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• Blog / Academics & Research

  How hard is it, really? Let down

  

  test by studying the test format and past questions, not the material. I took a physics class in high school but it was more hands on and not AP ... day of 8.01 was quite fun, I enjoyed it, but we took a pretest and I

  • by Snively '11
  • April 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Birthday Boy Ben Birthday explosion inside.

  

  story of how my friends and I unleashed a birthday explosion in his office ... Matt and Nance and all the other admissions officers, of course.) Not ... an ego-boost, or even to crash on his couch. And so a few of my friends

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Radia Perlman ‘73, Mother of the Internet Radia Perlman has three MIT degrees and more than 80 patents.

  

  earlier this year. (And, for the record, I think in the picture at right she ... . Unfortunately, no one was listening. It was the mid-1970 s, and Perlman was a software designer for computer network communication systems -- and one of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Days in NYC

  

  , and juniors here, and we come from all sorts of majors -- Course 2: Mech ... is done here is litigation-based and strictly confidential, I can ... other MIT students who are working as externs on Wall Street, and we had

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  classes im taking this semester! the classic

  

  , two semesters of physics, one semester of chemistry, and one semester of ... science class I’ve taken since high school, and I couldn’t be happier to be ... weekly readings and labs. The labs are typically my biggest assignment on

  • by Angie F. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  playing in the background and all. Every time I tried writing this post, my fingers would freeze up and suddenly the activation energy required to start ... naive attempt at a very raw and honest reflection on the past year +/- a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  highlights: high points of a virtual fall Part 1 of a fall semester recap

  

  multiply. With due time, I managed to bully myself into writing, and one of ... .[/annotation] All and all, the fall semester had its ups and downs. I wanted to write ... ), ES.1801 (Calc), 3.091 (Chem but solid), and CMS.100 (Media Studies

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 2, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Unity

  

  , we were roughly equal proportions Christian and Muslim. Each day, the Muslim students and staff would gather under the roof of a building opposite our hostels and classes for prayer. And each Sunday, the Christian

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 30, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  90-something days of summer (Part 1) MIT people around the world

  

  at MIT and my crazyfrightenthelivingdaylightsoutofme 9-paper exam at ... , class of 2011. Both of us are members of Sigma Kappa sorority and that ... always thought that she is an incredibly intelligent, motivated and

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Memories I know this feelin', yes I know it very well (Thutmose)

  

  of my students heard about finding their puzzle piece and the magic ... CPWs past on the walls, and a picture of the quad near room 3-108 rested ... spring, I vocalized the whisper to my friends and was met with blank looks

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  ripping shirts and other clothing mods

  

  shape the world around me, and clothing mods are a great part of that. So ... and dirty little bursts of creativity as the mood strikes and party ... Metropolis for the use of their sewing machine, and for the friends who showed

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 1, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  Parental advice, revisited… a self-referential throwback, that is somehow, still relevant

  

  from prospective students.  Interestingly, and perhaps not surprisingly ... select the right summer and enrichment opportunities to best position my ... the programs will allow your child to learn some things about MIT and

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / Summer

  five things I love about New York welcome to New York, everybody walks in New York

  

  (The subtitle is from my unpatented and unholy mix of the songs “Walking in LA” by the Missing Persons and “Welcome to New York” by Taylor ... alone and spent a lot of time with myself, and as others have mentioned

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 28, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  culture within culture i moved to east campus

  

  wanted to meet new people; i was deprived of doing so in a pandemic and ... -for-yourself, and i'd frankly rather drop out than live in a meal plan dorm. i have ... and (mostly) unhealthy and the dining halls are open at strange hours

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 15, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello applicants, i don’t know what to say but i can try

  

  posts about waiting for decisions and that kind of stuff. personally, i ... have things settled for at least the next week, and i know i’ll spend a ... confirmed cases and are worried. maybe some of you have loved ones who are

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 13, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  that time of year… ...when every day feels like 48 hours instead of 24. When's summer?

  

  things that have kept me going. And a big one is listening to this video ... noisier and quieter than the city. Here, the sounds of birds and insects ... again, thousands of miles away from where you normally live and go to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  I Suppose It Was Inevitable That We Have An Office Instagram a list of some other places you can find the blogs (and the bloggers)

  

  . It's strange to think that was so long ago, and also strange to think ... , it's also strange to think I once had a full head of hair and wasn't exhausted by 10 PM every night. And this too shall pass. TLDR: we on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  SCIENCE ALERT: “smoking gun” evidence for Alan Guth’s theory of inflation! Good thing I already have Alan Guth's signature on all of my class registration forms.

  

  14 billion years ago (ish), the universe Banged and rapidly expanded. What started as tiny quantum fluctuations also expanded, clumped, and ... course, live in the Milky Way, although it's hopeless to try and see that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 17, 2014
• Blog / Events

  DEALicious in which i counsel an FPOP and come out with free candy. also how to…

  

  First things first -- I took a weekend trip back to New York and ... straight into helping lead DEAL (Discover Entrepreneurship and Leadership ... other freshmen and upperclassmen with potentially similar interests. They

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 27, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Admitted Student Gatherings

  

  to meet some potential future classmates, as well as MIT students and ... MIT portal for the locations and times for these events, and for a list of all ... Indianapolis and meet some great MIT Alumni in Indiana. Sunday Enjoy a slice

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 19, 2013