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• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds VII: Decided? T-minus one day until the reply form postmark deadline.

  

  I be proud in four years to call myself an alumnus of the school? Don ... replies throughout this week. I assure you, we have a space in the class for you. If you've mailed in the reply form with an affirmative response, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cancer on my mind Wait, shouldn’t that be Carolina?

  

  Cancer is on my mind lately. I know how to have fun, huh? But maybe ... breast cancer, or maybe it's because I’m reading this great Pulitzer Prize winning book on cancer, or maybe it's because I just took a tour of the Koch

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 18, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time! I walk you through a physics/dynamics problem.

  

  'm reviewing and going over while studying for the test I have in this class on ... angular momentum equations until I get the variables I want. We'll see how ... Oftentimes the best way to learn something is to teach it. I

  • by Snively '11
  • October 20, 2008
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How hard are courses at MIT?

  how to use them. Professors aren’t as concerned about if an experiment ... to collaboration: problem sets (psets) are typically completed in ... getting in the way of their schoolwork.
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW: The Story So Far An update from the frontlines.

  

  would have thought I could be envious of a pre-frosh?), because Dr ... Come one, come all to CPW! I don't know about you guys, but the ... Center are thronging with people - and I know thing are only going to get

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Seven Early Evenings it was a good week

  

  some things that New York just does better. I had forgotten how ... dining hall. I look forward to these dinners each week – the people in my ... being drawn back to the ice. Isabella and I are both amazed by how our

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • December 3, 2018
• Blog / Events

  So much to do, so little time There's always something exciting going on at MIT.

  

  on optical frequency combs, which she describes as "so cool." Sadly, I can't join in, because I really need to be reading applications. As I ... ," followed by what I'm sure will be a nice reception with the students. Ian

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  My Funny Valentine No kissing on Valentine's Day.

  

  that on your TI-89. First off, yes, I am a blogging delinquent. Ben Jones, I should be arrested. But in my defense, I have had a viral infection rendering my voiceless and without a desire to eat. So I think my

  • by Bryan
  • February 14, 2007
• Blog / Announcements

  FYI: Undergraduates with family income below $200,000 can expect to attend MIT tuition-free starting in 2025 what it says on the tin

  

  like [annotation note='In fact, now that I think of it, many aspects of ... . I am still Tarnished but no longer maidenless. Meanwhile, in Ceri I ... I continually upgrade my skills and abilities. In this CMS thesis, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 20, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Working at a Toy Company! I promise you, my job was cooler than yours.

  

  beginning of the semester in August but never got around to finishing it. I ... . And then, my favorite Big Wheel of the day came out. I was engaged in ... , bandanna, and helmet. I got back to my dorm (I lived in the dorm over the

  • by Snively '11
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Diabolo, Pandora, and Bad TV Shows You figure out what they have in common, 'cause I sure as heck don't know.

  

  now, many of you have probably heard of (or use) this, but I'm in love ... go here to see how I defined the station, what I liked ... first two seasons are on there, so I have to figure out how I'm going to

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • June 22, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Designing MIT for democracy why is MIT so decentralized and chaotic? BECAUSE DEMOCRACY

  

  , explicitly foregrounds these concerns in discussing how the MIT education, and ... MIT is like, I always talk about how it's decentralized, even ... While reading Whitney Zhang's article in the Tech on the history of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yellow, Blue, Green, and Red Free art and how to borrow it at MIT

  

  lived in the same dorm for four years but I have lived on the same floor ... that most of the freshmen who are placed in Maseeh end up moving out, I ... half of the art had already been retrieved by the time I popped in to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 29, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  GELcamp project management… in the woods?

  

  mountain face, skis and poles left behind in the dust, I asked him how he was ... … Day One Hello! I am currently typing this in 14 degree weather, snuggled ... management tools and strategies that I can implement in the future. Only two

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 6, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  SnowDays while you're waiting for decisions

  

  this. I first played with the website in 2009, when it used Flash. It ... SnowDays is a snowflake maker, and I think by far the best one. I hate snow, but I like snowflakes. You have this triangle that you draw

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Half Harvard, Half MIT My schedule this term is split down the middle. Like the movie Grindhouse. Or Korea.

  

  in a place called "Malinckrodt". (I wasn't an Orientation Leader in ... - basically, I'm hoping that in time her intrinsic fashion sense may somehow rub ... glory of Tuesdays, in which I get up at 7 to bus over to Harvard for a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 29, 2008
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How does MIT help student entrepreneurs?

  the entrepreneur(s) in sessions that provide practical, day
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  snowfall as the snowflakes fall, they remind me of home

  

  , in the forecast, there was very little actual snow expected, but when I got up in the morning,[annotation note='over the course of the day ... matter in the entire month…until Friday," to which I say, "weak sauce

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2017 Graduates from MIT

  

  occasion of their graduation. I told how ambivalent I felt (about myself; about MIT) on my own graduation day in 2013, but how much, in hindsight, I ... undergraduates, whom we admitted, in the main, four years ago. In the intervening

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / MISTI

  This Entry is Really Long. And my pictures won't upload :(Edit: Actually, they finally did! Yay!

  

  beautiful monument. I don’t know how I convinced Linh to brave hours under the ... time of my life – outside in perfect 75-degree weather, the one jacket I ... the most difficult concepts taught in 8.01 (Physics I: Classical

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 28, 2010