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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pop quiz, Viktor I finally discover what happens when you rapidly cool hot metal. Now my life is…

  

  According to my favorite website ever, StatCounter, somebody from ... explains exactly how the climax of Fantastic 4 works. So, to rectify this, I ... friends in Course 3 have been able to answer. In the movie "Fantastic Four

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the scenes of Glamour: Part 2 A recap of three incredible days

  

  Martha Stewart), in addition to visiting all of the above locales. We not ... Mariane Pearl to health tips, in addition to the expected celebrity news and ... 'Oreal’s website, you’ll see the emphasis on science in the cosmetics industry, and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 20, 2007
• FAQ / First-year application

  Who will have access to my application information?

  At MIT, we hope to get to know you better through the application process and want you to be able to express yourself authentically. We understand that some information you may choose to share with us is information
• Blog / Residential Life

  how to grow a vibrant kresge just add sod

  

  torment season. From August to March, the grass in front of Kresge is hit ... it to mud. Recovery begins in April, when it is no longer snowing, and ... in a non-competitive climate. This makes it weaker and easier to kill

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 18, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The coolest spring break ever? Visit a College Campus!

  with our check-in process, I get to see many of you who come to Cambridge ... colleges are in many different locations, you may not get to all of them ... other aspects of our office. As a counselor on the Visit Team, I get to

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  there and do nothing. But in a few rocks, you can get those forces to ... to each other. Remember how each rock has a force that points in one ... usually do not (and should not) know how to add or remember numbers, but we

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

  See You Later

  

  . I've got the opportunity to get an MIT grad degree in a really mind ... right time. Like Yogi Berra said: when you get to a fork in the road ... brilliant professor and forced to think in new, uncomfortable ways. If you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s Your Future, Charlie Brown! Charlie Brown, Friendsgiving, and the Erosion of Deep Literacy

  

  factor in play, but this article opened my eyes to how impactful it was to ... embarking in search of The Great Pumpkin, to discovering  [annotation note ... grow, from their infancy in the 50s to their slightly older childhood in

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] GetSimmons! Writing is hard, so here's a video game instead

  

  How to play: Use your arrow keys to move the tiles. When two tiles with ... is not intended to be a ranking (boo), but is instead based on how many ... Combine other dorms to reach the almighty Simmons Hall

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  So who is this Laura person, anyway? Hello and welcome to the single coolest blog on the entire admissions website. My name…

  

  big thought, so get comfortable. The last science fair I went to was in ... I can't even begin to explain it. When I do get to MIT, I'm planning ... Waterpark. This means I get paid a very small hourly wage to stand outside all

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How phonology explains wordplay in Tagalog songs armchair linguistics

  

  .']concentrate[/annotation] in linguistics, I thought it'd be suitable to talk about some things I've learned in linguistics applied to Tagalog. Phonology is the study of a ... in a language's words. This semester, I'm taking 24.901 Introduction to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fitting In Fitting in at MIT

  

  now, we're not going there. What I do want to focus on is how in an ... get the idea. So it's hard for me to often answer the question about how ... students, people from home, and the like is: "How do you feel like you fit in

  • by Bryan
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis

  

  Introduction Before coming to college, I often wondered how hard MIT ... results even refer to? And don’t even get me started on the lack of units. I ... scratched” [1]. In simpler terms, harder materials are more difficult to

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

  Hello, Ma Sheng Li Gong A journey of four years begins with a single blog.

  

  . We were en route to Mathcamp 2004 (which was held in Colby College, ME), and we decided to stay in Boston for a couple of nights before heading ... typical ABC. For one thing, I have never gone to school in the US, even

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ADITL MIT's Technique spearheads one of the most interesting projects I've seen on campus recently.

  

  in A Day In The Life, a project open to the entire MIT community ... , and staff alike have been uploading their photos to the website, which ... also how they choose to frame that. The project made me notice the things

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 25, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  What Did I Learn at MIT? a surprisingly hard question to answer

  

  bowlers in high school, Protobowl is the website that trivia nerds use to ... A few weeks ago, in a true callback to our high school days, Paolo ... on this website apropos of nothing, we were in fact practicing for a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 28, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Undecideds VI: The Undiscovered Country Even more undecided students' questions & answers.

  

  as any to the students who are still undecided: How can we help you ... difficult to get into the program, because it seems like every other person I talked to at CPW was interested in this field. I just want to be sure that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  A half semester told through paper grownup show and tell

  

  "]Hosed™[/annotation] to put effort into a blog post, so here’s what you get instead. Me ... protein bar for breakfast, getting to the testing room super early, and ... some drafts I made while trying to piece together the diagram in the post

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  how not to be a mathematician on taking time & not running away

  

  part in terms of math academics, I had fallen to believe something ... school preview in many ways and I wanted to find out whether I would like ... that helped me be less afraid to reach out in the first place is

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 15, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  pants, closed shoes, and no hanging jewelry) to get in the door. However ... they'll get to the Geo report in the near future. Helen wrote, "First, I ... : once in the late '80's and early '90's, and returned to doing it just

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2006