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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Parafilm Effect The center cannot hold... unless you stick it together with Parafilm.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? John Stamos, better known to millions as Uncle Jesse from Full House, was once the touring drummer for The Beach Boys? What is Parafilm? Parafilm M is a unique self-sealing, moldable and flexible

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Power of suggestion This entry will tell you whether you'll get into MIT or not in two minutes.

  

  beach alone and read physics textbooks, some like to watch the worst

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I would like to find an astronomer to talk to No admissions. Just good writing.

  

  that the universe expanded exponentially from a point, a singular space ... mind, in our mind, is that the universe didn't burst out into pre ... two of the entire outrushing universe of gas and matter and darkness

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  How Albatross Fly Without Flapping Their Wings, And other Lore™️ I learned this semester.

  

  !] ... This blog is a long time coming. I initially anticipated making this on ... . That’s why I dropped to [annotation note="Physics 1 Long"]8.01L ... never use it as long as I live, but it was interesting to learn.  When he

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 10, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  on body image me in my head, me in the mirror

  

  girls". I think I was fourteen? It was summer. My hair was getting long ... that my long hair "was beginning to look like a girl's". My parents had ... then. It wasn't safe, then it wasn't that long, then I didn't have time

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainly i am writing a blog post about another song

  

  will have been housed in baker for five months. this is almost as long as ... longer. but it doesn’t feel like it’s going to be that long. it feels like ... really, really long day since i moved into baker. maybe that’s the way i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 17, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  In Transit: Summer Edition A guide to objects that you could theoretically use to get from point A to…

  

  transportation. Every day, after finishing up a long afternoon in my UROP lab, I ... google maps, the trek is one mile long, but it feels like a lot less ... and deserved reprieve from a long day at work (everything in moderation

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 5, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Every song I’ve referenced in my admissions blog posts

  

  Universe From CMU / Parallel Universe. As explained in 17 Ridiculously ... &Ben – Branches From branches. I've been sitting on this post for so long that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] 8.13 Junior Lab feat. aidan chambers '23

  

  notoriety of the class and its near-universality among Course 8’s I am fairly ... look into this class long before I did. However, since the theme of this ... universities will offer lab courses in addition to your introductory Physics

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Events

  The one-armed violin player and the Dalai Lama Emad's not the only blogger who got a press pass.

  

  university level...must educate, educate, educate! (Earth) can live without us ... of the Institute on the Environment at the University of Minnesota. He ... end, there was a long pause, and finally His Holiness commented, very

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  what i ate in a month* *basically true to my word this time but at what cost

  

  , best meal experience I’ve had in a long time. The company was great, the ... long i raved about this place for. this is hands down my favorite ... masqueraded as a [annotation note="university of toronto, as the natives call it

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  a recipe for making yourself extremely hosed or, what i'm doing this fall

  

  semester system universities. Most classes are 12 units; some are 3, 6, 9, or ... friends over Discord. Taking long walks on Sundays to the various parks ... , when we get a long weekend for Indigenous Peoples' Day. In the meantime

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 2, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Blockchain and the Niger Delta Creating a system for accountability

  

  African Leadership University for a program in the fall and then return to ... many associate with its long history of oil spills and environmental ... long delays--the inspections must be conducted, a report created, a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• 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

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• 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

  • by Jebby B. '25
  • March 7, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  how to meet curious people

  

  at their own universities—student populations filled with clout ... writing master’s degree in England and is now enrolled in an MD-PhD program

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• 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

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 9, 2018
• 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

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • March 27, 2015
• 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

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • April 22, 2010
• 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