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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Gustavo Dudamel Conducts MITSO! [by Shelby Heinecke '13] Because we are THAT good.

  

  day, he participated in a panel discussion with MIT professors John ... . As you might have known, I am a violinist in MITSO, and I experienced his incredible conducting. I was in the presence of a musical genius

  • by ARTalk
  • April 26, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The MIT Midyear Report Applicants should submit this form ASAP, by February 15th.

  

  Report. Note that there is also an option in the Report for students whose ... 're in a school that doesn't have midyear grades, or you've already ... section. The Midyear Updates form is a simple text box, similar to an essay

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 25, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  setting up a house will it take an entire semester? stay tuned

  

  . We had some people come in the day after, so we rented a UHaul for the ... Friday night, a few days after we'd moved in, some of us had a cleaning ... for me. Having a desk is a game-changer, though—there's so much space to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2025!

  

  a cool new thing in class, and so forth. The mission of the blogs is ... the mountains for a much-needed vacation, where I will sit in backyards ... It's July again, which means that: I started a co-op Stardew

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 1, 2025
• Blog / Events

  emergency blog post because Lilly Chin ‘17 just won Jeopardy and is also the greatest of all time "who is the spiciest memelord?" it's you

  

  who knows Lilly is going to do a longer interview of her with lots of ... befriend some of the best and brightest minds in America and around the world ... this MIT News article about her win and a great interview, posted by

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 24, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Home Away From Home Complete with Batman mask, kettle corn, and ticket stubs

  

  the Galaxy, my favorite series of all time. Last is a series of DVDs ... ) and a frisbee signed by the great Woodie Flowers! In front are a couple ... years in the making. The final "interesting" wall has a group of

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Evolution of Physics Physics gets harder as you get older, go figure.

  

  physics. Awesome, I picked a major that essentially is everything that I ... during sophomore year I'm noticing a trend in physics problems: they get harder. Check this out Junior Year of High School: This is a nice summary

  • by Snively '11
  • November 14, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Go Sox!

  

  with is, until we couldn't all fit in the elevator. But that's not what ... see Tang on the far left, barely in the frame, and MacGregor is on the ... I'm not a big sports fan. Never have been. Nashville doesn't have

  • by Evan B. '10
  • October 25, 2007
• Blog / Events

  The Making of a Mystery A James Grimmelmann Guest Blog

  

  take on this tremendous burden. The winning team in a Hunt is the one ... " today. And, in a landscape strewn with shoddy writing, his articles are ... economy. Each year’s Hunt is a gift given by the previous year’s winner to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  throughlines some things never change (but thankfully, only some)

  

  i will never be a student again, that there is a world in which in 2 ... . and i'm there multiple times a month, and it is a joy to keep him in my ... life is more calm than it used to be in a way i didn't use to appreciate

  • by Phi A. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  there is a lot of truth in that. Fundamentally an admissions process is ... basically, it's a perfect setup for the Illusion of Validity Why is MIT ... candidates. Would this produce a lesser class? The link in mihcal1's post

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bump MIT students design products

  

  a real life product. This course is a FANTASTIC opportunity to get to ... that it looks like we only have fun in the class, 2.009 is HARD WORK ... , currently named Bump, is a hands-free baby gate that will detect whether the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A, Vol. II A sort-of guest post

  

  ... aren't you supposed to be in school?" which is totally a legitimate concern. But in honor of "Patriot's Day" (I honestly never quite figured what that was all about)/It's-the-Boston-Marathon-and-the-city's-a

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 18, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adam makes a guest appearance Adam's motto: Step one, get it done. Step two, there's always more to do.

  

  usually have 2 psets a week, but this week I also had a presentation in one ... Methods In Aerospace Engineering" but I think a more appropriate name would ... . The class is centered around a semester-long group project where we

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Trevor ‘13 The sixth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  weights. A working-class kid raised just off Foster Road in Southeast Portland, the 6-foot-2, 240-pound teen is a leader in the school wood shop ... his parents each got laid off in recent years. Dad Scott Zinser is now a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Perspectives from Deutschland Ich bin Anna und ich studiere Astronomie!

  

  ’t forgotten me, but here’s a quick review: I majored in physics and graduated in June. I’m currently on a one-year Fulbright Scholarship in Germany. After ... they’re hosting me here in Marburg with ~35 other grantees for a six

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living Like A Native Or living like a boss. Your choice.

  

  (read: I got buried in p-sets for about a month), let me take a few ... in Cambridge. Since hitching a ride on a pachyderm isn't always a ... 's post or Cam's post, you've probably gotten the idea that driving is a bad

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  Slay the Spire as metaphor i didn't waste 60 hours playing for nothing

  

  've been playing a lot of in the last two weeks is Slay the Spire, a ... me explain the phrase "deckbuilding roguelike". A roguelike is a kind of video game where you control a character and fight monsters in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)

  

  with new people. and there's a decent chance your partner is in a close ... Rule. in a pretty egregious way, at that⁠—it was a [annotation note ... freshman year[/annotation] and with a senior in my direct social circle

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 23, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Rules and who sets them

  

  often who is a part of your support system. Thus, the person you get in a ... world. This is unsurprising for a field (again, stereotypically) devoted ... some of them can be a bit pedantic. This is because I am a formalist. I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 28, 2022