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• Blog / Challenges

  And miles to go before I sleep. Here we go again.

  

  A friend in the class of mine which has a huge pset due tomorrow ... Night of Toolage: a long, long night of grueling problem sets due the next ... I was a freshman, which let me run for days on adrenaline

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  start of summer tidbits i'm alive

  

  Everbridge to work for them in the fall as a part-time software engineering ... a future blog post, but the classes were definitely the hardest they ... experience in industry. But I still had nothing going for me over the summer

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 12, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  how i’m feeling now goodbye mit <3

  

  the same in many too. I came from the Bay Area in California, a place I ... ’m still so grateful for the opportunities I had at my high school there, but ... I expected college to be more of the same, just at a more complex

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • June 1, 2026
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  On Tortillas and Community An update from a year and a half ago.

  

  Hello! One of the first things I wrote about as a staff blogger was ... are better suited for burritos or just eating them by themselves with a ... the very least, good quality tortillas in a super market. Not only did I

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Odds and Ends It's what's left

  

  why that is. Turns out, the combination of September starting on a ... in at a pathetic and embarrassing two (not counting the two days we get off for thanksgiving). And one of those is just a rando

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 3, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Boris Alexeev: Solving Graph Theory Problems Boris Alexeev spent five months working on a math UROP with Prof. Daniel Kleitman.

  

  the program, we spent two days presenting our research to a panel of ... professor he worked with (Daniel Kleitman, a professor in the Math Department ... , explain that he worked on a graph theory problem about the coloring of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Creating the MIT-verse behind the scenes of this year’s pi day video!

  

  for the fungal blob scene. Audrey: of course we also had to have a ... lots of fancy art supples. we brainbarfed at each other for a bit and ... : our boba bureaucrats liked it enough, so "Into the MITverse" it was. For

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • March 10, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  An MIT Acronym Quiz how many can you decode?

  

  to learn, and it's a bit like being dumped straight into the deep end ... 't know the exact words that they stand for, I usually know what entities ... . (If you just want a list of the translations, you can find them here

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 21, 2026
• Blog / Classes

  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  everything people handwrite for me: a note on the front page of a novel, For ... fresh out of the pandemic and it took a few months (or years) to feel like a productive, social creature again. Whatever the case, things feel

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Hack Punt Tool: The Musical Now, the music can be yours.

  

  . WHY? Because the soundtrack to Hack Punt Tool, a musical about MIT ... been released! A little bit of background, in case you missed the ... they wanted to write a musical, so they did. It was named for three words

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  updates cook or get cooked - summer boston edition

  

  /Quantum - 18.901/8.04 This duo was a bit weird. I was taking 8.04 for the first ... your peers and the prof. I think the key part for me was reading a bunch ... you learn a few things in this class, but mainly: what is the formal

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 30, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  carly SLAY jepsen concerts > psets

  

  a fidget toy for me at this point -- as well as baking banana bread ... Jepsen. For some reason, the [annotation note="because for some other ... start blaring from the speakers and suddenly there was a dance number

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 28, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  there", and then move on because I probably have a pset to do for the ... I'll cut to the chase: it's November, which means that a lot of the ... crisp autumn air for a lot of you. And,[annotation note = "It has

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Communication Intensive Jumping on the semester-in-review blog train

  

  of materials). Here are the five writing assignments I did for these ... a white paper about one of three topics from the perspective of a MIT ... – it is technically a white paper, after all – but luckily, the 3

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 4, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art things #1 illustration, graphic design, ceramics, and photography

  

  a pencil to sketch the design directly on the piece for reference ... , however, the only time that worked for us both was 7AM on a Wednesday ... ! There are a ton of resources on campus for making and enjoying artwork

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  International Men & Women of Mystery

  

  admissions for a long time, and (finally!) here goes. First, an important definition. For purposes of MIT Admissions, an international student is a ... need to give a student during the admissions process. What we do is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Fair Season

  

  night, I took a Zipcar up to a college fair in New Hampshire. I'd say the ... States, and is considered among the best. The undergraduate program is a 4 ... , students may apply to do a study abroad exchange with the Delft University of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 3, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  We Made the World We’re Living In, and We Have to Make It Over Envisioning alternative futures

  

  heavier. I spent yesterday in a newsroom, with the weight and force of ... . I spent the day scanning news sources for updates, any updates, and ... of the Watergate building beneath a white ledge textured with cracks

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / How to MIT

  Invitation to Cross-Register Guest post by Katherine W. '17 :D

  

  completely at the chalkboard For this particular course, every class is a ... transportation twice (or more) a week? As a senior mostly done with the requirements for my major, I decided that this fall semester was the perfect time

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  We Treat You Nicely VOTE VOTE VOTE!

  

  Don't forget to vote for me in the 2008 Blogging Scholarship! And ... . Normally visits only last for about a day so you will have to cram as much ... than Gimp?) so you'll have to settle for a slightly larger picture than

  • by Snively '11
  • November 13, 2008