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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2009 Brass Rat My highly biased and personal opinions about Ring Premiere.

  

  , or might even be in the process of picking one out right now. If yours ... new lounge. While I personally was not upset by the removal of the mural ... by the members of her class who cheered at the reveal of the all

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: new HASS concentration in Computing and Society studying humans? studying computers? porque no los dos?

  

  're in the area for any of them and want to drop by! ... share with you. First things first: as you may know, the foundation of ... student-chosen area of focus within the HASS requirement that does not quite

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  L@@K at the Class of 2015 profiles in greatness? a great profile? or both?

  

  try to provide as much data as we can to make our process as transparent as possible. But before you get to the numbers, here are just a few of the people who help make up the MIT Class of 2015: 3 of the 4 Gold

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 20, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding Time for you know, things that aren't psets.

  

  So I've been in classes here for, as of yesterday, one whole month. Time goes by pretty fast. Really, really fast. When I came here I was ... the pace of the content that was being fed to me. Turns out, (for me

  • by Joe B. '18
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  24 Things I Learned in My First Semester and a Half for the lovely 2024s!

  

  to class! Make use of mental health resources on campus, as they ... December, when EA decisions were first released. As a result, some of these ... terms of what to do and what not to do, what works best for me and for the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  High? Teaching was weird. One of my first times reserving a room for ... . When I came by to pick up the key the person in charge was flustered and ... , it turned out to be the human specimens room. It was full of skeletons

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  supported by the Boston Globe, a group of stellar journalists, I'm sure, but ... -- i.e., that that would be measured by an very large MIT in the limit of ... statistical thinking. From Kahneman's Nobel biography: The standard example of a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2018 Diaries what the weekend was like for me

  

  AC, left by a graduating neighbor! First thought of the day: having a ... THURSDAY, April 12 Woke up to the smell of smoke coming from the East ... of seasoning. Rush burgers come with happy times. “Grilz are hot eom

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 17, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 2 Questions Omnibus is the place to come for "official" answers!

  

  (KVPY) conducted by the Government of India, IIT Bobaby and IISc ... MIT by CEE regrading importance in the international admission process ... even a tiny bit of 'anger' by the admission comittee. Also, what exactly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Kevin’s Room Portrait of an MIT Student

  

  iterations, but MIT is a kaleidoscope of vastly different people, all of us united by this one weird thing or set of things that keeps us moving (it ... MIT campus is defined and elevated by its people, and for this blogpost

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  sk8 jebby on a skateboard

  

  skater and led through the process of picking out the different parts for ... told all of my friends that this was going to be the summer that I was ... skateboard. Getting the board After asking some friends in the Class of ‘25

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 29, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  the semester by breaking a glass. A lot of people compare at MIT ... through a process of trial-and-error. However, before an arrangement was ... Physics demos at MIT are pretty high on the list of awesome things in

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  More On The Interview… The deadline has passed, but if you're an EA applicant who has not yet contacted…

  

  Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning interviews has changed (though Stu's observations on the demands of our interviewers remains accurate). A description of the current interview process is

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Whew! A brief interlude before I go back to studying.

  

  Continuous process design. Right now we're working on a computer simulation of ... swing of things and begin posting regularly again. When we last left each other, I'd finished the hardest semester of my undergraduate career. I

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Hitchhiker’s Guide to CPW DON'T PANIC.

  

  ^_^), your host is a great resource to ask for advice about choosing which of ... Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation ... to be taking over MIT's campus in five days. You may have heard of it

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Construction Thoughts on a major.

  

  snagged one of the bikes for me. That afternoon, I came by to check it out ... probable choice of major (or however it is they ask you what it is you want ... , I built a bike. Working at MITERS, one of MIT's student groups which I

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 26, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  How to be Tim The Beaver anyone can wear the mask.

  

  dab, but the head nearly fell off in the process- Here, Tim was starting ... ; Thanks, Yhiedhania '20, for being a good beaver friend!In the words of ... do now. Cuz I'm [Tim the Beaver]. And I'm not the only one. Not by a

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • November 4, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Mid-year Grade Reports And Other Common Questions Quick answers to a few of the common questions in my blog over the last…

  

  Quick answers to a few of the common questions in my blog over the last few days... ------------------------------------- How will I know if ... all tests conducted in January 2006 or before, and these will be seen by

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i learned from classes spoiler: not what i expected

  

  ) clubs I’ve been a part of (both by being in leadership positions, and in ... picked up just through the process of reading papers for this class. 21A ... subject of what we learned at MIT came up. Now that this semester’s over, I

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An MIT Week general structure and personal experience

  

  about 1 to 2+ hours of careful reading and processing. Some texts are more ... 3-0-9, 5-0-7, etc. There are also classes of a different number of ... numbers are, of course, mere approximations. Depending on the professor and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2015