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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Antietam? I hardly knew him. A Fourth of July fable, while I'm stuck in Germany.

  

  World Cup finals, "I told myself before the game, he's made of skin and ... -efficient chemical engineering machine capable of diluting solutions and running ... new work arises, and you're actually learning something in the process

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  understand what it means to be alive and human at this Institute, would require ... impossible to think, or to make any useful decisions at all. I wake up and feel ... classes, enjoying my time in them, so on and so forth. It seemed, however

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  synthesis on changing my mind

  

  first 21w.755 (reading and writing short stories) lecture last semester ... the relationship between masters and slaves; someone else said it was about the id, ego, and superego; another person said it modeled election

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 12, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  -dong’s film Burning, there is a concept of a “Little Hunger” and a “Great Hunger”. The Little Hunger is the desire for the material, basic needs and beyond, where the Great Hunger is a deeper search for meaning and understanding in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT’s COVID-19 precautions and their impact on admissions relevant news and next steps (updated 4/14); new blog posts below 👇🏼

  

  April 14th, 2020 Admitted students Below, on April 3rd and March 23rd ... , and if your school, as a condition of your enrollment in an AP course ... otherwise intended to take due to COVID or any other reason, and if you decide

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 6, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  friendful life recently

  

  in kendall square or come to the whitehead institute (where i work) and ... you are loved, and that no matter what the universe tries to throw at ... latest season of love on the spectrum. another labmate watched it and told

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  A half semester told through paper grownup show and tell

  

  temporary) state of having a lot of work to do at the moment ... going through a stack of paper and talking to you about it. So fun, right ... stack are some papers from DEAPS. Discover Earth and Planetary Sciences

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  a day in my life as a MISTI student ft. research and friends

  

  research at the meteorology institute of the Freie Universität Berlin and ... institute, and I go directly there. [carousel image1="76933" image2 ... decompress and have lunch. I typically alternate days working at the institute

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  you can care about things revisiting stoicism

  

  both in the context of writing a blog and in the context of being a ... personal expression and craft? people often say you can’t/shouldn’t try to ... their decisions. doing so can be exhausting and bring lots of emotional

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • July 18, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Night Off Campus and some dancing

  

  6.046 (Design and Analysis of Algorithms) and I have an interesting relationship this semester, one that's partly tortured, and partly beautifully ... to unspool from the rest of my body. I need a break, and luckily, I can

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 21, 2016
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Is there really a swim test?

  Yup, there's a swim test! There's an awesome variety of physical education courses for undergraduate students to complete the swim requirement and the eight point General Institute Requirement. The swimming
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 2 Many more of your questions and my answers.

  

  and do I need a transcript from Carnegie Mellon University?" Hmm ... . Emilia wrote, "I live in Ecuador, am about to enter senior year and am very ... process I would like to ask you (I read this post and thought that you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2020 if you read even one of these i will be happy

  

  that this wasn't sustainable, and next year I'd rather not write "Things ... 's list. UPDATE: Here's the 2021 and 2022 posts. Things I read for class ... interesting, and 24.902 Intro Syntax, didn't have readings. So the only class I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So you think you want to be a doctor: Pre-med at MIT

  

  .091 (Solid-State Chemistry), though it's not recommended because the 5.11-s ... . Usually, 8.01 and 8.02 suffice. Calculus: -18.01/18.02 (which you have to ... regrettably true. Medical schools pay a lot of attention to your GPA and MIT

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 19, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Remember, Remember, the 17th of December… things that happened

  

  There has been some discussion on CollegeConfidential and in the ... . Specifically discussion about the reasons we picked that date and time. My favorite observation comes from optimistic-mom: 1217 and 2011 are prime

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Just a Yellow Lemon Tree… I wrote a rap song for you.

  

  conference (at Hah-vahd). (I was Fiji, by the way - oh and Ahmed went too ... into the computer, and generated class schedule. (with the help of our ... and this Sunday will be the 4th class (out of 7) in the program

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 11, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Spoiled Milk I wrote an entry so long overdue my milk has spoiled in the process. So…

  

  except when he throws everything out (including receipts, magazines, and ... my father has a hard time letting things go, and that the indigestion ... brought to you by the letter E! EEEE!") In a perfectly formed and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  majoring in 21E: frequently asked questions what it's like to study humanities at a stem school

  

  joint degree between science and humanities, 21E with engineering and ... Lord knows that I've beat this dead horse and milked this subject for all its worth, but I still gets lots and lots of questions about being a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2021
• Blog / Events

  1 / How to MIT again?! An expat returning home to the 'Tute

  

  keynote, "Exploring the Universe with Gravitational Waves," and talked about ... the Universe with Gravitational Waves," and discussing his work on his ... eventful return back to the Institute. It's odd how quickly everything felt

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 29, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Less Than Perfect Bottle Rockets, Crossword Puzzles, and Half-Marathons

  

  and of varying degrees of tired or not, walking forward at a welcomingly ... , a red folder, and fifty jangling pennies was launched into the sky over Briggs Field and miraculously stayed airborne for over 6 seconds

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 10, 2016