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• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is a jock school the secret is out

  

  task—no, my duty—to finally say what needs to be said: MIT is a jock ... smart, the draw of an amazing academic school is too much to resist. MIT ... not this much success at a national level, too?  WRONG!  The limits of

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  What the end of the semester does to Conner 2 For one thing, no one does the dishes. And I mean no one.

  

  . Almost all of my grades are in and I'm also happy to report that I did much ... 's left from last semester is a bunch of pictures that I'm about to share. I walked out of my room one day to discover a huge mess. Well, it may

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day of IAP 3 Classes and Soup

  

  cooking for myself this month. I bought a lot of soup. A tad too much most ... :30 - normally, I end up getting to campus a half-hour or fifteen minutes early. My ... weekly PSet for my two courses. I try to get at least a problem done while

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 16, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  a perfect long weekend in other words: i did no work and now am kind of a mess

  

  and set-up had all led up to a two-hour performance, and i really didn ... with so much energy before.    the show went by in the blink of an ... amount of homework to do. i have a weird and unhealthy tendency to keep

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 18, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  well, well look who's inside again

  

  to process the fact that I'm living through a pandemic. I've expressed ... authenticity as a blogger. Sometimes I find myself reopening old wounds to ... many social media influencers find themselves falling into, this need to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 11, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  gratitude happy thanksgiving

  

  summaries at three a.m., since I am much too soft-hearted to watch horror for ... I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about gratitude. That’s not to ... ’t expend much energy on pondering the concept of gratitude. In that sense

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  this discrepancy, we need to talk a bit about linear algebra. A common ... . At a high level, it allows him to lift, rotate, and fuse objects ... -degree increments. To describe an object’s orientation, you needed just two

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Everything You Ever Wanted to Know All your wishes have been magically granted.

  

  you to someone a bit more qualified to explain the nuance much mo ... storm amplified my love of the city and created a desire to see the ... to those with a “stronger” profile, which would make the very possible

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 13, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One more baby blogger Or blogger baby? I don’t know, is it the same?

  

  one more to bring you. She doesn’t actually have a name, and she ... about whether she’s going to be a scientist or an engineer.) And I have ... ’m comfortable saying she’s a pretty smart cookie. She will also be coming with

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 3, 2017
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  mechanical engineering is product development, I’ve gotten to create a lot of ... air out of the room to create a vacuum (this idea was not approved ... , erased and redrew, over and over again. I remember taking a ruler to add

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Proposed: MITAdmissions Labs a wonderful, terrible, awful idea

  

  Courseroad and Firehose have added so much value to current students ... needed technically, linked to at like labs.mitadmissions.org/badidea1) and presented to prospectives as like "here, this is a fun thing that may

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mocha Show ’22: Mo’Mixtape creating and performing a dance showcase, from start to finish

  

  and from 12-6 on the weekends. a dance is assigned to each hour slot, so ... to the show as much as i could this time around. Ideating in the first ... thought we'd need, a tentative name, and the songs we'd use. i tossed out a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 16, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Just Run With It Never waste inspiration, even if you're running with it for the first time (in years)

  

  , and my first serious effort to win back my old energy. It was a day off ... definitely worth a read (and worth watching), but I wanted to highlight ... change I accepted, even grew to love, for a time. Even at a Freshman

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  /molecular/cellular biology department with a lot of people who like to do computational stuff ... departments place a strong emphasis on teaching students how to think about ... , if you want to be a good scientist or engineer, it's important to learn

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Grace Hopper a celebration of women in computing

  

  .  It was a great opportunity to see some wonderful speakers, connect with ... -dominated field. It was also a chance to get a selfie with CTO of the United States ... enlightening to see how these issues played out on a larger scale - as well as

  • by Piper '13
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  data justice for senior house

  

  ." the original press release is here. it says: “We see a vital need to act ... the admissions blogs have always been a platform for students to speak ... freshmen from living in senior house; and second, to institute a "turnaround

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 17, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Answered Questions, answers, and Sam's face. This is the real MIT.

  

  Books - we took a moment while on the road to marvel at the realization that ... I came to college, after being a dedicated PC user for probably about ... PC are not available for Macs, it's usually not hard to find a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Working With WashLava Time management in low places

  

  Form, I thought about 6.0002 as a whole. Do I really need this class? Not ... , [annotation note="Which may have the qualifications to be a pandemic of its own ... lot about what I want to do at MIT. Originally, I wanted to have a

  • by Ella T. '25
  • November 7, 2021
• Blog / MISTI

  Art & Science in Paris

  

  allowed me to take a mental break from nuclear engineering in between ... September, and refocus my energy on a different topic. I helped curate an ... be accessible in the future? This created an interesting parallel to

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 19, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  journey to the end of the world visions

  

  ago. i created a new world, i booted up survival, walked around in some ... , imagine trying to come up with a way to automatically generate a pattern of ... want to generate a patch of 128 by 128 meters of land. the most naive

  • by Ali C. '26
  • November 16, 2023