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• Blog / Athletics

  Winter Sports at MIT a sneak peek of: swim and dive, squash, and men's basketball

  

  -athlete: “Being a student athlete at MIT is definitely worthwhile. It’s nice to be ... has been great. You get really good at time management since MIT is so ... athletes have at MIT is pretty vast, especially because Greek life is made up

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Why does my kid have to move again?”

  

  questions. Karen asks: "This is a bit random and irrelevant to your entry, but I was wondering. What's the policy on non-MIT-students being in ... all students of the room/suite in which the guest is staying. The host

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 2, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You Can Save the World a post on Kanye West

  

  unironically, wholeheartedly believe that Kanye West is one of the greatest ... , THIS IS NOT A GOOD TAKE ANYMORE SINCE HE KINDA SUCKS!!!! Specifically, I ... and pastor to sing songs from Jesus Is King, Kanye's newest album, as

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Want to Declare a Double Major? This is why/how I'm doing it, in case you were curious

  

  Center (11-120) and obsessively occasionally check WebSIS, MIT's online ... focus in again on a single major. One of MIT's great qualities is the ... you happiest :D Okay. For me, a double major is how I've decided to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 5, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Memory Quilt insert many sobbing emojis here

  

  At MIT, one inevitably collects a lot of shirts. Like...a lot. There ... blankets out of old MIT shirts, but the idea first occurred to me as ... lay out all the shirts that I had accumulated over my years at MIT, and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 27, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  registration day! aka "registration day blues", but like, only in the good sense of blues

  

  The summer before starting at MIT, it seemed like all the freshmen ... . But now -- now I am an MIT student, and so I can enlighten any of you who may feel the same way! At MIT, each semester begins with

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  -1 into the machines. The calculator habit is so strong that even 5 ... be intrigued. First, a brief introduction. Sanjoy Mahajan is an Associate Professor of Applied Science and Engineering at Olin College. At MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• 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 / Admissions

  October ‘06 Questions Omnibus Some advice from MIT interviewers, and answers to your questions.

  

  , your EC is a person, and is most likely NOT an EMPLOYEE of MIT and its ... get a sense of who the candidate is, and why they want to go to MIT. One ... is MIT Admissions about the word limit. Is it absolutely critical to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  H0sed Psets, exams, and being "mediocre" at MIT.

  

  . There is no such thing as "breezing through" a MIT exam, unless, of course ... high school assignments: * There is generally very little busywork ... of problems is generally significantly fewer than that of regular high

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 9, 2008
• 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 / Uncategorized

  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 / 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 / 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

  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 / Advice

  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