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• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Trevor ‘13 The sixth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  could get into MIT, and was floored when the university flew him to Boston ... Chandler '13 and Taylor '13 Jonte '13 Sean '13 Terence '13 Christy '13 ... weights, play football and help his dad with construction. But he's brainy

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Changes that I’m making this semester wow it's already March isn't that crazy or what

  

  old pen and paper notes this semester. I'm still writing up problem ... Opportunities Program. Undergrads get to work with actual research, and can get ... extraneous backstory and distracting pop culture references, I was trying

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  Expanding on Pass No Record It's not so much a time machine, as it is a dodgeball cannon!

  

  some core classes out of the way, including single and multivariable calculus, physics (mechanics and E&M), chemistry, and biology. No ifs, ands, or buts, you will take these classes (or pass out of them). There

  • by Snively '11
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  diversions from what is otherwise a never ending trello of things to do

  

  interact with media is really important in the current state of affairs, and ... semesters, there would always be work to do, and during some weeks work piled ... kinds of weeks: hard weeks and slightly less hard weeks. during hard weeks

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  FourFiveUnits all you could ever want to know about my semester schedule

  

  their classes this semester, I thought I would show off how naked and ... 's healthy for my brain and GPA to have a little bit more "free" time in the ... .   Here are what those numbers on the colored rectangles mean and why

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doing What You Love it's both priceless and utilitarian

  

  degrees, in every career field, with the obvious exception of the five or ... probably are if you want to apply to MIT), you're good at things, and that ... . And getting paid any reasonable amount to do what you love is basically

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PE classes are…great!? catch me at the 2028 summer olympics

  

  Upon admittance, I dedicated a fairly serious and borderline-obsessive amount of time to look through the course catalog and major requirements for every major. Most of this was out of curiosity and [annotation note

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Hello Summer! Finally done with finals

  

  my perspectives of the institute, and I cannot wait to get back to ... Psets, tests, and the horror of finals season, will be much deserved and ... summer, and I think the opportunity to come back as a TA for Calculus, as

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • June 1, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  West Coast Trip Report some work, some play, lots of nerd stuff

  

  institutions.   I did this! You can read my liveblogs of the conference and ... I'm back in Boston and absurdly jetlagged. I promised, though, that I ... 's graduation dinner.     Tomorrow, I'll drive down to South Bay and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 30, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair #1 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  (See #2 Boston Adventure at the Institute of Contemporary Art here ... check, classy security, and fancy wine. Plus a much older and wealthier ... “that is valued as a physical object above and beyond its value as a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 15, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Am Excited a day in life of a student

  

  reminisce about their times at the Institute and acknowledge its influence on ... infinite. That is, it’s on a whole new level of infinity, and this makes mathematics awesome. It means that words like “nested,” “hiding,” and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  More Milk Please And a cookie too. If by cookie you mean an awesome metaphor.

  

  listings and the sometimes confusing GIRs (General Institute Requirements ... seemingly endless expanse of liquid lactose and my milk-loving self is ... , the psets are already rolling in, the reading is piling up, and the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What Do You DO All Day? A guest-author entry by Joan Horvath '81.

  is nervousness about how thorough and multi-syllabic the response is ... me, I'm trying to get everyone so familiar with what scientists and ... and astronautics a thousand "internet years" ago, when those of us who

  • by mitblogs
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  The first step ...is admitting you need help.

  

  freshmen show up here every fall, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed and fresh from a world where they were the BEST and always got A's and never had to ... person in your class and pick his or her brain about the problem set or

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 8, 2006
• Blog / CPW

  Backstage at the CPW Closing Show “Other duties as assigned”

  

  their stated job description. Of all of the other duties I’ve been ... Underwater Robot and Extreme Karaoke to fire spinning and a Python bee. Think of CPW like the Olympic games, just with more math and fewer sports

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 19, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why I Love Taylor Swift I finally explain the reason...or at least try to...

  

  head, explored my weird mushy state of being, and penned those words for ... all the power. And years later when I found myself in the United States ... ’ll be a great time constraint on difficult problems, and an attendant

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 6, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Going Social Thinking about MIT Admissions and social media.

  

  cap and gown and preparing to walk at my high school graduation. Pomp and Circumstance bellowed off the bricks nearby. Over the din, a friend shouted that his older brother had something called The Face Book, and that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Sick of Being Sick On being sick at MIT.

  

  , nausea, and other TMI that I'll spare you the details of, but basically, I was sick when classes first started, got better, and now I've been sick since Monday. It's now next Monday. I'm getting better, though, and that

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Jupiter’s Moons, Doge, and a Tub of Icing how to CPW from Yuliya the Undecided HS Senior

  

  journal about daily experiences. Much angst about my workplace and college ... Weekend) schedule, determined to favorite a decent number of events and plan ... between “Sushi and Barbeque,” “A Wok to Remember” (a reference to a popular

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Math. by Joy ‘13 I’m not a complete nerd…but I am convinced that math is a language

  

  number which is also placed on a map by the degrees of longitude and ... language. And it’s the only language that all of us in the world understand ... written out: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9. And from this we can form

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • March 17, 2011