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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of an Era The last lecture of 6.001

  

  with a syntax that's radically different from most other programming ... while, I'll try to do a recap of last term, which was fantastic, but unbelievably hosing. This particular post, though, is about a particularly well

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 8, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Someone saved my life tonight Survived my squalor, like a butterfly.

  

  looking at a full shelf of textbooks and only moments away from running ... live in squalor." My heart beat a little bit faster as everyone else ... Squalor was, and why it was so funny. Zach gladly obliged and showed me a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 12, 2006
• Blog / Summer

  Preparing for College or not*

  

  reminded of this last weekend when a close friend of mine from home was ... As a pre-frosh, excited and stressed for my first year at MIT, I ... government or a writing seminar?" [/annotation], "How easy is move in?", and

  • by Hala K. '29
  • August 15, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fig. 4: Study with me! A semi-productive Sunday afternoon vlog (feat. an hour trying to find a printer)

  

  will conflict. That is a far cry from the "reading period" of one day we ... Grüezi mitenand! Thought I'd give you all a quick update on how life is 6'014 km away from the 'Tvte. Time flies (seriously), and I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  How Are You? because it's not just a simple question

  

  go from midterm to midterm. If we’re lucky, they go from pset to pset ... buddies. We see friends we know from high school. We see friends we’ve made ... , truthfully doing. Because I have come to a realization. We spend every single

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 19, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2017-18 Application Essay Questions

  

  (maybe the most underappreciated thing a good college applicant can do is ... you lead a busy life, full of activities, many of which are required of ... . MIT students work to improve their communities in different ways, from

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 31, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fifteen Minutes to Clear My Head on my morning walk from Boston to MIT

  

  "far" from campus forces me to plan ahead rather than fall into a bad ... take a picture. I had just taken a snapshot of something I see every ... is the Harvard Bridge. Many MIT students live in Boston, whether in a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s May 2nd. Have you replied to your colleges yet? The music has stopped -- the last dance is over.

  

  The college admissions process is often compared to dating. It's a ... , learn about their lives, fall in love with many, but can only choose a few ... 've admitted a class of students, we begin to court them once more. Shiny tubes

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 2, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week in the Life Hello, Google Calendar.

  

  . Monday XFair On the day before spring-semester classes began, MIT held a ... with the intention of dropping a few, if they're at the higher end of ... right across the street from my dorm. So I will miss being able to quickly

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2013…The Parent Experience!

  

  Have a Healthy First Year. Join staff from MIT Medical to learn resources ... campus. The first question I often hear from parents is, "what events ... options over the next few days, there are lots of things to choose from and

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 10, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  And So It Ends, And So It Begins May 1 marks the end of this admissions cycle and the beginning of the next.

  

  take from a person. You guys undoubtedly know what I'm talking about ... committee, May 1 (really May 2, since May 1 is a Sunday) marks the end of this admissions cycle and the beginning of the next. From an admissions perspective

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Liveblog] MARC 2025 A sciencey science conference, feature Anika '26 and me

  

  a lot like the Overlook Hotel from The Shining, and now I can't unsee ... a keynote talk from Deirdre Hanford, CEO of Natcast. Natcast isn ... from taking up an entire room to fit on a chip the size of your fingertip

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  by bike, by train, by wind, by rain getting around different cities

  

  in a place where only driving made any sense. Now that I've been ... .[/caption] In Copenhagen, Denmark, everybody bikes. A guide for a MISTI walking ... bikes. I’ve heard from most people here that cars are made expensive via

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  my shattered laptop in the midst of pre-finals season

  

  Media Lab, a classmate accidentally shattered my laptop screen. While I was with my group presenting our project, I left my coat on a chair ... audacity to sit in a seat that's clearly someone else's, but could sympathize

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  8.021 and my favorite moments the class that taught me to love physics

  

  compile a bunch of really funny quotes and moments from my class because I ... took a special version of 8.02 known as 8.021, specifically designed for ... class really fun. He's a really down to earth guy who has been really in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 17, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  The Summer Before College (what not to do)

  

  Disney Channel paints a perfect image of exactly what it's supposed ... meal. Polaroids scattered in a half-packed bed room. Late evenings spent ... . Make Memories. Prepare. After all this is a really special time. A time

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 12, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Nothing is perfect… and it doesn’t matter a guest post by Tommy A. '21

  

  games on a semi-regular basis."][/annotation] my head still a mess from ... .[annotation note="Pappalardo is a gigantic course 2 lab/workshop that fills the bottom of building 3. It's also where a lot of course 2s live when they

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 6, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memoriam: Professor Silbey

  

  Last Thursday, Bob Silbey, a professor in Course 5 (Chemistry) and ... finally worked up the nerves to ask a question in his class, only to confirm that there is such a thing as a stupid question (the answer was right

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Into the Sunset [by Cadet Paul Estrada, '09] My fascination with color guard, and participation in a colonel's…

  

  ten feet away from me a 50-year-old colonel, well respected and full of ... leadership training is probably somewhere at the top of that list, but that's a ... has a lot to do with my appreciation for the tradition and dignity of

  • by ROTC
  • October 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Uh-oh Spaghetti-O

  

  point I'm getting to here is that this argument is clearly a far cry from ... Yikes. It seems like I may have gotten Wenhao into a bit more trouble ... admit "anything" with 2 X-chromosomes. Wenhao posted a different comment

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 21, 2006