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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Forth and Measure Casey at the Bat: Science Edition

  

  Upon conferrring me my black belt, my sensei also handed me a ruler ... skills would come in handy until about a week ago when I scrambled to get a project done for one of my classes, 2.671, Measurement and Instrumentation

  • by Bryan
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist MIT admitted some applicants from the waitlist today.

  

  decisions for the year, but there were at least a few more. Will we use the waitlist again this year? It is too early to know. In a week or two, we ... waitlist became a reality. We worked all day today as a subcommittee to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / Class Projects

  Designing a Calculator with FSM Logic A web dev lesson from an MIT sophomore!

  

  logic for our calculator would be a finite state machine (FSM)! WAIT. What ... modelling the motion of a robot looking for a reward located somewhere the ... input’s index for numbers such that a number is a sequence of digit

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guide to MIT: Academics requirements, resources, and miscellaneous info

  

  . Scheduling and Registration DEGREE REQUIREMENTS (for a formal overview, go ... experience at MIT. For a full catalog of Wellness & Support resources ... office hours for students. If your syllabus indicates a set time for office

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 6, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  new information about my life just dropped [ from the archive ] roses, thorns, and buds

  

  Massachusetts.  I needed a car for the summer since my internship was in Western ... lost it yet again – I’ve been out of the climbing gym for a few weeks ... health for most of 2024, but finally managed to catch a break in the new

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • February 21, 2026
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of a Second Semester MIT Student first week impressions

  

  obvious for them but not as much to me. I'm really excited to learn. A lot of this stuff is just purely uncharted territory for me. It's a lot of ... readings for CMS.100 and a pset for 8.02. So there's a lot on my plate. Just

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Current State of Mind ewoufbwu iyfh[things I must do]w39478ry3927rhiwf83tr

  

  , how I'm going to China for a week over the summer, how sometimes I feel ... I feel like doing is sitting back for a bit and letting it soak in. I ... , super-excited about coming to MIT, it's for a reason. There's seriously an

  • by Ana V. '15
  • May 6, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Parental Advice Sometimes you just need to get out of the way

  

  , elementary school) whose child has known for a couple of years that MIT is ... help us to determine if a student is a good match for MIT like creativity ... that the most important thing for a fourth grader to do, is to be a

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Forget that Or, "Why I won't be posting next week"

  

  for me. People sometimes go by their username as a nickname, and since ... On Tuesday night, Diana '08 baked a cake. Since she borrowed a bunch ... me a piece. Now, whenever you print something to one of the campus

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing Two New MIT Students… ...classes of 2026 and 2028 respectively.

  

  a write-in candidate for the Academy Awards. Her award; Best dramatic ... shoe-in for the 2006 Chernobyl - Three Mile Island Award. A relatively ... you know I recently added a new member to our family. Miles Nathaniel

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Happy May! Everything I owed you...

  

  it runs (there are around a dozen). For example, the most famous ESP ... -raiser for a mission/community service trip to the Philippines in April of my ... for a "St. Patrick's Day Dinner." After a delicious dinner prepared by

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Summer

  The 9-to-5 grind (or the 9-to-6:30 because that's when the free dinner is, and a girl's gotta eat)

  

  really just sit in front of a computer for 8 hours a day? Do you work on ... apartment for a paltry sum of $450 each a month, a thought which cooled me ... for a buffet-style breakfast. They really make this the best meal of the

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 4, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What It’s Like To Major In Science Writing at MIT according to one recent alum on reddit

  

  designed to work as a complementary major for students majoring in science ... permission) unedited below: A bit of backstory: I originally went to MIT for ... major classes, I started to realize it wasn't for me. A perfect storm of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Robo-CJ writes a college app do neural nets dream of electric essays?

  

  rest of it. For example: I hate the idea of a "big city" because it feels ... I thought it would be a good fit for me. I applied to [redacted]. I ... to MIT because I thought it would be a good fit for me. I applied again

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 28, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Me and the Firehose on balancing classes, and choosing next year’s schedule

  

  for quicker or easier paths.  So anyway, I think a smart idea would be ... ="" align="alignnone" width="267"] for reference, a lemming[/caption] My ... textbook for Greek History, did not miss a reading for the short stories

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 30, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Yes, This Actually Happened wwydfcfa - what would you do for chick fil a

  

  Boston. The closest one is in a town called Dedham, MA. My craving for ... for a few cars scattered in front of a large store we had never seen ... engorge on this Chick Fil A, save for a few "Oh my god I missed this" and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  what I’m doing this IAP mostly physics and musical theater

  

  for Battlecode with two of my friends. In junior year, I worked on a ... knowledge, since the class goes at a rapid pace that doesn’t allow for much ... floating in a fluid (which is what we’ve been talking about for two weeks

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Drawing from Life "is that the boldest stroke you can make?"

  

  since starting college. I've made a ton of art for my clubs at MIT and for ... for a circle of artists to sketch. Life drawing is essential to a ... of light and shadow. I find a process that seems to work for me: first

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 28, 2023
• Blog / Classes

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

  

  Narrative. Going for a Beer (1100 words). Content warning: domestic abuse ... there for one. In fact, he has finished it. Perhaps he’ll have a second one, he thinks, as he downs it and asks for a third. Meanwhile (≈23k

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Love Poetry The amount of poetry I write is inversely proportional to the amount of sleep I…

  

  :30am: Dump some salad and pesto (mmm, pesto) into a bowl as fuel for the ... hybridization, love I have a gift for spatial work; who knew? I hope that you ... 't write a sonnet for 18.03 (Differential Equations). My relationship with

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2011