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• Blog / Challenges

  climbing and becoming a perspective on moving to the US for MIT and the slow journey towards adulthood

  

  This summer, I became obsessed with climbing. Climbing is an exercise ... problem, where often formulating the challenge is the easy part, but getting it solved is hard. The constraints are undefined, you get stuck, and

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • September 16, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rainboots, Math, and M&M’s Because I have a bunch of little stories to tell, not one big one.

  

  This blog post is about the following picture: In particular ... nice and dry-- but I was looking for puddles to jump in! There is nothing ... . My new "i choose 18" tshirt from the math department (which is Course

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Look Ahead The fight's begun but not yet won.

  

  ) - but there is a big difference between knowing something in theory and ... about something a little happier than MIT final exams. And the happiest thing I can think of right now is what comes immediately after final exams

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 19, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt LiveBlog Coming to you live from Mystery Hunt (Last Update: Sunday 5:04 PM)

  

  sticks, and Gatorade, nothing seems to be working. Funny part of it is that ... puzzles solved yet this morning. Can we get a hint? And everyone is still asleep. :( Update #4 (11:41 AM) The dry spell is over! We just solved a

  • by Bryan
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Trevor ‘13 The sixth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  college-going students nationally. The MIT-bound teen insists he is "a ... Franklin High 'regular guy' bound for MIT by Betsy Hammond, The Oregonian ... , too, with a penchant for chess and crossword puzzles. He's headed to MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Kid on the Blogs Claim your place. Make your mark. Live your dreams.

  

  pushed down, to never give up on what we're working towards. MIT is real ... was going to end up at MIT for college, I probably would have laughed in your face. Me, an MIT student? The concept was practically unthinkable

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  Bright IAP a post in two, kind of unrelated, parts

  

  week before I got into MIT early action, I was rejected as a Quest ... [annotation note="To be explicitly clear, the point of this line is not that it ... , I got into MIT. [caption id="attachment_84593" align

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Apply to WISE! It would be WISE of you to do so

  

  inspiring to see a guy from Miami who is Cuban―just like her―going to MIT ... part is picturing WISE students at MIT. While she doesn’t force people to ... it’s MIT’s fly-in program where rising high school seniors learn about

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Manolis Kellis: Combining computer science with biology An interview with Manolis Kellis, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, who was honored as one…

  

  a professor at MIT, Manolis Kellis, Assistant Professor of Computer ... students. He spoke very openly about his passion for research, love for MIT ... sister, and his brother were all accepted to MIT within nine months of each

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Making money: my campus job "Hello, MIT Computing Help Desk, this is Laura, how may I help you?"

  

  web space (anything with mit.edu in it), plus tons more stuff. Within IS ... in style since then. In any case, you can see that there is a huge list ... that list is long enough already.) Ever since my freshman year (sort of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Big Dreams, Small Mind The troubles of being in school and doing research for too long.

  

  completely honest a big reason for that decline is in fact my time at MIT. Now I don't mean to say that MIT is decreasing my ability to be creative ... because MIT is currently working on a bio makers space, an area where anyone

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 24, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Questions about Blogging Some friendly advice.

  

  , the transition from high school to MIT is not a straight line - it's a ... about the time commitment. My on-campus job is 6-10 hours per week, and I ... semester at MIT, on the academic side of things, I took four science classes

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 30, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Meeting Michel Gondry Six MIT students and one Academy-award winning director have dinner in New York, and none…

  

  There is probably a meter somewhere that measures how much fun you ... under the tunnels of MIT, and when it fills up past its capacity it tips ... got picked to be a FAP (Freshman Arts Program) counselor, which is an

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One more baby blogger Or blogger baby? I don’t know, is it the same?

  

  ) promising me that our kids could go to MIT, so I am just going to go ahead and ... , ok, great, thanks. She is already pretty excited about science, at ... lectures, and she owns onesies saying “MIT”, “Future Scientist”, and “Born to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 3, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  E-mails in French House "Seriously, people, what's going on here?"

  

  kitchen, there is a "sacrificial table" - "sac tab" for short. Any item placed on the sac tab is automatically up for grabs. This is usually food ... 3 Why are you so perfect? How will I function post-MIT without your

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Typical Friday Night Done with 6.046 exam, time to chill

  

  , post-6.046 exam. I know that before I came to MIT, my impression of the ... that perspective I had, and hopefully, this entry further shows that MIT is about BOTH work and fun. Not just work! Sooo - on Friday night

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  16.810 Rapid Design and Prototyping 8 days to build an airplane. Intrigued?

  

  If you're considering MIT, you probably like to build things ... closet, we used the course 16 lab which is decked out with foam cutters ... (featured in the video). 16.810 is offered each IAP, and I certainly plan on

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Massachusetts: The Geek State I less than three (

  

  STEM occupations - and if you think about it, Boston is right across the river from where MIT is. The sixth geekiest city was Lowell, Massachusetts ... blogs that aren't MIT Admissions blogs, I'll sum it up for you: The US

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 7, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Cultured C-Show 2011

  

  Starbucks locations in Watertown, MA is like 200:1. Seriously. Soo many Dunkins. ~and~ (5) I had a blast at Culture Show 2011 :) C-Show is an ... ). It brings together MIT students from a variety of races, backgrounds

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Delicious Things Mmmmm.

  

  here you really have to pick and choose what is important to you. I do ... cool? Food. So like 90% of MIT events have freeeeeeeee foooooooood ... Verde's. (In fact, the only time I even ever use TechCash is to do laundry. I

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 26, 2008