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• Blog / Hacks

  MIT is “Hacked” Ultimatum

  

  slight rivalry between Harvard and MIT. Whenever I'm talking to prospectives or tourists, I explain that the rivalry is kind of a one way rivalry ... deep down they really just want to study alone in their rooms and go on

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

  

  Ideas Weekend was my calling. I sent in two event proposals, and thought ... Ideas IAP started off just how I imagined. In the first week, I practiced ... touched 18.03.   In a desperate moment of clarity, I sat down to

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 3, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  (Guest Post) esolangs oh man

  

  can be said about a good number of esolangs. I’m sort of working on a ... that can be traversed by a pointer (the current position in the list ... /command set, brainf*** can be used to create even more esolangs. One that I like

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 5, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2,024 liked songs spotify is my favorite social media

  

  people here, with brains that function in ways that I can barely comprehend ... . Something about their intensity just draws me in. “But no, I’m a Pisces.” “Oh ... . Spotify holds such a place in my heart that I’ve said it’s one of my

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I may have been accepted to MIT, but I'm getting darned good at failing at other things!

  

  " section of my entry, I can see media uploads here in Wordpress from Chris Su ... not know me at all because I wrote blogs back in the dark ages of 2008, nearly 20 years ago, when blogs were something *everybody* wrote in. I

  • by Snively '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Designing MIT for democracy why is MIT so decentralized and chaotic? BECAUSE DEMOCRACY

  

  While reading Whitney Zhang's article in the Tech on the history of the first-year experience, I stumbled across the following graf quoting ... Education Survey (aka the Lewis Report), which, as you can read on our history

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  January Questions Omnibus 1 Some questions answered.

  

  still send in supplementary materials and, if so, until what date can I do ... visit. ------------------------------------- Anon wrote, "can i send in ... to you? I can send it in by using fedex." You may email or mail us the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2006
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Where can I find info on the School of Engineering?

  on in every department, lab, and classroom. There's way too much to write about in one paragraph, so check out their site and explore what our
• Blog / MIT Life

  30 questions with my roommates! I had writer's block so I forced my roommates to make content for me

  

  Massachusetts. I’m really interested in [annotation note="6: Computer Science"]course 6[/annotation] and am thinking I will probably major in either ... with the MIT Outing Club! In my free time I like to play lots of board

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Every song I’ve referenced in my admissions blog posts

  

  By my count, there are 61 times I've referenced a song in one of my ... in MIT, lies about MIT in and unsubscribe. I think this is partly ... known how to save a life. I listened to this song so much in high school

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 15, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  CMU / Parallel Universe i am not a clown

  

  semester, I went to PUMAC, in Princeton, and I kinda wrote about it too. Then ... go to CMIMC, in Carnegie Mellon, and I had a great time. It went quite ... was majoring in something, and I was like, "woah woah woah, don't you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Lessons Learned from (Watching) D&D thank you brennan lee mulligan

  

  and there. And I. Am. In. Love. I've always had a fascination with ... bunch of dice to make decisions in their made up world. As a kid, I ... character creation. In fact, I used a lot of D&D resources to write a lot

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  A Few Lessons from FLL

  

  . As I recently wrote in an op-ed piece for the higher ed website Inside ... her personal growth and genuine enthusiasm for learning. In the piece I ... participated in FIRST, last year I had the good fortune of experiencing FIRST

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 23, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Merritt ‘13, Carlos ‘13, Edward ‘13, and John ‘13 The final edition of a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  Cross student going to M.I.T. in the Fall By Jarett Henshaw Published ... , Cornell, and Berkeley. He decided to go to college at M.I.T. in Boston. "The ... him leaving Roanoke in the fall. "I'm very very proud but very sad that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2009
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  that simulation can give you a better idea of how plasma behaves in a ... apart in every direction. I quit the plasma physics research: to get any ... I didn’t, or else be willing to put in time that I didn’t. And we’re a

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Talks Energy at the White House "It is is our institutional responsibility to address the challenges of energy and the environment."…

  

  website! In particular, the Energy Initiative has been a key player in ... Hockfield joined U.S. President Barack Obama in calling for a "truly historic ... investment in science and technology" by the U.S. government since the Apollo

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 / Keep Calm and Carry On Getting some much-needed vitamin D on the other coast

  

  — changed."   I ran into a friend who I hadn't seen in over a year or ... seemed *changed*, calmer. I guess going abroad changed me. Later in the ... miscellaneous assignments due. I put in solid training practices at the rink

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 30, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  71 More Things to Do Before You Graduate the 101 things expansion pack

  

  . Jaywalk Mass Ave. I'm kidding; ;)don't;) ;)break;) the ;)law.;) Fall in ... In a very institvtional gesture of welcome, each incoming MIT student ... ] While these are nice or whatever, I find them to be a bit generic. Here

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i (kinda) studied for finals brought to you by "a PNR mindset"

  

  certain point I can't stand to sit at my desk chair in my dorm anymore, so I ... haven't really locked in with the full PNR mindset. I did every pset for ... grades in classes and decide what I would need to NR a class. The

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 22, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Student, A Professor, An Alum Hacking a door, the human genome, and robots.

  

  explanation, including a circuit diagram and drivers on his website, in case ... Technology in 1990, Greiner founded iRobot with a classmate, Colin Angle, and ... Today does a cool piece on Helen Greiner '89 SM '90, founder of i

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2006