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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Integration Bee (guest post by Mike W. ‘19) I had a tagline planned out, but I axed it for being too derivative.

  

  type of math. Maybe it’s the physicist in me. So when I heard that MIT ... the physics textbooks I would use next semester (my personal record is forty pages flipped in a minute). I prepared. I found some integrals

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Post-MIT Trajectory College is not a destination.

  

  . In fact, the thinking has already been brewing. As I'm talking to my ... important and life-changing. Some people even get engaged in college - how ... "success"? In the meantime, how do we prioritize? Just my thoughts. Feel

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  math majors learn how to talk and write (in LaTeX) about their work. I recently realized that I am almost done with my major requirements (as in, I ... As some of you may know, I am majoring in math and economics

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is an Incomplete Grade? ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire situations

  

    ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire ... . Had I not, I would have been disappointed in the final outcome of ... credit limit of 57 units. I used that opportunity to explore Course 1 in a

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Interview I think that I forgot to tell you about that

  

  folder called "Old." Eek. In "Old," I found a folder named after my high ... interview. So here goes. In my senior year of high school, I was living in ... apartment complex. With that in mind: To schedule my interview, I got in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / People & Identities

  On Reconnecting spending winter break in India

  

  every way possible, every night I lie in bed, the brightest colors fill my ... My parents were born under kerosene lamps. In a place where monkeys ... playing in the streets blended with the crowing of roosters. The perfect

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP, CES, and other acronyms I spent my MIT IAP with a CEO at CES in LAS, and now I…

  

  I managed to be at least as busy as I was in October or November ... Markov Chain. I drafted most of this post in the eerie, apprehensive calm ... the city I grew up in) and over 3,600 companies, including 82 of the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • March 9, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Q&A A bit of clarification on being waitlisted.

  

  reconsider all of the waitlisted students again in May, when we know how many ... do the Overnight Program? No, I'm sorry. I'm still very interested in ... to follow). I would recommend sending us a note to this email address

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / People & Identities

  Quarantine and Social Life trying to maintain some connection

  

  I felt comfortable texting in the chatroom while watching. I would try ... texting them, and those conversations would span a few days. I also tried to ... compilation of some of my favorite calls/interactions in the last few months. I

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 26, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  cruel summer ok it's actually, like, fine i guess

  

  been in. (Coming in second would be the one between 8th and 9th grade ... industry CS internship. Traditional, it is not. I'm tuning in remotely from ... what I expected, but it's so hard to tell how much of that is due to this

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye Free-Body Diagrams Hello free -

  

  buy fome-cor this weekend. Not complaining…yet. I really hope ... -squares! The knife with which I will do much damage. :P Sam '12, revelling in ... paper, refill lead, glue, wood, drafting dots… Wooooooo – I arrived at my

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 18, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Friend the Parasitic Scientist A Random Hall alumnus on reality television!

  

  do in your free time? I spent most of my time making things in the ... super well with Moogega and Ivan. What did you build in the EE lab? I ... in general was my favorite thing. How many people can say that they

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 26, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  question of how to continue making art in the real world, once I graduate. I ... -month internship in Seattle,[/annotation] a group of intern friends and I decided ... in Cantonese, a language I cannot understand. It was something about

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 26, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  A FAPulous Start On how I’ve spent 0.0016% of my life at MIT so far.

  

  this online- I think you’re just awesome in general. To those few in the ... past 6. In the first portion, I spent some time creating my personal ... than the one near my home. In the two years I was there, I dedicated

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • August 27, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  institutional memory cruft are cool!

  

  in one of the organizations i'm in, esp, we toss the phrase ... , "who would know anything about this?" and i said "no one who's now here ... know what we're doing in a few years, no matter how well we document it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts from Science Bowl 🥣 a story about now-nostalgic times

  

  worked. I was in the “captain” spot on my team, a symbolic position that ... question about the centrifugal force–wait, a trick. I knew this. I buzzed in ... went unanswered, reduced to just a mark on the scoresheet. I buzzed in

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 30, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Vertigo My brain hurts.

  

  Arlington Gateway hotel in Virginia - and feeling overwhelming vertigo. I had ... of New House + McCormick. I grew up in Singapore and London, which have ... having a total blast. I tried to estimate how many towns like it there were

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2013
• Blog / Advice

  False Precision ...and the advent of the cherry pie scale

  

  Very early on in my Admissions career I happened to take a slice from ... question, “What scale do you use?” In truth I didn’t use another scale, and ... give in though, I improvised, and conceived a personal scale on the spot

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 7, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Final Blogpost With a heavy heart, I say goodbye to the MIT blogosphere. The journey was all…

  

  tends to meander in all directions I’m clueless on how to summarize it. I ... And psych! Happy April Fool’s Day! I didn’t celebrate it in ... ’t seen her in nearly nine months, so I was shaking with all the excitement

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My 7 Favorite Places to P-Set! Eat, Work, Repeat.

  

  work on my stuff. I thought this would be helpful in both showing you a ... stand working in my room. I feel cramped and not as productive as there ... courtyard that is now occupied by the huge Christmas tree in the picture! I do

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 10, 2017