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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  How Albatross Fly Without Flapping Their Wings, And other Lore™️ I learned this semester.

  

  be solved," which immediately peaked my interest. This was the kind of ... [HEY! NOTE: If you are looking for the real, scientific reason of how albatross fly, this is probably not the place to look. I give an explanation

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 10, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  king of boston -> king of the world? the only good fight there is

  

  ?, I never once delude myself into thinking it will be easy: some of the ... informing the grader that I will likely be dropping the class, but had fun ... feeling like that. you will be alone with the gods and the nights will

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10,000 Ways That Won’t Work

  

  classes at MIT where the final project doesn’t have to work to be considered ... will ultimately try those same experiments and obtain the same results ... conference or to the EECS department at large.” What would I have told them

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 27, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/14, at 12:14 PM ET

  

  , as the title says, we will be releasing Early Action decisions online ... !  Admissions decisions will be available exclusively online. Decisions will not ... decisions, we will be mailing admitted students additional, cylindrical

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 6, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trip Report: ISEF 2016

  

  and/or national fairs. Ultimately, the top ~1,700 students will qualify ... can be great experiences for the right sort of student. So if, like me ... roaring and happily shocked students never fails to make me smile. The 3

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  seattle ➞ mit an epilogue in bullet points and pictures

  

  love the seattle summer, with every sunset being a thousand shades of ... there. being in new york city for a week before school was a slap in the face after being in the west coast, but it grounded me, and i realized

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 8, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  THAT’S RIGHT! AP scores and computing at MIT, these are a few of my favorite things...

  

  things at a later time. On the other hand, I could be totally making that ... the mail. After an awesome day at work (the exclusive camp we were going to open for cancelled, so all the guards ran around the waterpark going

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  will not be able to do any of this justice.  But here it goes anyway. A ... . Acquaintances that I had gotten used to being around, but no longer see on the ... be considering your application.” “The applicant pool was extremely

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story behind TIMtalks In other words, a story about stories

  

  communicate as the change agents that we all will be, but also to discuss ... Kanjun, Noam, and I would be the speakers at the inaugural TIMtalks on May ... be a great event and that she was already so amazed with how the event

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  ," or being mistaken about how much you will like something in the future ... During quarantine, I enrolled in The Science of Well-Being, a free ... 've learned, and I hope some of these reflections will be helpful for you

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Biological Engineering major

  

  of you waiting for the BE major, it looks like it will be approved at ... will lead to the degree of Bachelor of Science in Biological Engineering ... Bachelor of Science degree in Biological Engineering to be awarded on the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2004
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT after SFFA technology and the dream, deferred

  

  be on the river at 6AM for crew. That said, serendipity reigned: the ... .']recruited to be a coxswain of the crew team.[/annotation] I figured out pretty ... back in 1949: “We believe that the mission of the Institute should be to

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • August 21, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  False Precision ...and the advent of the cherry pie scale

  

  expectations.  The pie was good. I expect pie to be good, therefore the cherry ... everything.  The college decision, for example, should be about much more than ... a cherry pie that someone had brought into the office to share. As one

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 7, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  was supposed to be, and the place I was supposed to be most was here ... progress in the way I should be. I feel like all the people around me have ... the other MEngs seem to be as well. Maybe the answer is just that I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  tunes of interphase! or, how to leave home and look cool doing it

  

  coursework will likely build upon, befriend some of the most interesting people ... would be running away from all the things that had made my hometown such ... win. But as the people I’d be sharing a floor with for the next seven

  • by Angie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  about it. my only threshold was to not be super mega unready for the ... representation theory part still eludes me the most. I feel like I will need to ... helpful. Zimi Z. '25 and I would be asking the stupidest of questions and

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  i wish we’d grown up on the same advice alternate paths

  

  resources and mentorship. i know that will never be the case, so i try my best ... , and i agree that they seem to be doing fine. but the question i would ... with the privilege of a) having gotten a math/cs degree from mit b) being

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choosing a Major I hope this is helpful to you at some point

  

  't be concerned about the difficulty of majors it's all about what you ... ? Maybe cross off some of the engineering majors. Some majors may be too ... will only make you miserable and insecure. You won't enjoy the course

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #1-5 Concerning the half I spent at home

  

  corner during which it will be back to the hard grind of work, work, and ... pencil down and saying goodbye to genetics, at least for the time being, I ... going to be in Southern California, I narrowed the list down to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 17, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: From the Life and Times of Cam

  

  be -- and this is where my rhetoric fails me -- lame. To the younger ... blog entries from myself will sparsely surface to the light of your ... will be too. I hope that my story can be helpful to you. This is what MIT

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 6, 2009