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• 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

  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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / Academics & Research

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

  

  to notice much else. Thankfully, just a few hours after putting my pencil down and saying goodbye to genetics, at least for the time being, I was on a plane headed back to sunny southern California. My parents and

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 17, 2015
• 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

  World’s Largest Collection of Brains The new Brain & Cognitive Sciences Complex opens tomorrow.

  

  close to one another and to such neighbors, researchers in the $175 ... and its symptoms. Genetically, it appears to depend on small effects from many genes, and such complex diseases are "the hardest ones to crack

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 1, 2005
• 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
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bringing Down the (Lottery) House Like the movie '21,' but with scratch tickets.

  

  to more practical concerns. "Once I worked out how much money I could ... says. "I'd have to travel from store to store and spend 45 seconds ... . That's not bad. But to be honest, I make more as a consultant, and I find

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy November 1st! Halloween was yesterday. My costume was/is an embarassment. You should read about it!

  

  whole thing. There will be plenty of time to go crazy and lose sleep once you get to college. =) Also, Sam asked: "I just wanted to know how MIT handles research with freshman. Do they get to use the same facilities as

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Simple Harmonic Motivation a time progression through the semester

  

  other people, much less study for quizzes and tests. I don't know how to ... I rapidly switch between wanting to do something and not wanting to ... finally calmed down enough to work. And then the next day I was working, but

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 8, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Angular Velocity Saved My Life bikes and bullet time

  

  stay almost entirely off the main road for safety, and I get to bike to ... , on my way to work. And the most complex of these is the traffic circle ... front of me, and I'm going to hit it.     I tried to brake

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebie I love freebies!

  

  each get our schedules and get to talk about our classes, yay! Schedules ... form. Although I'm excited to have new classes and a fresh start, a new schedule means that school (and the accompanying work) is about to begin

  • by Snively '11
  • August 21, 2008
• Blog / Personal Projects

  10 things I learned in 10 projects a run-down of my making misadventures sophomore year

  

  ’t the best of matches; but ultimately I was able to get it to stick, and ... needed to finish it; in this case, a [annotation note="they seemed much ... therefore must be done by hand, and also needs to adhere to the rope. I used

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Awesome Robot Competition? LIVE?? Check out the 2.007 Final Robot Competition! LIVE May 12th/13th!

  

  working tirelessly to create robots to overcome this year’s challenge board ... class and plan to write a longer blog about our experiences, but we couldn ... Monday to earn as many points as possible, and a top 32-robot single

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • May 12, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  how i got my book deal *flailing intensifies*

  

  hope you all are safe and well! Here’s what I’ve been up to in ... shape and we could probably go out on submission (send it to publishers ... first round of revisions and sent it back to Penny. When she replied with

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 1, 2020