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• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: CrowdMath, by Art of Problem Solving and MIT PRIMES, is a thing now a brief note in between committee breaks

  

  A few weeks ago I got an email from Richard Rusczyk. Richard is the ... Math website: CrowdMath is an open project that gives all high school students ... research), you should check it out! *Before I started this job, I didn

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Slump and an unexpected summer

  

  call, I had no idea what I would do with my summer. Twenty-four hours ... look like, and to see how off the mark you are. So I took a stab at ... student after all, I looked for positions that would give me exposure to

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • June 2, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Video games I’ve played this semester trimps, mother 3, hades, and vampire survivors

  

  incremental game I've played, is how well-designed the core mechanics are ... is just how Nintendo RPGs tend to play out. (I remember playing Dragon ... Slay the Spire Bundle for Palestinian Aid I'm the kind of person who

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2022
• Blog / Events

  MIT Open House Well, come on in y'all!

  

  activity, too, and I'm really looking forward to how people respond to it ... Whenever I hear the term “open house,” I think of panthers. Flashback to 2004: a few weeks before high school started, I moved from Texas

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 27, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  H0sed Psets, exams, and being "mediocre" at MIT.

  

  'm just a freshman, I'm not entirely sure how the upper-level courses ... where I would be now. And in one short year (come to think of it, I only ... So I was going to draft this entry last night (I went as far as

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 9, 2008
• 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 ... living in a dorm on campus. I was in this program for two summers (I took

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

  a tour of New Vassar also known as west garage

  

  'm not sure it has a vibe yet. Seeing how new the dorm is, I thought I ... me so sad, honestly, to think of how nice these spaces would be if we ... This semester, I'm living in New Vassar, the newest undergrad dorm on

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not in Kansas anymore A brief look at your third '15 blogger

  

  Hello! My name is Natnael Getahun, but please call me Nat. I'm your third freshman blogger, class of '15, and I thought I would take a second ... sure how anyone settles down with just one for four years. For now I

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A typical first semester more or less

  

  was a lot less painful! I thought that this would actually be my easiest ... It's 3am and I should probably be studying for my first 8.01 exam which is later today, but instead I'm blogging. [insert pass/no record

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  what I’m doing this IAP mostly physics and musical theater

  

  material fine but I do feel like I need to figure out how to synthesize my ... auditioning, year after year, because I knew I would suck compared to the other ... previous IAPs have been really fun. In freshman year, I did [annotation note

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A fortnight of Boston summer +1 for using the word "fortnight" outside of an SAT or literature class

  

  problem, I would know the answer because I had done that question several ... It’s funny how one month can entirely change your perspective on life. As I write this, it is one month to the day since I took my 7

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 23, 2011
• Blog / Personal Projects

  1 Fish, 2 Fish, a Lot of Fish, and a Snail Putting a Big Box of Water on my Dresser

  

  little research, however, I discovered that a pet turtle would require a ... MIT policies would allow[/annotation] ). So of course, I realized I ... Blue Tang that I would call Nemo and Dory respectively in addition to

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 30, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I’m sitting on a bus and am SO sleep-deprived.

  

  right now. How mysterious. Me: …Okay. Thank you. I broke a world record ... easier said than done. I woke up (well, my mom woke me up) at around 7am, for an 11:15am flight. I made it in plenty of time. Got on the plane

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  *witty title here* (Guest Entry) You want awesome? I'll show you awesome!

  

  , I glance at the clock and wonder how I managed to waste so much time ... with Snively and his cactus (I don't think TSA would like me carrying a ... result: remember what I told you to remember? look how hosed we are

  • by Snively '11
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Re-introduction A summary, for those of you just tuning in.

  

  I've been unbelievably hosed the past few days doing a combination of the following: 1. Analyzing data and writing as much as I can on the rough draft of my paper. This is my last week in the lab, and I'm trying

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Corey Kubber MIT will help Corey Kubber '10 "develop and grow, with some eccentric, genius-type people."

  

  to have won the Morikami scholarship." "I didn't realize how much it ... could travel anywhere, where would you go? Japan. How would you like to be ... . 'I like to hang out with my friends,' he said. 'And I like going to the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Mas33h Hall A quick look at life in the Castle

  

  and a cotton candy machine (not pictured, because I still don’t know how ... answer is yes, I would try to coordinate with your roommates to share one ... It’s my 3rd year at MIT. I’ve lived in 3 different dorms. My current

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it is the escape living a second life as an art student

  

  the idea that I would be better off learning all of this content ... , who have to get up at absurd times. left to my own devices, I would ... question of how to continue making art in the real world, once I graduate. I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TESS Science Conference III My first science conference!

  

  grabbing an extra raspberry-lime seltzer. When I asked him how he's so good ... This summer, I started a new [annotation note="Undergraduate Research ... Space Research, and it's one of the coolest things I've gotten to do at

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  school projects aka why i havent been writing in the last few weeks

  

  of hours on composition and i think i’m pretty happy with how it ... apparently i haven’t made any blog posts about classes yet so here's one i had the misfortune and privilege of taking three classes with

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 12, 2021