Search

Search Results

• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT use my name in processes and communications?

  abbreviation of your first name, a nickname, or a chosen name. For example, if ... your name in the MIT directory.']financial aid offer and other
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2022 (ok, i didn't enjoy all of it)

  

  and poetic and pretty. I'm not quite sure what any of it means or what's happening, but it's certainly an experience. I am cut off from the passion of ... -based interactive fiction: type a command to execute it. There's hundreds of commands

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  , 80% of the time. I'm glad that I made friends at other universities ... At the CPW Women's Leadership Lunch, one of the prefrosh at my table ... from Day 1 that most of my professors didn't waltz unobstructed from

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Summer

  The Courage to Change Even Through the [Tough] Mud[der]

  

  a lot! So much so that when my friend offered me her ticket for the ... ="although nothing is possible with the heart of the cards 😏 jk please don’t do this ... get back at it. So among a bunch of other goals, I told [annotation note

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 11, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions updates ...including the state of the mail and EA application tracking.

  

  application tracking system. We are receiving buckets and buckets and buckets of ... required standardized tests. There are a number of options to fulfill the ... January test, you must list MIT as a school to receive your scores. And, of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Benzene Back Take it to the lab!

  

  day of 5.12 (organic chemistry) our professor offered a free t-shirt to ... 'm actually officially no longer a freshman (woo!). The amount of things I have to say, though, is inversely proportional to the amount of energy I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 24, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  My mom is here! ...and she's critiquing my cheerleading skills.

  

  an oh-so-healthy college student meal of pizza ordered on the internet ... thermodynamics) with me. Adam offered to take her to 16.07 (dynamics; basically ... calc) with me one time my freshman year. The only thing she got out of it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  campus, eager to experience MIT and everything it has to offer. Many of ... years. Many of them are also filled to the brim with anxieties about ... communities around you full of people ready to support you, and you will have

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My 7 Favorite Places to P-Set! Eat, Work, Repeat.

  

  little bit of what Boston has to offer and how you can fit that bit of ... sets take a significant portion of their time throughout the week. Here ... out of class contributed to mastering the material. For me, I cannot

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in my new world A little bit of everything

  

  directly into other people’s heads (pay close attention to my use of the word simply). Of course that doesn't exist (but hey, I don't see why you guys ... this video that I made with the help of another class of 2019 (Thank You

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Recap (Guest Entry) "a perfect introduction to MIT"

  

  two days prior to the start of CPW to visit family and such. One quick ... registration desk. I got a booklet of the several hundred events going on during ... decided to roam around the campus for an hour. Of course, I ended up in the

  • by Bryan
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  the endless noise of constant motion that comes with living in a house of seven people. I read over the problems again, eyes moving to and from the class notes open on the other half of the screen. Nothing sticks

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a love letter to McCormick and thoughts on its renovation

  

  university - the opening of McCormick COMPLETELY changed what it looked like to ... look a little different. When I step out of the Great Dome after classes, I’ll walk straight toward the Student Center instead of taking my

  • by Hala K. '29
  • September 28, 2026
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Part 3 Helping the Class of 2010 with their decisions.

  

  back from MIT is the music. Classical guitar has been a part of my life ... MIT or your other choice university -- or you need to appeal your award, you may request an extension of the May 1 deadline until your financial

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6-3 not a definitive guide

  

  -fledged major that is one of many offered by the Electrical Engineering and ... offering. I don't have an opinion on some of the classes, since I haven ... major or minor, Course 6 offers more than its fair share of challenging

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I am slowly going insane This is your brain on AI-generated videos

  

  hundreds of AI-generated videos and rating how realistic each looked. His lab ... -labeled data that OpenAI can only dream of. The first-place prize was an NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano, which Professor Han had demo-ed at the start of the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 6, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  9 / Headache 68 days to go

  

  is a tad bit lighter: Below is a rundown of my classes this ... technologies. I'm quite out of my element here, but I'm getting a lot of help from the law students. The two of us engineers are trying to pull our

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 31, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  2014 Resolutions January 2nd and still going strong

  

  approach the rest of my goals throughout the year: Should any of my goals ... January that I can work on during IAP: 1. Simplify and keep track of my ... track of my finances In order to save money while at MIT, I pulled

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 2, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Floating On A Whim [by Katharine Chu '09, Guest Blogger] An art UROP carries a curious course 9-er all…

  

  the most of your MIT education." After three years of eclectic classes ... the institute has to offer its students.  If there's one thing I learned ... yourself to explore your options. Nine months ago, I was in the middle of a

  • by ARTalk
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Residence-Based Advising Residence-Based Advising WILL NOT allow you to change dorms during your freshman year.

  

  artwork of Pixar's 20th Anniversary book - happy 20th anniversary, Pixar!.. (three years ago! ahem..) Working at Pixar is kind of like working at a microcosm of a college campus, even if I'm basing it off of a "small" campus

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 9, 2007