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• Blog / Classes

  How to build a Tamagotchi and the power of curiosity

  

  shipped off the design to be manufactured in China. This is what returned to ... schematic and prototype A schematic is a drawing of your electrical components ... schematic, which shows all of these components and their connections in a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 25, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Where Have I Been? Oh, what a bad blogger I have been.

  

  around campus and add a variety of guest authors to our blogging program to ... directly to our site; and Mirat Shah, a junior who is studying abroad via the ... manage to deliver them to me in html-friendly ASCII). So when you see a new

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Update State of the mail, application numbers, and more

  

  system isn't showing a document yet, relax and wait just a little while ... slow down processing. If we need another copy of a missing document, we ... : We have received 18,064 total applications, a 1% increase over last

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in BRASIL! my summer in january

  

  ="which has a course number in literature, writing, women & gender studies ... I could talk about, but here's a snippet of what the class is about ... contrast the construction of race in both societies. Class is structured

  • by Victor D. '27
  • February 5, 2026
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Ethics, AI, and the College of Computing some student voices in a campus controversy

  

  to avoid such situations in future. This is what Nasir Almasri, a ... Sobrino, who is a graduate student in History, Anthropology, and Science ... looking in. However, in late February a protest was held at the massive tent

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Blog] CourseRoad! A simple way to make your four year plan!

  

  Danny B. '15 is an 8-Flex/6-3 major with aspirations in both fields ... majors is even more so. And therein lay a major problem: working out when ... Query and jQuery UI documentation, I built a site that allows users to add

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 25, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2019 everything from autobiographies to magic the gathering blog posts

  

  . In fact, we can prove the following astonishing theorem: If  is a ... . Finally, the original recording is represented in its entirety, as a spoken ... Writing Autobiography. We read a lot of things in that class, and here are

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 30, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Somewhere in between Trying to find out where I belong at MIT

  

  the whole “I took a year to study in China, but I studied Chinese, so it ... . I have never regretted my decision to take a year off and study in China, but it slowly starting to hit me that this year is the ‘easy’ year

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 13, 2019
• Blog / Hacks

  Where the Sun Shines, There Hack They MIT is known for many things, including its legendary hacks.

  

  MIT World. Keyser is also the author of a brilliant essay in Nightwork ... MIT is known for many things, including its legendary hacks. Long a ... Samuel Jay Keyser gave a talk on the history of hacks. In Where the Sun

  • by Laurie Everett
  • August 2, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Season Some advice for the EA deadline. (Relax. Be patient. Don't stress. Don't procrastinate!)

  

  Early Action deadline. We've been getting a lot of questions here in ... submission date for documents to show up in the tracking system. We have ... individual circumstances. November 1 is a postmark/submit-button deadline. We

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Turkey Time MIT Admissions will be closed for the Thanksgiving holiday.

  

  documents during this period. If you are a Regular Action applicant and your ... .T.) Chain Reaction What is the F.A.T. Chain Reaction? Better to see it ... a link, which is then connected to another link and becomes one giant

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2012
• FAQ / Transfer

  Can transfer applicants submit supplemental materials?

  There is no expectation for you to submit additional documents beyond the required application. For transfer applicants, we accept a maximum of two additional supplemental letters of recommendation from teachers
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the FIRST DAY of CLASSES!!!!! A summary of the first half of the day/how I'm feeling, with many exclamation points!!!

  

  Scholars Program at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China (that was a lot of ... (through my resume or in interviews) in a way that is Employable(TM). I do ... since I got back from China. Today, in order to facilitate Better Blogging

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick EA Update A few words about the storm, application tracking, MyMIT, and more.

  

  looking for missing documents until we post a blog entry saying that we have ... to be scanned in and then submitted; there is no electronic version of this form. If you have a recommendation from someone who is not teaching

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 31, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  H0sed Psets, exams, and being "mediocre" at MIT.

  

  not truly believe that anyone is a mediocre (in the everyday sense of ... (which was very exciting, by the way - I have never been in a country with ... week to do a pset (or two weeks, in classes like 7.01x (Intro Bio)). But

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 9, 2008
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Did MIT invent hacking?

  American Heritage Dictionary and is included as a unit of measure in Google ... creativity, cleverness, and difficulty of execution. A 1958 prank in which the ... MIT hacking is legendary among college pranks. MIT culture
• Blog / MIT Life

  Return of the Frog Queen Okay, it snowed this morning, end of story.

  

  everyone at MIT is weird. But in a different way. I never thought that the ... is hard enough), a fuel cell that could theoretically be used to power ... like that. Anyway, the formic acid is pressurized, so it goes through a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  VSEPR Google News is the best.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? A jurassic beaver once ruled the riverbank. I've had an extraordinarily busy (and short!) week that I will describe to you all in detail ... proves that even 100 million years ago, the beaver was dominating the area

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 25, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Zone Cell Challenge Why work when you can hack other people's servers?

  

  weekend, I took the Zone Cell Challenge. Now, this is going to require a little background. Actually, there's quite a bit of background. Back In The ... (usually seen as the Latin Cerberus), is a protocol for mutual authentication

  • by Evan B. '10
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That fear of “falling behind” Exploring options @ MIT

  

  intimidating task. But being in China this summer was really inspiring in a way ... , interning in China allowed me to really step back and re-evaluate what I want ... ) in a wide variety of career fields. People are really practical but

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 8, 2011