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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedilemmas Schedule + dilemma = most incompetent-sounding portmanteau ever

  

  -Euclidean spaces, thermal radiation and early history of the universe, big bang ... , discovered three new species of granola in an unexplored section of the pantry ... of granola flatbread, studied experimental bacon physics for six finger

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 7, 2009
• Blog / Events

  SpaceVision 2010 Space is cool.

  

  want to study the fabric of the universe! I love Physics. Ahhh ... The night of daylight savings, I tried my best to ensure that I would ... incapable I am of doing anything at all in the morning) and confirmed that he

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 13, 2010
• Blog / How to Food

  A week told through food warning: lots of food pictures

  

  Some of you may wonder: how do people eat food without a meal plan? Well, dear mortals, I have perfected the art of photosynthesis and ... winter, rapidly decaying window of daylight, and my delayed sleep schedule

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 18, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  i am overwhelmed. what happens when a pandemic, recession, racial reckoning and recruitment season join forces?

  

  -or-break moment- the last chance you have to make use of your CPT before you ... .031 as much as I do, even though it’s slowly draining the life out of me ... .002 (What was I trying to do, taking 39 CS units of virtual class?) and added

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 29, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2020–2021 application cycle

  

  our students, which they do. We regularly research the outcomes of MIT ... the predictive validity of our decisions with respect to subsequent ... accessible to everyone well in advance of the application deadline

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 13, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Snow! there is (was) snow and it's freezing (or is it?)

  

  off the train, I was greeted by a gulf of freezing wind. I mean ... tunnels instead of freezing and trying to make my way through snow ... path. And somehow I made it to the other side of campus. Somehow. But

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 9, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coming Soon! In which I briefly account for my I-haven't-been-blogging-so-much-recently shenanigans

  

  a great degree of compassion and commitment, and I greatly look ... all of this will be going up on the blogs quite soon, but first, a brief taste of what to expect from me over the coming weeks: Famous

  • by Emad T. '14
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  In which I am no longer new here ...well, it's true.

  

  case the last three years of blogging and my recent distress over ... to my former desire to earn a degree in Chemistry (HAHAHAHAHA) and ... goals have clearly shifted quite a bit. This is partially due to a year of

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 11, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mad scientist? “Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to…

  

  degree of instructor interaction; some really great professors (J. King, T ... by obsessive behavior and the employment of extremely dangerous or ... hours of lecture, 2 hours of “Scientific Communication” class, 8 hours of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode I: Hey Joe The one with the game of ultimate frisbee in the rain.

  

  First of all, friends don't let friends do 5.12 on video. Especially ... check the blog server two or three times a day instead of their usual six ... sometime out of my incredibly busy schedule to hang out with Joe and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Today A Trader Joe's monologue

  

  a particularly long time, so I opted to walk down eight flights of ... door on the first floor of the tower sounds an alarm, so I exit the ... carefully pruned flowers and walkways warped by the overgrown roots of trees

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  meandering my nonlinear academic path so far

  

  mechanical engineering degree programs, 2A in particular has a set of ... completion of a degree. But imagine going through college without a single ... , two change of majors forms, and many advisor meetings initiated by

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT HSSP and Stanford Splash! Seven fundamental questions, and a field trip to the west coast

  

  -ish old) universe. I showed the class this picture of the horn antenna ... ): The Evolution of Our Scientific Answers to Seven Fundamental Questions ... , Clark University, Princeton, U. Chicago, all have Splashes (and those are

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Underground An ode to the MIT tunnels

  

  . I googled "how to write an ode" but then got distracted by one of my ... impression that they were tunnels in the most adventurous sense of the word: cavernous cement cylinders wreathed in shadows and coated in a moldy film of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2015
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  The truth I learned about Japan, as a Korean a translation

  

  (This is a very rough, more fleshed-out English translation of this ... of living poorly during the wartime, which was made worse by the strict ... , I get a sense that some of those wartime feelings continue to this day

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 17, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  Need help choosing a MISTI program? MIT-Germany alum Nina Sinatra advises incoming interns to keep an open mind

  

  of my workplace as well; while I have worked in several university and ... Nina Sinatra Class of 2012 Materials Science & Engineering ... students who are considering MISTI to think of the program both in terms of

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Ethnicity Information (Optional) No easy way in.

  

  mark it and move on to the next part of the application. For some though ... an ethnic category through no choice of their own, had it easier at ... -other-category-you choose students. The difficulty with school wasn’t due largely to rigor of

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  “Choose Your Own Adventure” MISTI edition

  

  Malgorzata Hedderick (Associate Dean of MIT Undergraduate Education), Melanie Parker (Executive Director of the MIT Global Education and Career ... the agonizingly stressful yet undoubtedly invaluable process of

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 20, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Complementary in Kinetic Typography Posted with permission from the author. Meet Rishi '14!

  

  a ton of MIT internal email lists that I am on. I proceeded to get ... it a few days ago! (Sorry Rishi!) Anyhow, this is certainly one of the ... never realistically go. In fact, if I had not visited the University in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 23, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST POST! You guys are totally right.. that WAS really tempting.

  

  will be no extra content to this post. Kidding, of course. I've been ... , the application process in general, and moving forward. All of your ... up! All jokes aside - you guys really are rad. We of all people

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 7, 2007