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• Blog / Community Projects

  [Joint Post] Build a robot boat with MIT Arcturus! Q&A with Arcturus captain Audrey Chen

  

  pet, Turbo the sea snail! They made a little fake Turbo and everything ... , and to spread the word (and learn more about Arcturus myself), I’m doing ... bigger and bigger thing these days, and we’re super stoked to be pushing

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Visiting MIT & Boston colleges Some tips for checking out MIT and Boston this summer.

  

  than 50 colleges and universities in Greater Boston, making it easy to visit a variety of colleges from one base. Most of the major universities ... UniversityRed Line: Harvard10am and 2pm, Monday-Friday Tufts UniversityRed Line

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  what’s on my desk? creative furniture

  

  quick post to check in and say happy tuesday. it's 52 degrees and sunny and there's a high of 73 degrees tomorrow. i haven't shared ... makes a pretty serviceable bookshelf and doubles as a nice little reading

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A New MIT “Alum” Many fictional characters are MIT alumni; the newest is Jessica Alba's Sue Storm in "Fantastic…

  

  film "Fantastic Four" (it got a "thumbs down"), and one plot point caught ... establish credibility for a character by giving them an MIT degree. Here are ... doctorates) and Ronald Quincy, respectively Steve Buscemi's oil-drilling wierdo

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2011 arrives… Orientation programs are beginning, and the campus is really starting to come alive.

  

  Oregon (and Snively's parents), Sara '11 from Massachusetts, Thilani '11 from Sri Lanka (and Thilani's mom), and Beebe '11 from Maryland. It was great to see everyone. Note to '11s: Ben, Bryan and I are generally around

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2007
• FAQ / Transfer

  What does MIT consider for transfer admission?

  institution. We select students who we believe are a good match and who we feel ... , competitive applicants typically have a 3.5 GPA or above, and mostly As in math and science courses. Ideal preparation includes—at the very least
• Blog / Blog Projects

  ASK US (the MIT Bloggers) ANYTHING! YES

  

  university and have been playing with flames ever since. Though I didn ... were newly admitted to MIT get to visit the campus and experience student culture up close, from exploring dorm culture to experiencing real and

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 18, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  #tbt: MIT Cribs Digging up some old freshman-year blog posts

  

  -related musings (as opposed to the completely random posts or deep and sometimes angsty thoughts about life/the universe/everything posts) and reuse them in ... laziness and (to some degree) hoarding. As a result, my once-barren room has

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 5, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Harvard-MIT Student Debate on Pakistan this Friday

  

  Harvard and MIT have organized a panel discussion on Pakistan's current state and future prospects: Date: Friday, 2/8 Time: 6:00pm to 7:30pm ... interest in Pakistani politics: Samad Khurram and Aqil Sajjad from Harvard

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • February 5, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  rolltreppe I use the word funky loosely in conversation but these tunes are tight. um did…

  

  Chris Peterson once said, "rfong is a good photographer, and in order ... Machiavellian attitude which capacitates this blog and this miniature visual ode ... for the last four years thanks to course 6, and didn't find out about

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer plans

  

  's house in Louisville, Kentucky. It's been great, and I might even have ... 'm on campus, I have trouble sleeping more than 8 or 8 and a half hours even if there's no reason for me to get up, and usually get less, but

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 11, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  busy semesters and how to manage them it's organizational structures all the way down

  

  computer. I will miss this iPad if and when the Institute inevitably takes ... surprises the people I meet, because I am constantly busy, and people expect ... slightly over a normal load"]less classes[/annotation] and doing more

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 10, 2021
• Blog / Events

  This Particular [T-] REX Tuesday (No actual tyrant lizards in this blog post.) Frosh come chill with me!

  

  Swagfest Battle of the Fakes Space Team and Screaming Water War How ... my day)—but not from the freshman side and not from the other side. A ... Stuff at Simmons (along with some torso-sized bowling pins and a handful

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ABCs of Senior Year friends, jobz, cats, "eight-oh-two"... + AMA!

  

  universe, and everything! Note: this blog post was inspired by Selam G ... Ageing: for all the all-nighters I can no longer pull off, and all the clubs I have gained access to. Brain and Cognitive Sciences

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 23, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  Hydranting My Spring Semester 5 stages of courseroad grief

  

  feels like the clock is ticking louder than ever and choosing classes ... for each semester"]Hydrant[/annotation] and[annotation note="academic planner for MIT students to plan out their degrees, test out paths for

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 5, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Trip to Princeton U Taking advantage of the three-day weekend by taking a trip to Princeton!

  

  work and get ahead for the next week. Umm... right... it never really works out that way. Instead, you have one more day to procrastinate and have fun! With this reality in mind, I went to Princeton University with

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-India student interns at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

  

  I finished up my initial stay in Mumbai towards late December, and ... /Math/Computers to the novice monks, and some local school children, and participating in cooking, laundry, etc. I am having a great stay in South Asia, and I

  • by MISTI Program
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  ! We got a lecture or two on the shape of the universe, and the Higgs-Boson particle, and whether or not the universe will eventually cave in on itself ... rise of city-states, the Persian War, the Peloponnesian War, and up to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  +7 (=12) warrants machine help. And habits die hard. To combat our ... knowing the answer!” Sounds bizarre, but let him explain, and you will ... Associate Professor of Applied Science and Engineering at Olin College. At MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  OCTOBERRR NOVEMBERRR will NOT be my next entry, promise.

  

  in the world--it's the center, somehow, of scientific and technological development in the United States, if not the world. It's like a New Yorker's view of New York: they forget the rest of the country. And while you don

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 31, 2009