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• Blog / Academics & Research

  19 Summers AHH I'm getting old :(

  

  to do justice to this in a few sentences, but I'll try. This is an ... admissions site about it) so here's a breakdown. If you aren't interested in my ... went around to a bunch of different stations (math, language, reading

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection: Day Three A beautiful snowy Sunday...

  

  It's a beautiful snowy Sunday in Cambridge, and we're hard at work selecting the Class of 2010. While working on a subcommittee with Jenny and ... have been nice to have been playing outside in the snow with them

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  All About The Author A bit about me and my job as Director of this site.

  

  promise to serve you well in your quest to learn more about MIT. Let me ... informational pages are helpful in the same way that a college viewbook might be ... 't satisfied to simply recreate our print materials in the online space. That

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Faster than a speeding locomotive. E=MC^2 serving up the most delicious physics problems since 1905.

  

  cleaning spam from my inbox. Join your fellow Student Pugwash members in the ... information on Einstein's life, the importance of the equation in today's science, suggestions for further reading, and other resources. A detailed

  • by Bryan
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  on the atlanta shootings from an asian american woman

  

  also as an Asian woman. It feels like a brutal knife to the heart in a ... it more room and confidence to gnash its teeth loudly and openly. In a ... mom went to a protest. She stood in the parking lot of our local grocery

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 26, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Springtime I actually had no time to write this entry, which is why I cannot explain…

  

  , of learning how to cook and work and clean and enjoy your life in a ... nudges you to think about math in a new way, whereas Diff. Eq. is ... hemisphere like a pool of microwaved butter. Spring, wrapped in connotations of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some a capella A concert by the MIT Chorallaries (7 pictures)

  

  It's Saturday night at MIT, and I'm taking a break from reading in my ... have joined me to see MIT's oldest co-ed a capella group (with a nerdy ... entry; see my previous live entry, in this very same room, just six months

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  Is this real? The party called IAP continues.

  

  perspectives now that he's a "celebrity." It was pretty interesting to hear him ... that two teams are asked to design a product and the show documents the ... a better scientist. Become a better MIT student. What does it mean to

  • by Bryan
  • January 19, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  my shattered laptop in the midst of pre-finals season

  

  audacity to sit in a seat that's clearly someone else's, but could sympathize a bit since he came in late and was just scrambling for somewhere to ... there. When I returned, I was surprised to see someone in my seat. I

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  mit: it’s complicated confliCTING FEELINGS

  

  philosophy -- it was everything i ever wanted in a university. but i kind of ... still lingered in the back of my mind. no matter how hard i tried to ... a lot of trial and tribulation to get here. i'm still coming to terms

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Riddles, Research, and Nerds with Power Tools My week.

  

  since Simmons opened in 2002. In addition to a slew of Simmons residents ... to say, it was completely ridiculous in a way that could only ever happen at MIT. In addition to helping out with a bunch of traditional pen

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  My “Normal” High School What it was like going to an ordinary high school

  

  science programs and a history of sending students to big schools. In group ... school possible, and therefore it creates a drive in these students to do ... Now, I can be pretty sure that most everyone applying to MIT has a

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  [Guest Post] An Overthinker’s Guide to Finishing Your Transfer Application by Warren K. ’27

  

  . In early January, I realized that even though I could return to and ... procrastinate until the last minute. Doing this gives your brain a chance to ... . There is such a thing as a bad essay. In my case, my bad essays came from

  • by Jeremy W.
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2010 Ring Premiere I bring you the 2010 Ring Premiere, in full living color!

  

  The Brass Rat is a long-standing MIT tradition that has given rise to ... controversy. I would've loved to see a woman on the seal. It seems illogical ... , in an era in which we have a female president and a female running as a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Revolutionary Technologies at TechCrunch DisruptNY breathing office walls and credit-card sized computers

  

  stage in front of a panel of judges to compete for $50,000. In "Startup ... to have attended Disrupt and to have made new friendships in the ... placed in the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon the weekend before. Tickets to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  my application essays try not to cringe

  

  ’s biggest challenges to being a good friend. Describe one way in which you ... important thing is to be true to yourself. We know you lead a busy life ... writing about a myriad of other things. I posted to College Confidential

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 27, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Associate Advising and the MedLinks Program I'm sick of unpacking, so here's a blog post

  

  is similar to the Associate Advising program, in the sense that it's a ... ." *Differential Equations **The error function. It's used a lot in stats ... seems like a good time to tell you about two programs that I'm involved

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Decide my major! Because putting your future up for a democratic vote is clearly the way to go.

  

  , in some cases!) to work, a task made difficult by non ... Alright, you and I both have some big decisions to make in the next ... (COUGHMITCOUGH), which, I mean, is a kind of a big deal and will in fact influence

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  IAP and Igloos This is an entry about IAP. IAP is the month of January. It's...February. I know.

  

  people who may also like to point out that I haven't blogged in like two ... .) (Also, to those who note that it's taken me a while to post again - WE'RE IN A RECESSION, PEOPLE.)(Actually, I really didn't post this for a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 25, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Truth Values [by Ken Haggerty '11] A fantastic one-woman show about life at MIT. (Now playing!)

  

  time and work required in order to receive a Ph.D. and its adverse ... in the arts faculty that I finally decided to check it out and squeeze ... !). In addition to staging performances, Central Square Theater works

  • by ARTalk
  • September 22, 2009