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• Blog / IAP

  GTL Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 [IAP 2025] A January I won't forget

  

  offer letter from the US, it should’ve been printed in the US. The ... . While I didn’t enjoy the flavor, Colin drank his entire bowl in one gulp ... clapping when somebody dropped a plate in the dining hall. [annotation note

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Humans 101 @ MIT introductory SHASS classes this fall and recapping the lightning talks

  

  ) publishes a list of introductory subjects offered across its departments. The ... out where their interests lie. Many MIT students are interested in SHASS ... like CMS/STS are rarely offered at high schools. So this list can help

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Least Responsible Purchase I'm an impulse buyer but THIS was a bit much

  

  an offer in December and, after realizing that I was about to have $50k ... just had an offer on the house, it hadn't actually sold.  Well, in late ... I saw my first Tesla in July, 2009. I knew what Teslas were but it

  • by Snively '11
  • July 17, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  What Makes You Tick? To all the Early applicants.

  

  offering help to one another is in tune with the same spirit. I'm not referring to just my fraternity brothers offering to prep me in 8.01, but also ... directional vectors to me, the girl that offered to sub in for my SAT class when

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 14, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Days Without a Laptop… i need laptop-rehab

  

  university in the US - perhaps even the world. i usually can get MIT signal in ... early last Wednesday morning. In these last five days, I feel like I ... computer through your daily life. Case in point - walk into any common

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Reflections from the STARS@MIT Fly-In a 15-author guest blog, featuring the small town/rural students that visited us this october!

  

  From October 16-19, MIT hosted twenty juniors in high school for our second-ever Small Town and Rural Students (STARS) @ MIT Fly-In program ... for fun! What made you want to come to the MIT fly-in? “I live in a

  • by Sara N. '28
  • November 11, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i am taking in spring 26 because i'm stuck at the airport right now. NOT ranked in terms of edibility (sorry)

  

  ="as in, i drank a matcha this morning that i'm somehow reacting to right ... -effort post, but forgive me—bigger things are coming in the works! How does ... a major's coursework is supposed to be completable in 3 years with 3

  • by Janet G. '27
  • February 8, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded. 573 students, 10 hours.

  

  Universe class session. The kids in my Spontaneous 5-Min Class noticed that ... classes. For those of you who can't instantly divide numbers by 24 in your ... littered with sonic screwdrivers and Tardis t-shirts. I managed to slip in a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  How To Write A College Essay and other things too

  

  situation in which obfuscation is to your advantage. You will frequently ... he lays in this piece - about the importance of language, including writing, in shaping how we are capable of thinking - he later built upon in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT HSSP and Stanford Splash! Seven fundamental questions, and a field trip to the west coast

  

  civilization in history has had a working answer to. "How did the universe begin ... , Clark University, Princeton, U. Chicago, all have Splashes (and those are ... that weekend and are still interested in traveling" - and on Friday April

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Welcoming Environment Because the best way to feel at home at MIT is to know that you…

  

  , noted in her own post on LGBQT life (and more specifically, The Rainbow ... drawing together a closely-knit, conscientious community in which nobody ... temporary offering, had only been around at MIT for five years. Over the two

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The fight’s begun but not yet won me vs. vista

  

  You'd think that if anywhere offered great computing help, it would ... resource right at my fingertips. You see, MIT offers free MATLAB to its ... time, always amidst great fanfare and in every creative, apocalyptic way

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Reno/Sacramento wrap-up The latest from the West Coast.

  

  Davidson Institute offers many programs of interest to the kinds of students ... accomplishment that experts in the field recognize as significant and has the ... database of resources for gifted students. The Institute offers many programs

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Passing Out ...of classes. Or in class. We'll see.

  

  [Editor's note in 2017: The Office of Undergraduate Advising and ... when you were in kindergarten, and the first day of class your mother ... is the only class in which I'm not starting at the very bottom, since I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cue the montage music

  

  offered me a blog and the task of writing about my life at MIT and the ... changed, as I am still (sort of, I’ll explain) in school at MIT, doing ... me assure you that I graduated with a MechE/BME degree in 2008. I have

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Associate Advising and the MedLinks Program I'm sick of unpacking, so here's a blog post

  

  ." *Differential Equations **The error function. It's used a lot in stats, probability, and diff eq. - We're in the midst of freshman orientation, so now ... staff (who works in admissions, maybe, or in the Office of Undergraduate

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Season Taking things into my own hands.

  

  meantime, I'm out enjoying all that Oregon has to offer in the way of ... the tough semester is that between having my time tied up in school and ... , hastily labeled "Ideas for Later". And in this box I keep, surprise, ideas

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ming-fai Fong- Designing an intelligent walking “toddler” robot After learning to sit, bend their knees, squat, and stand, babies can finally gather the…

  

  Mechanical Engineering student with a concentration in Artificial Intelligence ... work in the Seung Lab at MIT to develop the mechanical design of an ... robots have yet to even come close to mimicking the human gait. In an

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT writing faculty comment on GPT and other AI assisted writing in education

  

  I'm briefly emerging from hard work in the application mines to share ... language text in response to prompts.  There has been a tremendous amount of commentary in the popular press (and Discourse™ on social media) about these

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 24, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  they were participating in a Media Lab study. (Yes, we would dash from ... subject lines like “free leftover iceberg lettuce in E52”; in fact, a single TikTok in 2025 delivers more dopamine than we would experience in an

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025