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What’s the Infinite Corridor?
, the circular path of the sun crosses the axis of the Infinite Corridor
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Blog / Classes
Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise
! We got a lecture or two on the shape of the universe, and the Higgs-Boson particle, and whether or not the universe will eventually cave in on itself ... class. (I've got my fingers crossed on this French Revolution one). What -
Blog / MIT Life
Chang Ning District, Shanghai 上海，长宁区
University, an 8-day research and cultural exchange session. I’m not doing ... difficult to travel cross-country without flying or driving. We’re heavily ... University, where I’ll really be on my own, but also, probably treated more as -
Blog / Academics & Research
ROTC Is Life (In a Good Way) Everything you ever wanted to know about ROTC at MIT (and then some)
, based in colleges and universities. If you join the program, you ... another university but come to MIT for ROTC) and varsity athletes only have ... AFROTC at MIT or one of our detachment’s cross-town schools (Harvard, Tufts -
Blog / About Decisions
what we mean when we say the people why we like “the people”
, compared to people I met at other universities, are more passionate about ... 't think that would've happened if I went to another university (my friends ... . It's just your degree, and we'll all get the same degree. You may have -
Blog / Advice
On Trauma, and MIT I’m imagining my high school self, and what I would tell her before coming to…
degrees so that I wouldn’t have to make eye contact when I couldn’t. I often ... for his face in every crowd. Stop fearing what I’ll find when I cross ... of American Universities which sought to prevent and respond to sexual -
FAQ / International applicants
What if my country has a different academic calendar?
high school or wait until they graduate. We suggest students apply to university -
Blog / About Decisions
I asked people at MIT what they were doing for Pi Day 2025 something is rising... 3/14/25 at 6:28 PM ET
physics-philosophy degree. Allow me to demonstrate with this participatory ... corner of the universe. I guess the real magic was the friends we made -
Blog / Life after MIT
A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis
. Faced with all these questions (amplified to the nth degree by 2020) I did ... , Pennsylvania, a few minutes from the Carnegie Mellon University campus, which I -
Blog / Academics & Research
I’m a physics major (for now) feeling scholarly, part 2/2
interested in pursuing physics beyond my undergraduate degree. There's a good ... way the laws of the universe flow out of math equations, I love solving -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
scootin’ and zoomin’ a transportation saga
.E.M.E. degree. i have enough sayings that you can make a soundboard of me and no ... the electronics-filled windows of Cruft Hall at Harvard University -
Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]
Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at CSAIL
undergrad degree from MIT. Being rejected made me feel like those dreams would ... interest in AI and got to become the first student from my university's CS -
Blog / Personal Travel
Spring break in Canada Snowboarding ramps, waterfalls, poutine, butterflies, and lots of noodles.
one side of downtown opens up to a 180 degree panorama over the ice ... while chilling in a café chock full of university students finishing their -
Blog / Admissions
Remaking MITadmissions.org we are psychic vampires, please give us your ideas
We're closing in on Pi Day and still in the midst of making decisions, which I know many of you await with varying degrees of anxiety. But while ... they universities, companies, nonprofits, startups, are doing these -
Blog / Life after MIT
On Moving A goodbye that took me a semester, and some distance, to write.
universally intimidating questions that you don't really need to know the ... degrees!!! (the real MVP of overlapping interests/fandoms/etc. is -
Blog / About Decisions
So the rest of your decisions are coming in and let's take a second to talk about it
at least some degree. Just recently, a friend of mine was having a ... students who had aspired to study at the best universities since before they -
Blog / About Decisions
Decisions, Decisions…..*sigh* Is (Fill in the Blank) University the right school for me?
right place for you and leave without a degree. In that situation, you ... Name University with lots of money and prestige, I hope that this is -
Blog / Academics & Research
The Challenge of Public Health Sometimes science and engineering only come so far.
under Taiwan's Universal Health Plan, I really had no sense of the great ... water but keeps on vomiting it up, fever of over 100 degrees, has no -
Blog / Academics & Research
grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?
at a company in exchange for that company funding your degree. I TA an ... financially feasible for students to pursue the degree. Social life is ... students to receive master’s degrees in computer science, the MEng requires -
Blog / Classes
How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)
degree increments?” [annotation note="The question was originally proposed ... -degree increments. To describe an object’s orientation, you needed just two ... fact, if rotations were in 90-degree increments instead, this model would