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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Birds Are Real, and So Is Quantum Physics Monkey see, monkey believe

  

  honestly still don't know how entanglement works. It feels like it just... happens sometimes. But I think most people don't understand how it works ... reliably over long distances as far back as ancient Egypt. So how do they do

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  For Those Weeks When You Just Cannot We all have those weeks, sometimes you need a break

  

  matter how many times you tell yourself that it will all be okay, and no matter how many times you believe it when you tell yourself it will all be ... a sad week for me. It was a short week, but the longest week I've had

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  standing next to somebody's mom does not deserve Hubble-esque dimensions ... parse it in the imperative mood. As in, “Welcome MIT families to our ... took the idea to its illogical extreme and proposed an Ice Cube Eating

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

  When Friends Become Family How MIT has become my home (with some beautiful pics to accompany)

  

  I am not sure about the rest of you guys, but when it comes to me I ... long. You can talk about anything for hours, or you can say nothing and it isn’t awkward. Those people you can genuinely say are friends

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hit in the Face: A Snively GuestBlog Snively's point of view. Only this time it's actually his point of view, and not…

  

  entry as long as I necessary because it may be the only chance I get to ... . It starts out really exciting! You get accepted, everybody cheers for ... for what’s to come. Then, before you know it, blasted in the face by the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 14, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  there is no time left musings on death and the future

  

  to a friend about how, if i knew i’d live a long and healthy life in a ... problem is that i don’t know how many of those years i have left, and it ... and eventual death by overdose. it’s probably one of the saddest things

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 22, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Best of the Ben Blogs Looking back at Ben's four years on the blogs.

  

  secretly revel in how hot you are before it's too late. In the long run ... matters. It's how you embrace life. It's how you treat other people. It ... ... And then the committee does its work, however brutal. It's not pretty

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / People & Identities

  New Things I’ve Tried mostly experimenting with some looks:)

  

  'm ashamed to say it does. I feel like the possibility of becoming great is out ... live."][/annotation] I’ve always wanted to dye my hair but not damage it ... , table, etc. But because it’s water-based, everything is easy to wash off

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 9, 2021
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do homeschooled students apply?

  MIT has a long history of admitting homeschooled students and these students have been successful and vibrant members of our community. We don't have separate requirements for homeschooled applicants. Homeschooled
• Blog / Events

  July 4th Pictorial FIREWORKS!

  

  does my camera have a fireworks setting? ...Cue fireworks photos ... it here first.

  • by Bryan
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  O hai A reintroduction

  

  ???? I applied. I interviewed. And now, I'm back to where it all began. What a world, amirite? Except it took me so stinkin long to come back to ... long story short is that after I wrote that blog post, I didn’t actually

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: A sneak peak at research @ MIT This new website is sure to change the way that the world thinks about MIT…

  

  the papers? What does the abbreviation “PhD” mean to you ... ;grad students” worked long hours and seemed to get cool results ... class materials. He elaborated by calling it something along the lines of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 13, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  diversions from what is otherwise a never ending trello of things to do

  

  put any thought into them, which should give you an idea of how hosed i am. but this semester, it's a different type of hosed. in other ... started (and stopped) using Trello recently - i started because it was a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Feeling Good And mostly musing

  

  weather) slowly melting, and I feel pretty good. It’s been a while I typed ... ’ve held your breath for way too long, spurts that come typically after ... a while, but yes, it feels like temporary freedom, to just take a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  9 / Headache 68 days to go

  

  ; What a headache Where does the time go?! We're somehow halfway through ... ~ but it didn't start out that way. I spent the first few weeks trying to ... thought it was a fluke. But a week later, the headaches alternating between

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 31, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus Okay, so it's not even really half a bus. But I'M not the one asking…

  

  problem sets, but as long as it's not full, you can change it online. In ... 've been trying to decide whether or not to switch into 5.112. I'm in it for ... , and it IS pass/no record. This way it also works out so I get finished

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  International Men & Women of Mystery

  

  admissions for a long time, and (finally!) here goes. First, an important ... student who does not have US citizenship or permanent residency (Green Card ... . Need blind means that we do not consider how much financial aid we would

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Monday Actually, I think I just made it to Tuesday.

  

  7:39 PM: It's Sunday night. I have four exams in the next week. Hey ... is more eyewateringly jam-packed than usual: Click here to see it in its full, boxlike glory. Translations: -All classes are listed by

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  based on how many people take them? With the latter approach, I'd say it ... archetypes, if you will: [annotation note="Because of how I chose to divide the ... of any class, but it helps demonstrate the differences I want to show

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why didn’t MIT have a logo until 2003? tracing the history of MIT's logo and graphic identity

  

  the history page was how it mentioned the logo only started existing in ... graphic identity, and how exactly was it created? And there was also the ... .” Ciborowski said that it is obvious that Tim does not complete problem sets each

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2021