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• Blog / Academics & Research

  classes im taking this semester! the classic

  

  of a pset instead. But on busy days, those are the things that usually ... schedule, here it is: 6.1010: a.k.a Fundamentals of Programming! I mostly ... institute requirement. every MIT student has to take two semesters of calculus

  • by Angie F. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Am I rural or small-town? Read on to learn about what a taco bell index is

  

  stopped behind a cattle drive, or where your high school’s idea of a college ... from a rural or small town?". This is an iteration of one of the most ... consider {insert town name I have never heard of} a small town in their

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • May 19, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Paradiso A selection of dishes that define my MIT dining experience, part 4

  

  Why do I cook? It’s a question that many of my friends have asked me ... ” of coming to the US for college, getting disappointed by MIT dining ... .[/annotation] Junior year was a period of introspection, exploration, and experimentation

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 28, 2023
• Blog / Summer

  this summer a recap of sorts

  

  feeling of being far from school and campus. It felt very adult: the ... It's September, school has started, and I know that before long I'll get sucked into the ridiculous whirlwind that is this school. I'll get

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 14, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Karen: A Short History Finally.

  

  anecdote about my first encounter with technology or science. Most of my ... after high school. I applied to MIT my senior year, deferred admission (gasp!) and spent the better part of a year not always understanding what

  • by Karen F. '11
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Under Water catch your breath

  

  . This sort of sentence has been one I've had trouble saying throughout my ... the number of rough ones about equals the number of purely good ones, which is honestly an okay ratio in my opinion. Especially at a school

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Are We Waiting For answer: FPOPs to begin!

  

  participate in one of 22 Freshman Pre-Orientation Programs (FPOPs), which offer students an early introduction to in the social life of learning at MIT. As ... Freshman orientation for the Class of 2018 officially begins in two

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist MIT admitted some applicants from the waitlist today.

  

  students on the waitlist that we will not be able to offer them admission. We offered a spot on the waitlist to just under 400 people, and most of those ... off the waitlist, and wishing them the best of luck at the college they

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SONIC JUBILANCE A day at the new Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building at MIT

  

  in the auditorium of Rindge Technical High School in Cambridge (today ... Banjos & Basements: A Brief History of Music at MIT Music has been part of MIT since the Institute’s earliest chapters. By 1884, 23

  • by Jeremy W.
  • February 22, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Noise and time chaos and peace in a silver package

  

  a week of high school, I felt strange pangs of loneliness more often ... , something I had more of in high school. To me, this idea of focus also comes ... myself busy, but the activity makes me feel this strain of possibilities

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 15, 2023
• 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

  Life in the Fast Lane why do i walk so fast?

  

  student here: $300 per day. (Big clarification–MIT offers one of the most ... the excitement of living my high school dreams. But then I start back up ... [/annotation] is a battleground of different speeds. The tourists walk at a

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 29, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  6.0001 is Done I learned a bit (or should I say 8-bit)

  

  attire. My radiator churns and hisses through the night. Hundreds of ... "]released.[/annotation] The fall quarter [annotation note="The first half of MIT's Intro to ... from seeing a 100% on a tricky part of a MicroQuiz is unparalleled. The

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21L.011 Are You [film] Experienced?

  

  a couple classes to choose from based on the results of your placement ... other hand, you're given an enormous amount of variety to select your ... course name in all of academia.** It's a history class where students

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Alpha Delta Phi Presents – Mic-Check [by Susan Shepherd '11] If you're looking for a talented actor, or poet, or singer,…

  

  interesti – Money? Money! They're offering money!" and then I sort of ... [by Susan Shepherd '11] Many of my readers know by now that if you ... concentration of them centered around 77 Massachusetts Avenue. Well, sometimes

  • by ARTalk
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Take Your Blog to School Day Vol. 1 Standing waves and FIRE!

  

  about some of the measurement and instrumentation tools that mechanical ... as velocity profiles in a pipe or internal pressure of a soda can ... part of MIT's DARPA Urban Challenge Team. So today's lecture focused

  • by Bryan
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Me Anything! Responses life and admissions

  

  offer, and if it is right for you. I can think of at least one excellent school (once my #1 choice) where I would've been miserable, had I decided ... is not the kind of school where students are commonly criticized, and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Which I Get Schooled By My Professor This video does not contain an improvised song, but it does contain Peter Reddien.

  

  – no matter what school we go to, we have the incredible privilege of ... weird gene expression with varying degrees of histone packing and… actually, on second thought, I had a lot of good doodles from this lecture. I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Attention local high school students interested science and engineering! Have you heard about BeaverDash?

  

  of Women Engineers would like to invite local high school students to ... WIth CPW 2012 just a few days away, the whole school is getting ready ... just under a month, there will also be an opportunity for high school

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Studying At Cambridge 101 An Expert's Guide To Tackling The Revision Process

  

  of them have in common though are the scale and weight of the exams ... way exams and grades work. MIT runs under a continuous assessment school of thought. Throughout the semester you'll take 1-3 tests + final and

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 8, 2014