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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring a little life update

  

  ’m taking 16.343. The main assignment in 16.343 is a very open-ended sensor ... much harder problem. At a very high level, BeaverCube is difficult to ... ’m claiming this spring as a “research semester.” This is mostly an aspirational

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 23, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Hip-Pop – Konnecting Souls Part of the MIT series "Hip-Pop in French: Contemporary Theater, Film, Dance, Comics and Graphic…

  

  Technologies: A Talk and Demonstration Part of the series Hip-Pop in French ... Cultural Services of the Consulate General of France in Boston A choreographer and composer, Franck II Louise is a pioneer of the French hip

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 4, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Answer these 13 questions and we’ll reveal the perfect dorm for you! What does your favorite dorm animal say about where you should live?

  

  prefrosh (sorry that this quiz is so late lol). I dormspammed the survey in ... store as what they can't live without. Random is a cook-for-yourself dorm ... 's attractions is being one of two dorms with built-in AC. 83.3% — Random, also

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Scary Tails and College Essays Three bad puns, two bloggers, one post.

  

  , in a car, in your stereotypical scary movie setting. An intersection in ... responded with much glee, mostly because I wanted to use a cheesy pun (double ... I think that the three-dimensional you, quirks and all, is a lot more

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 31, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Some recommendations about recommendations Some things to think about as you look for letters from teachers.

  

  write your letter, and to have a conversation about it. This is a much ... will respect their time. So whether your application deadline is about a ... , and how you see yourself as a match for each place. Teachers often find

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to (Im)properly Cross Register a step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  commute again and email is a thing. Step 9: Attach said signature to your ... actually happening right now and go in person to the class (which is almost ... = A WHOLE 2 DAYS OF WAITING IN LIMBO ~2 days pass~ Step 17: Go yet

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 20, 2017
• Blog / How to MIT

  “Learning To Learn At MIT” guest post by the plaz

  

  , someone always interrupts me because there is a class scheduled in there ... get a B- in 8.01. I have no clue how that happened; I am guessing that it is due to homework. There is so much going on a MIT that I cannot

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 2 The next installment of my saga...

  

  beginning—a very good place to start, I think I’ll have to start in the middle ... they are of value to us in the process. A number of students called me ... . You already have lots in common. They love MIT as much as you do, or

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breadsticks and Business Just remember, undergrads are like puppies in the eyes of an alum

  

  , Kevin is amazed with how much he’s learned in such a short amount of time ... course 2A (a flexible degree in mechanical engineering) startup cofounder ... students in GEL program, and I love the opportunity to meet students from a

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Somebody Else Seven undergrad blogs not enough for you? Now some of them have multiple authors.

  

  Urban Planning, having declared a HASS concentration in Economics, and continuing to tell the world that Political Science at MIT is ranked 10th in ... . The school's mission is to prepare its students, that arrive a few

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Answered Questions, answers, and Sam's face. This is the real MIT.

  

  . Trevor is a fantastic web designer with really good taste in music (whose ... conversation: ME: But you think this is a good idea? HIM: As in, doing it? ME ... mean that it's pretty much my life...) in FFA. Is there anything at MIT

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  too much like a sieve. I saw a Tweet that says: if ur self-narrative is ... this is all cope. Like, maybe I got a B in that one class because I ... particularly interesting struggle. It’s not a heartbreak immortalized in song

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Impossible Design Project See what it's like to be a Course VI student.

  

  magnetic disk, in spite of the fact that flash memory is distinctly unlike a ... giving you one of my problems to take a look at. 6.033 is Computer Systems ... .033/www/dp1/. Feel free to submit solutions in the comments. My one

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  The Art of Juggling please take away my balls

  

  string is everywhere, splayed out in front of me like...like...well, I was gonna say like guts in a murder scene, but maybe that's a tad bit too ... 's very therapeutic. One ball. This is fine. Then, in some wave of magical

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  My Favorite (Kitchen) Things cue julie andrews singing

  

  known how much I love my microplane. But a tweet didn’t feel like enough ... is too much! Squeeze just a little bit, and you get a partially ... disagree with me, but this is just how I do it. With the egg in the middle

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 7, 2021
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What are the housing/dining options?

  Housing is a huge part of undergraduate life at MIT. You choose where you live, and each living group is a community with its own distinct ... as important as where you live is what and how you eat. At MIT, you may
• Blog / Events

  Thoughts on coming home With guest appearances by MIT's Dean for Student Life, the communist dracula, Roman lasagna, and…

  

  airport, a rhapsody in grey shattered once by an outburst of sunrise over ... in which time had absolute meaning and humans had free will over ... (incorrect) arrows for a few J-pop-filled hours in the Random Hall basement

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 29, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Stressful Times in my opinion, the best advice, ever.

  

  !) For me, being a senior in high school reminded me all too often about how ... just how powerful and true that piece of advice was. You see, as a ... well I needed to do on the next exam to get an A in the class. I thought

  • by Ana V. '15
  • December 11, 2012
• Blog / Events

  A Trip to AfroTech My Recap of the AfroTech Conference in Houston

  

  ; The flight was around 4 hours, and we touched down in the city a little ... check our stuff in so me and a group of others made a lunch trip to Chick-fil-A ... hotel bed after months on my TwinXL dorm bed in the morning was a battle

  • by Richard O. '28
  • November 30, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  up, down, and out some moments from the last month

  

  around to see if anybody is interested in going for a walk. Catherine M ... _grid images="65637,65638" /] There is so much beauty in the world when my eyes ... , but that its loss is hardly a disaster. down. In the past month, there

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 5, 2021