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• Blog / Admissions

  Decision letters mailed

  

  spaces for regular action, further pressuring people to apply early. We don ... 're aiming for a smaller class this year. So, given our 1/3 constraint, our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 10, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Did the quadratic formula explode?

  

  ) I have to do for the office. My silly notion that when I blog, it ... regardless of where you end up for school, you'll be able to get a great

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  New Portlets? Just throwin' some ideas around.

  

  /her preferences. For example, if a student has selected "biology," the portlet will link to biology content on the OCW site. For students who choose multiple

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2004
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How good are the academics at MIT?

  homework, or psets, in MIT-speak. For any given pset, you likely won't be ... Institute. Many of them will be credited as co-authors for peer
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Admissions Math Month, Part 1 – Duality There are two wolves inside you

  

  . (Minor spoiler for Paige’s post: You can represent points as coordinates ... ]\mathbf{E}[/latex]) and magnetic fields ([latex]\mathbf{B}[/latex]) are duals. For every ... involve some more stuff, but don’t worry about that for now."]in a vacuum

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to train your sticking-together rock I am so happy that "computer" is not a no-no word today

  

  pretend that they're balls for now.) These little balls cause little ... big sticking-together force! It's also possible for the forces to ... about these for now. I still don't quite understand how these kinds of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  GUYS IT SNOWED!! yayayayyaayy

  

  for the last month or so, and every once and a while a [four days from now: 30% chance of <0.05 in. of snow for 20 minutes] has popped up. A ... % chance of <0.05 in. of snow” popped up a couple times for yesterday

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / Events

  dogg number there is no one better to be than myself!

  

  Spotify artist's "Dogg Number". That's the header for our HackMIT project ... among my friends for the past year, mostly because when I found it, I was ... HackMIT team designs merch for attendees. This year, hackers got a dark

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 20, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the luxury of bad art nothing but the truth

  

  album[/caption] Her music reminded me of what I’ve tried to do for a ... for the first time, with a short story I wrote over winter break. It was ... for years, like how I felt trapped between the dichotomy of being a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 11, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  Write about Tea (with tea (with Paige))

  

  CJ historian but for the history of myself throughout the years, and ... to become a part of. This was the long and short of the story, but for ... for dessert. And let me tell you: that slaps. Thank you Brennan Lee

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 24, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving yet another senior writing about their last semester

  

  open stores and the outdoors; this is mostly true for adults as well ... ’re a college student, for a brief time you can basically do whatever you ... of other answers out there. for example, if you asked me three years

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 20, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  “the worst they can say is no” the costs of trying

  

  there are other circumstances, too, in which the cost of trying for ... . For similar reasons (with the bonus fear of getting hate-crimed), I don ... feel bad for no reason, so maybe I won't ask a question in a class group

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 10, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FWACC! and some small thoughts about kindness

  

  over a crowded audience. Then, moments later, for the first time in three ... September, I had auditioned for seven or eight [annotation note="this seems to ... first concert. I auditioned for a solo in [annotation note='"Sucker", by

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get a temporary cat and it comes with occupational hazards

  

  . [annotation note="short for Public Universal Feline"]PUF[/annotation] usually ... quite a bit of time in Ilani’s room. For the summer, though, PUF was ... cat. PUF also has impressively large lungs for a relatively small cat

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  sharp and soft featuring: my favorite naruto moment

  

  as a surprise that all my favorite battles are mental ones. for ... problems with inventing new meanings for words: you end up with associations ... . be careful about the language you create for yourself). i assumed that

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 21, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  what’s on my wall too many postcards, that's what

  

  for my dorm room walls well before I actually got accepted to college ... the set as some sort of bucket list for places to visit. I bought the ... NYC bookstores, a couple of days before leaving to Russia for the fall

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 1, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  i am overwhelmed. what happens when a pandemic, recession, racial reckoning and recruitment season join forces?

  

  my classes are on Zoom (or Whoosh for 6.031). Content-wise, all my ... to make life for international students even more difficult. Great. My ... for a black woman- me- to say that she mattered- that I mattered

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  SOFT HOUSE five college students doing burpees on gravel at 1 am vibes

  

  watching Harry Potter for the nth time. On a normal day, there are at least ... workouts for us. The first night I tried, we did it outside at 11 pm, and it ... house. Since I knew my dorm, Burton Conner, would be closed for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 28, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  it’s not the same, but it’s still home back at MIT

  

  Dakota was, for the most part, uneventful. I[annotation note ... friend who had also fled campus for SD in March,[/annotation]so we shared ... on campus, so we headed straight for our dorm, Next House. I'd been

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining, Dig-Ins and Dives Lady Afeefah travels across campus in search of the best eateries

  

  Afeefah and we're rolling out looking for MIT's greatest Diners, Dig-Ins and ... specials and kosher foods, the hall is open for business for most hours of ... first time eating at Baker. Even after being on campus for a whole year

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 7, 2019