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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  It’s Nice to Meet You Finding my confidence through inline skating.

  

  unlearn a bad habit, it reminded me that we all are learning. It can be hard to feel like you’re making any progress at MIT. A lot of progress is ... realized that the responsibility of a teacher is about guiding those who can

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • March 29, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Snapshot Statshot A quick look at some numbers from this year's admissions process.

  

  rate fell nearly a percentage point, from 12.5% to 11.6%. This year's rate, approximately 1 in 9, is a lot lower than when I applied in 1996 (1 ... international students saw a marked increase. There were 3,086 international

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  day one, six out of eight am i doing too much?

  

  call. 19:40. the sipb meeting is adjourned. you can probably guess that ... 09:35. i hobble out of bed and pour myself some milk. there's a ... class. there's still a ridiculous amount of snow. 10:05. my first class

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A love letter to psets Masochists In Training

  

  [context for the non-MIT folks out there: a pset, or problem set, is ... can be soul-crushing. But you can also be intensely rewarding.  There ... starting to get a little idea of what being a scientist feels like.  You can

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Mustaches in the airport, Daleks in the library, and Food in many stomachs French House winter traditions

  

  , you're wondering WHO COULD POSSIBLY EAT THAT MUCH FOOD??? The answer is ... one more guess. Secret Santa reveals him or herself, and there is much ... music. I managed to keep my identity a secret :) I LOVE YOU CAITLIN

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 27, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bruno Recalibration

  

  is the final day MIT students can "drop" a class. MIT is fairly ... Initiative: "Planet Earth is a monument to the magnificent complexity that can ... the Smoot, is a uniquely MIT unit of measure. Brush up on some of your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  An MIT Community Vigil for Black Lives

  

  . You can watch a [annotation note='We can only easily embed YouTube clips ... this vigil was a compelling and moving event where speakers shared their ... . If you don't have time to watch the full video, you can [annotation

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Fall Semester random happenings, senior year edition

  

  .091 = “three-oh-nine-one" There is no apparent logic to this. But when a group ... /minors I am graduating with, and that is a learning moment for all the ... change, but that is totally ok as long as you keep track of requirements

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Events

  How do you convince MIT students to dress nicely? as with most things in life, the secret involves free food

  

  popular, in fact, that I'm told there was a 50-person waitlist, and my ... only member of the media there.  Arriving a few minutes early, I spotted a reporter from the Boston Globe: There were also a few

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 30, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Past, present, and future

  

  years from now, so some of you might have a vested interest in knowing ... there's going to be a lot of talk about this over the next few months ... 'm on have exploded with commentary, and there will be a survey and a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  #scretious and bunnies!

  

  way to describe it is as the new cultural phenomenon. It is a word ... local explanation is this (from Tumblr): You may be wondering how to use ... , anything can be scretious, good or bad. The word is so versatile that it can

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So you think you want to be a doctor: Pre-med at MIT

  

  test can give you credit) -A biology laboratory (there are couple to ... Harvard is B+/A- centered.) There is pressure to get good grades, but you ... coolest show ever? Can you imagine yourself becoming a cardio

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Danger Danger! Listen to Burt, duck and cover!

  

  there in a parking lot, but looks can be deceiving. Have you ever seen ... (which, thanks to a guy named Ohm, means you'll die). Your best bet is to ... on the same sign, together, you can bet that there's some serious stuff

  • by Snively '11
  • January 23, 2008
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can I get a copy of MIT Facts?

  MIT Facts is a pocket-sized compendium of essential facts about the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Unfortunately, we don't mail the booklets, but you can find it online!
• Blog / About Decisions

  Rejects, I feel your pain! I've never been stung by a bee, but I imagine it felt sort of like…

  

  /hoping/moving on independently. Like a delicate new relationship, you can't be too ... getting into any school. But even in that case, all you can do is be ... of us. Wait until you apply for jobs... then you don't even receive a

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 19, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  tick tick tick and the euphoria of it stopping

  

  institute is always churning.  tick There's a constant sound in the back of my ... help with math homework? Do you have a favorite fruit? Is your high ... quietest moments of the night, you can find someone mulling away over work

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • November 16, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains, Voltaire’s Son, and Other MIT Things Notes from the Start of Junior Year

  

  inevitably there is at least one final post by a student in their final year at ... Project” (source). There's also Professor Robert Weinberg, who is “a pioneer ... grow here. (Yuliya K. '18) Is there a word for being utterly thrilled

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ

  

  . This means you come from a long line of educated people, who had the ... fundamentally unfair. Selective college admissions is a zero sum game: every ... , that “alumni relations” are “not considered.” And I can tell you, from

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

  Wandering through the Infinite 3.5ish years of wandering MIT, squeezed into like one month

  

  there's normally nobody there at night and you can go as fast as you want ... fact, Infinite 3 is a prime location to catch [annotation note="if you ... in the Stud, I realized that there were a lot of cool things on the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Philosophy Things liberty, property, consent - that kind of stuff

  

  that said, here is a comic that makes me laugh, which you should go read ... there. A second important takeaway is that the language we use to describe ... there is no a priori justification for favoring the most restrictive

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 11, 2016