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• Blog / Academics & Research

  72 Hours Three days can be a long time.

  

  entire team was really busy most of the time, we didn't start working on ... , to say the least. I've also been out of town quite a bit thanks to the ... applications varying by semester. Emphasis on the integration of fundamental

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • November 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Power Tools at 2 AM A typical MIT experience.

  

  to actually read the name of the dorm they've been assigned to AND get ... standing in line in front of Laila! (It's always half fun, half awkward when ... !") Speaking of which, during Floor Rush at Burton Conner, I visited every single

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  10 Fun (and REAL) Facts About MIT! Incredibly Correct Facts about MIT!

  

  The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is globally renowned for its contributions to the fields of science and technology. But do you ... students to the "Way of the Beaver," a doctrine created by MIT students in

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 1, 2022
• 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 / Events

  total eclipse of the cruft

  

  of others, I traveled to northern New England to see the total solar ... will be posting their experiences soon. But a number of alum bloggers did ... pictures. But some of our cruft are better at words and cameras than me, so

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2024
• Blog / Events

  The Tale of a Frosh once upon a cold November

  

  because graduate school is still part of her grand life plan. Speaking of ... ’s sparkle with a curtain of grey. The life of the Frosh shifts. Dulled is the thrill of the first impossible PSet. On sleepy breakfast runs, the Dome is

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tale of the Midnight Tool! Simulcast in 1337 for our viewers at home!

  

  As some of you may have noticed, the world didn't end on Wednesday like I thought it would (for the rest of you, look outside, yup it ... being annoying to those around me under the guise of it having no

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Early Action Updates Some helpful tips for those working on their EA apps.

  

  /Docufide to submit letters of evaluation and transcripts, your school can send ... fault of your own, your school forms (e.g. teacher recommendations ... ; *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  My IAP Mugs, polymers, cats, and pineapples.

  

  . First of all, IAP is MIT's Independent Activities Period, where MIT students have the whole month of January to do anything they want - from working at an awesome company to making teapots to throwing things off of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 3, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Get The Scoop The dish on ice cream around MIT.

  

  Without fail, if I could only eat one food for the rest of my life ... went at the end of last semester before it was time for us to take our finals. One of the nice thing about Tosci's is that they have some pretty

  • by Bryan
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  terms with my limits in the past 2.5 years of school. One thing I want to ... high school demanded a lot of memorization, and the problem-solving often ... calculus in middle school—but Ellenberg points out that this type of thinking

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the intervening…

  

  school, we were only allowed to send one applicant to each of the programs. My high school puts out a newsletter to the parents with all kinds of ... a great success rate this year: Jane Doe: accepted at the School of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The things that can change your life…

  

  enough ago that few of you were reading my blog. A little bit of context ... of Peeto '01 and his lovely fiancee Meaghan. He's one of our zanier alums, and that's from a hall that has a lot of them. I hear, in the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  We Were Deferred

  

  MIT was our dream school. The blogs were one of the main reasons for ... when we, for the first time in all of high school, really allowed ... experience, we realized how potentially toxic the idea of a dream school can be

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Answering Your Questions: EA Deadline Week How can we be helpful?

  

  of the deadline. Your school/teachers may submit their materials ... submitted by 11:59pm Eastern Time on November 1. There is some amount of grace ... teachers and schools.  Your recommendations do not need to be in our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to MIT! blogging guilt eased...

  

  my teammates this morning mentioned that we only have 9 days of school ... past couple of weeks. As we head into the last couple weeks of the ... /lounges/libraries/other favorite study spot to ready themselves for the barrage of final projects and

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Inside vs. Outside How MIT changed for me after being admited

  

  have interest in this school, you are in this group of “coolest people ... lines of “Woahhhhh this school would be awesome for (some person that is ... of the core aspects that caused me to work hard in high school. I would

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finals Week, Minus Finals all the non-academic shenanigans

  

  friend. Protip: storage facilities in Boston/Cambridge get lots of business ... . This blog will be updated over the course of the week the things that are going on! Not everything is all that interesting (in fact, most of it is

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 20, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introduction to D-Lab Saving the world - just one of the many things you can do at MIT.

  

  When most people I know think of MIT, the first thing that leaps to mind is almost always computer science, physics, or some other aspect of ... dedicated cadre of people at MIT dedicated to changing that perception - and

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Seatbelts, Everyone! Interrupting Radio Silence...

  

  Magic School Bus." (why yes, my generation does love reminiscing about the television of our youth. guilty as charged). Because I graduated a little over ... afraid to take advantage of that resource (and thank them afterwards

  • by Alina G. '11
  • June 13, 2011