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• Blog / How to Human

  Inspired Brainstorming Three pieces of advice I employ

  

  for now, I’d like to share three pieces of advice. These three pieces of ... must have heard her whisper “the sky is the limit” in my ear thousands of ... “Study hard” or “Eat your broccoli.” As I prepared to leave home for MIT

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  Action to the MIT Class of 2030, and as of *checks watch* right now, we ... , and the useful arts to make the world a better place. We can’t wait to ... your college applications (or whatever else you choose to do) this year

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Years of the Rat More about MIT's famous class ring: the "Brass Rat."

  

  animals. We turned to [William Temple] Hornaday's book on the animals of ... background on this important aspect of MIT tradition, I want to use today's entry to catalog the recent history of Brass Rat designs, focusing on the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Moment with A Minister kevin rustagi '11 on MIT and entrepreneurship

  

  . I asked Kevin to share some of his thoughts on his MIT journey: how it began, how he spent his time here, and now what he is continuing to do ... company he cofounded with some MIT classmates, is set to become the most

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  Taking the L: Part ✌️ My goal was Heaven anyways.

  

  , though, is to retrieve the broomstick from the highest point on the map.  This class is known to be a massive time commitment. On top of building ... . But you HAVE to show up on time, or you forfeit the points. Guess what I

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside

  

  not by much. I passed all four of my classes, which is a massive victory ... first experience working on a pset for 10+ hours only to get a 50% is just ... barely scrape out a passing grade, which is now a P on my transcript! If I

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of SURFing at NIST Using a tiny tractor beam to manipulate nanowires

  

  ! My research was on Using Optical Tweezers to Create Nanowire Based ... picture? Those are zinc oxide nanowires growing on the edge of a silicon ... . The most basic building element is a point-like particle, which has

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2005
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Is Math fun at MIT?

  A lot of our students select math as their field of interest when applying to MIT—which is no surprise, since our math department is one of the best on the planet. Mathematics provides a language and tools for
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  fictional coping mechanisms learning to love unapologetically

  

  Place is an incredible show that captures the essence of what it means to ... of my ability to go, "Haha, yeah, I like that show," and move on. Being ... -changing. I'd initially read the English translation of MDZS, but I moved on to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 11, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  No Ceilings next steps

  

  dreams and goals of what's going to happen 100 or 1000 steps from now. From graduate school to being a professor, or from medical school to being a doctor, or becoming any 1 of millions of things you could possible be. But

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 12, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  🎶Jauntily Sauntering Ambling Shambler🎶 Yes, those are actual lyrics from the musical I was just in

  

  , which scared the hell out of me when I didn’t get admitted to other ... chose to hang my hat on MTG. Was it scary to audition as a freshman? Of ... ’s bed (not my own often enough. I need to be better about going to bed on

  • by Powers '23
  • December 20, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Yeah, I’m turning twenty, it’s terrifying one year of mit

  

  , is to take a picture of my keys when I move out. Or at least, when I ... continue? to which I had settled on “probably not” for each. Brenda applauds ... a lot of math, or pure math, I guess. I took 18.701 and 18.702, which

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  perception but who *are* you?

  

  possible image of his or her research group be projected to the outside world ... /review session on all of undergraduate math, topics from calculus to analysis to ... who everyone really is— and of trying to show everyone who you are. I

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 18, 2021
• Blog / Class Projects

  Designing a Calculator with FSM Logic A web dev lesson from an MIT sophomore!

  

  .e. =), or reset (could be C or AC on iPhone. One of them is clear which is ... robot does not know using Markov Random Process (which is also a subset of ... result on S as well. This is because we’re doing a simple + or - operation

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last Five Days aka How I Spent My Summer

  

  the author of Fight Club, of which there is now a children’s version ... total freedom before my flight to Ohio. I wielded the power of the unlimited MBTA pass. I went to the Museum of Fine Arts and the Boston Public

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 11, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Alternative Transportation Fast ride in a short machine

  

  of MITERS headquarters. Charles is driving, which leaves me to enjoy ... lemmings gleefully leaping to their deaths on YouTube. I shift forward and ... -crushing death is sitting somewhere with me in the toddler basket of a supermarket

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 2, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Paul’s Top Ten Common-Sense College Application Tips Patent pending.

  

  relevant on your application, but take extra care to emphasize the aspects of ... . Take it from me: for any school, simply being on campus is a great way to figure out whether or not you might want to spend the next four years of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Reasons to Join ESG A Look at MIT's Freshman Learning Communities

  

  ).  What this extra hour or so of class allows you to do is truly internalize ... us all types of breads and donuts to make life a little bit better. 9 ... .01-03) tests is accompanied with plates of chocolates to make the process a

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 4, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  必须好 – pt. 1 just keep swimming

  

  restaurant back in 2003. There’s a[annotation note="which is better described ... sense of jealousy for other people who don’t constantly have to be on ... spiraling.  One of those ways is to remember how the restaurant has helped me

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 23, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  NY Times article on women in science Women in science...the debate rages on.

  

  can think of anything else, let me know. The article goes on to mention ... “two body problem,” which is explained in the article as the challenge of ... Monday and Neuroscience today, and my last exam is for Thermodynamics of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 19, 2006