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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yes, eat all our shirts! See MIT through the eyes of my prefrosh.

  

  want to. In the Friday's 3.091 lecture, Professor Sadoway delivered a ... sixth year of German, whereas I'm in my sixth week of German. He had a ... (how the heck was I supposed to know what Ihrer meant? it's in some crazy

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reading, Thinking and Igniting Innovation Rational optimism about MIT and the future

  

  . *It`s worth taking a moment here to state that while I moved in the ... hike. I was in a strange mood. I`m a student at one of the most ... happy with a move towards self-sufficiency in the woods, away from the

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 5, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How To Make (almost) Anything

  

  hedge my bets, I've set out on a crusade to learn more about regular old ... week we cover a different fabrication technique on our quest to make ... and Big Hero 6, and in the spring he teaches "How To Make Something That

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21W.021 – “MIT 150: Inside, Live” Comics!

  

  prompt that resulted in these two comics was a simple one, "take your role as a participant-observer at MIT and find a fresh way to present your ... I want to keep the intro to this post pretty short because the

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • March 30, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Marilee Jones in the news The Associated Press article about Dean Marilee Jones.

  

  individuals you used to see," Jones said over lunch during a recent interview ... In the news around the country, there's a story from the Associated ... right). We in admissions are all proud to work for such an inspirational

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 18, 2006
• Blog / Personal Projects

  I painted my door! and it only took 2.5 years

  

  In my dorm, East Campus, residents are allowed to paint the door to ... the fall semester, and sometime late in IAP, I hit on the idea of a ... pandemic, MIT loaned iPads to all the undergrads so that we could use them to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hello from seattle This blog post hopefully not brought to you with an NDA.

  

  able to find people from MIT – even people in my grade – working in ... to do. ***actually, I just found this blog post on a bar stool in ... from a while back) Oy! Welcome to the much-belated “what I’m doing this

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 6, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking in with EA Applicants because I just saw Chris' post, and you probably did, too

  

  about EA decisions being released next week. And I wanted to check in ... : your admissions decision does not in any way reflect your worth. A ... . Sometimes, students here live for weeks on a deadline-to-deadline schedule, so

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 8, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Invasion of the Stikmen Another invasion of MIT?

  

  over the US! It's pretty awesome that we can find a set of these around MIT! There's a couple more of them around campus, but I didn't want to ... around finals time, MIT had an invasion... Well as I walked to lab last

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • August 14, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Lectures I had two ideas for good blog posts, and both were stolen by other bloggers!

  

  switching back ends. I get to learn a whole new process for bringing my words ... . As soon as he started speaking, I knew I had to work him into a blog post. Unfortunately, he beat me to it. He got a pretty good picture of me

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  the life I could’ve lived it’s like one of those “what if” episodes

  

  one of the best cities across the US and am always finding a new cafe to ... didn’t think it was possible for me to actually get in. And if I couldn ... MITES. MIT became a real place to me, somewhere I could actually picture

  • by Hala K. '29
  • April 12, 2026
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  prelude. I used to be a (slightly) strange child. I once failed a ... of ways to die in a car, and a terrifyingly small number of ways to not-die in a car, and I’m still unsure why sixteen-year-olds are excited to get

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  To-Do List for Regular Action Applicants With the deadline a month away, there are things you need to be doing now.

  

  might want to be thinking about: If you haven't yet done so, set up a My ... 10) to schedule your interview is fast approaching! You can find the ... application components to us in advance of the January 1 deadline, if you can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 1, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AROTC Day in the Life Notes from Cadet O'Brien, MIT '12 / Course III

  

  applied to attend West Point's summer training. I was placed in a company of ... Hi, I am Cadet O'Brien. I am a Junior at MIT majoring in course 3 ... here at MIT. AROTC allows you to be pretty flexible in how involved you

  • by ROTC
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snowed In at the Fraternity the blizzard is real.

  

  characterized by strong winds. Try using that word in a sentence today, it's fun ... undergrad in a sea of four thousand. Even all of us bloggers put together are ... 's my mission to give you as complete a picture of MIT as I can, I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 28, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  In high school I always wanted to know what you learned in college ... ."]Physicks[/annotation] How to actually use polar vectors! Basically this is the same thing as Cartesian vectors, except in polar coordinates, so there's a vector pointing

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  in Black Valley Hostel journal of my third day in Ireland

  

  , so I’m not complaining.   I’m in Black Valley Hostel, a beautiful, cold little hostel about 21km south of Killarney, a town in County Kerry, Ireland. It’s the launching point to walk the Kerry Way, a nine

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2023
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  On UROPs Research at a private research institute? Naaaaahhhhh, couldn't be!

  

  game, one person uses the VR headset to navigate a cell in a first person view, while a second person uses a tablet to highlight different ... a lot of cool stuff to show off in the near future. I didn't think I

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 21, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT’s COVID-19 precautions and their impact on admissions relevant news and next steps (updated 4/14); new blog posts below 👇🏼

  

  answer is no, you are not required to take AP exams for classes in which you are enrolled. You may find it useful to do so for your own learning, and if your school, as a condition of your enrollment in an AP course

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 6, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales From Turning Twenty They range from "a little peculiar" to "utterly bizarre."

  

  received a voting sheet in return. I bubbled in my choices using my bubbling-in ... to spare. BAM. In other news, I just got a text from my friend saying ... A week ago today, I turned 20. It occurs to me that something weird

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 7, 2012