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• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  'll be happy to hear from you. 2) The first people you meet in a new place ... compliments, be compassionate to everyone in the service industry. Even though ... the company of others later. 20) Social media is a strange space to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Take Me Back to Tech (Guest Entry) So hurrah for technology, 'ology, 'ology oh.

  

  Drinking Song, but there is another traditional MIT song (this one in the ... ). In any case, for a trip to my new favorite place, the beginning was ... much too busy laughing. By far the funniest moment to me, although it may

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2008
• FAQ / International applicants

  Can I apply if I am undocumented?

  Yes! Undocumented and DACA applicants submit the same application components and go through the same selection process as all other students. For those students who face financial barriers, we offer fee waivers on our
• Blog / Community Projects

  Hummingbird in a Cube of Ice Singing in the shower, taken to a whole new level.

  

  emulated NES games, and hooked it up to speakers in the bathroom. He then put ... to calculate the thermal convection coefficient in turbulent regimes ... AM last night, and spent the extra hour catching up on some much

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you give a girl an assignment… ...she's going to ask if she can blog about it.

  

  adaptation in general is dark, cynical and hopeless. I think the only way to ... as a character? The effect to which this is addressed in the movie is ... blogosphere, rest assured you’re in the right place. It is Elizabeth here. There

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  seattle (again) home and away

  

  in the kitchen. somebody always makes sure the stovetop is clean and ... , start-to-finish, all the way through: melodrama, pieces in space, funeral ... time, seattle feels like home by now -- i know the way to the churches i

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 15, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Get psyched, stay with it, do whatever it takes Adam's dad's advice is succint. Mine isn't.

  

  people seem to think that the most important thing they'll learn in college ... most succinct advice I can give is from Adam's dad (my future father-in ... learn at MIT will be how to fail. Okay, one time I said that the most

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Physics A short novel.

  

  classes, I tried really hard to keep this in mind. But the pressure to take ... 're going to be dissapointed. Because the reason I dropped physics is... I ... whose name I can't remember say, "is the perfect example of when too much

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  How to decide, when you’re deciding a pretext for productive procrastination

  

  , because right now in your life SO MUCH is going to change SO QUICKLY and you ... Today is May 1, the conventional deadline for admitted students to ... from the archives related to this decision, the one you're nominally in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Replying to questions and comments

  

  ) understand the material is okay, especially in a class like 004 or most high ... 's a good question! The answer is that, for 6.004, you have to write your ... in this together" feel - this is one of the least cutthroat places I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  ones did, in the sense that I’ve had to do much more struggling and ... taking that seminar to learn about the ways in which math is applicable to physics. The main trend I have noticed is that math in college is much more

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / Events

  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  works the way it does. It is the best, hardest, and most fun big-game in ... and need to start over. That is a kind of type 3 fun. But in the Big ... 🫠. But because the point of using only simple words is NOT to make

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking In Just a quick note to say hi from the depths of reading.

  

  there are a lot of questions in the comments and I'll definitely get to ... that enables one little boy to breathe in a hospital in the suburbs of ... you who want to come to MIT and explore in the name of all of this

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 26, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  in the foot and complaining loudly to everybody how much it hurts but ... . First is the famous quote widely attribute to former MIT President Jerome ... firehose.” The earliest reference I could find is from the 1972 How to Get

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m just curious as to why you keep invoking William Faulkner. "MIT is so charmingly nerdy" entries #12 and 35.

  

  the work of William Faulkner is set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County. 3. The third-largest city in Ireland is called "Limerick." ...and ... I had not the greatest week, but tune in tomorrow for my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Long-Overdue Responses Questions answered.

  

  to be the one to decide what the best use of your time is. I'd say most ... This is a long one. Apologies in advance! First, a quick response to this... I'd just like to remind folks that blogging is not in my job

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  G(e)e^ks

  

  of the "talk list". Most living groups at MIT, in addition to having ... the meaning of e - you could have picked any other base to work with, in ... fraction of e is trivial to remember. 3. the formulas for e are easier less

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  “How to CPW 2012”…a Guide for Parents CPW can be overwheming...a parents' guide to making the most of it.

  

  Much of Boston and certainly the ladies in the sorority house where I ... us in the Admissions Office the weekend is more about getting ready for ... that are most important to you, the parent, so don't be afraid to ask for

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Questionable Views Questions and views, and questions about views. The views are not necessarily questionable, although you…

  

  It's Q&A time! Ajit asked: "who is the person in the 5th picture ... allowed to live in a single room?" There are actually two people in the ... sitting on the bed is Ace, April's friend who came to watch us do all of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Greetings from India: D-Lab Students in the Field D-Lab students Luke, Sydney, Jessica, Madhavan

  

  general, the food is much spicier than I’m used to, but I still think most ... Assam – it’s famous for its tea and it’s home to the hottest pepper in the ... intuition, was able to straighten the 1/4 in mild steel shaft to near

  • by OEL
  • January 28, 2012