") problem set. To answer James ... -page paper and a powerpoint presentation on the subject, in four weeks ... , and listen to some Brian Eno while contemplating the meaning of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Is MIT too hard? warning: metaphors ahead

  

  .  And the reward? Getting to work on and take some ownership of the ... -six back to back 4:45 miles.  How do they do it? The answer is that they ... that I'm here working in the Real World™ (sort of), I've learned to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best (Work-Related) All-Nighter Ever Stressfully fun times at the Institvte.

  

  't get bored. I hope we don't actually get graded on the second criterion ... students in a couple weeks, and the point of this assignment is to teach a ... background on your topic", stripping down the details but not the concepts in

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 18, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Airplane boy strikes again Adam writes about his UROP.

  

  on cooperative control between multiple UAVs. Basically the idea was to ... relying on one larger vehicle to do it on its own. The focus of the project was on the software required to get the aircraft working together, and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Night Off Campus and some dancing

  

  to the gas station to grab a few drinks. Fifteen seconds outside, and I ... to unspool from the rest of my body. I need a break, and luckily, I can get one. I put on a light jacket, text a friend who wants to meet at

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 21, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  summer in boston that summertime, summertime, uh, gladness

  

  my apartment to come chill on [annotation note="the lawn in front of ... never did during the academic year. a friend and i walked to a 24 hour ... (quarter) slices of pizza from a place called Ernesto's on the same street

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Birds Are Real, and So Is Quantum Physics Monkey see, monkey believe

  

  [/latex]. Sad. We turn on a second detector aimed at the second photon ... was able to see these phenomena with my own two eyes, in the flesh, because I was the one to perform the experiments! I performed all these

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fourth Semi-Annual Q&A Even yet still more answers to your questions.

  

  designer, but I couldn't find any place to put my URL. So I wrote it on the ... on the DVD. If I happen to be one of your readers, I'll certainly look ... admissions (don't forget to put your full name and birthdate on it) with the

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  crazy, no overtime, plenty of time in the evenings and on weekends to ... needed to get back on the grind. From my [annotation note="though in many ... allowing myself to dream big within the context of science, to take on harder

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Face Book And Study I have been doing all this and more. But mostly not this.

  

  break doing this: Okay, they didn’t actually pay us to goof around the whole day -- mostly, we were going through an introduction to the company ... and statistics for a while, we got to the part we’d been waiting for

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,

  

  some professors. Again, it sucks to look back on the classes you've taken ... brain can't summon the idiom "to take with a grain of salt." Work on ... attempting to understand language by lysing the words and fractionating the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for EA Deferred and Regular Action students your last minute questions

  

  appeared on your MyMIT Tracking. The deadline for ECs to submit their reports ... on how the pool looks. But if you've been deferred you are now ... , but the Admissions Committee will primarily look to this report for your

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more physics It was Day 2 of classes when I got kicked out of one! (Only it…

  

  grandparents forwarded the link to my Aunt Marion, who commented on my blog with ... this blog in forever, I know you only took that picture on your second ... tested out of physics but not calc, I wasn't eligible to take the class in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 3 (Finals) You may begin at the sound of my voice. You have an hour to answer…

  

  already existing on OpenCourseWare. To gauge the extent of how well you ... on the math diagnostic to be recommended to take 8.012, a class ... The MIT.01 course, Intro to the Institute, has been very exciting to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 26, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  parallels or juxtapositions in one sitting at flour cafe

  

  fruit, beckoning for me to reach out and grab them. it seems every ... week. last spring i wanted to do something substantial over the summer ... yes. today i feel very sylvia plath all the figs rotting off the tree

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 26, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Class of 2012 Profiles of MIT's new freshmen.

  

  graduates, but he suspects he’ll want to work on the West Coast. It’s the pace ... , initially as a science fair project that made it all the way to second place ... like the experience that MIT brings to engineering, especially the hands-on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  the art of trying new things exploring new clubs, making new friends, and doing the things i was afraid to do

  

  have the amazing opportunity to be a panelist for MIT Admissions! On ... really nervous when I heard Rachel announce we'd be moving on to the ... really want to join WBL to hopefully gain more insight on the field through

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 19, 2020