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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  difficulty: the majority of classes are 12 units[1], which is supposed to refer ... ) Space is, for lack of a better word, neat[3]. Last semester, in 8 ... referred to as an octopus: lots of arms, not always working in sync or clear

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  Why I’m Baking Cookies Tonight. IAP is a beautiful time to do lots of something or lots of nothing. Or…

  

  tonight or wait until tomorrow when more people get back to the house. Last ... /inauguration day for 4 or 5 nights in a row, and one of my roommates' birthday ... family’s better parties. You can do these sorts of things when you don

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 15, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  November Questions Omnibus 1 As usual, Q & A.

  

  't find information on it there. This is a program I'd like to write about ... application....is it helpful to send a possible design of a perpetual motion machine (which may be flawed) that I have worked on, just to show my passion

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Goodbye, Hope to See You Again For those moving on today...

  

  process, is, of course, a two-way street. You get to choose where to apply ... options can be hard on both sides. That can be emotional. To those of you ... This post is for those who are moving on from this blog today, May 1

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Did you know about this? This is big.

  

  country, or even allow people to think on a more national level. This ... free-market so to speak, but that may be corrected with a bit of ... , a citizen only as of last summer, I'm pretty especially excited to be

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 29, 2008
• Blog / Events

  I’m on a boat! It was only a matter of time

  

  of us humming "I'm on a boat," eagerly awaiting our opportunity to be ... hips to the hokey-pokey. (he doesn't know this video is on the ... It's about to go down Dorothy is rockin' it, but still all alone on

  • by Snively '11
  • May 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the notes i took in a week riveting stuff, i know

  

  -highlighters-bullet-journaling-timelapse-note-taking days (or maybe the better word is recovered?), my appreciation for the ... itself focuses primarily on the computation aspect of the course- teaching ... happened to be leading up to our first exam, which we’re allowed to bring in

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 8, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Genshin Impact and a better introduction to me

  

  was a new experience which led to a lot of frustration and more ... “Aether” from now on because saying “one of the twins” or “traveler” (as he’s usually referred to in the in-game dialogue) is kind of confusing

  • by ana~
  • October 7, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  applying sideways, beyond admissions a rendition of Petey's hit blog

  

  collection of thoughts on the internet for a student figuring out how to make ... , or both. Even so, I know that having time to do things that I like is a ... well beyond trying to get into college.   In my first couple of

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 22, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  MyMIT is live we're ready for you to begin

  

  for freshman admission to MIT. Many of you may have received a shiny ... . Once you register on MyMIT, you will be ready to begin the application ... with each recommendation letter. Also note that MIT is not a member of

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 4, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Home(sick) for the Holidays winter break was weird: time capsule 2

  

  small talk, which is something that I thought I’d gotten better at, and I ... Here’s part two of my “I wrote this but procrastinated on editing and ... On Wednesday, December 20th, I took my last final of the semester. I

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 24, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: MacGregor House Because really, sometimes you just need your own space.

  

  As part x in a y-part series (which is to say that all the bloggers ... Gregor Convenience, or MacCon) which is open until 2 AM every night. As you might ... out of pasta. Or Mountain Dew. MacGregor is divided into nine "entries

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

  iap: this year vs. last

  

  , go back to my dorm for a couple of hours, and then spend my night running between dance studios on campus. I'd get back to the dorm at 10 or ... moving at all, so I held off on doing any this year. this IAP, to be better

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 10, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  this summer a recap of sorts

  

  Cambridge, either to UROP on campus or to live with friends and work remotely ... of my friends were staying, or to the Boston Commons and the area ... have only gone out to Boston or taken the T a handful of times. I try to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 14, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  magicians trying to learn magic

  

  didn’t compromise on substance or truth. i felt endlessly drawn to their ... moment very few of them feel like magic to me (the main exception is 6.2540 nanotechnology: from atoms to systems, which is why i am enrolled in the class

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  October potpourri rambling about college admissions, stress, fun, etc.

  

  , here are some things I do to keep myself sane: Poi Poi is a member of the ... each other if we want to fire spin. :p The cost of poi is nontrivial but ... done or wished to do acapella in my life. On a whim, I decided to

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  lab. The main application of this effect (as far as I know) is to make ... this semester to convince myself that quantum physics is real. 6.2410 is ... a video of a monkey reacting to a magic trick, that's exactly how I

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Library Battle: Harvard vs. MIT Harvard and MIT Libraries are given a theme topic and each an afternoon to compile…

  

  the heck out of the way, and is the furthest place on campus from Burton ... one of their librarians the Friday before the Tuesday on which my 30 ... - Rotch. Rotch is on the second floor of building seven, but extends over

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome Home Like what we've done with the place?

  

  , so, unbeknownst to him, I'm commandeered his office, kicked out on his couch, and put my feet up on his desk. The downside, I guess, is that I ... legendary, landmark effort. Ben's central use of blogs to speak honestly and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A blast from the past Looking back at things I wanted to do at MIT

  

  Player One, I never got around to reading or rereading any of these books ... things I'd actually managed to do. I sort of wonder if there'll ever be a ... reality is that I still don't physically have enough time to do all the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 9, 2020