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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cubes, Tetrahedrons, and Wind Chimes Silly lil musical instruments for a silly lil guy (me)

  

  jingling in a calm breeze and wish they’d sound more like plates breaking or a metal pipe hitting the ground? Rockin’ in the Wind is a set of ... Cube is also a featureless brown cube, made of six copper squares hot

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  Varsity Pistol Team Wins National Championship

  

  , theater, and, yes, sports. MIT is a member of NCAA Division I in Crew ... program's history, with previous victories occurring in 1971 and 1972. As a ... -America accolades, the most in the program's history. Schannon was a First

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advanced Standing Exams: know your stuff, get out of a semester-long class! You should really consider taking them.

  

  willy-nilly, because it is important to have a firm background in the core ... is not quite like a placement test because it doesn’t let you skip ... runs the course and for the most part approximate a final exam in that

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 24, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Some Q & A about the waitlist.

  

  , but I do not anticipate that happening this year (though it is always a ... admissions. It is a part of the admissions process. We colleges recognize and ... aiming for a class of about 1,020 students this year. Based on our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  mit: it’s complicated confliCTING FEELINGS

  

  philosophy -- it was everything i ever wanted in a university. but i kind of ... ! maybe i'll even be a blogger! and everything is going to go to plan ... WESTERN MUSIC. IT IS SUPER COOL."]i was sad and hass-less for a couple of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 6, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  10 Lessons #IAP #Italy #LearningByTeaching #wow #Pi(e)DayCountdown

  

  .           3. However little time there is, use it. For example, in learning a ... minutes to plan a lesson is infinitely better than none. And having a few ... learning, while passion is an essential component of teaching. All in all

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary 2.0 an image a day keeps the psets (and workday) away

  

  eventually, got it done. So, here is a day in the life, from May 1st till ... images. I love photos & photography since it feels like life is in many ... horror. Being perceived for what I willingly post online is a weird feeling

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The School of Architecture + Planning What happened to "science"? "Engineering"? "Technology"?!

  

  '; this is the one I'm studying. It is a joint program between Course 4 ... functioning buildings, but also designing and constructing places in such a way ... MIT, fabricated a house featured in a MoMA exhibit last summer (there I

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Congratulations! You got the job. You start in 6 months.

  

  still learned a lot. Every crew is responsible for doing a checklist and ... no good. So the new plan is this: I'm going to go in and observe ... who will start working in October. A little weird, but in the end a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 24, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sororities @ MIT- Become a part of it! Come to the first day of recruitment on September 1st to learn more about what…

  

  family is my home away from home in Boston.” Experience #2, a rising ... school year. This is a major change because most of the MIT sorority women ... sisters in an informal setting. This is useful for underclassmen who are to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  As we hurtle towards Pi Day… A post of posts.

  

  've already had a lot of "bleary eyed" moments in the last few weeks (my eyes ... out. Lydia's is one such post that is worth a read. I've collected a few ... ... I will admit this may not qualify as a "real" post as it is

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  nice moments on campus things are okay, actually

  

  definitely feeling the exhaustion creep into my bones in a way that sleep doesn ... is essentially a collection of all of this: moments big and small since ... function of having grown up in NYC. Although I haven't gone on a run in a

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 10, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students FAQs for students deferred from Early Action.

  

  materials? The only thing we ask that you send in is the midyear grade report ... keep us up-to-date with any news in your life. This is not required nor ... decisions in mid-March. Should I send in a whole new version of my application

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes from the Road: NorCal, Netherlands, Nick Cannon, and Nerd Camp where I've been, what I've been doing

  

  a broader audience. Holland is beautiful! I rented an AirBnB in the ... summer is a key time for us to travel, work on dormant projects, and take ... an automation engine (think IFTTT, but for your phone) and there is a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  list of things that refill my will to live things to do when i don't want to do anything

  

  hugs thinking about hugs remembering that one time in a summer ... talking to a friend with more sense than me, which, as it happens, is most ... memories of high school one night i had a breakdown at 2 in the morning in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Dig me, but don’t bury me This entry is brought to you by McDonalds and Google. I mean, literally.

  

  into a never-ending search for free wireless access. Today that came in the form of a McDonald's in Marseille, France. Seriously. As Samuel L. Jackson prophesied so long ago, their main hamburger is indeed called a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Reliving the good ol’ days Tombs, Smurfs, and Halloween

  

  ' days of my childhood all in ways related to MIT. Exhibit A: TOMB ... 's birthday, and I honestly had not had that much fun in a very long time. 5-WITS is the brainchild of a MIT course 2 alumnus, and it's basically an

  • by Bryan
  • November 3, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Expanding on Pass No Record It's not so much a time machine, as it is a dodgeball cannon!

  

  , but a few key ones. 1) Classes are harder 2) Classes are in your major ... ). Unless you kicked some serious butt in a crazily academic high school or ... , in each of these topics to choose from, but that's for a later entry

  • by Snively '11
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  TEDxCambridge! 1. How TED talks can improve your life 2. Recently hosted and filmed right here…

  

  left before EA decisions. Given that the average length of a TED talk is ... extra years of life   How schools kill creativity This video is a ... we were going to host a TED Conference right in our very own Kendall

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  You Make The Call So you think you've got what it takes to admit the Class of 2010 to…

  

  Back in the good ol' days (winter of 1983 to be exact) there was a ... policy is a staunch supporter of Affirmative Action.) OK. Are you ready to ... was to show you a controversial play where a penalty has occured and

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 9, 2005