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• Blog / Academics & Research

  How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis

  

  shudder as I think of all the unsuspecting high-school students making ... materials) psets from this semester. My 6.1220 (design and analysis of ... structures) design project from spring 2009. A stack of sticky notes I

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  January Questions Omnibus 1 Some questions answered.

  

  of the students pretty much go to state schools if they go to college ... problem?" We understand that sometimes, because of a schooling system ... " brochure, which I think does a very good job of offering suggestions for your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 2)

  

  . 450 degrees is also okay. Add a generous amount of salt and pepper and ... degrees Fahrenheit. Pour about a cup of olive oil into a large bowl. Add a ... This is the more hardcore half or so of the 42 recipes. Most of these

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at the Media Lab

  

  pop-up book portfolio that talked about all of my high school science ... accepted to MIT Media Lab, the place that I was dreaming of in high school ... decision day, I unexpectedly hear from students to whom we did not offer

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  One thing every woman’s missed in Massachusetts Bay Sam and Shana have gone to look for America, starting in Philadelphia.

  

  architects who designed Ursinus were apparently into the same sorts of bizarre ... Philadelphia with my beloved high school friend Shana. See how excited she is ... needed to do were to buy a map, enlist the help of a local, and marry Amber

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  I made an AI write most of this post because I forgot I needed to post this week

  

  ! Reason #6: School cafeterias now offer a variety of hay options to ... . If you haven't heard of GPT-3, it's a language model that uses deep ... topic for the rest of this post and the points listed underneath are all

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Observations of an MIT Sophomore Advice and insight.

  

  for the next four years without having to be (as) afraid of failure ... for high school. Sometimes it's possible to get extensions or have ... school. In my humble opinion, xkcd used to be a lot funnier than it

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision

  

  , but in sophomore/junior/early senior year of high school, I told ... one of the "prestigious" schools that accepted me. It's as if even the ... noticed that the beginnings of college math felt a lot like high school math

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hello, world

  

  of the AP classes the school offered by my junior year. With few ... graduates on to highly selective schools, I wasn't really sure of what I was ... figured I'd choose one of the Ivy League schools. It seemed only natural

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Take 1.618: Film at MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] There are very few things for which I would get up…

  

  - should I go to art school, or should I do the "safe" thing and get a "real" degree? When my acceptance letter from MIT arrived, things got a little ... take while I could; I could always go to art school later, right

  • by ARTalk
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  joshua angrist shares the nobel prize! and the research is *so* cool

  

  the Stanford Graduate School of Business). Officially, this prize was ... effect of free pre-school on schooling and wages later in life the ... certain occupations or in school; these ways of avoiding service seemed to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thanksgiving and a Small Hack Quick updates from tropical Boston

  

  We’re approaching the end of the semester with remarkable velocity. There are just two more weeks of school before finals, and all of my ... my hometown - 5 degrees Fahrenheit with 6 inches of snow - puts the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Celebrating the Moon Landing MIT celebrates today's 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing.

  

  11 landed on the Moon. And because of MIT's significant role in the ... (!) talking about their experiences. There has been a lot of coverage of the ... that I guess is on a lot of people's minds: Q. So how do you pee in space

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2019 everything from autobiographies to magic the gathering blog posts

  

  polynomial function of a real variable, and the degree of  is , then  is the ... series of articles where head designer Mark Rosewater explains how they design Magic the Gathering sets, and the surprising amount of complexity

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 30, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Typical Friday Night Done with 6.046 exam, time to chill

  

  As you might have read in my last entry, I had a 6.046 (Design and Analysis of Algorithms) exam this past Thursday. Once it was over, my brain just kind of shut down and didn't do anything productive for the next 96

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2020 Reflections & 2021 Resolutions

  

  to track my spending. Own 5 designer items by the end of the year ... Hello and happy new year (kind of)! I was really bummed out to make this post since I feel like I didn't accomplish many of the resolutions I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 3, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i don’t know where you’re going but do you got room for one more troubled soul?

  

  sophomore year of high school of what the future had in store, I would've told ... software, a life of grad school. I dreamed of Los Angeles beaches, of London ... 471462f4073[/embed] I've been contemplating the future as of late. With

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!

  

  years together, and they were three of the most formative years of my life ... been retrofitted with an i7 processor, 256 GB of SSD storage, and 16GB of ... offer. It was with me the first time I went abroad and has been to as many

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fifth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to blog comments from the last month.

  

  context of your specific school system ... students to get in without AP classes etc. My school does not offer AP ... your school does not offer AP classes, you won't be penalized for not

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Circus but like a nerd circus. So you know, less elephants and more calculus. Just as…

  

  be during the school year (gotta remind myself of that during finals ... readers may have picked up on, this is one of those times, as my summer has ... of the hilights reel. To start things off, I'm working in the new

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 7, 2010