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• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds and the Order of the Phoenix Answering the important questions of those still making their decision.

  

  postmark deadline for your college decision, I figure now is as good a time ... /academics... but... I like being taught for $45,000 a year. Is the situation the same ... Lander rated a 6.7 out of 7 for teaching 7.012: Introductory Biology, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales From Turning Twenty They range from "a little peculiar" to "utterly bizarre."

  

  , took off my backpack, and worked on a Junior Lab paper for three hours ... nurse's comment made it a 10. Sunday Nov 4: I wore pajamas for literally ... . ^ 1, 3, 8 for the J-Lab miracle. Monday Nov 5: I got a letter from my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  from me to you burn it all down

  

  struggled with writing blogposts in the past few months. It’s not for a lack ... contents. There was a space on the envelope for me to write an address. I ... just felt important for me to address it to YOU. . . . The thing I love

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Want To Build a Robot? it doesn't have to be a robot (see: electric gokart section)

  

  first day of lab and I'm a bit nervous. 2.007 is well known for its chaos ... high." For several days I iterate and iterate on a design (nicknamed ... Below is one of the robots I built for 2.007, MIT's extremely popular

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Grads Design the Jolt Sensor to help high school athletes detect concussions better

  

  $11,000. Now they're holding a social media contest where you can people ... graduates Benjamin Harvatine '12 and Seth Berg '14 who recently built a ... , Ben Harvatine '12 got a concussion that went undetected. He continued

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 2, 2014
• Blog / Events

  REX at Random Hall ice cream, epic meals, water wars and turing tests!

  

  (Residence Exploration) Program is a way for each incoming freshman to figure ... , raptor attacks, children on leashes, or chainsaws for hands? A hilarious ... nachos! Maybe even a nacho castle! 11:47 - 12:47 Liquid Nitrogen

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • August 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP of Coding time to catch up

  

  these last two posts were just me typing furiously on a keyboard for a ... started blogging, I wondered for a while what my "writing style" was ... college for the first time. I haven't seen my room in a while, I'm much more

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Philosophy Things liberty, property, consent - that kind of stuff

  

  ’s Neighborhood Mister Robert Nozick was a philosopher at Harvard who, for context ... “protection agencies,” which are businesses that individuals subscribe to for a ... there. A second important takeaway is that the language we use to describe

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 11, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Perspectives from Deutschland Ich bin Anna und ich studiere Astronomie!

  

  they’re hosting me here in Marburg with ~35 other grantees for a six ... stitching together a support network. In retrospect, I realize how important ... University of Marburg. In the morning, I will walk for twenty minutes to my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  What the end of the semester does to Conner 2 For one thing, no one does the dishes. And I mean no one.

  

  have taken a while for the mess to present itself (perspective and all ... the Internet? All of the above? ;-) As for the poems, limericks are a ... schedule can look a lot different. This is just one option for a student that

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008: So I think I’ll go to Boston (Guest Entry) More pictures than your body has room for!

  

  around in Cambridge: Watch out for trains. As my group was walking down a ... another guest blogger. He wanted to take a picture of the table for his blog ... , Kevin and I headed to a class called Math for Computer Science. It was an

  • by Snively '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  starting over and over again

  

  , and for a long time. And then every semester I inevitably find that ... 'll stick to it for long enough to run a half-marathon in late summer/early fall. cooking: Although I lived in a cook-for-yourself dorm this

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 11, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  rearview reflections newly-minted cruft rambles on post-mit life

  

  between WOOOOO I’M DONE 🥳 and [annotation note="'It’s a terrible day for ... sticking for a new, outside-of-work challenge. I could go buy a Pogo stick if ... easier (and for others, perhaps harder), but with a nice load of executive

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January in Paris and two weeks of speaking French

  

  ("urban furniture" for lack of a better term)--the streetposts, bus stops ... importance of scenery setting the mood for the opera, it at least provides an ... while still providing a good view to the audience. Thus, for the dancers

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 23, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life as a Physics Major- Research and Junior Lab(Part 2) Long and verbose. But I hope you find time to read it.

  

  progress. We expect that this will turn into a senior thesis (in physics) for ... , for example, consists of a total of 6 experiments- 2 introductory ... guide is provided (the example shown is for a muons experiment- considered

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 29, 2008
• 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 / Admissions

  So who is this Laura person, anyway? Hello and welcome to the single coolest blog on the entire admissions website. My name…

  

  website. My name is Laura and I am a member of the MIT Class of '09, which ... to declare Course 2 (Mechanical Engineering) as a major and possibly minor in Course 17 (Political Science). Now, that said, let me tell you a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  TLM The Land of MIT. It's a planet.

  

  traveling to different planets, perhaps living in a ship for years until reaching a completely different planet and moving there. Until about two and ... 't have time to breathe." Night only falls for 4-8 hours a day, depending on

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Public Statements

  The Class of 2019 Graduates from MIT

  

  for the rest of your life. Here is a small piece of advice I want to ... prospects of a better one, and that the biggest reason for that is everyone ... ; now, a few years later, we have taught them what they can, and they

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  About That Email an error, and an apology

  

  admissions cycle: a list for admitted students, who receive updates specific to their admitted status, and a list for applicants, who receive updates ... that, in the footer to each email, we include a line explaining to the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 5, 2014