Search

Search Results

• Blog / Academics & Research

  An OME Welcome to the Institute I took Tsegball, and I have no regrets.

  

  last carefree summer in Cape Coma. After a week of I-95 mayhem, I walked ... are like me in that sense. It is intimidating coming into this place not ... (which is amazing by the way). Anyway, the program itself is a two

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  checkboxes this semester in a list

  

  problem in theoretical computer science is to prove whether P and NP are ... singularity is a moment in time, not a place in space so it doesn’t even make ... ="alignright" width="225"] quogs in a 'metastable state'[/caption] spent more time

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Update The latest on app tracking, app numbers, etc.

  

  international students.   The Early Action season is shaping up to be a ... determined when the announcement will be made; it usually is about a week ... MIT application tracking. MyMIT Application Tracking This is a good time for you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Photograph-athon Because anything can be a catchy title if you add -athon to the end!

  

  pick a single ultra-winner in order to prove that I believe in capitalism ... that he is, in fact, at MIT. Tim the Beaver beams at the camera ... contests that feature cheap foods with comedic potential is more or less a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  OCTOBERRR NOVEMBERRR will NOT be my next entry, promise.

  

  seasons can be in New England. This is nothing short of a Monet, and it ... QUOTE: "MIT is a very good place; I'm not trying to put it down. I was just in love with it. It has developed for itself a spirit, so that

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Ponderings of a lifeguard Why are white water rapids white?

  

  there's nothing in the water that is white, how does it suddenly turn ... week. Whenever I'm at a spot with any kind of cascading water (which is ... . See, reading is a huge part of my life. My mom used to beg me to put the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 1 More Q, and more A.

  

  graduate students from China). There is also a fairly sizable number of ... mom already earned a degree in Elementary Education in 1980. She is ... grocery market. Also in the mall is an elevator that takes you up to a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  first time in cdmx and first time out of the US, but not the first time having an ethnicity…

  

  : This is a very very very privileged epiphany to have, but being in a ... neighborhood as White-passing only learning Spanish in a classroom--there is ... vibrant city life that is missing in the increasingly desolate and dying

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 15, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It Ends My last last day of school

  

  happened in those missing four hours, I finally open a Word document at 11 ... me rolling out of bed on a particularly warm Thursday morning in the ... fatigue, I have a lot of fun fielding questions and discussing ways in which

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 21, 2017
• Blog / MISTI

  Another Journey Planned How to go abroad 101

  

  study abroad in college. The International Honors Program is a unique program in that it examines a thematic topic in multiple countries. The ... ”. -Robert Louis Stevenson “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing…Stan! Passing the blogger torch

  

  remember when I was a prefrosh (in 2008...ouch), I dreamed of one day being ... , right? But I quickly learned that leading a high school club or two is very different from leading a team of engineers in a technical project

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 24, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Photojournalism and answers to some questions

  

  a degree in course 2 (mechanical engineering), thereby proving that ... carrying an umbrella in a snowstorm doesn't make immediate intuitive sense to ... fete, with more Nobel laureates than you can shake a stick at in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Get psyched, stay with it, do whatever it takes Adam's dad's advice is succint. Mine isn't.

  

  most succinct advice I can give is from Adam's dad (my future father-in ... . Do whatever it takes. I think this is superb advice. My advice is a ... is how to design a robot, or how to calculate the thermodynamic

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT at Copley Square Yet more photos of #NoBanNoWall protests in Boston, plus an update from President Reif.

  

  ourselves in, as an institution and as a country. MIT is profoundly American ... there: This was the first time I really actively participated in a protest. My mother, from Nanjing, China, has a green card, and so when I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 31, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Application now available Apply now at MyMIT.

  

  and binding, and ability to be viewed in a 2-D environment, before ... . Please note that MIT is not a member of the Common Application. MIT has its ... Educational Counselor (EC), within a couple days of registering. You should

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 1, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What Do You DO All Day? A guest-author entry by Joan Horvath '81.

  coats in a nod to the visual shorthand of what a scientist is, but are ... ways in the snow to get to the Institute back then. After a stint in ... Propulsion Lab (JPL) in Pasadena, California. JPL is the place that sends out

  • by mitblogs
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring cleaning and miscellany The Brass Rat club, sending 4-inch heels to Goodwill, and picking a new food-providing graduate…

  

  nothing on a weekend for the first time in 2006 (this is when you know you ... boomed, "So I see this is the Brass Rat table!") There's a standard pair ... opportunity to do a little spring cleaning. There are few things in life more

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  More IAP updates

  

  have a new battery, and their robot is fine, so they should be good to go ... ). The idea is not to play hero and to attack a mugger with a gun who would otherwise have just run off, but to be able to defend yourself in a situation

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017 fourth time seen, first time competing

  

  technology. A blockchain is basically a list of records linked together with cryptography for security. A blockchain is stored on every node in the network ... next time I was in a hackathon, I would finish the project no matter what

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Guide to Farmer’s Markets We found lychee in a hopeless place.

  

  during the school year with Spanish House, in a big cooking rotation. I ... -to-one-up-the-last-person's-dinner that occasionally happens in the house. Cooking with Spanish house is ... my first trip to the farmer's market in Boston, on a lovely Saturday

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 10, 2016