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• Blog / Events

  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  them together, only to find that we have gone in a very wrong direction ... is okay to miss some pieces and send in just a few wrong answers while ... well in such a short time, that anyone who speaks to computers would say

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT use my test scores?

  MIT uses a holistic admissions process, so test scores are just one factor among many for evaluating your preparedness for MIT. Test scores are ... applying to MIT and would like to see our testing requirements, please visit
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I started a joke… ...that started the whole world crying.

  

  walked in to find this on the chalkboard: ... math teacher, Mr. Bob Cohen, who had a strange fondness for referring to ... find the roots." "So, similarilarily, we have to complete the square of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breaking Normal From Freshman Spring Archives

  

  couches in the lounge Friday evening. I’m used to the cycle of work and then ... I may be tempted to position myself in the lounge for a while, to talk ... that I can tailor them to my needs. I might also get a minor in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Paris Hilton comes to MIT Just kidding, but I bet that got your attention

  

  then gave us a set of five principles used to inform the Clinton ... come to MIT, we wouldn’t even have the time to find rotten tomatoes ... hand, it’s four days off in a row! Imagine the possibilities! You

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  Guest Post: Simmons Hall Finishes 18,239 Piece Puzzle in 40 days and 5 hours

  

  willing to express their interest in a project that appeared so mundane ... find time in their busy schedules to stop by, put in some pieces, and ... research on this puzzle, nobody was able to finish in less than 8 months. It

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Upside-down and Reversed: Photography at MIT [by Biyeun Buczyk ‘10] I came to MIT thinking I’d put art aside for the…

  

  might explore and find useful if you decide to go to MIT. In the meantime ... as a photography hub, but if you look in the right places you will find ... Association. In addition to photography classes (I usually take one a term), the

  • by ARTalk
  • March 23, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Finals Week…A Different View ...Or why I got up way too early this morning...

  

  been, a "morning person". When I was a child my mother used to start the ... play a similar role to that of the Graduate Residence Tutor (GRT) in the ... find their place at MIT so there were no women living in sorority houses

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • May 18, 2009
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Washlava! A Sentiment Analysis quantifying laundry feels, based on MIT Confessions

  

  . In this blog you'll find two things: (1) my introduction to Washlava ... living in MacGregor House, I used to live relatively far from the laundry ... of them. I ended up having to pay for a storage facility in the area

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updating my blogger bio because its no longer accurate

  

  realize it’s pretty difficult to sum up a personality in these brief ... . bummer. - i use my hands to talk. a lot. but it’s not the good kind of ... A couple nights ago, while my friends and I were wasting away in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 24, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  i feel completely fine and maybe that's okay

  

  soul returned to us in the bottom of a cup of tea, to find myself lost in ... sparing a thought for all the woes which continue to sit in the back of my ... voices in my head always used to be questioning, that I would go back and

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 12, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope for the Axolotl: On the Amphibian Extinction Crisis Happy Save the Frogs Day!

  

  , in essence, the closest thing in nature to a fountain of youth ... Colombia used a combination of genetics and almost a decade of field work to discover 11 new amphibian species in Panama, only to find that five were

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After: A Collage living the MIT dream

  

  weeks in, we released the first iteration of the software as a tool to ... , are you even old enough to go to a bar?” (“Of course! barely.”) My first month-and-a-bit was spent building a custom charting package to

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Complementary Post Canvas, balance, lanterns.

  

  some psets, did yoga in my P.E. class, worked on a blog post, attended ... , mirrored last year in a paralyzing way. And maybe this is a sign that I'm too ... the answers, especially this year. I've been dabbling a lot in being

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Psets! This starts out artsy, but I promise it's going to go downhill really fast.

  

  counts towards the HASS-D requirement (you have to take classes in a ... alarm clock) to find that the power adapter askew enough that my laptop ... trudge through the rain to Sunny's, the greatest breakfast joint in

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s FPOP for Entrepreneurship a week of connecting incoming freshmen with MIT startup founders

  

  to know the other freshmen in your program. Most (all?) departments ... ...   So there I was, messaging a few friends about things and in one ... how I really want to do part-time work for a VC firm this fall and he

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 29, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Grad school admissions My (limited) insight into the graduate admissions process.

  

  involved in a project, at which point they need to start applying to graduate ... lab equipment). Importantly, you want to get really involved in a ... applicant gets a 750 in math. If you get a 500 in math and you want to go into

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doodles: Career Fair Edition A non-tech major takes on the career fair with the help of mechanical pencil illustrations

  

  really, really use a person like you. Knowing People Who Are Real Adults in ... are a senior. (If you're younger, they may or may not want to give you ... pumped up about going to schmooze with a bunch of companies who, I felt

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP of Coding time to catch up

  

  lectures in the first week and then we're broken up into groups to create a ... "The Pretender" reached 6,000 views in less than a month and has been inducted into the Best of the Blogs, a great honor and my second post to do

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 5, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  Samantha: The Automated Nerf Gun Turret a personal project by raymond t. '23

  

  in a triangle. The three holes were supposed to be for a slip ring ... uses an Arduino Nano hooked up to a stepper motor driver (for the gears ... planned to use a slip ring to pass through the center of the turret so that

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 3, 2022