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• Blog / Academics & Research

  January in the Studio 4.11A: Architecture and Environmental Design Intensive

  

  I’m perched on the top step of the super-architected Stata amphitheater, a little blinded by the brightness of sun and snow. In searching ... panel of architects, students and faculty, followed by questioning that

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Large Format Photography [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] Please, please let there be no light-leaks.

  

  last post, I mentioned that I was in the process of building an 8x10 ... are 8 inches by 10 inches in size. For an illustration of this ... close-up of the camera: Photo taken by Graham Ramsay. And in case you

  • by ARTalk
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap Gap years are a good option for some students.

  

  picked up by news organizations across the country. I first saw it at cnn ... [of deferring admission for a year or two]. While cautioning that a "gap ... required. The University of Chicago says it will grant deferrals for almost

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  things that make noises for those lost

  

  processes slow. this is anxiety, often a derivative of fear. you may or may ... processing. it can be thought of as many thoughts fighting each other for ... march is a rough month. you are lost, not only in a pile of things to

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 15, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How phonology explains wordplay in Tagalog songs armchair linguistics

  

  apart, are they the same? A pair of words that differs only by a single ... the consonants and vowels of speech in general. By syllable structure ... it's a bit of a big deal for me. My first post, Colorful, is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The Waiting Game hit submit time to quit

  

  , staring at the white of the screen contrasted by the surrounding darkness of ... -clack of my fingers, as they smacked against the keys. The glare of the TV ... of me. I'm sure my mom said some encouraging words, like she always

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stories from Uganda [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] Installing an exhibit in the Wiesner Student Art Gallery.

  

  majority of my prints to gatorboard. The process is quite simple: Dry mount ... [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] The Wiesner Student Art Gallery is located on the second floor of the Student Center (W20) and is the only permanent

  • by ARTalk
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Food, Folks, and Fun…..but definitely not mcdonald’s Quinton makes friends at the Muslim Student Association

  

  Studies who has already authored several books and is in the process of ... inviting “Good evening and welcome to the MSA dinner!” by one of the students ... presentation. The presentation kicked off with some words of introduction by

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 1, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Meeting FAQ The answers to the FAQs at our Central Meetings.

  

  handful of questions I'm almost always asked. So, what I'm going to do is answer three of the most frequently asked questions here and now, so that you don't have to ask (not that I mind questions). All of the below

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer days, driftin’ away

  

  begin, in the interest of honesty and full disclosure, by telling you the ... MIT admissions process look at this as a factor? Why? It seems to me ... might be, are spending more and more of their precious childhood

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2004
• Blog / Personal Projects

  How to Build an LED Acrylic Sign Your Complete Beginners Guide

  

  letters became composed of line segments connected by individual points ... I absolutely love the design process. Everything from coming up with ... sick of. So when a discussion came up during a house meeting about things

  • by Richard O. '28
  • November 30, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  hazy mid-semester days what i've been up to lately (mostly, psets...)

  

  at least one of them. By the end of the night, hopefully I'll have ... a haze of pset after pset, lecture after lecture, and a midterm always ... it to. Here's a muddled average of all the things I've been up to these

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  PROCESSING SPACE IT SAID IT WAS OUT OF MEMORY Supervisor: Well,- Me: DON ... a bunch of Python scripts on brand new fancy shmancy data collected by ... string up 120 miles of wire and cable and set up over 1000 posts: they

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Blogs ...for the price of one! (a.k.a. robots)

  

  of bumbling-type robots. By "bumbling", I mean that the robots are ... You've all heard what most of the other bloggers are doing for IAP ... must be dying to hear what I've been up to. I expect the barrage of

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 13, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A follow-up

  

  when you say you got rejected by 3 schools out of 10, that's only a 30 ... You've now had a chance to post lots of questions. Now it's my turn ... ? Primarily biology? Chemistry? Mathematics? A little bit of everything? It

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Unity

  

  Some lessons, we learn by virtue of way of life. They’re the kind of ... reluctant shower was followed by breakfast (the opinion of the quality of our ... trouble. We were variations of a theme, identifiable to one another by the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Double diplomas The only thing better than one MIT degree is TWO MIT degrees!

  

  diploma with both areas of specialization written on it, and we don't do ... between 15 and 20 percent of MIT students graduate with bachelors degrees in ... each hand), so I'm going to try and demystify the process a little. The

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Chinatown Food and friends and pigeons.

  

  one with a pungent cultural identity. By which I mean it's the sort of ... fraternity across the street would be followed by a full day of monastic cold ... failed by two or three orders of magnitude. Unless the baker had intended

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

  like Willow by the end of the semester, but I'll definitely try to get ... disproven it. And that my smartphone – its tens of billions of transistors ... modern understanding of quantum mechanics. It's just... none of it... feels

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT use my test scores?

  MIT uses a holistic admissions process, so test scores are just one factor among many for evaluating your preparedness for MIT. Test scores are evaluated alongside other components of the application such as curriculum