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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Senior Survey (Says?) (For the record, I think that being on Family Feud would be totally awesome)

  

  much time is left on my conversion to a movie in Final Cut Pro. (Two ... embodiment of MIT and slap it around a little bit. "WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS TO ... . It seems like almost nothing at all, but it's all meant so much to me

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 3, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  The Abominable Snowman If you can't see the Yeti, make the Yeti.

  

  tall as me. To my surprise, creating this giant snowball was just as ... snowy scenery, and a few even lent us their strength to push our snowball ... top of the base. After several failed attempts to lift the beast and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Small talk How about that weather?

  

  the way home from my field hockey game, and when I awoke, what to my ... 'm pretty sure all sports follow pretty much the same schedule. According to ... to me and plays football, I'll be sure to check. =) In my entry about

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do I have to submit a February Updates & Notes Form (FUN)?

  completion of the second quarter. Your school does not need to mail your ... Action admitted and deferred applicants, Regular Action applicants, students who have graduated, and international applicants. The form will be
• Blog / Academics & Research

  WTHBBQ! Chinese Buffet! Spring 2008 courses, with a really bad analogy, haha. (super long post o___o)

  

  and this was why I had to declare sophomore standing and yadda yadda ... food just keeps on coming and you're forced to stuff more and more down ... advancing on to calculating electric/magnetic fields - and finally applying

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 11, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  residential exploration, but without a residence on burton conner culture continuing to thrive

  

  the period where freshmen get to meet and join living groups they ... about our history and traditions is crucial to sustaining the culture we ... group would be in Burton Conner to help run floor events and meet freshmen

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Day, the Year I Applied what I learned in college about application struggles

  

  bit of my inner self for flaws and merits. Why, on December 13, I had to ... that. I’d probably go to a local state school and maybe apply for ... ’t get freaked out about classwork. I’d have class at 9 am and I’d have to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 20, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  “What Should I Bring To College?” (partly) answered my everyday carry

  

  working to optimize what I carry, so this is a work-in-progress and (2) that ... .  Equations, diagrams, and graphs are no fun to try to reproduce on a laptop or ... dorms and libraries have scanners available; I like to scan my notes to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 23, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Maiden Voyages First years, welcome to MIT

  

  awkwardness. It does get better, and god is it still so much fun.   This ... , an umbrella, and my signed Rufus Does Judy at Capitol Studios poster ... to the counter and checked them onto the flight. I'm not a very

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life A play-by-play of my day, along with some pictures.

  

  papers to write and a problem set to start, it’s clearly the perfect ... while and today I finally remembered to pack my camera. I’ll preface this ... much free food, but the opportunities exist (if I only had the time and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Day of School Fall term classes began today at MIT.

  

  who choose to teach freshman classes care very much about the mentoring role we have to play, and I can tell you I consider nothing more ... Today was the first day of classes at MIT. Once again, the Infinite

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  to MIT and that has been doing this bloggin' business for a while. I ... (which is still pass/no record), and to a lesser degree in your second ... what you are trying to commit to memory, and then you'll end up doing

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  , with open notes and as much time as I needed, and scan my answers back to ... action would be to e-mail my professor and my TA. After procrastinating for ... for their help during the semester, etc, and returned to angsting

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  ,3,9,15,...) and told you to find their sum, you might store all the numbers in ... sum to 5 + 9 = 14, and so on. In this way, you don’t need to actually ... probability as a value between 0 and 1 assigned to events. When you flip a fair

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  vibe check i'm basically living at MIT again

  

  remote UROPs/jobs for the summer and it's nice to be in a space where we ... for granted once I left MIT, so it's wonderful to be back in this kind ... , and to go on long bike rides around Cambridge/Boston is absolutely

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 19, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for the Applicants I was in those stressed and anxious shoes last year.

  

  destined to from the start. Once you send in your application and do your ... application season, and I aim to persuade some of you to handle it differently ... ), and I started my day. After school, I would normally go to a club or

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 24, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  [ hard mode ] i'm on hard mode and i'm just a noob

  

  requirement for many of the classes I wanted to take, and as much as the content ... got switched to hard mode for me after November started (and no, this ... ="Intro to Computational Thinking and Data Science. Runs for one quarter"]6

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Gerald Fink’s “What Is a Gene?” one of those cool talks that happen at MIT all the time

  

  and was inundated with opportunities to hear from celebrities in science ... year's Killian Award and the person scheduled to teach us "What is a gene ... inability to engineer the DNA in yeast so that I could create yeast strains by

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 11, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi on Pie So much pi[e].

  

  ’s Random Hall weekly-ish study break. In honor of Pi Day Irina O. ’15 and Luisa B. ’16 baked from scratch 1.909859317102744... π pies (and I did dishes). I want to share them with you, to the extent that I can share 1

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduling woes advice for dealing with overenrolled/conflicting classes

  

  blog"]upperclassmen[/annotation] to once again rearrange my schedule ... who need that class to graduate, then based on descending class year and ... the first class and decide the class list then.  I’d like to share the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 15, 2022