Search

Search Results

• Blog / Academics & Research

  How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis

  

  results even refer to? And don’t even get me started on the lack of units. I shudder as I think of all the unsuspecting high-school students making important life decisions based on this questionable data. And to think that

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Tour/Hack/Math Three things that happen a lot at MIT

  

  Dungeons and Dragons) died. He was important to many of the students here and ... and Jordan '11. For many of you, a campus tour will be one of the first ... to be as tourist-y as possible and take a bunch of pictures of stuff

  • by Snively '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why didn’t MIT have a logo until 2003? tracing the history of MIT's logo and graphic identity

  

  In another instance of historyposting, we'll look into the history ... probably already clear, I really like looking into history. It is one of the ... research for this post, I decided to look into the graphic identities of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting How about 'em EA decisions?

  

  fine regardless of the outcome. I went into my room. I was alone. I ... depends on how patient of a person you are, but I don’t think I’ve ever ... nine long months to birth with a lot of snarling and kicking around. On

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coming Soon! In which I briefly account for my I-haven't-been-blogging-so-much-recently shenanigans

  

  assignments into the two to three weeks before finals) means that I also need to ... into these past few weeks - and that's not even including classes, which ... all of this will be going up on the blogs quite soon, but first, a brief

  • by Emad T. '14
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is my summer break california, nasa, pedestians, wifi

  

  've searched far and wide. Today marks the two-and-a-half week anniversary of my arrival at Moffett Field, CA next to the small city of Mountain View. To ... waste. Pictures of NASA Ames: (I'm pretty sure I'm allowed to post these

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 22, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Culture, not the bacterial kind Some questions you should be asking about all the schools to which you're applying.

  

  (This entry courtesy of the free wireless internet at the Hotel ... of glad I'm interviewing for graduate programs this year while writing the blog, because I get to impart all kinds of advice from an almost

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Winter Sports at MIT a sneak peek of: swim and dive, squash, and men's basketball

  

  volleyball, and just goofing around with the team with 30 of us packed into one ... part of the team here. Some of my closest friends are on the swim team ... able to take a break from academics and train with my friends. Outside of

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another Toy Story Turns out toy design isn't all play, but that doesn't mean it's not fun!

  

  -aided design program. After Banks, one of my teammates, spent an incredible amount of hours spent on the computer, our blasters, if I may say so ... of you probably know what it's like to work on large projects like

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 25, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  18.S190 that's .0093 more than 18.S097!

  

  important in multivariable calculus as it gives a notion of  [annotation note ... chapter's worth of material into four lectures plus two introductory ones ... , for-credit, in-the-catalog-of-classes class, at MIT. That I teach. On

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 27, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Long-Overdue Responses Questions answered.

  

  materials or just a simple email or letter. Any of these will be recorded into ... - on both sides of the equation. I apologize to those of you who think ... " will get something out of it. Others won't, no matter what I say here

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Passing along some e-mails, and my responses to them.

  

  't, and shouldn't, be a list of 'things to do to get into MIT.' Though the ... students...advanced classes also sound pretty important...for getting into ... 's bothering me. I'm a writer, and have devoted most of my time into creative

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP Deadlines and Openings The deadline for Fall Direct Funding is September 15, so hurry up and find yourself…

  

  UROP students pursing research in the School of Science. It's pretty easy to apply for one of these awards, just write that you are applying for ... there is not a lot of hassle with filling out timecards. All of this

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 7, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  when the world gets too heavy put it on my back

  

  ever read in my life. so it holds a lot of importance. i could go into ... falling deeper and deeper into the rabbit holes of obsession. and i think ... thrum of the bass directly shoot straight into my heart and see the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Books write our life stories Philosophy, astronomy, religion, neurology - and my plans for the future.

  

  we drew a flowchart that I very happily copied into my copy of Gorgias ... the importance of having breadth as a scientist. Finally, I asked him ... (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 30, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Tale of 8 Instagrams Low resolution, high flavor

  

  Instagram everything, including the view of the Prudential building in Boston ... can change from pleasant to ominous in a matter of minutes. And that ... I actually spend days of my senior year passing out the latest issue

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Exploring MIT’s sports facilities there's so much to see!

  

  do it! As you may have noticed, I’ve been kind of into the whole tour ... -campus grocery store, it’s been fun to show off a little piece of what makes MIT so ... MIT has sports?? Of course, no tour is fun without some tour guides, so

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  starting over and over again

  

  guilty about it. I think I wrote a grand total of two blogs this past semester, maybe three, which for me is probably an all-time low. Of course ... into a pretty turbulent time, then April and May bringing the usual ramp

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 11, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The Real Deal no impostors here

  

  A few days ago a young man posted a confession to the Class of 2016 ... people!   In the comments some of his classmates shared similar ... still. :) ... I sort of want to email admissions and ask "So thank you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 27, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Building the Yearbook [by Ken Haggerty '11] An inside look at Technique 2010 (shhh!!!)

  

  ! But what exactly goes into the making of a yearbook? (...and one so fine ... for this year's edition of Technique (the yearbook of MIT, since 1885 ... process so that everyone working on the book, including myself, was aware of

  • by ARTalk
  • March 29, 2010