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• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Major, Course 6-9 computation and cognition

  

  whatever classes they want, within the constraint of satisfying their degree ... experiences with Course 6-9 and give an overview of what the major is like ... departments! It was announced in the spring of 2019 and remains MIT

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Physical Olivia Newton-John, I am not, but I can still pretend.

  

  charge of the physical education (PE) requirement that MIT students have the privilege of completing before grdauation. You can read more about ... set to a wide range of modern music. We begin by teaching you the calls

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  SSP aka summer science program aka summer sleep program aka silly science people aka summer solstice…

  

  meet people outside of the bubble I was in.  Any fears I might have had ... full day of SSP. the metaphors write themselves[/caption] In my six ... the foothills of a desert mountain. [carousel image1="111121" image2

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  GTL Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 [IAP 2025] A January I won't forget

  

  "]GTL[/annotation] started with the warmest welcomes. On the very first day of the program, I walked through the front entrance of the Shoqan School and was serenaded by ... ! Bakhadir, the principal of Shoqan, gave us a very warm welcome while

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Search Continues On the internship search and deciding what I want to do with my life.

  

  tough deciding which one I'd like. The allure of one offer is that their ... of The compressive properties and function-composition relationships of ... summer internship? So one of the services MIT provides is the Career

  • by Bryan
  • November 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Want To Build a Robot? it doesn't have to be a robot (see: electric gokart section)

  

  Below is one of the robots I built for 2.007, MIT's extremely popular ... "robot" I ever built, on the first day of 2.007: Before I took 2.007, I ... , I was comfortable with all of these tools, thanks in large part to the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Warning: Contains Biology This entry may be unsuitable for children, liberal arts majors, and mathematicians.

  

  a Course 20 degree, only one of them is, strictly speaking, Course 20. But that's actually part of the point of biological engineering: it is a ... they want to do for the rest of their lives, anyway? As I was saying

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 14, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Why I’m Baking Cookies Tonight. IAP is a beautiful time to do lots of something or lots of nothing. Or…

  

  I am the type of person that occasionally gets carried away with what ... snowmen in the moat of the chapel. We celebrated my birthday ... stretched out over a week earlier in the month. It was epic- some of the Bluth

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 15, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Brass Rat The Brass Rat is not a subtle thing.

  

  distributed at a swanky event at Top of the Hub, a very classy restaurant at the top of Boston's Prudential Tower. (In case anybody missed the implication, Top of the Hub is not somewhere students usually have the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Quick Guide to Adobe Illustrator The very basics, for people who have never used it

  

  the left of "Advanced" to get to that setting). This is what you should ... change the size of each page by clicking the symbol boxed in solid Basics There's a bunch of tools to the left side of the screen. Every icon with

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • February 19, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breaking Normal From Freshman Spring Archives

  

  in. After my nap, I will head over to the west parallel of East Campus ... . The rest of the day promises no surprises. I’ll need to find food, wash ... hamper of laundry. The thought of transporting a bag of dirty clothing

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Things Fly for a living.

  

  stability. He talks about the 120 degree separation of the fins and their ... obscene hours of the morning to attend a 2 hour long double lecture. And you ... maximizing the height of trajectory. You may do anything to the bottle except

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  MISTI-India: Community Health Internship The MISTI experience of Gilad Evrony '07.

  

  just the tip of the iceberg of what MIT has to offer for international ... occurred to me that although MIT is one of the best places in the world to learn how to solve problems, many of the world's most pressing problems

  • by MISTI Program
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Mussels and Brussels Lessons in engineering and culture from a nation of kindness

  

  me to a few rounds of “the ninja game,” offered us a drive ... some sort of Magic School Bus episode, let me assure you that the ... miles) south of Brussels. On my first day, the Research and Development

  • by MISTI Program
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action this year I'm so impressed with our applicants

  

  students represent some of the best minds and exceptional stars of our future ... exceptionally talented, intelligent individuals. The highly selective nature of ... to take. We wish all of these students the best of luck in the rest of

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 19, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tasty water, the Charles River, and other things that are not synonymous First post!

  

  hundreds of wonderful and intelligent female students but also the best ... , filtered deliciousness from a burbling water fountain while the attentions of the actual residents were occupied by festivities of a barbecueous

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’ve got Mail! And a LAPTOP! Why I can breathe again, and the 10 most recent emails in my inbox.

  

  these events? ALL OF THE FOLLOWING happened at roughly the same time: 1 ... ! Better leave it off for a couple of weeks to let it dry out. 3) The company ... the usual email informing me of its arrival, so it took a week to figure

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living Like A Native Or living like a boss. Your choice.

  

  , the Saferide Cambridge West shuttle (after 6 pm), and as of late, my ... that were at MIT, and the slightly more pressing issue of getting around ... 's the coolest way to get around.)But I'm getting ahead of myself. On to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Math. by Joy ‘13 I’m not a complete nerd…but I am convinced that math is a language

  

  number which is also placed on a map by the degrees of longitude and ... language. And it’s the only language that all of us in the world understand ... knowledge…we are almost like the people of Babylon. We are able to communicate

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap (again) About deferring admission for a year, also known as a gap year.

  

  about the possibility of deferring admission, also known as taking a gap year. In the interests of time, I'm going to reprint an entry (edited ... required. The University of Chicago says it will grant deferrals for almost

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2006