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• FAQ / Life and culture

  Are the Arts active on campus?

  Center curates exhibitions, maintains our public art collection, and ... the arts, and more than half of all MIT undergrads enroll in arts courses each year—with nearly half of students participating in music and
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  OCW or edX or hacking - and I really liked that. In the op-ed "A love ... openings website, just to get a sense of what opportunities are out there and ... , or 20, or maybe 10.  And the best way to know if you're interested in a

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Disappearing (or life goes on) .

  

  last few years to come back and say a quick and proper good bye. I ... finish them up in a timely fashion, and now it's just way too late to go ahead and publish them. It's been a real pleasure, and great privilege. If

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 6, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Opening doors How being an MIT cheerleader can help you get a job.

  

  to do it in high school, but I was afraid I'd get homesick and wasn ... . Since I hadn't taken any lab classes or worked in any labs, I wrote about being a cheerleader, and how it had taught me responsibility. (Reading

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  dear past me stay kind

  

  your aps and stuff, but at least you didn't have to do fencing or ... our school colors and blue and gold m&ms with our school logo on it ... filing out of the venue and being handed a rose, then making our way to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on my mind *insert witty caption here*

  

  It's been a busy week, and I've still got a lot on my mind. As long ... spring semester learning more Python and more LaTeX showing off my ... meetings working on the MURJ website updating the Medlinks website

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 24, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  A special announcement about SAT Subject Tests MIT has made the decision to no longer consider the SAT Subject Tests

  

  questions you may have about our change. Will you still require the SAT or the ACT? We will continue to require the SAT or the ACT, because our ... grades and coursework, are predictive of success in our challenging

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 20, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  regression and imposter syndrome let's talk about computer science!!

  

  binary search tree was or an AVL tree or hashmaps and all of that. And my ... stupid. When Raymond tries to calmly and kindly explain a problem to me or ... was aimlessly coding away with Crista and Caroline. Or how I feel when I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 11, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  ambition finding direction

  

  . i don’t think that time was wasted or meaningless, and it allowed me ... revisit it in a few days or weeks and see what still resonates that’s not ... in cities and ambition, paul graham writes: “Great cities attract

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 10, 2022
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT select students for admission?

  strong match between the applicant and the Institute. Our very open ... The selection process at MIT is holistic and student centered: each application is evaluated within its unique context. No school, state, or
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  So we’re actually *identical* twins which is surprising to absolutely ... no one

  

  she just posted it, our little intro blurb actually said “Danny and ... ! And then she sent this to the blogger group chat, and our nicknames in ... to our surprise (and probably most people’s lack thereof) this was the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 27, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i (kinda) studied for finals brought to you by "a PNR mindset"

  

  ! Our beloved 8.01 professor Mohammed was both optimistic and depleting ... . As has been explained a million times and will be a million more, MIT ... getting a 100% and a 70% in a class will show up exactly the same on your

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 22, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  what are we to do? we are not helpless in the face of injustice.

  

  being not white, and we talked about being not black. we talked about our frustration and our feelings of inarticulation and confusion and powerlessness ... must overcome our discomfort with violence and racism and start learning

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 13, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Zeno’s Paradox halfway there (again)

  

  experiencing life faster and faster. (This website has a great visualization of ... Kay In high school, when I'd start to get bored of a class, I'd sit and stare at the clock, and I'd count down the time left in the class period

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 17, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ming-fai Fong- Designing an intelligent walking “toddler” robot After learning to sit, bend their knees, squat, and stand, babies can finally gather the…

  

  UROP opening through the UROP website and was surprised when she was ... as a research assistant in the US or to travel to Mexico and develop ... Parents always eagerly anticipate their child's first steps and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art things #1 illustration, graphic design, ceramics, and photography

  

  make more and better artwork; I have mixed opinions on whether or not I ... outlines of strangers at Peet’s, or crack open an old notebook and see marker ... stop closest to Dunkin. Two bagels and one iced latte later, we made our

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is why we can’t have nice things harmless things that irritate me

  

  possible way, or 5+ people congesting the hallway like a sinus infection ... during the ~14 months I’ve been here. And it always happens when I need the ... of its route so there may be as many as 800 that are going out, and

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 29, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Exponential Decay This entry probably isn't about what you think it is.

  

  one favorite or representative entry from (almost) all the bloggers and ... blogger who wrote it, or the general information pages accessible by the ... features of the Admissions website as a whole, because it shows how the blogs

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 20, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  tea shirt the tea and stories behind the merch in my closet

  

  sophomores, and I would say a decent share of our class is a part of it. Think ... recommend applying to it (and/or MITES) if you are a high school junior ... time that we got the cursed shirts with our names and likeliness on them

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 19, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’M BACK!!! This, kids, is why you should store your passwords somewhere safe, just in case Firefox…

  

  Ok, so long story short (I'll blog the whole thing later), I use firefox to remember my password to login to the MIT blogs website. I ... duality of feelings of both win and fail. Anywho, I'm back on track now. And

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 9, 2009