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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  V&Q&A Video, Questions, and Answers

  

  wrote our responses so that you can get several points-of-view on the same ... the culture. From the hackers scaling buildings under cover of night to ... culture of 'It doesn't exist? Why not? Let's do it!' And that - I found

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  October ‘06 Questions Omnibus Some advice from MIT interviewers, and answers to your questions.

  

  other blogs. I do read all of your comments, and even if I don't respond ... personally). Read on for lots of Q & A. Before I do that, though, I'd like to reprint comments from two of our Educational Counselors (ECs), Greg H and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Who we are All the stuff I've been trying to write since last July. It isn't much, but…

  

  lot of living groups have free breakfast on exam mornings, then ... and all that. I heard a lot of conversations on my way to the final ... for my 7.28 final this morning, half of me was focused on the final and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Congratulations! You got the job. You start in 6 months.

  

  engineering that was based off of my initial comment that I've never experienced ... 'm done with all of this deep discussion about admissions and learning from ... lot of time to show me things. (Each crew must have at least 2 people- a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Conversations with graders And other ramblings of a frosh...

  

  = verb for using the lathe to machine something) a pin for the pedalbox of ... . I didn't do nearly as well as I had hoped. There were a couple of ... plain left blank...but the cool part was that I got nearly 100% correct of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Replying to questions and comments

  

  : "Did you have to do the lab by yourself? no lab groups? Speaking of which ... individual, not as part of a group. However, you are allowed to collaborate ... with a lab component), have lab groups. Some have a series of smaller lab

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  One thing every woman’s missed in Massachusetts Bay Sam and Shana have gone to look for America, starting in Philadelphia.

  

  needed to do were to buy a map, enlist the help of a local, and marry Amber ... a quarter pound of fudge to hold us over until dinner. While buying the fudge, the fat young man ahead of us in line noted that it was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  the children yearn for the snow quarry 120 bricks, 80 man hours, 3 tons of snow, 2 forts, and a partridge in…

  

  It is 12 am on the second weekend of IAP. Snow has been falling for ... recreational field just outside most of our dorms, and a premier location for any ... unburdened by the demands of classes Step 3: Begin construction There are

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  classes im taking! strictly

  

  schedule[/caption] 6.191: Computation Structures. Goal of this class: learn ... ---when I saw my friend typing rapidly on his computer it reminded me of ... me well to know this is true but the goal of this course is to learn

  • by Victor D. '27
  • February 16, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  September Equinox Appreciation A Cambridge Autumn

  

  spent a lot of time walking and riding my bike, exploring Cambridge and ... And becomes a sea of lava.   The wind howls and whispers ... gleam like galaxies.”   The stars of night are barely visible; city

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 22, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  merch design competition for the graduating Class of 2025 (that’s me ... grad student from each university. Each of the winners is going to win ... “craft bold, memorable designs that capture the unique spirit of the Class

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

  How I chose my classes A graduating senior's perspective; results may vary

  

  6.7800 (Inference and Information, the subject of the exam and by far the most challenging class I’ve ever taken) but four years of MIT ... found most of my classes fun (yes, really), rewarding, and memorable (in a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  what i ate in a week* living the influencer life (clickbait included)

  

  representative of the rest of my blogs =D  not to be cliche, but there is truly no better time to have friends than in college. the experience of living ... "]rpm[/annotation] dinner. the timing of it was lowkey early for me (4:30, considering that

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons from Loomis and Whitney a math month post

  

  part) Take your favorite set of finitely many points out in the plane, i ... "shadow" of $A$ on the $x$-axis and the $y$-axis, and let's call these sets ... ="attachment_100162" align="aligncenter" width="400"] Projections of the point (x

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Admissions Math Month, Part 1 – Duality There are two wolves inside you

  

  Did you know? Of all 7,238 MIT Admissions blog posts before this one ... intuitively. I usually just kind of wave my hands and say, “Uhh, it’s like when two things are different, but they’re actually the same.” So instead of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to train your sticking-together rock I am so happy that "computer" is not a no-no word today

  

  One of the coolest things about building and studying computers is ... ! How does a computer work? I like to think of a computer as a big house ... house where cats will come out of room C only if either room A or room B

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  GUYS IT SNOWED!! yayayayyaayy

  

  now: 30% chance of <0.05 in. of snow for 20 minutes] has popped up. A spark of hope!! Then, I’d check the weather again an hour later, and it ... % chance of <0.05 in. of snow” popped up a couple times for yesterday

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  We Really Aren’t Kids Anymore avoiding the part where it all has to end

  

  we (the class of '24s) were supposed to just get it. Like we were ... they should live [as though we should have a semblance of what dorm culture was after spending our first years on Zoom]. Through all of this

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 9, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  just do it don’t say you’re gonna do it!

  

  molds for the plastic pieces of our yo-yo. I’ll make a blog on the yo ... this stands for because I don’t remember and it’s kind of silly. It’s a ... of my favorite lecturers in MechE, but on that day, I could barely stay

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 23, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  SnowDays while you're waiting for decisions

  

  's been around since 2002, so it might be older than some of you reading ... survived the death of Flash by migrating to HTML5, it hasn't lost any data between, and it's still an awesome website. Here's one of my snowflakes from

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2023