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• Blog / MIT Life

  Well I Know That It’s a Wonderful World from the sky down to the sea, but I can only see it when you're…

  

  to find a semester's worth of rushing over to Building 68 to turn in ... because of the combination of directing an ESP program almost single ... . california pizza kitchen. prez debates + rhetorical analysis. ihouse brunch

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Do These Numbers Have in Common? 7, 8, 12, 17, 18.

  

  offer an alternative from learning from large freshman lectures (all of my ... also offers a more abstract approach of evaluating history through ... day, I'll be hopping on a jet plane, bound for the tropical island of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  From The Chronicle of Higher Education (via a friend at Harvard) comes this story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions ... Pushiness of Parents, and Other Admissions Tales By ALVIN P. SANOFF While

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT writing faculty comment on GPT and other AI assisted writing in education

  

  . You've probably seen some of the recent news about GPT-3 and Chat ... language text in response to prompts.  There has been a tremendous amount of ... college (or even admissions application) essay, to say nothing of broader

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 24, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Your Early Action Deadline Questions The deadline is this Monday, November 1.

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... some anxiety, I'm happy to answer some of your last minute questions ... showing on MyMIT; we currently have a backlog of materials in our processing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Weekend Shenanigans the adventures (and photographs) continue

  

  Horror was, to the chagrin of many, actually a fairly watered-down version ... , and tons of music and dancing. I highly recommend it as a Halloween ... value and street cred. Here's one of the first songs: One more thing

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  speaker talks and gallery shows + other cool stuff yay

  

  This semester, I’ve really been trying to take advantage of MIT’s deep well of events: book talks, participatory activities, gallery openings, film screenings… the list goes on! [annotation note="MIT School of

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 18, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing…Stan! Passing the blogger torch

  

  bay area of northern California, where I lived until I was about 7. My ... remember when I was a prefrosh (in 2008...ouch), I dreamed of one day being ... opportunity to be able to link some of the lessons I’ve had in engineering

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 24, 2012
• FAQ / Transfer

  What college should I attend to improve my chances for transfer admission?

  Our applicants come from all over the world and from many different educational backgrounds. You should choose a college that will offer rigorous ... and extracurricular opportunities in your areas of interest. In other
• Blog / MIT Life

  what’s on my desk? creative furniture

  

  quick post to check in and say happy tuesday. it's 52 degrees and sunny and there's a high of 73 degrees tomorrow. i haven't shared pictures of my new room at east campus yet so here are some pictures, because

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “The Flying Luxury Hotel of Tomorrow” The luxury cruise of tomorrow is sweet!

  

  is the brainchild of Igor Pasternak, whose privately-funded California ... /index.html The flying luxury hotel of tomorrow: Cruise ship will sail through the ... Sci.comexternal link) -- This is not a Blimp. It's a sort of flying Queen Mary 2 that

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  StartMIT: IAP for Entrepreneurs Like with anything else, it helps to learn from the best

  

  , because you get to see where all the creative energy of the student body goes when it’s not tied up doing psets. A lot of people participate in ... trade in courses in physics and math for wonky classes like "Science of

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 26, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking In A brilliantly exciting recap of the last month.

  

  think he deserves some sort of trophy, don't you? Before I tell you about ... part of building this community, and I'm really, really going to miss them. Thanks guys, for sharing so much of yourselves over the years and

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  NACAC Conference Wrap-up from the national admissions conference.

  

  those of you in Southern California soon! ... For the past three days, I was at the conference of the National Association of College Admission Counseling (NACAC). NACAC is the primary

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  The blogs are back in town

  

  Lab talk/tour this afternoon...) Ben has been out of the office all week with a three-digit (in degrees Fahrenheit) fever, but still he ... answering many of your financial aid questions. You (or whoever is filling out

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Walk down CourseRoad Lane A boulevard of broken dreams and dropped classes

  

  One of Danny B.D’s many contributions to the MIT community, along ... visualizes dependencies and degree requirements, and lets you drag and drop ... ;n> without going through all the work of actually being <n>? Build a

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 24, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper ‘84, Astronaut The 24th MIT graduate to go into space.

  

  And speaking of awesome MIT alumna... Later this month, Heidemarie ... in space when STS-115 launches. More than one-third of the nation ... total of more than 15,000 hours in space. (Check out the MIT Astronaut

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Rules and who sets them

  

  This post includes an in-depth and personal discussion of the ... the audience I am directly talking to is meant to be members of the MIT ... aptly titled: The game of rules and living by them. Song: The Name of the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m a physics major (for now) feeling scholarly, part 2/2

  

  , in my very first blog post, I came up with an assortment of general ... classes that I took – those weren’t spur of the moment decisions – but I hadn’t really considered math as a subject in its own right, outside of

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Google

  

  With several of the core General Institute Requirements out of the way, sophomore year was really the dawn of my computer science life at ... ’t help but feel the creeping approach of “not-enough"ness. As career fair

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 5, 2017