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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Boris Alexeev: Solving Graph Theory Problems Boris Alexeev spent five months working on a math UROP with Prof. Daniel Kleitman.

  

  the program, we spent two days presenting our research to a panel of ... a booth right next to Boris'. Despite spending more than fourteen ... 's just that smart. When I sat down with Boris a few weeks ago to hear

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions for 2016 And what I gained after a semester at MIT

  

  students) high school was a relatively straight path. I knew I was going to ... look like. In a year, I would be in college. I would be exposed to more ... chance to reach my fullest potential. To paraphrase a favorite song, it had

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Class Crossover Using engineering leadership while stuck on the wrong side of the internet

  

  emails to various people and attempting to attend a memorial service held ... this was not a surprise to me). Scale up to a finished product http ... to all get an understanding of the situation at hand. Once we had a

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 20, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  I’m Awesome (at) Parkour! and other fun things i'm doing this Independent Activities Period

  

  the IAP acronym, and then spending a quarter of an hour trying to come ... more ways to jump over, onto, and off various objects! I'm taking 18.02A ... master of div, grad, AND curl!!!...which is to say, I'm having a real good

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 22, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  what i ate in a week* living the influencer life (clickbait included)

  

  just tried to write a blog as fast as possible. this is not very high quality as a result and thus i would like to say that this is not ... now i’ve decided to take this less seriously and i was going to do a

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  i don’t know how to comfort people

  

  they don’t want to? it takes a certain amount of trust in someone to ... around them and buzz internally like a fly, wondering whether to do ... i’ve learned that people here rely on each other. in a greuling

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • November 22, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  My Freshman Journey with Internships or: i get rejected a million times in a row

  

  I wanted to write a comprehensive post on my experience with being a ... fact, I didn't even know where to start. My resume was honestly kind of a ... experience." Essentially, the career fair was a slight bust due to my lack of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recollections of a Stranded Traveler IHTFP: I Have To Find a Plane. In the meantime, I reflect on happier interpretations…

  

  Maxwell's Equations in a Vacuum. Certain events, however, tend to stick out ... -cramming. Par example: one of MIT's best A capella groups decided to have a ... biology notes in a sleepthirsty stupor and was preparing to dive into

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Third Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  go for MIT interview?" Eric responded that it would be a good idea to ... here. Anyone with a 720 has the potential to do just as well at MIT as ... once a week or honor organizations that don't do anything." To us, it

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Famous people who didn’t go to MIT Some people are more successful because they turned down admission to MIT.

  

  You don't need MIT to be a success. Don't get me wrong -- I think MIT ... Gillespie applied to MIT from a relatively small public school in Georgia. He was the first applicant from his school to MIT in a long time, perhaps

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nemo Found the effects of cabin fever

  

  on the dot with the blast of a vuvuzela. Thanks to Facebook and the ... early dinner. A beautiful end to a snowy day. Although it's back ... The blizzard helped me and Liz run out of things to do incredibly

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 9, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I’m studying poetry to be a better engineer, and this is why

  

  , em-dashes and alliteration. Why? There is a good argument to be made ... powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.” I’m not going to make ... support for future missions. The goal of my project was to design a

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 14, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The best Metro station ever The Metro does it best.

  

  it.) If anyone has seen a more nerdy/cute billboard, I'd like to hear ... Metro, to get downtown. While I was waiting around the Medical Center station, which is located next to the NIH and my house, I saw this

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 6, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Gotterdammerung and The Barber of Seville [by Xenia '13] Art Scholars go to the Met!

  

  boorish man took the heroine to see a Wagner opera. Being a frilly type of ... a request that she give up the ring to the Rhinemaidens or the gods ... unfurling petals give a magnificent backdrop to the dazzling chandelier

  • by ARTalk
  • March 20, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  N.Y. Times, Page B11: “MIT Guard Shows Brains and Hoops Can Mix” Jimmy Bartolotta '09 leads the 16-5 MIT Men's Varsity Basketball team.

  

  . Bartolotta is a double major in physics and management sciences and expects to ... .0. He would be a sure thing to land a lucrative job in business or science ... to be a first-team all-league selection in the Ivy League. It’s simple

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 6, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  Thinking Outside of Absolutes A short thought piece on thinking about thinking

  

  For a while now, I’ve had this realization that I tend to overthink a lot. And I think this is something a lot of people can relate to. There ... , you want to make a choice that leads to the least regret. So, how else

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s in a name? Is “geek” now chic? Are we happy with the word “nerd”?

  

  love the word nerd, I was quick to post a reply that said something about nerd pride and it being a badge of honor to be called a nerd in my book ... raising his own son to be a nerd. And Ann Hoevel trying to sort out the

  • by Kris Guay
  • July 4, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Optimal Solution It doesn't exist

  

  My first two weeks of GEL kicked off to a great start. I really like ... optimization. Often, you have to make judgement calls of whether to launch a ... us is: It’s better to make a bad decision now than a good one too late

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • September 30, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Kids These Days Don’t Know How Good They’ve Got It and they need to get off my lawn

  

  Once upon a time, when you wanted to know something, you had to find out about it by going to a place, probably not the place you currently were, called a "library." Just imagine. You had to actually

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • October 26, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  A Late Recap of IAP 2020 externing at Microsoft, baking butter mochi, and more!

  

  ") at a variety of companies with MIT alumni. I chose to do an externship ... ). I haven't figured out if I want to pursue a research career within ... comfortable. I was given a laptop, two monitors, and a bluetooth mouse to use

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 6, 2020