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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blagoblagz*: Why I’m a History Major at MIT (Guest Blog!) By Dora '11, who is a Physics and History double major and is super awesome.…

  

  countless hours stressing over how to distinguish the various ancient sources ... experience. So, going back to the original question: how did I end up mass ... professor smile at me and ask, “Hey, Dora, how’s it going?” You come to learn

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Ninth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 02/14/06.

  

  how much do I need to score in order for it to help?" A good AIME score ... applications, and about how many apply to MIT from Pakistan. Secondly will ... applications have you (personally) read so far? How many more do you expect to

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  hike the desert pretend i am a lifestyle blogger

  

  [annotation note="one of the biggest changes in coming to Boston is how distant ... quiet mountain, and then realize we had to walk back."]in fall,[/annotation] I vowed to go hiking. Tucson is gorgeous; and, importantly, in Tucson

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Makes Taiwanese Talk Show! All the way across the world

  

  from MIT]. 0:00 to 0:10: The question from before was how did she feel ... :02 to 6:44: Guest: "How do you fund your education?" Berta: "90% of ... about how to tear it down afterwards for the Facilities people." Berta

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty weeks later a post of galactic proportions

  

  proposal How to write a puzzlehunt Life cycle of a Mystery Hunt Some ... freedom to make their part of the program their own. I'm not sure how other ... about their progress, so it was a nice way to hear about how all the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the FIRST DAY of CLASSES!!!!! A summary of the first half of the day/how I'm feeling, with many exclamation points!!!

  

  soon! How I’m Feeling Now! I think I’ve come back each year to MIT less ... build stuff kinda(?) I’m trying to figure out how to talk about myself ... since I got back from China. Today, in order to facilitate Better Blogging

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Senior Bucket List, Pt. I Do ALL the things!

  

  I spent a while thinking about how to introduce this blog post, but ... 've wanted to do in college/MIT/Boston that I just haven't gotten around to doing yet, and GOSH DERN IT I'M GONNA DO 'EM, FOOLS! I am proud to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  how his biology psets and tests test more his ability to think and solve ... Today I neglected to bring a jacket to class. As the afternoon waned ... symptoms of tuberculosis. On the flip side of the burger (to coin a stupid

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Even Waitresses Under 30 Call Me ‘Sweetheart’… Some thoughts about how classwork and free time intersect at MIT, with a look at…

  

  (Hey, I never finished those entries from the summer, so I have to ... ways with her mid-20s long ago, kept asking variations of "How is ... thinking a bit about age and about what it means to be eighteen, anyway, and

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  My MIT Essay Revisions college essay things

  

  writing process was like for me since I get a lot of questions as to how to ... that didn’t go according to plan. How did you manage the situation? (200 ... as to what the other ones were, you can easily find them! When

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 22, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  classes are hard but i’m sure you knew that already an academic case of murphy's law

  

  really good class. We learned how to model nonlinear, high dimensional ... ., showing how the inertial effects of the limbs and tail contribute to ... 's like trying to pop a pimple, where you'd poke and prod at the pimple for

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 29, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  mirror, I’ll think back to these last three weeks and remember how little I ... have been, especially considering how much sleep I had gotten, I felt tired. Tired. Exhausted. Bushed. Ready to curl up into a ball and sleep

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MY college essay 498 words of angst.

  

  chance to compare and contrast how two different people approached the ... to tell, and he went and shot me down by telling me just how unoriginal ... Responses to comments: Sam said: Laura, I can't make my lab printer

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 12, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  summer in boston that summertime, summertime, uh, gladness

  

  after experiencing this tumultuous year, it's strange to be having a ... never did during the academic year. a friend and i walked to a 24 hour ... to Alive and Kicking Lobsters in West Cambridge"]actual lobster

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 15, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2021 Wait List Today, we have closed out the wait list for the Class of 2021.

  

  've been waiting for all our admitted students to submit their final decisions so we could figure out whether or not we had room to admit students from our wait list this year, and, if so, room for how many. Each year

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Think Happy Thoughts D-Lab Memories >> Graphing With Matlab

  

  I'm generating graphs, and have been since 8pm. They tend to start ... understands how I feel about being stuck in an Athena cluster generating graphs ... moving up and a bear market is one in which it's moving down! But back to

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 2, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Delicious Dilemma Free (food) for all.

  

  how to eat better when you have to cook for yourself, but actually showing you how, too! Bronwyn, one of our wonderful Housemasters, has ... ://web.mit.edu/hillel/www/latke-hamentashen-debate.html Option 2: Tired of Ramen for dinner? Wish you could do something to make

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 6, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest blog] y(I)APping nothing crazy just another IAP blog

  

  the blogs and imagining a future in Cambridge—having the opportunity to ... about how MIT students spent their days in classes, clubs, or hobbies, so ... note="independent activities period! four weeks in January to do whatever

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 13, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  holidays in boston a photodump for you to procrastinate with

  

  of holiday-themed things around campus/Boston to remind us all to have ... . Luckily, MIT did not disappoint when it came to abusing the pretty parts of ... of lobby 7[/caption] Also in an attempt to spice up the awful, drab

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 16, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  making solar cells lessons from my nanotech class

  

  to produce cheap ethylene sensors and how an mit nano startup is using ... new to the field, how to use the same tools they use in a digestible ... that i was taking the class nanotechnology: from atoms to systems (6

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 15, 2022