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• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s been 3 weeks the firehose is still alive and kicking

  

  universes waiting to be painted, and I just wanted to flood them out of my ... ’s biggest lecture halls, and opened with a…flying piece of paper. Actually ... It’s some ungodly hour of the day and I feel pretty tired. I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do students apply to a specific major?

  Here's one less thing to worry about when applying to MIT: Students apply to MIT for general admission and select a major at the end of the first year with the help of their first-year advisor. Our application
• Blog / Announcements

  For those whose applications have been interrupted by disasters and disruptions providing what information and comfort we can

  

  litany of disasters and/or disruptions: fires, blackouts, strikes, typhoons ... , not new: as I blogged last year in the wake of Hurricane Michael domestically (and other catastrophes abroad), these kind of events happen, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 29, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to “Teach” Leadership Please find the probability that Shakespeare diffuses into my GEL classes given that my schedule…

  

  a few weeks ago, and asked us to apply some of the concepts we learned ... Building, so it’s nice to get out of standard lecture halls and TEAL ... hours upon hours of basically the same material each night. This semester

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Colors! Burton-Conner:12523 kbps1649 kbps140 ms

  

  blog. Some of my most prolific blogging streaks are when I'm actually the ... it comes out to 40 parts. 4 questions? I think not! So, instead of ... form of pictures that show colorful things that have been happening

  • by Snively '11
  • September 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  interested in less of the wet lab stuff, and more of the applied engineering ... week ago, one of the admins on the MIT Class of 2017 Facebook page asked ... limited Internet access: (trust me, the lack of reliable wifi was by far

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Days Without a Laptop… i need laptop-rehab

  

  've experienced the five stages of grief (one of the few things I managed to retain ... from them about the status of my computer tomorrow, but if it costs more ... semester's worth of essays - and music!!) back though!! :( Haha - so this is

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting a Physics Major – Part I I split this up because i need to start studying for finals.

  

  Juniors in physics tend to complain a lot. The more of them there are ... of foreign affairs, the overpopulation problem in the world. Mostly ... junior physics lab with a bit of preparation. By the end of the first 2

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 14, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In the Music Cubes, no one can hear you scream…

  

  offer! Each one also has an array of microphones built in, which allow us ... of you unfamiliar with the Music Cubes, they consist of three cube ... rehearsal? Or maybe they're giant versions of Minecraft note blocks?) Like

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 25, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  MacCPW, et al. in case you couldn't make it

  

  . Welcome to my dorm's implementation of CPW! MAC.0001: Introduction to Mac ... because that aesthetic was chic in 1970 when MacG was built. It consists of ... in F entry (my home). About half of us are on the meal plan, while the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 9, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales From Turning Twenty They range from "a little peculiar" to "utterly bizarre."

  

  fantastic amount of energy to create a universe.” ^ I'd give it an 8. Maybe ... two of us walked over to 10-250 (a big lecture hall) to watch the ... have a fantastic amount of energy to create a universe.” “[referring to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Some questions that I've received from prospectives.

  

  't offered at my school. Does that eliminate my chances of being accepted to ... we can apply that knowledge in the development of advanced AI systems ... High Schoolers), and have noticed that many of them have similar themes

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 8, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  Holding pattern undergrad | me | graduation

  

  I never thought I'd say this, but I'm kind of bored. A combination of ... separate by terms, shall we? I'm officially retired from the sport of basketball, as of late March. Our season ended in the first round of the NCAA

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 6, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pop quiz, Viktor I finally discover what happens when you rapidly cool hot metal. Now my life is…

  

  explains exactly how the climax of Fantastic 4 works. So, to rectify this, I ... . Schuh, an associate professor of metallurgy in the department of materials ... undergrad in chemical engineering and I have a question that none of my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  registration day! aka "registration day blues", but like, only in the good sense of blues

  

  hall on campus). Probably more than half of MIT freshmen are going to be ... classes. My friends going to university closer to home had all signed up in July and were comparing schedules; we, even with the combined power of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! Do yourself a favor and watch this! Make sure you're not doing anything for the…

  

  ), and applying to medical school. One of the most interesting things that ... method of scientific teaching and that of premed-prominent universities in ... be applying to MIT this year. At the end of June I had the opportunity

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 24, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  [Joint Post] A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 1) vomiting in Venice and other Italian adventures

  

  usually amount to advertisements of events and programs and people trying to ... group of students to bike across the country, from DC to San Francisco ... idea of a long-distance bike trip caught my attention. I had never

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Coming Into My Own ft. an exciting semester and an exciting job lined up + making positive changes to…

  

  excited for everything that I have lined up! This sort of breaks down into ... for the rest of my MIT career, honestly) because I'm finally done with ... 'm ecstatic about, because I didn't particularly enjoy many of the required

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 16, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge, CPW, and YOU! A welcome from a couple of MIT Quest Scholars to our newly admitted Quest Scholars

  

  Quynh, I thought I would be going to my state school (University of ... Hello! In just a couple of days, MIT will be hosting the Campus ... will be hundreds of activities going on throughout your stay. There is

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • April 2, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  On IAP A time for P E R S O N A L P R O J…

  

  've finished! Yay! Seeing the P on my report card brought me tears of pure joy. No, not that kind of P. The pass kind of P! I passed calc, writing, and ... front of the class I was like, "Uhhhhh, I don't have anything??" It was

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • December 27, 2018