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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skipping Class and Failing Bio A practical guide to poor life choices

  

  format, and it’s only mandatory to the extent that attendance comprises ... failing the course. 7.012 is a GIR, which means I have to pass it to ... morning came and went. I wore a suit to the final, because if I was going to

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 29, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Beauty, xkcd, and my classes The problem with me.

  

  This post is about the classes I'm taking - and is a case in xkcd ... we struck the glass, it would ring with a frequency identical to that ... glass to fall apart from each other are the same vibrations of a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Three things I didn’t learn from class behold, the listicle

  

  . Everyone playing is split to two teams, and each team is given the same word ... a knob to raise the handguard, turn the machine on, and push ... left, and I still needed to use a drill. So I cut out the floor symbols

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 26, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: What do those ROTC kids do during summer…? guest post by Karen C. '20

  

  Training is a mandatory program that cadets usually attend the summer after ... they would take. She went on a visit to the Beppu “Hells” and the ... designs and shrouds. He also had the opportunity to fly a high performance

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 23, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  To the 2024s: Wishing You the Most don't be scared of growth

  

  community to be a smooth journey. The process is inherently one that requires growth to navigate and survive. Two years later, I can see the importance ... come to a close and I was trying out my shiny new label of "MIT student

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 1, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  A day at Seaborg Technologies interning at a nuclear startup in Denmark

  

  design process is in the works, and it’s been interesting to see how all ... . There’s much to build, and a lot for me to learn.   10:30 [caption ... idea for how to simplify the model, so I poked around with that for a bit

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Application Materials? What to do if your MyMIT tracking shows missing documents.

  

  multiple processing steps. Every application is evaluated using the same criteria, whether it is the very first or very last application read. There ... have designated MIT at a score recipient, you are all set; there is no

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Love Poetry The amount of poetry I write is inversely proportional to the amount of sleep I…

  

  that class? The work is tough, and never will relent. 8.022 makes ... a study of human nature as it is a story: the best way to describe it ... remember) here?" A brunette near the front of the room slowly stood up, and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Infinite] Quarter Mile quarters + packing tape + sore knees == help cure MS

  

  is also the site of other activities, which, in that MIT way, manage to be serious and silly at the same time. For example, today is the ... visits at least once every day. Because it's MIT, the Infinite is also a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  yo-yos, comics, and other adventures my junior spring schedule!

  

  assignment is a pre-lab, due the day of one's lab section, and another is a ... of material to cover, and this is a CI-M; but it seems convoluted and ... taking 60 units and a UROP, which is not terribly more sane than previous

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline Update Submit your MIT Part 1 and 2 by Jan 3, 2013 at 11:59pm EST

  

  also go there to download teacher recommendation forms and the secondary ... , there is a giant pyramid of mail that we are working as quickly as ... flexible with the deadline, and as such, we've extended the deadline to

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • January 3, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  recently read words absorbed by my brain

  

   Normal People, and this short story is a predecessor to the novel, featuring Marianne and Connell. There’s a sentence in this story I keep coming back to ... repeats that action and travels again through the action, but it is a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 3, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  3.A03 Metalsmithing Throughout Time come to MIT, get to forge metal with your bare hands!! (and a hammer)

  

  advising seminars, because I am in one and I like it a lot! The idea is that ... starts, everyone who opted in is assigned to a seminar and an advisor ... ", or "the department actually doesn't want to freshmen to do that and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Transfer App Is Live For current college students hoping to enter MIT in the Spring of 2013

  

  Application is live and available for download. A few important notes and reminders: The transfer application deadline is November 15. (There will be another cycle in the Spring with a February 15 deadline.) There

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where did my Summer Go? Written 30,000 feet above the ground in a giant piece of metal

  

  that they chose me – the inexperienced and very young intern – to travel ... Galveston, which is the Island south of Houston. We went to Moody Gardens and ... family and friends. That night, we got to the beautiful guesthouse for the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 15, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  So we’re actually *identical* twins which is surprising to absolutely ... no one

  

  identical, and the only way to know for certain is with a DNA test. If the DNA ... told they were identical. Here is a diagram to sum up the relationship ... ! And then she sent this to the blogger group chat, and our nicknames in

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 27, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Value of Creativity Sí, se puede.

  

  admissions. Over the year and a half that I've been here, after meeting ... to seek extra help?" are a few of the common questions that are running ... above the pandemonium and trying to instill a sense of order into the kids

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m more than twice as old as when I started my blog Rumors of my relevance are greatly exaggerated

  

  In 2004, I applied to MIT.  It was a paper form, the first part, and ... and randomly attended the same alumni event.  We joke that we would not ... with a 15-year run (and counting) in my chosen field, peeking behind the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  Snow has arrived and shut down the Institute

  

  firehouse across the street) and a call from our team captain saying that the ... , running errands and working. Today was supposed to be much of the same, but ... 18 inches of snow, and ice on the roads to close schools. Being as

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 12, 2011
• Blog / Residential Life

  memorial for a dorm goodbye east campus (for now)

  

  the fact that it has been that long, and it's way longer compared to ... the sides, and you can't bring up the middle to be the same height as ... years that this room has lived i've only been here to bear witness a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 6, 2023