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• Blog / Challenges

  The View is Worth It but you have to make the climb yourself to find out

  

  broke me and my will to live for 45 long minutes. As I struggled upwards ... , because the stars would really have to be aligned for both of these paths to be available to me. I think it's because for the first time in my life

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 7, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a few new things is it too late to talk about the spring semester?

  

  no real way, however, for me to talk you through exactly how difficult ... field, which I would use to combine 18 and 21W. This was the plan for two ... sorry for what I am about to say next."]probably means very little to you

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 25, 2022
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT use my test scores?

  MIT uses a holistic admissions process, so test scores are just one factor among many for evaluating your preparedness for MIT. Test scores are ... applying to MIT and would like to see our testing requirements, please visit
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time! I walk you through a physics/dynamics problem.

  

  Oftentimes the best way to learn something is to teach it. I've decided to try this approach to study for my 2.003 test coming up. WARNING ... 're solving for!)). 2) Moment of Inertia. We need to find it. For the wheel

  • by Snively '11
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  ‘Twas the night before Christmas Happy holidays to everyone!

  

  attendance. Last night, my parents, my brother and I gathered for our ... famous Big Duck, which always gets all gussied up for the holidays. It's great to be able to spend some quality time with my family... I hope many

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 25, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art in the Infinite, Vol. 2 MIT meets King Koopa.

  

  and pipe. This is my roommate Rob. He willingly accepted my plea to jump up for this photo. The things I get people to do for my blog. Today

  • by Bryan
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  you to read some of these pointers. They'll set you up well for your ... Boston and Cambridge invited 76 teams of spoken word artists to engage the stage and compete to be the year's top poets. MIT was even lucky to host

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a hell week do not try at home

  

  behemoth of a homework assignment for 6.867 and trying to catch up on my late ... in the course. i am supposed to have read the hunger games for CMS.307 ... forward to the weekend and to completing a first draft of a short story for

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 27, 2016
• Blog / Events

  MIT wins the Putnam ...for the third year in a row!

  

  place for three consecutive years. This year, the winning team consisted ... of the Putnam--but for those who haven't, it is a six-hour proof ... Mathematical Association of America (MAA)--the organization responsible for

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT on the road Admissions officers are visiting cities across the United States.

  

  . This is also a good chance for students to meet their interviewer face-to-face and to set up a time for their interview. We will always finish with an ... 't receive a letter, now is a great time to sign up for MyMIT! It's also worth

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 11, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Big MIT Career Fair Lots of companies are on campus today recruiting MIT students.

  

  for them, or to do a summer internship. The companies span the spectrum ... opportunities. For our seniors, it will be nice for many of them to have a job ... underclassmen, Career Week is a great first opportunity to line up internships for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Practical virology A little too practical, if you ask me.

  

  of the classes you plan to take. 7. And finally, for the one I'm most ... Unfortunately for me, I've been hit with what's hopefully some sort of 24-hour flu or something... I didn't get to go out and watch the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  chances the point is to let yourself be helped

  

  always felt near-impossible for me to put forth. This goes beyond ... chances. Somehow it took seven semesters for me to learn what’s always been ... even when I didn’t know what in the world I wanted to use it for. And

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 26, 2024
• Blog / Community Projects

  CASE: Identity and Intersectionality and some bunnies if you hate everything else about this post

  

  school for automatons. So shout out to CASE for hosting these events. As ... about 2016, then you probably know someone who is. Maybe you want to ... hear about how cool MIT is. In either case, I have something for you

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Recap; New Bloggers Announced Philly, Jersey, Wilmington. Jess, Keri, Lulu.

  

  close), I left for the first leg of my fall recruitment travel. As to not ... personally, we were unfortunately not able to offer you a blogging spot for ... for your patience throughout this long process, and for applying to be

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 3, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  the pieces scattered behind you

  

  run now. There's all the coffee shops, which I used to save for writing ... pliers to Boston. In my room, there’s a shelf of books taller than a man, stuffed full of fantasy. My eyes flick to the books I loved, gloss over the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The One Where I’m in Russia a brain/photo dump of me running away from school

  

  Moscow (for free!) for a 3-day hackathon, plus 7 days to adjust to the time ... , baby steps. Sleep-deprived and waiting for code to run, we drew some ... MISTI makes it possible for a broke college student to do that! With that

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 28, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding My Way Around MIT (Guest Entry) CPW was so hugely difficult to take in all at once that it's hard to…

  

  tools and devices that were redesigned to be inexpensive enough for people to afford. A major challenge for many people is finding fuel, usually ... professor could ask questions for the students to answer with clicker remotes

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 8,9,10,11,12: PA, NJ, and Home! Part 5 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  . Wednesday morning found me driving to Hackensack for the Northern NJ school ... , would be able to handle anything (Boston was designed for horses and never ... drove downtown to JR Masterman, then back up to Central. Those of you who

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 3, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  baby steps something tender and new

  

  made. i asked my therapist if we could switch to weekly sessions for the ... , texting people if they want to get lunch or go grocery shopping once they ... enough. four years is a lot of time to change a person; reading my entries

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 25, 2022