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• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  privately. But not for long. An hour and a half later, my professor responded ... and e-mailed one of my best friends (and long-time pset buddy) telling

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  connections, etc. You won't last long if all you can do is code. - A High ... : no. The long answer: you want somebody who knows you well to read your

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

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  before. What was my fault was the fact that it took me so long to figure ... a long time, wondering whether "open it" was the wrong answer. I went

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008: So I think I’ll go to Boston (Guest Entry) More pictures than your body has room for!

  

  rather running) around campus. For a really long time too. This really cool ... . MIT can’t be located in a better place. The bridge’s only .3 miles long

  • by Snively '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  IAP? No.. YOU’RE AP Possibly the worst title EVER. (Also, answers to your questions, but under the worst title…

  

  prodding, as long as he gets to bite back. Aside from class, there's a huge ... 's pretty much open to anyone as long as you have a gym membership. As for

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  college, but I wonder how long after that would be all right, if I wanted ... chemistry? premed?" dilemma was a long time ago.

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Airplane boy strikes again Adam writes about his UROP.

  

  , but it's not a huge deal -- class schedules come out a long time before ... know what you're taking a long time before you officially turn in your

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My design won an MIT merch contest I don't know why

  

  grad student from each university. Each of the winners is going to win ... Coop, I knew it was my calling. This was the universe telling me to go ... essence of their respective universities. But now, the MIT Coop had to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Forbes and MIT there's graphs in this one

  

  Forbes article, MIT was listed as one of the most attended universities of the 2017 recipients, alongside Harvard, New York University, Stanford, and University of Pennsylvania. Obviously, awards are subjective, and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 19, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Recap: SHASS Lightning Talks @ CPW some projects in the social sciences and humanities at MIT

  

  consequences of international trade? universal grammar? Last April, at our ... . Universal Grammar by Norvin Richards, Professor of Linguistics What does modern linguistics mean by “Universal Grammar?” I’ll share recent

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  10 Lessons #IAP #Italy #LearningByTeaching #wow #Pi(e)DayCountdown

  

  .           7. Some things are universal. Or quasi-universal. Like Latin. Really ... all those Latin roots definitely eased me into Italian. Also universal

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  ). Also known as the father of inflationary universe theory and, apparently ... Universe - which is pretty mind-blowing, since we owe much of our theories on the early universe to him. If that didn’t blow your mind, maybe this

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  My Application Story Modified (but mostly plagiarized) from my personal blog. Enjoy the copy pasta.

  

  did more research on the University of Chicago. They are weird. Really ... accepted into the University of Chicago early action, and life was set for me ... , made a checklist. We visited both universities, again. The schools were

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Peanut Butter Delusion Arguments as old as man.

  

  universe. Being Course 8, he had an advantage over a mere frosh, but I had ... claimed that creamy style peanut butter much better fits with the universe ... represent galaxies floating in that universe, and also that this had nothing

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Kid on the Blogs Claim your place. Make your mark. Live your dreams.

  

  community, I did research at a local university. But in spite of all of those ... simply happens to attend one of the craziest universities in the world. I ... of the University of Notre Dame. Although I've eagerly adopted Boston

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  the fear and delight of fire spinning do not this at home! I am a trained (semi?)professional.

  

  eat fire. This would make the post too long, so I’ll maybe talk about

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 21, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Cost of Living at MIT alternatively, how to spend money at MIT

  

  semester, as long as you're smart with the money you earned. Also, students

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Lax bros and their workflows

  

  side of the field as a long stick defender. Specifically at MIT, lacrosse

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  How I got recruited to play D3 soccer at MIT the college sports recruiting process

  

  (soccer examples: long passes, defensive headers, playing under pressure

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  Jill Biden waved at me D.C. during inauguration

  

  This [annotation note="Independent Activities Period, aka the month of January where students can take a long winter break, take unique, accelerated classes, just do research, or participate in a MISTI program, among

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 19, 2025