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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Whew! A brief interlude before I go back to studying.

  

  Hi Everyone! It's been quite a while since I last blogged. MIT can be ... interest in physics, even if you don't plan on majoring in course 8. At the very least, it will make you question how the world around you works. In

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 10, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Melancholia [by Faye '11] A beautiful movie about the end of the world.

  

  . The end of the world counts as a stressful situation, in my opinion, but ... that I would have had to wait half an hour to get in. Seeing a smaller line to the side, I asked the doorman about the differences in the queues

  • by ARTalk
  • November 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where have I been for so long?

  

  Sorry I haven't posted in such a long time. You see, I've been very hosed this IAP. "But it's IAP," you say, "How can you be hosed?" Well ... system control techniques. As you can see if you look closely, and know

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  How I got recruited to play D3 soccer at MIT the college sports recruiting process

  

  time, and you can be recruited into junior and senior year. My entire ... scholarship? Does the school offer the majors you’re interested in? What conference does the school play in (what teams would you be playing against

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  L@@K at the Class of 2015 profiles in greatness? a great profile? or both?

  

  One thing you may have missed in the site switchover is the fact that ... try to provide as much data as we can to make our process as transparent as possible. But before you get to the numbers, here are just a few of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 20, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  poem snippets searching for hope amidst darkness

  

  . i hope that you can find solace or hope in some of these words ... ="113867" /] the days walk by and i wait and i wait, i wait and i wait for you to come and the leaves come and they leave and i stand by the tree where you

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Arma virumque cano: a guest post by Quynh N. ‘15 Why you should take Old English at MIT

  

  the power of the humanities at MIT—the work you do in the humanities can be just as exciting as anything you may encounter in the sciences. You ... interests. To be a student at MIT means you can have these totally different

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 11, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  NIGHTMARISH THOUGHTS fear of technology

  

  should have an idea.) And then I dwell on the fact that you can soon ... . And that’s also one thing you can’t change about technology: it won’t ever stop. You can stand back, observe - but eventually fall behind and

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hello? Pick up your phones!!

  

  to CPW if you can! It played a huge role last year in my final decision ... work at it. If you have three tests coming up in next week, you might ... 't happen :) CPW is basically four days of nothing but fun, where you can

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 16, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Day, the Year I Applied what I learned in college about application struggles

  

  rules still haunt you in your writing. You can’t break them without a ... alternative vision, I'm happy too. Happier? Possibly. In this Universe, I can ... in the woods for an hour, meditating in a special way. You watched a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You Can Plan a Pretty Picnic ... but you should also research the weather.

  

  ... but you should also research the weather. I am still mentally ... in Zambia. To make a long story short, the only road to Mwape (the ... . Instead, we spent more time in the capital city of Lusaka, where we: 1) met

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Could Write a Song a Hundred Miles Long I only sing Coldplay because it will help me get girls.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? In his second autobiography, published in 1991, Wilt ... contemporary music herself, said, "Okay, so, for the songs, you can do anything ... at MIT that you can be this sassy with all of your professors! I think

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  class sketching an adventure in speedrunned pedagogy

  

  potentially go on forever if the input is not in the language, and then you can ... , and see what types of models can solve what kinds of problems. In effect ... of time, and if you have an algorithm to recognize a language, it can

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • December 23, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring in hindsight reviewing my journal

  

  just that good and that it could melt in your mouth like that. I can say ... where you can plan the classes you want to take every semester and keep ... experiences that stand out to me. I present to you a brief highlight of the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 28, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  “@Andi you know how with ultra hand you can rotate objects in 45 ... of enemies in seconds. And the fact that you can build functional ... [/annotation] asked me over Discord one day, “how many unique [orientations] can you

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Help@MIT welcome to student resources

  

  , in my mind, is the mega-resource.  You can go to them for just about any significant issue - and if they can't help you, they'll know who can ... what in the world we're saying.  No, maybe you're sick!  Or down!  Or

  • by Piper '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Upside-down and Reversed: Photography at MIT [by Biyeun Buczyk ‘10] I came to MIT thinking I’d put art aside for the…

  

  , and it’s where you can put his invention to work in 6.163: Strobe ... uses a lot of water. You can see in the photo above that there are two ... can be a little creepy at times, especially when you’re alone in

  • by ARTalk
  • March 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Almost Famous You probably think this entry is about me.

  

  . And you should know that. It also resulted in me getting this delightful ... DID YOU KNOW? "This Jesus Must Die" from Superstar really sounds a lot like "People Are Strange" by The Doors. Hurry up, I think you only

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The DHL Fiasco I really want to thank those of you (you know who you are) who turned…

  

  Hi folks. Hope everyone had a good weekend. Mine was good until the DHL fiasco, but thanks to many of you, that was a lot better than it could have been. I really want to thank those of you (you know who you are

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keep it simple, stupid I try to choose classes for the fall. Things get messy.

  

  that it can count towards a concentration in either writing or theater ... have cool things to talk about. I'm sure you're all excited. In the ... -epiphany where I kind of sort of maybe started thinking about majoring in 2A

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 9, 2006