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• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  - like Sam, who does a beautiful Flight of the Conchords impression, or ... the consensus that Nina is one of the best-dressed people on our floor ... signed by the Harvard professor, your advisor, and the director of the HASS

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sunny day – Sweepin’ the clouds away On my way to where the air is sweet.Can you tell me how to get,…

  

  offered the explanation of his obsession with The Simpsons. I dare you to ... meal of the day. Instead of inspiring me to eat a balanced breakfast ... important meal of the day normally starts my day with a feeling of guilt

  • by Snively '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  It’s not all happy I know, shocker!

  

  of image concerning my life at MIT: While true some of the time, I ... in the easiest physics class offered). Getting sick, dragging myself to ... focusing on the play, but the work is certainly there. For those of you who

  • by Snively '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Admissions Decisions Available Online MIT Regular Action admissions decisions are now available at https://decisions.mit.edu.

  

  admit rate of 10%, or about one of every ten applicants. We have offered a ... together a class. I know I speak for all of the admissions officers when I ... the large numbers of very, very qualified applicants. It made reading

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  18.S190 that's .0093 more than 18.S097!

  

  , for-credit, in-the-catalog-of-classes class, at MIT. That I teach. On ... the math department, there are four versions of one class known as real ... communication intensive versions of A and B but this is fairly besides the point

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT part 3 the people who make it all possible

  

  in the first part of this series, that allowed us to spend our freshman ... , from the fellow artists to the lead of the project to the speakers that ... Augmented Reality on top of traditional 2D animation. The AR chair at the time

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 17, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Fixing a trapeze! then hanging upside-down on it

  

  most of what the studio above my old middle school had to offer, but at ... swung around and spun each other very fast. The tire swing reminded me of ... . After a late night of work, the trapeze is finally flight-ready!  

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher

  

  , in a word, frenetic. I loved all of my classes (or at least the idea of ... deadlines that I never had time to appreciate and absorb the material. Some of ... questions correctly. I felt like I lost sight of the forest for the trees, and

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Spring this time, with on-campus features!

  

  -S requirement and luckily for me 9.00 is offered in the spring time! I'm really ... majority of the time exploring different psychological experiments and tests ... 'll admit I wasn't a fan of this lecture at all. The professor opened us

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: I’ll be at Maker Faire Bay Area this weekend and so will other people from MIT

  

  slightly outdated) version of Marty's talk on the same topic at last year ... Sunday, or tomorrow, or whenever, to check out any of the MIT things going ... I blog a lot of retrospective trip reports (see, e.g., ISEF 2016, IOI

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  I asked people at MIT what they were doing for Pi Day 2025 something is rising... 3/14/25 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  ) "On the 14th of March, MMXXV, The High Elders foretold a cursed festivity. The Moon shall glow ablaze, like a dragon’s eye, A drop of scalding ... hallway that passes through the main campus, I noticed a prominent trail of

  • by Jebby B. '25
  • March 7, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  Thank You for unity and kindness

  

  became streaks down the dry skin of my cheek. And eventually became a loud ... . Togetherness. Gratitude. Today, the MIT community gathered for a Vigil of Hope ... -encompassing as pain and fear. Different kinds of tears ran down my cheek as the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 18, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1 Recent questions, answered.

  

  citizenship and they got rejected coz of the opposite reason, that's why I am ... applying to a school that I already sent the scores to? (of course MIT isn ... plenty of students every year who were not admitted to one of the programs

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  6.115 Microcomputer Lab! literally the coolest class i've taken so far

  

  of being difficult, but 6.115 hit the rare sweet spot of being ... the lines of "a small computer" or "a single chip designed to do things ... that some of my friends were in the same boat. Lab was a whole 'nother

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 16, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I can tell that we are gonna be friends (part 1) I'm talking to you, Alan Guth.

  

  So...remember that time, way back at the end of first semester, when ... the father of the inflationary theory of the universe - and figured, in ... the most of your time at MIT, and for working towards completion of your

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / Events

  (Still) Celebrating the 150th! Boy oh boy is it delicious (and free!)

  

  -campus dining options; there's a huge cooking culture in many of the dorms, as ... still think MIT's the place that can't be beat; the majority of my ... . In fact, I don't think I'd ever had any sort of Mexican food beyond the

  • by Cam T. '13
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Always the Art Kid many many many identities

  

  lot of students enter as the "science kid" or some other variation only to be faced with the realization that a significant portion of the ... mainly mean this in the sense that a lot of my favorite memories have been

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 28, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Welcome back into my life, crutches The universe's way of telling me to sit my butt down and study

  

  (except that Sam was wearing a suit jacket at the time) which drew a lot of ... showing you two more pictures from the evening. The first is of me with my bff Sophie :) and the second is an unfortunate candid shot of me; my now

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Rrrrrrr. CPW! [UPDATE] CPW Smoke. Don't breathe this.

  

  . Bryan '07 offered all of the prefrosh blog readers a chance to write a ... have a couple of things I need to tell y'all. First, Blendie (the Rrrrrrr part of the title). I could devote an entire entry just to this, but

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT, You Make Me Wanna Wait! Between high school and MIT, I took two years to travel and work as a…

  

  (Come to the 3rd floor of the Student Center at 12 noon on Friday of ... about why this can be a really good idea.) So you got into one of the ... ’ve always dreamed of (and, no doubt, the one everyone *expects* you to have

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 8, 2007