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• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  advantage of the well-equipped Z Center. Benefit of going to a nerd school ... . None of the above are universal rules. Pass/No Record is a time to find ... -electronic tracks like the Tron soundtrack to be very good background music.

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slowing Climate Change, One Steak at a Time final project for 24.03 (The Ethics and Politics of Food)

  

  Ethics and Politics of Food. The assignment was to engage with the topics ... production are likely to account for about half of the world’s available ... area of the Africa! This does not include the land used to provide food

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 11, 2017
• Blog / Class Projects

  Designing a Calculator with FSM Logic A web dev lesson from an MIT sophomore!

  

  computer science and engineering to model the behaviors of machines. At any ... . Back to Calculators Later on, we decided to use the iPhone’s calculator to identify all the possible states in our calculator state machine

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  examples to illustrate the benefits of getting to the solution before ... slower, steps to a solution instead of the small and fast steps of the ... flux over a slice of the Earth to arrive at the same answer with a one

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is the Singapore-MIT Alliance?

  SMART is MIT's first, and to-date only, research center outside the United States. MIT faculty members have laboratories at SMART, mentor postdoctoral associates and graduate students, and collaborate with researchers
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tale of the Midnight Tool! Simulcast in 1337 for our viewers at home!

  

  being annoying to those around me under the guise of it having no ... the floor? B) Reality: Calculate the (p+q)th derivative of y=x^p(x-1)^q ... As some of you may have noticed, the world didn't end on Wednesday

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Summer in Boston what happens outside MIT

  

  eat as many cups of ice cream as you can handle. Smart people stack the ... To fully appreciate MIT’s location, venture to downtown Boston. The Institute campus combines the chillness of living Cambridge and the proximity

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 3, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s snowing, and “It’s Raining” K-Pop and Prof. Henry Jenkins.

  

  my favorite read of the week. The front page article in the Arts ... bridges and become the first Asian pop star to succeed in America. A few paragraphs later, the author turns to none other than MIT Comparative Media

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/15, at 12:15 PM EST

  

  ) into their consumption, but the loud mouth-crunching tends to interrupt the rest of the committee's ability to read without annoyance ... knew that by reading the title of this blog. But you also need some

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  On Being the “Dumb” Friend and the freedom from comparison

  

  A lot of people at MIT were probably seen as the “smart” friend in ... niche. The “smart” friend. Then we came to MIT, and met all the other ... classes, the amount of time they have to spend learning content / doing

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Scooper Bowl All you can eat ice cream.

  

  Apparently, Boston has the highest per-capita consumption of ice ... Bryan, Boston has some of the world's best ice cream makers and shops (for ... world"), most within walking distance of MIT. Today is the second day of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Thirteen Theses on Wide Tim In a world which really is topsy-turvy, the true is a moment of the false.

  

  increases, so that the highest degree of illusion comes to be the highest ... of the autonomous image, where the liar has lied to himself. The ... supplement to the real world, an additional decoration. It is the heart of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vaccine Externalities Health economics applied to the decreased odds of my getting the flu, courtesy of my…

  

  vaccine. (Open up the images in a new browser to see larger versions of ... . Read on, grasshopper. Here's a simple derivation of the private demand ... offer the good at a price of P=0. It's a weird kind of subsidy, but it

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I don’t have a class rank or GPA?

  school doesn't calculate GPA, please don't convert your grades to a U.S. GPA system. Simply leave spaces blank if the information is not ... point average) or even whether your school calculates them. With our
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Linkdump: Smart Leaves, Burritos, and Shaq cool things on the Internet

  

  brain be put to better use than a repository of the Ruff Ryders Anthem ... childhood was a festival of notes. I'd wake up to a note on my bedside reminding me to brush my teeth; on the bathroom mirror a note would remind me

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soy Bomb Doo d-d-doo d-d-doo d-do d-do. Ice tea!

  

  step in the project was to establish a set of constraints such that a ... DID YOU KNOW? Igor Stravinsky has a star on the Hollywood Walk of ... creator of an appropriate dispostion--the article was indeed about

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• FAQ / Transfer

  Can I apply if I’ve completed more than 2.5 years of college?

  Students who at the time of entry to MIT will have completed more than two and a half years (five terms) of college may not be eligible ... part-time, calculate your full-time term equivalency to estimate your
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exploring the newest innovations in dessert technology A trip filled with enough desserts to satisfy anyone's sweet tooth!

  

  consumption of an immeasurable amount of calories. (OK, Dad, I know you hate when I fixate on food, but it’s all in the name of science.) We began at Truly Jorg's Patisserie in Kenmore Square, which had some of the coolest

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  This blog post was written by a winner my entry for #BlogstonCommons

  

  [annotation note="Sharp calculated that the initial wave of molasses could ... street to [annotation note="* The Bunker Hill Monument"]The battle of ... and found a bench to sit on. The number of spelling errors significantly

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Events

  And It’s Over! The end of the madness

  

  Congratulations to the Evil Midnight Bombers What Bomb at Midnight. They found the Mystery Hunt Coin at 8:28 PM tonight. They're a great team of MIT alums; lots of really smart people. They actually won the hunt 2

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 20, 2008