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• Blog / MIT Life

  Faster than a speeding locomotive. E=MC^2 serving up the most delicious physics problems since 1905.

  

  program description is below. Student Pugwash USA MIT has its own chapter ... 's own special theory of relativity. More information on the program is ... and technology developments on society. Featured in the documentary is

  • by Bryan
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Visit

  The coolest spring break ever? Visit a College Campus!

  online. While we don’t track demonstrated interest at MIT (meaning you don ... Admissions Counselor at MIT - providing information sessions to on ... more agonizing) - that is all actually just a portion of my day

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 26, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Other summer programs A further list of some terrific math & science summer programs for high school juniors…

  

  Since my earlier post on MIT's summer programs was linked from the MIT homepage today, I've been getting lots of traffic interested in summer programs. To that end, here is a further list of some terrific math

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Siete Ciudades de España A very busy IAP

  

  is the best opportunity I have to go abroad. College is one of the most convenient times to travel, but being an MIT student can make it pretty hard to ... semester across an ocean when MIT already offers the best engineering classes

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes from the Road: NorCal, Netherlands, Nick Cannon, and Nerd Camp where I've been, what I've been doing

  

  true that the workload is somewhat lower than it is during the cycle, but summer is a key time for us to travel, work on dormant projects, and take ... and Conrad, two MIT-students-turned-Thiel-fellows whose company Workflow

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  -year) deferral from starting at MIT, it is super easy to do so. On your online ... I'd like to talk a bit about deferring entry to MIT, also known as taking a gap year. My hope is that you will at least consider, just for a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  my semester in a word: oof or perhaps "oof: the party, the lifestyle"

  

  't have much to show for it, except notably a fat C in 6.006, MIT's intro to ... code follows strict coding standards and is readable and testable and all the adjectives that code in the real world is [annotation note

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Mathematics of People Guest post on Economics

  

  from two very different ways-of-thinking. My dad is a nerdy engineer with ... spirtuality, and lives in his head. My mom is a former bartender and studied at ... from the library and is probably trying to make a shelter for the local

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 28, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Quantifying Angst the most course 6 thing we've ever done

  

  you ask), which is “a type of search tree that stores an associative ... occurrence. So if the input to this function is a text file that contains: “hi ... , because it is a truly angsty experience that has been in the works for

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 5, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  I did not graduate on time

  

  MIT. What matters is that I graduated eventually, and that’s still a big ... officers and faculty understood: Mental health is important. MIT is hard ... support staff, I got 1.75 As, an OX, and a LateDrop. Ask me about MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 13, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Day Cats cats cats cats cats cats cats....

  

  and talk about things, and how to cope with the pressure that is MIT ... allergy nurse at MIT is because I had a bad allergic reaction to my ... watch the lecture videos online, which are super helpful. The class is 3

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 19, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  online reply form on your MyMIT portal, just choose I will enroll at MIT ... I'd like to talk a bit about deferring entry to MIT, also known as taking a gap year. My hope is that you will at least consider, just for a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IOI 2015 in Kazakhstan of khans and computer science

  

  EducationUSA (EdUSA) office in American Corner. EdUSA is a U.S. Department of ... (IOI) is the world's preeminent programming competition for high school ... circumstance.   (Note: before I came to MIT, I did not know the ISOs

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  ambition finding direction

  

  try harder. The surprising thing is how different these messages can ... better looking. But the clearest message is that you should be richer. What I like about Boston (or rather Cambridge) is that the message there

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 10, 2022
• 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…

  

  of MIT's new Initiative on Technology and Self, which is working to ... ways with her mid-20s long ago, kept asking variations of "How is ... and foremost purpose of going to college is to learn, but I'm torn about

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  gone was any trace of you i think i am finally clean

  

  . That MIT is not like the rest and this time is different. The ... thinking, "Is this it? Is this the love that everyone had talked about ... long distance relationship with someone I met online in my junior year of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Reflecting on the great memories of my freshman year ☀️ When life gives you lemons, share them with others >:) ☀️

  

  MIT community is. To the potential international applicants: MIT is an ... the world regardless of their financial situation. MIT is need ... income, and only then calculate your expected cost of attendance. MIT is

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last Five Days aka How I Spent My Summer

  

  favorite, Junot Díaz, who is a Pulitzer Prize winner and a professor at MIT ... How many days I have left in my parents’ home is approximately as ... week, someone from my hall at MIT asked, “When are you coming home to 1E

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Once upon a time Who I was in high school.

  

  is to say, my high school journal) wherever possible. This might be somewhat challenging, considering how much of my high school journal is ... polymath is that everyone feels they have the right to a slice of my time. I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a brief walk to Caffè Nero alternatively titled: life update since i am comically bad at blogging this semester

  

  surrounding choosing a living community is a constant in the MIT experience, at ... matcha latte. Caffe Nero is conveniently only a five minute walk away from my house in Central, and the latte is conveniently free thanks to a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2021