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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why Apply? Putting your hat in the ring if you're not so sure

  

  . 4. Size. I grew up in a town of about 2,000 people and the idea of ... . In my bio, I mentioned that MIT wasn't on my radar when I was applying ... -lovers). Since I've become a member of the MIT community, I've found the

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 9, 2013
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I don’t have letter grades for some of my coursework or have chosen to take a class pass/fail?

  help us get a better understanding of your mastery in a subject. We ... confidence you have the minimum proficiency in a course to successfully pass ... as testing, what your teachers say, etc., in order to understand your
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tetazoo Goes Camping An adventure to the top of a mountain and a little cabin in the woods

  

  on a rather painful hike in the snow. This camping trip was a little ... supposedly left before ours. So after walking in the woods looking for the ... . After many struggles, we started the fire in a creative way, and sat

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Jonathan Gruber ‘87 (CPW Preview!) Our second CPW Keynote Speaker, Economics Professor Jonathan Gruber '87, answers a few questions in…

  

  come to MIT? A. I chose to come to MIT twice - in 1983 as a student, and again in 1992 as a Professor. In both cases I came here because it was so ... talks, I'll feature a mini-interview with each of them. Prof. Jonathan

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  papurgatory I am demolishing my print budget and my solitary working habits

  

  extension of email purgatory, except in this case I read 115 pages and write a ... ’t always enjoy working in pset groups and b) I spend a lot of time working. I ... procrastinated 115 of them until the day before I had an assignment due on said

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  food diaries pt. 1 ...adulting?

  

  'm loving it. Deciding what I'm going to make in the next week, buying ... indulgent :) Just sauté some spinach (I use frozen) in a pan, add 2-3 eggs ... maple syrup) in a jar and then refrigerate it overnight. Super doable! I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 2, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living with Rain Beyond the umbrella

  

  learned this the hard way. I finally gave in and spent a little more for ... about ruining my notebooks or searching for a big plastic bag before I ... It rains a lot in Boston. There’s not much more you can say about

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 6, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

  is technically a quantum process. But those don’t count! What I really ... ’ve never seen one in real life. But I have, and it was basically just a big ... I don’t believe in quantum physics. Yes, I know that all the math

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  VEDA (Vlog Every Day of April) cami edition

  

  -time vlogging/blogging influence StephenVlog, who I actually wrote about in my ... past 5 years so it is definitely a steep, steep learning curve and I ... entertaining. Nor are these meant to be super entertaining. In fact, I kinda hope

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 19, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Omnibus Followup: Women in Engineering Melissa asks what the gender ratio is in engineering at MIT.

  

  being a woman in engineering here. I had female friends in all of the ... know what the gender ratio is at MIT in engineering (mech ... graduation. Luckily, the situation at MIT is much better -- I spent a few hours

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Events

  How to MC Hammer AKA embarrassing yourself for charity

  

  challenges of varying degrees--I can proudly say I've already seen a concert in ... --participating in a charity event. I got to display the full range of my talents (or ... a Glee themed event, there was little opportunity to go wrong--until I

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Night Vision Funny how "photo"graphy throws you into the dark

  

  techniques to make what I see in my head manifest on paper. It’s emotions-consuming -- when multiple test strips fail to produce what I want, I cry, if only ... time-machine (film? what’s that?)....and a time-warp. The darkroom is

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 8, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life Update It's been an amazing year!

  

  what's been going on in my life so I thought I'd throw together a giant ... solving, Computer Science was what I was really looking for. A few months ... overview of what the last few months have consisted of. I was employed as a

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Events

  The Tale of a Frosh once upon a cold November

  

  Frosh participated in a human-robot interaction study, where she was asked to pummel an innocent robot with a hammer. In return, the Frosh got a ... smell of a wintery freshness. The Frosh and her Best Friend will smile in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 30, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Engineering leadership: the one-hour edition President Hockfield makes a surprise appearance!

  

  . As I hinted at in my last entry, the GEL program had a hands-on hour ... to the requirements specified." Now I mentioned before how GEL students did a similar activity in an Engineering Leadership Lab earlier in

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  World’s Largest Collection of Brains The new Brain & Cognitive Sciences Complex opens tomorrow.

  

  There was a nice article in yesterday's Boston Globe about the ... , stands on what must already be one of the brainiest corners in the world ... patients. But being in a hospital "doesn't necessarily give you the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 1, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Things We Don’t Remember Enough About each other

  

  relationships we have or can have in our lives should be a means of support rather ... can get in the way of relationship-building, but here are three things I ... all together, I think we balance out pretty well. :) A colorful shot

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 22, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Helicopter Flight Training [by CDT Greg Wellman '09] 500 feet above Boston with two MIT Deans.

  

  [by CDT Greg Wellman '09] For the second time in my life, I had the chance to ride in a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter. My first experience was nothing short of incredible, so I jumped at the opportunity. Before I knew

  • by ROTC
  • October 3, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Noise and time chaos and peace in a silver package

  

  what I expected, probably because I went in with no expectations at all. What I didn’t realize was that, in the process, I forgot to do things for ... people; yet, despite interacting with more people in a day than I would in

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 15, 2023
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What are Psets?

  If you're interested in MIT, you have to learn a little bit about psets. Problem sets are the backbone of our teaching in many subjects ... learning tool. In other courses, psets are a substantial portion of the final