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• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  also good at doing the same thing for a wider range of topics. I also ... -minute cramming for that week of IB exams, SAT Subject tests, the June SAT (is that ... to gal for SAT tests, they are my forte in the world of arbitrary

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  SUMMER ROSES stop and smell 'em

  

  In the past five weeks or so, the pace of my life has dramatically ... ’ve found myself with a lot of time to “stop and smell the roses.” There ... that my January was more representative of the average student’s here. I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024 looking backwards and looking forward

  

  In the rush of finals and the end of the semester, I've been losing track of time. I flew back home to Pennsylvania for the first time on ... a single thought of psets on my mind. I didn't anticipate the end of

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 1, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few

  

  6.046, Design and Analysis of Algorithms, is one of the most ... ’s Introduction to Algorithms class, and dives into the heart of designing and ... , especially in the context of limited resources. Limited memory, limited

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

  Spotlight: MIT stands with the people of all nations we are one MIT

  

  at the homepage Spotlight as of Friday and continuing through the weekend.     The purpose of this homepage is to reaffirm MIT ... post on the early history of international students at MIT, particularly

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Weekend of Hacking three events, one weekend

  

  You're flipping through the TV channels, bored out of your mind ... Planet, we look at three large hackathons of the fall season. Hackathons are a plenty at MIT all throughout the year, but the weekend of Oct 3

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Process of Psetting And the technicals of technicals

  

  The imperative of an Admissions Blogger is to write about life and ... reputable sources agree on the definition of a pset, there is high variance regarding the proper exact spelling of the word. Are they psets, Psets, PSets

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  i am overwhelmed. what happens when a pandemic, recession, racial reckoning and recruitment season join forces?

  

  -or-break moment- the last chance you have to make use of your CPT before you ... .031 as much as I do, even though it’s slowly draining the life out of me ... artiste in the first week of class (Jorja Smith😍), where we watch Shakira

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 29, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  train of thought on feeling deeply

  

  A lot of my time this summer has been spent in transit. I take the subway to and from work. I spend most of my free time wandering around the streets of NYC. I’ve made two weekend trips to and from Boston via the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 26, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Not in our stars, but in ourselves Or in ourselves not to see our stars... or something.

  

  was at the far end of the infinite on the third floor of Building 8. So, along with Javier '08, I got to the far end of the infinite around 4:02 PM ... unobstructed view down the third floor of the infinite corridor, you'd think that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 12, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2021 Reflections & 2022 Resolutions

  

  coding conference (2020) - Accomplished. I had the great fortune of getting ... , the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Museum of Natural History. In Chicago, I visited the Field Museum and the Museum of Science

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FASAP [by Maggie Liu ‘12] T-ride + thought-provoking art piece + yummy free dinner afterwards.

  

  of the advising seminars offered. The official title is 21M.123 FASAP ... scene at MIT but also that of Boston. Apart from the 2-hour weekly meeting ... outside of MIT because not only are the tickets for the events often

  • by ARTalk
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LIVE-BROADCAST: With the Void, Full of Powers [by Mei Zuo '13]

  

  [by Mei Zuo '13] "With the Void, full of Powers"     ... Sky Sculptures. Helium explores the “spatialisation of sensibility ... , climate that is invisible but present.” Predicated by [The Void] I

  • by ARTalk
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MVEMJSUNP A contest!

  

  nerd, Screech, got sick and Zach had to help carry the team. One of his mnemonics for learning the order of the planets was "MVEMJSUNP" pronounced 'me ... : Assuming that the new order of the planets is: Mercury Venus Earth Mars Ceres

  • by Bryan
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007: Where even your smallest part matters The 2.007 competition has come to close!

  

  . Basically, this class was one of the reasons I came to MIT. Most (maybe all ... this competition. Bryan and I had the pleasure of spending pretty much ... sadness, but mostly happiness. Here's a glimpse of the roller coaster that

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Lost Art of Hand-Lettering Lives at MIT hidden in plain sight

  

  :   What you probably don't know is that, since 1994, all of the ... the many people who pass through MIT don't. However, the School of ... ; and see, the next time you visit campus, that these small, acts of love

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  One year later MIT is like a surprise birthday party, but without the birthday or the party.

  

  , drippy weather at the time with hardly an ounce of sunlight to spare, and ... the entire infinity of a drizzly afternoon, feeling like an intruder on ... stuck in a lab for most of the day. I mean, I'm sure she was voluntarily

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  assassins – a liveblog day 7: five remain

  

  my killer: the chances that one of them is my killer is good if they ... two bandanas, one on each side of their body. the bandanas have to be ... A kills B, then B is out of the game and A now hunts C. this brings

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Misery Loves Company: Part 1 You might fit in at MIT if...

  

  For those of you who missed the blog post subtitle: "You might fit ... Bacon Society? Dare I even ask?Speaking of bacon, I don't see what the big ... of bacon of comparable value to your kidneys in the living room with a

  • by Cam T. '13
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  trying to figure it out an attempt at a goodbye

  

  goodbye” kind of way. Rather, it’s hard in the sense that I don’t know what to write about. Over the course of this flight, I’ve written and ... come in their own time. Maybe it’ll happen over the course of this road

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 31, 2021