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• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Two households, totally unalike in dignity…” On picking majors and following your dreams, Romeo and Juliet, Twitter, Sherlock, and the future…

  

  media images and how brands did it. Then we had to create our own goals ... will not be online to tweet about it. Because that’s not how real life necessarily works. (Um, it does work that way for some people.) The fight scene

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 21, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Autumn Questions Omnibus Answers to questions asked in my blog's comments. And there have been a lot of…

  

  and how one prepares for it. What exactly do the employers want and ... private participation is allowed. How does your selection committee view ... It's time for another Questions Omnibus, where I answer the questions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 A Questions Omnibus is a post where I answer your lingering questions left in the…

  

  science, how much does that hurt me?" It is a requirement for all students ... 's still pretty far over. So how bad would it be?" A very common question. I ... context of their environment. What does it mean that we consider context

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Admissions Math Month, Part 1 – Duality There are two wolves inside you

  

  non-mathematician, I think it’s hard to define duality succinctly yet intuitively. I usually just kind of wave my hands and say, “Uhh, it’s like when ... attempting to define it, here’s a concrete example. Suppose you draw two

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC’s Q&A with Dean Kelley of Pixar’s Coco (he also worked on Avatar: The Last Airbender, Monsters University, and The Incredibles 2)

  

  some background on the film and how we researched it. From a visual ... the celebration. The more our team researched this holiday and how it’s ... long it takes and having a lot of patience. It’s kind of a disposable art

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 8, 2017
• Blog / How to Food

  MIT Dining Halls my controversial ranking

  

  they're definitely overworked and underpaid, but it also does mean that I ... One of my biggest plights with MIT is how, since they kinda know that ... better campus and it's not without notice, and also a lot of the issues

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 19, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Train in vain Pulling my first official all-nighter of the fall term.

  

  successive bounce it bounces half as high as the previous bounce, how long does ... for a one day trip. Well, as Ling's itemized bill clearly shows, it was ... too timid to ask the waiter for change. It's truly a beautiful disaster

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a Polaroid Picture My alleged lack of football fandom triggers an epiphany.

  

  service in high school marching band). I mean, it just never stops, does it ... ... as long as there is only one, and it is numerical. And I think that ... ball and I don't really understand how offsides works yet, but I figured

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How the Career Fair saved my summer And forced me to try something new

  

  because I have never felt time fly by as quickly as it does when I’m at work ... around telling people I wanted to be a cancer researcher. It sounded so ... ’t like it, you have narrowed your options. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve really

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Internet Nostalgia Internostalgia!

  

  know how a babby was formed, it meant an akward talk with mom and dad. If ... that, please please fix it.) This does teach us a few important lessons ... 't quite inspire the same awe and respect that the school deserves does it

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Mine hands are broken reflections on many a year of carpal tunnel syndrome

  

  my shoe chafed it bloody every race my senior year. This summer, I ... tibia (shinbone) hurts. Usually it's from overuse; usually the cure is ... anyway, so I took a day off and hoped it would go away. But it didn't, and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions & Answers a daily blog prompt compilation

  

  strongly underestimated how fun it is to work hard and then have an interesting project to show for it, compared to how unfulfilling it is to work ... 't know how long I'll be here or where I'll go next. If you've taken and

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 14, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fun things I’ve done lately! life isn't all being hosed

  

  anyone local wants to know :) It's a bit embarrassing how much cool stuff ... - it's obvious and yet also inexplicable. It was a good reminder of how ... community too, but it feels a lot different when it's right on my doorstep

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A reading list for a week at MIT All my classes have required reading this semester!?

  

  user’s body. It does this in real time and can handle multiple users. The ... because it’s forcing me to think about how to frame complex concepts. Also ... commands in the language actually do. It’s 9 pages long. Look at me

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 27, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  IAP? No.. YOU’RE AP Possibly the worst title EVER. (Also, answers to your questions, but under the worst title…

  

  Mac and how does it fit into an MIT-style life? Are you liking it so far ... the world. (No, not really. I hate it, though.) MIT does have a varsity ... (Yeah, okay, that was a really bad title. I GET IT. Not everyone can

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Alum FAQs I'm baaaaaaaaack

  

  write a novel about how much it changed my life and how precious all of ... , please! How do I life? Hope your road is a long one. ... all about my life not that long ago. In fact, the time between my last

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Blogger’s Block a hiatus from writing (but not memeing)

  

  permanently posted on the blogs freaked me out. It still does freak me out, a ... I took a long break from blogging. I [annotation note="and will be ... break the hiatus the next week. It just never happened. [annotation note

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I GOT TWENTY DOLLARS IN MY POCKET (because I got a press pass to SpringFest 2013, of course. photos inside!)

  

  As Matt wrote earlier, today was SpringFest 2013!  Or, to put it in ... that the MIT Admissions Office does not endorse the use of dope.  Unless ... : I very much liked how they integrated string instruments into their

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 27, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Math = Broken Whatchu know about math?

  

  -night delirious whims of posting. Oh well. So, it's late (3:00 AM) and I just finished most of a Diff Eq. PSET (I started at 10:45 PM, it's been a long day ... figured out how to do it though." Me: "How?" Jon: "Here, look what I did

  • by Snively '11
  • February 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  So Long, So Long, Front Foot Leads the Back One Go on, and it won't be too soon...my Texas road trip (Part 1).

  

  miles under the speed limit. I don't know if it's a culture thing or if the police are extremely strict or what, but it was VERY different from ... most part) been extremely helpful. It's like my new best friend. I even

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 17, 2008