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• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  's just that smart. When I sat down with Boris a few weeks ago to hear ... rainbow cycles, where a rainbow cycle is a set of edges that form a cycle or ... I met sophomores Boris Alexeev and Shaye Storm three years ago at a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  and took a gap year. The story of how I decided to take a gap year is probably best saved for another blog post; the important thing is that I did ... hurtling into the room. A month later, I was in the United States for the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  MISTI-India: Community Health Internship The MISTI experience of Gilad Evrony '07.

  

  occurred to me that although MIT is one of the best places in the world to ... Karkal, Kushal's program director in Bangalore, and I was treated like a ... health and medicine. I programmed in MS-Access a patient information system

  • by MISTI Program
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Welcoming Environment Because the best way to feel at home at MIT is to know that you…

  

  we talked more, I was surprised to find that Abigail's position, once a ... . They've been doing a heck of a job. Abigail told me that attendance at ... major, believes this is because there's still a lot to do. "Even within

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Guest Post: Being Trans at MIT

  

  are great places to do this! "Right now I identify as a cisgender queer ... their peers, which to me is indicative of a community I have never been a ... 's Rainbow Lounge is great for that. There are a lot of events at the Rainbow

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 16, 2015
• FAQ / International applicants

  How do I complete the visa section on the application?

  Only students who currently hold a visa complete this section of the application. The International Students Office assists all admitted students through the visa application process in May.
• Blog / MIT Life

  fragments instead of blogging (for a whole damn month), I...

  

  dance with when i was in high school, so having a dance community is ... intangible haze that is the last chunk of my semester.    here, i ... grateful i am to have found a family in them [caption id="attachment_49048

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Holy Grail of Classes Think of the coolest class you can. Then think of one that's a million times…

  

  enough to know what he's doing, a rare combination. I think I'll be able to ... "Mechanics and Materials I," is my first class that's part of my major. I'm not ... prerequisites, encourages freshmen, and is part of course 2. Did I mention that it

  • by Snively '11
  • February 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Application Cycle Your MIT application is just the beginning

  

  is that I made a decision about what I want my life to be like and how ... game that is like a scavenger hunt and therapy session rolled into one ... /PhD program yet, but the general plan is in place. So how did this all happen

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  class sketching an adventure in speedrunned pedagogy

  

  that for every point in the set, there is a ball around that point that ... explain the kinds of things I learned, in a very simplified manner, as a ... Turing machine, which is a form of universal type of machine that can

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • December 23, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week of work

  

  Continuous Random Variables. For all that, though...I felt a little bogged ... on Orientation 2006 and the state of Orientation. More on that in a ... Last week was one of those weeks where I had either a test or

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  You always have been hi everybody!

  

  those of you who do not know me, my name is Cami and I graduated MIT in ... 's exactly how it sounds. It's remote so I have a lot of flexibility in my day ... greenery and do apple picking, like I did when I was in college! A lot of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Consider a Gap Year Deferring enrollment is an option you may want to consider.

  

  . But I do think that there is a bit of a stigma about such plans in many ... As I do each year about this time, I'd like to talk a bit about deferring entry to MIT, also known as taking a gap year. My hope is that you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 1, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Finals Blog but not the final blog unless something terrible happens to me in the next 48…

  

  is how I learned that Matt McGann has a giant log in his room for ... thread: How much do I like MIT? The best answer I can think of is, more ... Today I sprinted down Massachusetts Avenue in a noontime spritz of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything I Miss and Don’t Miss About MIT Frolicking in nostalgia

  

  attend a reunion named after Pi (that is a class reunion 3.14-ish years ... , yet)--I'm just going to sit here a while and indulge in nostalgia ... pride that comes from knowing how to navigate the tunnels and a silent joy

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Harvard Friends, Part 2 finding my quarantine dream team

  

  a viable option for myself. What would I even do in a gap year during ... student with some close friends at Harvard! In Part 1, I discussed how cross ... we met. In this post, I describe how we've stayed in contact (and even

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Money! Money! Money! Life is like monopoly, except you're not a pewter Tophat and it costs WAY more…

  

  roommates in the apartment, and I spend about $100 a week on groceries. That ... do that is to use a credit card. A credit card is a HUGE responsibility ... Hard to believe July is nearly gone eh? Yup in just a few short

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam sells out The most valuable blog entry of all time.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? This weekend is a tax holiday in Massachusetts. I sure ... earlier draft I had made it "message in a mobile, yeah" but I decided that ... advertising school in the United States. Because of that, I'm thinking of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  very interested in attending MIT. What should I do if I hope to be ... ). I would recommend sending us a note (no more than a page in length) to ... I know that students on the waitlist have lots of questions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2013
• Blog / Hacks

  A Brief History of Hacks Unfortunately I couldn't get Stephen Hawking to narrate.

  

  I was out meeting a friend and some of her friends that I didn ... was the most difficult and awkward sentence I've typed in a long time. I ... ", or "root-level" friend is one that you personally know and like. A

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 22, 2011