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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  professors who do that. In contrast to high school, here is how MIT teaches, a ... . What I mean is, if, hypothetically speaking, everyone in a class got an A ... an A is very hard in most classes. C people are not encouraged to drop

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An IAP in Texas, chapter one Reporting on location from Fort Worth.

  

  . I start in a few hours. Now ordinarily, the trainman wouldn't be ... (Only in Texas can you legally drive 80mph on an Interstate highway!) This week, I drove about 1200 miles from my house in Arizona to the Fort

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 2, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes 2.0 what i am/am i doing with my life

  

  Here’s to a basically mid-semester check-in to what I spend my time ... half in now, it’s safe to say that I will have learned a lot by the end ... professor is speaking a foreign language. This bipolarity often occurs within

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 27, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus, Part Two Interior photos of vacant East Campus dormitory rooms. (Photos of occupied/"lived-in" rooms are to come.)

  

  didn't mean that I don't like it here! It's just that MIT is located in a ... second post of a three-part series, I will showcase some vacant rooms in ... move in, and the way things could look a month or a year later. I was

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 18, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  A sporting chance

  

  Despite growing up in New York, I became a Red Sox fan when I was 8 ... myself in a Red Sox uniform taken sometime in the late 1980s: While ... a draw for me in the depth of intramural sports. I had been a varsity

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 22, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what’s the point? on impact, art, external validation, and remembering to be kind

  

  is, in fact, eco-friendly and compact. Shyeah.']a steering wheel ... ," at least in the way that phrase is typically meant. I think it is very ... 's admirable, in a way, to declare this the meaning of life. The world faces many

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 21, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Pros and Cons, as Told by Residents "because EC is home 400ever"

  

  door in building 66 in case it's miserable outside. - Living at EC is a ... is strange in a different way; living in EC, you get to see so many ... have comes in a large part because East Campus is not a Nice Place: we

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A love letter to psets Masochists In Training

  

  [context for the non-MIT folks out there: a pset, or problem set, is ... , plugged in values, and spat out an answer. But not you. With you, a 15-word ... manipulated and combined with another equation in such a way that the entire

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 16, 2012
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How many students play sports at MIT?

  With 33 varsity sports teams, MIT is the largest DIII athletics program in the nation. About one in four MIT students join a team during ... potential Olympic contender or if this is the first time you've ever thrown a
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What are Psets?

  If you're interested in MIT, you have to learn a little bit about ... , the entire course is weighted towards exams so that psets are seen as a learning tool. In other courses, psets are a substantial portion of the final
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] STARS@MIT: A Year in Review By Claire S. '25

  

  short answer is: we’ve been doing a lot! So we asked Claire, one of our ... ’s been a big year. Check it out! STARS@MIT: A Year in ReviewWhen I was ... programming, here’s a year in review of what STARS Ambassadors at MIT have been

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • April 23, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Remember to Breathe Chicken Soup for the Applicant's Soul

  

  million extracurriculars I was involved in. A word of advice: Take a deep ... mom in a frenzy exclaiming that I'm not going to get into any of the ... biggest things I think we want to get caught up in is the number game

  • by Bryan
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?

  

  Real Job. This is a drastic social shift from my time in undergrad, where ... roommate is a close friend with amazing taste in decor and books, and I ... different. This is also a symptom of growing up, not just being in a master

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 9, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My schedule .

  

  lol, it's good to be a senior. 3:30am MANDATORY EDIT: In all ... thing you learn at MIT is how to manage a heavy courseload. The last thing you learn at MIT is how to manage without. I believe this. If you're a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • February 16, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Y U NO HAVE ROLLERCOASTER this is why

  

  If you weren't aware, REX (Residence EXploration) is going to be in ... in the courtyard, which temporarily becomes a sprawling playground of 2 ... .) For the record, the current weather is gorgeous. This year, it's all a

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 27, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Infinite] Quarter Mile quarters + packing tape + sore knees == help cure MS

  

  visits at least once every day. Because it's MIT, the Infinite is also a ... Wikipedia, is when: On several days each year, the sun sets in alignment with ... is also the site of other activities, which, in that MIT way, manage to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Decision Mail Date: March 11 Hang in there guys, I know this is a crazy stressful time.

  

  As you've probably read via the homepage, Friday, 3/11 is our goal. If that slips for any reason, I'll let you know. Less than a week until I get to shave... NICE Hang in there guys, I know this is a crazy

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sun off a beach The one where it rains. I mean, another one where it rains.

  

  Well now, this is a good way to start a blog entry. Megan '08, nine ... this happened. Well, it was a little cold, for the first time in a few ... warm in an antarctic environment is to huddle together in concentric

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 31, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Like a G6 except for the wings, the engines, the flight controls…

  

  figured a simulator is a good place to do it.  Until I saw a shiny, shiny ... they had a second simulator off in the corner - not full-bodied and ... ... that is another bite of my life at MIT. As has been a frequent

  • by Piper '13
  • September 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IOI 2015 in Kazakhstan of khans and computer science

  

  . Participation in the ISOs is neither a requirement nor expectation of applicants ... EducationUSA (EdUSA) office in American Corner. EdUSA is a U.S. Department of ... in a kind of academic olympics. At IOI 2015, 322 students from 83

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2015