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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harbinger of Doom, Despair, and Knowledge: PSETS Don't worry, not as bad as they sound.

  

  a Thursday night. Generally speaking, there aren't many questions on a pset, but you shouldn't think that a lack of questions implies it won't ... first pset for 18.01 (Calculus 1), a class that I wasn't having trouble

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  Invitation to Cross-Register Guest post by Katherine W. '17 :D

  

  lecture on Wednesday, which means I don’t need to take a separate trip to ... PSA: This is a really cool guest post by my friend Katherine W. '17 ... Shepherds at some point in her life.   Isn’t this invitation

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2016
• Blog / MISTI

  “Heroes” The second in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring Michael Jackson.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Conservative pundit Ann Coulter once described on a VH1 special how she smeared herself with purple Crisco before a Grateful Dead concert. As promised, the second part of a picture entry. Check out

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Joint Post] Chatting with Hank Green, the MIT Commencement Speaker interviewing Hank + sharing student stories!

  

  , daring, and curious. I can’t think of a better speaker. You never truly ... internet, but I’m not going to offer that as advice. If you weren’t doing ... as a whole, etc)? I probably won’t get to see it, but I think someday

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It all comes to this The Senior Thesis (cue dramatic music)

  

  prove that all of your tooling has made you a better thinker? For most MIT ... pretty much anything that you and your thesis advisor (who is usually a ... permanently archived by the MIT Libraries. I did a little bit of web surfing to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Boris Alexeev: Solving Graph Theory Problems Boris Alexeev spent five months working on a math UROP with Prof. Daniel Kleitman.

  

  I met sophomores Boris Alexeev and Shaye Storm three years ago at a ... the program, we spent two days presenting our research to a panel of ... a booth right next to Boris'. Despite spending more than fourteen

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  Liminal Activities Period IAP is a mindset and you can keep it forever

  

  a disaster since they were fairly heavy and I didn't know how to ... , nothing is a waste of time. Even after I finished, I still wasn't sure ... , full of promise and mystery and challenges that I'm not prepared for but

  • by Joel G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  who started the fire? (not clickbait) playing detective

  

  ="aligncenter" width="1000"] a news headline about what happened[/caption] I wasn't ... this isn't the most satisfying ending; if this were a mystery novel ... For the last few years, I've been living off-campus in a house full

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 28, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Looking Back, Looking Forward In which I take a study break, discover some embarrassing videos, and tell you why…

  

  So a couple days ago, frustrated as I was by the fact that I wasn't getting anywhere with my biochem studying, I decided to take a break and wander through the videos on my computer. I'm sharing a particularly choice

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime, and the livin’ is easy Unless, of course, you've decided to do something with all that free time.

  

  I said I'd do it, no? Many of these websites won't have information ... . YOU DO NOT HAVE TO DO ANY SUMMER PROGRAM TO GET INTO MIT, by the way. I'm ... Development at Northwestern University, or CTD. At CTD, you spend 6-7 hours a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Ranking Every Class I Took at MIT it's that time

  

  just isn't a skill I've ever tried out before (and I'm assuming not many ... . Readings were interesting, but also didn't pay a lot of attention. 21M.011 ... kind class that helped me a lot. 8.021 Physics II E&M (Joseph

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Homecoming some musings on memory

  

  , even if you don’t actually take it, because you can guess. You’ll get a ... worrying about anything for a few minutes. Seven. Behold, I'm coming home. I'm ... for a couple days, the bulletin boards begin to look familiar. You

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 13, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  class sketching an adventure in speedrunned pedagogy

  

  I'm gonna go through some of the classes I took this semester and explain the kinds of things I learned, in a very simplified manner, as a sketch. If you don't get something that's totally fine, it's probably not

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • December 23, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Asymmetric Discussion of Shoes, the Process of Moving, and 3D Glasses Physics problem included. Some assembly required.

  

  scientific ingenuity or whatever; you can't pulverize a chunk of snow in your ... . I'm going to share it here, with the warning that it lurks around in a ... you follow it a bit further. (Don't take candy from strange physics

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 A Questions Omnibus is a post where I answer your lingering questions left in the…

  

  ? I'm sorry I can't tell you which school to choose, but those decisions ... an interview, and it would be a shame if I won't get a chance to show ... that's just a guess. We normally don't tally that number, and I'd have to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  carly SLAY jepsen concerts > psets

  

  a fidget toy for me at this point -- as well as baking banana bread ... fifth"]sixth graders[/annotation] at my elementary school would do a flash ... start blaring from the speakers and suddenly there was a dance number

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 28, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ Wait list answers to your questions

  

  Every year we publish a FAQ about the wait list. Students on the wait ... here. How does the wait list work? We are aiming for a class of about ... admitted 1467 students. However, it isn't possible to exactly predict how

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ: Waitlist answers to your questions

  

  Every year we publish a FAQ about the waitlist. Students on the ... here. How does the waitlist work? We are aiming for a class of about ... admitted 1419 students. However, it isn't possible to exactly predict how

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 15, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  FAQ: Waitlist If you have questions about being on the waitlist, read this first.

  

  . Please don't try to draw a trend line from 3 points - it's ... aiming for a class of about 1130 students this year. Based on our estimates ... "yield"), we admitted 1548 students. However, it isn't

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What it’s like to work at NASA and a few other things

  

  Networking is a funny thing. It can be formal (and slightly ... - and be a whole lot more fun! Take for instance the time I was climbing ... to be a Harvard Ph.D student this year, and we agreed to meet up and

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 1, 2014