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• Blog / Classes

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  verify this hypothesis, Fatema and I set up a little in-game experiment ... from my laptop. Looking up, I saw that Fatema had replied with a link to ... way to describe a rotation in 3D is with a matrix – a 3x3 grid of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Extracurricular Information We discuss life over lunch.

  

  , though, and I started to realize that maybe I'm doing a little too much. I ... want to take them. MIT is similar in that our drop date is in November ... really taken any official hip hop in my life. College is a great time to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2020–2021 application cycle

  

  reaffirmed in the recent Care Counts in Crisis statement that I've signed — we ... I am writing to announce that, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic ... .[/annotation]  This was not a decision we made lightly. Our reliance on these tests is

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  past, present, future reflections and plans

  

  he’s a verifiable icon in the MIT community. I wish I had checked how ... me that I was pulling a “freshman spring” and taking too many classes ... of realizing somewhere in the middle that I had FOUR finals to prepare

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 11, 2018
• Blog / Personal Projects

  How to Build an LED Acrylic Sign Your Complete Beginners Guide

  

  to my friend Ty who is a senior in the house that was more experienced ... Alright so I'm not like a super cracked Autodesk user or anything but I do ... that could actually be read by the laser cutters. So to do this, I went

  • by Richard O. '28
  • November 30, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts from Science Bowl 🥣 a story about now-nostalgic times

  

  worked. I was in the “captain” spot on my team, a symbolic position that ... ’s, like, a more powerful movement for me. So I do it with more force ... the round feel distinct. Crisp, in a way. “My favorite supervillain is

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 30, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT goes on the road Beginning Sunday until the end of October, my Admissions colleagues and I will go forth…

  

  in the MIT undergraduate student body? And, which foreign country is ... the door. Please note that no RSVP is required. The meeting itself will ... MIT is a good match for you? We will of course talk about admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Forget your plan for a minute The beauty of collage

  

  do understand him. I still remember being a college student and ... next one. The truth is, life rarely ever works like that. I’m thankful now that I went to an art school and spent most of my time in film

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  frosh thingies i couldn’t decide what to write so i’m writing about everything

  

  hit me that I’m now a college student. Not only do I have a bunch of clubs and classes to do, I also have to figure out how to balance that ... water.) I’m stuck in a bit of a situation where I’m weirdly better at the

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Let’s see those cell phones up in the air” cause every little thing's gonna be alright

  

  space for my architecture studio, I got a call from my friend saying that ... , a "skybridge" did. (In retrospect, I should've expected it; a ... loved loved the fact that some of this is in Bejing and some of it is with

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT of the Late 1800s, According to the Students snippets of history from the first 10 yearbooks

  

  reported that "few, if any institutions, in the United States have a higher ... relevant to students in 2016 A.D.): Lastly, here is an 1895 ... was as feared then as it is today. There was a poem perfectly describing

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 27, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  so you’re starting your first year? boy do I have unsolicited tips for you

  

  , but it’s largely written with first years in mind. This is in no way a ... less as a “how to do MIT” and more like a “here is a hodgepodge of advice ... observing what you find yourself interested in is a good way to really figure

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 2, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I swear this isn’t an ad for Google But Bard is so much more fun than ChatGPT

  

  probably not the best way to do so). I was a bit disappointed that Google had ... for that. (Although ironically, this answer is a lot less funny now ... Earlier this year, I had planned to write a blog post testing whether

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visualize this! My new UROP We've got some really cool stuff going on this semester

  

  year I'm starting in a new lab. The group is in MIT CSAIL (the Computer ... training data—that is, examples of icons in each of a few hundred categories ... It’s a new school year, and I’ve started UROPing in a new lab! For

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done done done end-of-semester happiness

  

  junior year. i haven't blogged in a while, so i thought i'd write up a post ... .104 (seminar in analysis). this is a communication-intensive course in math ... that i actually really, really like economics, which was kind of a happy

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 24, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rosalind Franklin and Kent State Two more short book reviews and some news of my summer not (directly) relating to…

  

  I warn you: this is a depressing entry. Last week I finally finished ... Professor Watson himself." All in all, a pretty good book. I found the ... , which is complete nonsense that would totally not fly in most courtrooms

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  end of semester reflections in conclusion, online school Ain't It

  

  same amount of work I'd do on a regular basis at school in person. I ... exhaustion of being in multiple Zoom meetings a day and that I'll be able to ... be pretty damn hard. While writing, I realized that I hadn't written a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 15, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Decision letters mailed

  

  envelope sizes, since I've received a number of questions about this, I can tell you that the Admit Letter is 10" x 13", and the defer and deny letters each come in a standard #10 window envelope (4.125" x 9.5"). The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 10, 2004
• Blog / Events

  298 Tickets. All for us

  

  A lot of 'lasts' happened this past week: - I turned in my last 5 ... doctor's office in Somerville and decided that it was the last time I was ... ! Like Pokemon, Harry Potter is, in my opinion at least, a defining

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 20, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Big Dreams, Small Mind The troubles of being in school and doing research for too long.

  

  in day out until the day I die, that is what I want to work on and what ... completely honest a big reason for that decline is in fact my time at MIT. Now ... think of was this linker that's being annoying in a CAR-T I am working on

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 24, 2018