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• Blog / Challenges

  Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience

  

  : I participated in the Summer Science Institute at the University of ... engineering and robotics because I was also interested in those things. At one ... the NSA and the tour guide I had was really uptight and that kind of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A The ones that passed the "lmgtfy" test

  

  institutions) really like hiring people with physics degrees! And you definitely ... Astronomy Observatory, which is an NSF-funded institution and is made up of ... file away and respond when I have longer chunks of free time (these

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  She works hard for the money So hard for it, honey.

  

  've done and call them blog entries! Hooray! I know a lot of people are ... spring schedules), and I've heard several people wonder whether they will be able to hold a job and successfully complete their schoolwork, so I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Breaks, Apple Pies, and Formal Halls

  

  -MIT Institute that promotes partnership happenings between the two universities. They are the people that started CME and have been funding it for the ... England and the first term is half way over! I really can't believe it. The

  • by Cambridge
  • November 3, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Who we are All the stuff I've been trying to write since last July. It isn't much, but…

  

  black cap and black gown to receive two bachelors degrees -- one in ... team?" I've also had to perfect the sort of fake smile and forced giggle ... everybody walks to their exams together, buzzing and scheming and comparing

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Cambridge-MIT Exchange

  

  institutions asked to make sure we are happy and doing well. Even if you don ... matriculate as a full student for a year at Cambridge University in Cambridge ... ' for the friends I've made here and the team that I've rowed with for our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 14, 2005
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  From East to West: An American’s Cross-Atlantic Voyage The start of my MISTI UK experience

  

  Line, my heavy suitcase and jet-lagged state convinced me to take the ... into Heathrow Airport on a dragon, and then I rode with a group of ... ’m here through MISTI, or MIT International Science and Technology

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 10, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  State of the Mail We're processing a lot of mail.

  

  , sorted, entered into the database, filed, and reviewed. My advice to you ... materials and test scores for more than 7,000 regular action applicants. That

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Four years, four summers The stuff I've been up to every summer at MIT.

  

  Washington University. I was sharing an efficiency double with Rose '05, and we ... , MD, home of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism ... the podium and undergrads on the other, and alternate awarding degrees

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jon and me how I came to see the world

  

  it. More than a decade (and a graduate degree in media studies from MIT ... of SLACs and state colleges in New England...and also to the College of ... audience and his far-flung fans. Maybe that was the case for you. It

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Day at Stanford University wait, what?

  

  . Stanford...is not like MIT. Where to start? Stanford is sunny and spacious. The buildings are built out of tasteful sandstone and, as a bonus ... of people do, in fact, look like people, and were created by famous

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 3, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  I’m a food blogger now enjoy reading through 700 words of personal digression to get to the recipes

  

  alternate subtitle: how I learned to stop worrying and throw some ... myself a glass of water, and taking ready-to-eat baby carrots out of the ... about same time, June/July 2018, I and the rest of the Class of 2022 were

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 26, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Google RISE Global Summit and some thoughts on STEM outreach.

  

  Colorado and neighboring states and runs a day of demonstrations and ... RISE (Roots In Science and Engineering) and is an example of how ... (surely "in" is no more important than "and"?) In a nutshell, Google grants

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  On election day Practicing an applied civic education

  

  the best youth of this and other countries, the Institute is obligated ... Today, November 3rd, 2020, is Election Day in the United States. Many ... voting, and faculty have been instructed to avoid scheduling assignments or

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 3, 2020
• Blog / Events

  MIT wins Putnam math competition

  

  , and the opportunity to study math for a year at the University of ... The results are out, and for the second consecutive year, MIT has won ... ), Daniel Kane (sophomore-junior, Mathematics), and Vladimir Barzov (junior

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 21, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  A Major Crisis haha get it..cause..yeah,

  

  the city. And now that I've chosen a university that is quite a ways ... .091 (Intro to Solid-State Chemistry), my love for chemistry was reignited and I ... M.Eng that gives you both a bachelor's and master's degree in five

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  No Good Deed Goes Unpunished ...in which I introduce myself and set the tone for this "theater of the absurd."

  

  , Delaware and most recently Ithaca, New York. I am a graduate of Norfolk State University (Home of the Spartans!) and the University of Delaware, (Home of The ... recruitment at Cornell University. Fast-forward six years and I'm the new

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  in honor of tau the superior circle constant

  

  angles and degrees are easy: one-eighth of a circle, or [latex]45^{\circ ... through The State of the Tau. Some personal highlights include: SMBC and ... ]\tau = 6.283… = 2\pi[/latex]. And I cannot help but tell you about the glory

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 20, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Valentine’s Day Special Featuring calculus, people who hate me, and a picture puzzle

  

  familiar universe previously explainable by reason, science, and Stephen ... and curmudgeonry in our observable universe, I've decided to list off ... influx of heart-shaped candies and frilly pink cards and teddy bears

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Person Studying Persons… ...and why the Myers Briggs test is invalid

  

  the Myers Briggs test is fake science and not a good personality test ... : ambitious and sociable. Even the stated health risks were kind of true, I have ... merit to it? I spent some time doing some thinking and was talking to my

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017