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• Blog / Admissions

  What is the value of college? Food for thought in your college search

  

  country and around the world. Spending time in settings like these is ... requirements for a degree. So students, as you are exploring campuses in the ... I spent the beginning of this week in the company of a select group

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 21, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Gimme a “C”! What a bunch of the cheerleaders are up to this summer. Hint: It's not sitting…

  

  '09 is doing a UROP here at MIT. And that's all I know (or can ... - Debt Capital Markets (DCM) Where? NYC Details: I get to work on a ... . note: Yes, he is a boy. And he is a boy who gets to hang out with

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A new semester but if I give you my daily schedule here, what will I fill my Facebook…

  

  prom, is "Electrical Engineering and Computer Science", and 6.01 is a ... learned on Java. (for all you coders out there, let me go ahead and say Python>Java is TRUE) I love python, it's so easy to read and it makes a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2009 Brass Rat My highly biased and personal opinions about Ring Premiere.

  

  is anything like mine, it's got a pretty simple design. There's a ... a ring for 1000 people can't be easy, and no one is ever going to be ... you've got to understand that the Brass Rat is a BIG DEAL here. Nearly

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding a Second Home love is where you least expect it

  

  know that this is the place where I can grow, in all sorts of ways (in ... Let’s flash back to a sunny weekend in April, where the grills of MIT ... of what each community has to offer in just three days, but you can

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  Bright IAP a post in two, kind of unrelated, parts

  

  've told that story before. What I want to talk about, is a tiny detail on ... a transwoman, I've finally submitted the documents to change my legal ... part 1: My B. Song: Bright by Echosmith. part 1a: early action A

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  I like to break a mental sweat, too. Missed it by that much.

  

  you fail to field a team. Well, you can't ever waste money, ever ... is that you have a lot of Eastern European women who go "wa-PEE!" when ... and see if I responded. Can't repeat the past? Why, of course you can

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis

  

  ].[/caption]A slightly more sophisticated scale is the Vickers hardness scale ... on MIT’s hardness? Is the measurement process simply too complex for a ... scale. Note that this is plotted on a log scale.[/caption] All numbers

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

  tidbits pieces of advice

  

  should make sure you have time for it in the future. There is no one ... MIT is a very easy place to overload yourself since there's so many ... figure out what you want to do. This is extremely common and really there

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 24, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Good Stuff yeah, man

  

  where you can swap the two roots, which is a very simple symmetry. For ... , then your math is going to be fragile and prone to collapse. You can ... to use. There's even a quartic formula, which is even huger and

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  Need help choosing a MISTI program? MIT-Germany alum Nina Sinatra advises incoming interns to keep an open mind

  

  you are comfortable. Certain countries have more favorable or more ... happy in your location is a valid and important concern, it is equally critical to enjoy the work that you are doing. In my case, I found a good

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 3, 2011
• Blog / Events

  I Survived Week 1 and All I Got Was 10 Lousy T-Shirts a pack rat’s post-orientation reflections on miscellany

  

  You know, it’s not every day that a person chooses to move to a ... year at MIT. But wait, don’t enter yet; you still have about a week ... your understanding of the resources available to you as a new member of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Liveblog] MARC 2025 A sciencey science conference, feature Anika '26 and me

  

  's patenting office (apparently this is a thing and they help you monetize your ... English words, I can describe things in a non-caveman-like way this year ... moments before disaster" /] I heard Anika had a great time cross-country

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  method is to look where I need to be the next day, map out a rough route ... have a confession; actually, it's more of a declaration: In-N-Out is not ... a lot of burger places, and it is not. Instead, In-N-Out is to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  CHICON 2008 by C/4C Adam Fuhrmann '11, C/4C Patrick Ernst '11, and C/4C Daniel Darlington '11

  

  hosted a luncheon for the cadets where we heard an incredible war story ... as FIESTACON and is sure to be every bit as fun and productive and a ... Darlington, Ernst and Fuhrmann traversed the nation to a gathering of

  • by ROTC
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Sorry you didn’t meet me :( I missed Meet-The-Bloggers, and some things on this semester

  

  though, to meet me, that is. You know where I live. Here a special shoutout ... (EDT) Subject: is there a meetthebloggers party and am i invited? -lulu ... of their host stars). The project is very ambitious for a 2 million

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hi, (gasp!) I’m Kim Kimd's first post as an admissions blogger!

  

  you can see in my bio, I'm a senior at MIT this year. I'm taking a lot of awesome classes. One of them is 6.131: Power Electronics. It's a lab ... , I've gotten to a point where the workload will be manageable from here

  • by Kim D. '09
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  40 Hours in Cape Cod Take note, I typed this entire post with a broken shift key. Please appreciate the…

  

  , there appeared a smudge of soft carpet, buttery lamplight, burnished wood ... bizarre statuettes, Alex does art in MIT's Media Lab. There was a coffee table in the basement, but I interpreted it as a boat, which is what my

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 27, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  How to Make a Flashlight MIT-style that is.

  

  machine that you can use to make some precise cuts into a piece by using xyz ... finishing my flashlight :P), but...VOILA! There you have it. A MIT flashlight ... youself to some of the machines I mentioned, you should take a look at the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • August 2, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hometown Heroes The first of articles about awesome MIT '09s.

  

  , the old series about the now rising juniors is worth a read. Back to ... for the blog." If you know Ellen, you know the best thing to do is to do ... dream of becoming a rocket scientist. "That is my dream -- to become a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2005