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• Blog / Challenges

  Life, IHTFP, and Everything answer: 42 (and snow!)

  

  fear of high places. I talked to my roommate until early morning, though ... abandoned in the midnight heat, and only the steady murmur of the Charles ... of a mysterious domain. MIT’s Big Dome shrank to a tiny dot a million

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  wow. my first three weeks being an actual student actually at mit

  

  too. Neither of these are things I ever thought would happen, so that ... 'm still in a state of shock (so try to forgive me if this post is all over the place). The idea of MIT never became a reality to me until I

  • by Joe B. '18
  • September 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m sitting on my bed right now so sleepy

  

  Pain, only to find out that they were out of chocolate chip cookies ... characteristics of ourselves that we aren't proud of and are trying to fix. Now I ... joined a group of people from New House 3 (a neighboring living group) and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer to Remember – Interphase or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Institvte!

  

  grades where life is at its best. Where one stays up until 4am, not out of necessity but out of enjoyment, and wakes up when it can no longer be ... years I didn't have a book to read, a paper to write or a set of problems

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  A Three-part IAP sababa* in more than one way

  

  guess I’ll come out and say it: I skipped the first week of classes ... Israel was only the last piece of my IAP this year. I spent the first week ... 10 days rowing, eating and sleeping. And video review of course. It’s a

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have such cool friends! A guest post by a good friend of mine from my undergrad days.

  

  've been insanely busy reading thousands of applications - probably many of ... cool that I just heard about recently... One of my very good friends ... -founder, Chris '09, and one of my other friends, Scot '08). They founded a start

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Zone Cell Challenge Why work when you can hack other people's servers?

  

  There are lots of things I should have been doing this weekend. There ... to program a Turing machine - it's due Thursday. Or the revision of my ... design I'm going to write up). Or either of the psets in my other two

  • by Evan B. '10
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  What Is Your LΔ? What about heart? What about determination? What about resilience?

  

  One of the first things that I learned about MIT is that everyone ... of the MIT blogs you probably have an affinity for math.) In an effort ... me, you need to know that my definition of LΔ is the following: (L

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soy Bomb Doo d-d-doo d-d-doo d-do d-do. Ice tea!

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Igor Stravinsky has a star on the Hollywood Walk of ... creator of an appropriate dispostion--the article was indeed about ... possibility of incorporating a formic acid fuel cell into a handheld cell phone

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sorry 6.003 Wherein my senioritis starts getting just a little ridiculous.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? If you drink one can of soda every day for six months ... drinking that soda. Thanks to Shilpa for telling me that dubious bit of ... print out a copy of this entry and submit that. So in 6.003 there are

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  [guest post] crumbly fruit and the importance of keeping at it by Caleb M. '27

  

  , Host of Porcelain Cow (7pm Sundays), and Membership Director for WMBR 88 ... once it’s frozen, you throw it in a food processor with a bit of lemon juice and a bit of honey and you process it until it’s smooth. That’s how

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 13, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  bucket lists, grocery lists, and a li(s)tany of other things this is actually just an excuse to make people list-en to me talk about minecraft

  

  Zedaph, and the continuous theme of his Hermitcraft Season 9 adventures has been what he calls “Zedvancements.” On top of the standard advancements that are already a part of the game, he’s come up with his own challenges

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  every class i went to during the first week of fall all *checks notes* twelve of them

  

  I went to a lot of classes in the first week of the fall semester ... Intelligence, and if there's a class I'm investing a lot of effort into this ... Learning. Wednesday, 11 AM. Stayed for the entire class. I took part of this

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 11, 2022
• FAQ / First-year application

  How can I explain the context of my grades/scores, and/or provide additional information?

  On the application, there are designated spaces to provide additional context on how the pandemic or other circumstances may have disrupted your coursework, access to testing, and extracurricular activities. If you feel it…
• Blog / Academics & Research

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  semblance of order instead of confusion-despair-and-fear, and suddenly my ... particle ping-ponging inside of a box. I also want to get out of this box, because this box is sad and boring, and there’s a whole wide world of

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-India student interns at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

  

  monastery 30 minutes outside of Kathmandu. This includes teaching English ... /interests without a constant stream of deadlines helped me develop as a student and ... Vishal Sood when I was in Ahmedabad for Garba. There are of course many

  • by MISTI Program
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s the middle of November. Do YOU know where your Early Action application components are? How to tell if they are missing, and what to do about it

  

  (relatively small but still nonzero number of) Early Action applicants for whom we are still missing a component of their application. Typically we have pretty reliable email delivery, but just in case some of you didn

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  Montreal a.k.a my awesome birthday blog a.k.a the end of IAP Photo's! Adventure! It's like a comic book, but real!

  

  institute of technology went back to class for reals on February 3rd. Before all this, (or at the same time if you're Dr. Manhattan) the graph of ... spectacular finale not seen since the likes of 4th of July. Days left vs

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 27, 2009
• Blog / Blog Projects

  where is south dakota again? and other fun questions for your south dakotan friends

  

  particularly notable. On the other hand, knowing all of the South Dakotans who ... interviewer had set up a meeting for all of us. I met another two South Dakotans ... [/annotation] from South Dakota this year. Naturally, I put all of them on a mailing

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 3, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  The First-Year Application for the MIT Class of 2025 is now live

  

  -year undergraduate admission to MIT for the aspiring Class of 2025 is now live. You can ... . However, we have also added a set of optional questions across [annotation ... know that many of you have experienced such disruptions due to the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2020