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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Design Squad: Pretty much the opposite of The O.C. A show where 8 teenagers use their engineering skills to build some really cool stuff.

  

  As a kid, I always secretly dreamed of being on a TV show. Had there ... converting kiddie toys into a dragster to creating moving art for a museum and ... before putting their work to the test. Keeping their eyes on the grand

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Friends, Part 1 a cross-registration love story

  

  Cross-registration is one of the most amazing features to exist at ... "Course 8," which is the MIT-way to say Physics). To date, Denisse is by far ... really couldn’t have chosen a better neighbor school with which to do cross

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I chose my classes A graduating senior's perspective; results may vary

  

  ="MIT technically allows this. There's no cap on the number of classes you can take ... MIT is meant to correspond to 12 hours of work per week."]50 hours per week[/annotation] based on my estimate of their workloads. To estimate

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty hours later mystery hunt, mystery hunt! puzzles puzzles puzzles!

  

  exactly a puzzle is is kind of hard to define. It’s like a Sudoku or a ... have some sort of answer, which is usually a word or a phrase, like ... know of”. Also, the easiest way to learn something on the internet is to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 4, 2020
• Blog / Events

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

  

  -production, which is the process of converting the puzzle and its solution from ... to write a puzzle about X”. There's a theme, which is one part of the ... . Which is everything, including all the dry details that'll be boring to

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

  Another take on pass/no-record and some other stuff. Hey look, I haven't pontificated about anything in a while.

  

  that material is useful to you or stupid and irrelevant and who cares ... is that you want to worry about, what you want to get out of this place ... choice of "this is what I am willing to give up", that wasn't a part of the

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Heartbreaking Lunch of Staggering Genius I'll write about campus dining some other day.

  

  territory of Jean-Georges' seasonal lunch menu is closer to high-end bathroom ... neighboring tables hoping to catch an eyeful of celebrities on lunch break ... infinitely better with a slab of goose liver on the side. Jean-Georges will be

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  small changes feeling big my winter in Armenia

  

  experiences is one of the reasons I chose this MIT, especially because I didn't have access to them growing up. I dreamt of seeing worlds beyond my own ... , unfortunately, fell very ill the 2nd day, so I had to learn some of her material

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 17, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Halloweekend and the 7 weekends prior!

  

  to gracefully flail on the ice rink, while dressed up as your favorite game character or piece of sushi. As a winged version of myself, I had ... , it would need: 3 handfuls of NIGHT MARKET 1 sprinkling of ROCKY HORROR

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 28, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Updates & Notes Form submit this by February 15

  

  students (including those admitted or deferred in Early Action), and is to be ... example, it is sufficient to write "B+" rather than "B+ (Final grade)" or "B ... to worry about “getting it wrong” -- don’t stress! What is it? The MIT

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 17, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Updates & Notes Form submit this by February 15

  

  that is required of all students (including those admitted or deferred in Early Action), and is to be completed by you, the applicant. This form ... just the way they would appear on your transcript. No need to convert

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Updates & Notes Form some things you should know

  

  that is required of all students (including those admitted or deferred in Early Action), and is to be completed by you, the applicant. This form ... the way they would appear on your transcript. No need to convert them to

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This title is irrelevant In which I discuss two important aspects of undergraduate life: scientific research and climbing stairs.

  

  better to do on a Friday night, along with increased risk of heart failure ... letter to MIT, I glimpsed a beautiful future in which all of life ... 42 runs in 4 hours, which is probably like 10 miles of stair

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Notes and Updates Form every applicant needs to do this

  

  is an online form that is required of all students (including those admitted or deferred in Early Action), and is to be completed by you, the ... or progress reports. Do I still need to submit the form? Yes. There is

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  notes on hope despite despite despite

  

  witness itself is a kind of poetics, or poesis, which means making. [...] Or ... easily to the strangers i pass on my way home. it's finally warm enough ... have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 25, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  next 4 years? If the answers to all of the above is "yes!" then you ... ! - and psst, he's in one of the photos on that blog I linked to if you can ... more amazing that a sizable number of these labs are willing to take on

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘Magic Paint Brush’ This is so much cooler than MS Paint.

  

  " digital palette the software provides. The idea of I/O Brush is to let the ... can pick up color, texture, and movement of a brushed surface. On the ... construction of their own tools (i.e., the palette/ink) to build their art

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  What Is Your LΔ? What about heart? What about determination? What about resilience?

  

  me, you need to know that my definition of LΔ is the following: (L ... A on the exam. Fast forward to the end of the semester and we see that ... to better know you as a person. And we also use tenants of LΔ. We don

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  17,707 words writing at night like you're running out of time

  

  possible how awesome of a person you are", or "storytelling is not trying to ... few parts of this lottery, such as the extent to which hiding it makes it strategy-proof, how “good” it is compared to alternatives (on bases

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 24, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Freshman Application Is Now Live for prospective members of the Class of 2020

  

  not yet know what you want to major in, which department or program at ... ; The freshman application is now live on MyMIT. Our online application ... life, full of activities, many of which are required of you. Tell us

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 18, 2015