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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What do you see now? they say genius likes to alternate between the soil and the sky

  

  distance. In that case, the path to infinity is simply now. What do you see ... 2 types of games. Finite games where the goal is to win on a finite time horizon. Infinite games where the goal is to keep

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Potpourri Blog Post food... etc.

  

  typing in the right answers. This is honestly the most tediously formatted ... You know what’s the best part about going to 3.091 [Chem.] at 11 in the ... trying to get p-set in, and overall, starting off the day really late, and

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 21, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Beaver Nation An intro to athletics at MIT

  

  say is pretty well-summarized around the first minute of this video: To ... a student-athlete in a place where the “student” part is so heavily emphasized? There’s a lot of ways to answer that, but I think the most

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • November 12, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summer Decisions

  

  that they could be published. In the spring, I applied to another array ... perfectly clear in my head that I both wanted and needed to go back to the ... want to go to graduate school and become an astronomer. This is the hard

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being a n00b at MIT Guilty as charged.

  

  -games-I’ve-played-are-Frogger-and-Oregon-Trail n00b. As in, the-only-programming-experience-I-have-is-using-the ... by what MIT/MIT students appear to be. It’s nice here. Most of the time ... school – I was definitely of the “I’m not technology-oriented enough to go

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fall Semester Recap my classes so far

  

  became one of my favorites. I started to do really well in the class ... made me want to MIT in the first place. This past year, I've definitely ... what they tell you to. Labs in the past have been things like coding nth

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  Summer at last and my last days as a teenager...D:

  

  is usually a language requirement to the MISTI programs and the two ... decided to concentrate in Chinese , MISTI-China was the logical follow-up. From mid-June to mid-August, I will be working with a professor in the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I O Europe Help me, blog stalkers, you're my only hope.

  

  this week, but I was just never really in the state of mind to finish ... getting to page 104 in The Giver, making me the only person at MIT who was ... TO GO TO HERSHEYPARK! Riding in the front seat of Storm Runner at 11 AM

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 16, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  Up, Up, and Away how to get out of the 'tute (temporarily) and out into the world

  

  actually trying to reach me. The good thing is every so often one of those ... very much in the spirit of MIT. Grants like this and this are extremely ... ’s time to share the wealth, so I’m here to lay out for you all the tips and

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures of me

  

  One of the requested entries a while back was for me to post some ... . Me in fierce boffer combat with Dan '08 on the Random Hall roofdeck ... rate), and the debate is one of the few parts of the process that I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Return of the Nance Effect The Summer Update Edition!

  

  I say welcome! Come on in, the water is just fine. I hope that you ... to all of your questions - remember, the only way out is to THINK your ... admissions office is forced to work through the heat.) Consider this your

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  work-life balance (without a life)

  

  replying to slack messages at one in the morning. on those weeknights, the ... myself that it's the right thing to do, that this is what work-life balance ... students came, most in the area because of various internships. i remember

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 10, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Visiting MIT & Boston colleges Some tips for checking out MIT and Boston this summer.

  

  Summer is a great time to visit colleges in Boston. There are more ... also suggest some good places to get lunch or dinner on campus or in the ... advice on in the posts to come.

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poker, Mountains, and Magic The four words of this title have no other exact match on Google

  

  - to determine what the best move is in any given scenario, since the ... mode during which we coded most of the bot in the last 24 hours. If ... closest my team will ever get to a cash prize is the 27 days we spent

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 6, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  One Month of Baby Steps my feet hurt

  

  FPOPs). In my FPOP, I got to see the wonders of MIT’s mechanical ... MIT with just a suitcase, a duffel bag, and a backpack. To the left is a ... me is saturated with newness. I’m still adjusting to making new friends

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 26, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Live from Reg Day Somewhere between meetings 5 and 6

  

  he's one of the most famous physicists in the world! His name is in all ... filled-out completion form. I turned in both to the HASS office, and felt a ... , really) has trouble reconciling "Alan Guth is in the room with me

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist, Etc.

  

  ?" (Hah! The answer is definitely 'no' - elaboration to come.) But I can ... Oh, boy, I feel like I have so much to tell you guys and yet things ... 've likely seen on Matt's blog, we went to the waitlist today and offered

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  the journey to PLAYsentations or, the conclusion to the best class I've taken at MIT...so far

  

  the perils of group dynamics in poorly managed projects.  People tend to ... technology is all the rage. An idea's no good if it's just stuck in your ... to go the accelerometer route; the ADXL345 is a quite advanced 3-axis

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 17, 2013
• Blog / Events

  A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…

  

  resolution links (for the most part) as those are pretty unpleasant to look at ... arrived in New Haven about 9:10. Three taxis took us to the Courtyard ... around and not the gold. I took some time off in the middle of the day to

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  The First-Year Application for the MIT Class of 2025 is now live

  

  I'm writing to announce that the application for first-year undergraduate admission to MIT for the aspiring Class of 2025 is now live. You can ... -time applicants to MIT, this application is newer than most, and we're [annotation

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2020