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• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Major, Course 6-9 computation and cognition

  

  for Future Course 6-9s Memes Individually, "Course 6" refers to ... sheep brain. After camp, I forgot about neuroscience for a while, until ... enthralled by the vast opportunities that computer science could unlock for me

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I chose my classes A graduating senior's perspective; results may vary

  

  in a large, multi-week project. How to identify and search for the ... while to figure out exactly what I should look out for when choosing ... choosing classes. Everyone has a different goal for their MIT career: someone

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  methods (such as Turnitin and GPTZero) that can search student papers for AI ... supposed implications for all forms of human text generation. For reasons ... . However, it certainly does pose interesting questions for pedagogy

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

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  when I said I went to Penn State for a year. Now there's a sudden ... from the farmers’ market. Penn State’s campus fits perfectly into the ... The Center for World University Rankings, and the high school has been

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  CMU / Parallel Universe i am not a clown

  

  Colleges that are hard to search for: Brown, because it's also a color; BC ... eduroam, I had an internet connection without even trying. I waited for my ... crowdsourcing to give real-time bus tracking, but it was also useful for paying

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  30 questions with my roommates! I had writer's block so I forced my roommates to make content for me

  

  work for me this time. I grew up as an only child, so I thought that ... representative for SAAS(South Asian Association of Students), a member of the Mech ... pages of Cosmos and i felt so proud of myself that i played minecraft for

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Autumn Questions Omnibus Answers to questions asked in my blog's comments. And there have been a lot of…

  

  It's time for another Questions Omnibus, where I answer the questions ... to the new site, and my travels around the country for the office, I ... won't be a problem, no worries. We, of course, have a procedure for that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 2 Many more of your questions and my answers.

  

  ? What kind of extra cource work we have to do considering for admission ... , activities, and essays section of the application, I needed more room for a few ... thinking of sending in a DVD of a video I created for my church's Vacation

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art things #1 illustration, graphic design, ceramics, and photography

  

  ! There are a ton of resources on campus for making and enjoying artwork ... ’s oil painting "Nonchaloir". I made this as a homework assignment for 21M ... sad to me now that for the past year, I’ve been making very slow

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  happy lunar new year the year of the tiger

  

  Google search, those in their ben ming nian (birth year) may encounter

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  in honor of tau the superior circle constant

  

  ’s The Tau Manifesto. I encourage you to read it for a deeper, more ... apologize for my terrible handwriting[/caption] But should we use a diameter for our circle constant? After all, most geometry classes introduce

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 20, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh, the places you’ll go (reprise) my first ever technical interview

  

  really were all written in one document but it didn't make sense for them ... spring, I learned what math was for computer scientists, as 6.042 brought ... for an app, I did practice technical interviews (though I didn't get any

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 11, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cognitive Processes or: i take a personality test again

  

   Catalyst: Want to be authentic, benevolent, and empathic. Search for identity ... For those who know me well, you'll know that I'm an absolute sucker for personality tests. I've done practically every personality test

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 2, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  looking at old journals gap year chronicles, ft thoughts on science, art, and moving through the world

  

  that list to the ones that are most palatable for a blog. # I didn ... ’ve become illiterate, too hosed to read good books. For all of October I have ... poetry for anyone else to read, and when I write for myself I'm all sorts

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 23, 2022
• Blog / Class Projects

  neutrality isn’t about objectivity—it’s about who has the power some words on facebook trending topics, and also net neutrality

  

  revelations undermine any presumption of Facebook as a neutral pipeline for news..." Tom Stocky, Facebook Search VP: "... There are rigorous guidelines in place for the review team to ensure consistency and neutrality." John

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 20, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  figured I would search for a surf shop shielded from the worst of the waves ... Institute and our admissions process, particularly for those far ... speaking to as many students as I could. I'm writing notes for my colleagues

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  /Chinese courses, so revisiting it for such a different purpose was pretty strange ... habits. I'm a sucker for anything structured that makes me feel productive ... helpful way for me to internalize things and think about everything I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020
• Blog / Hacks

  MacG 50ish years ago an email from an alumnus

  

  email! Abby,   A Google search of MIT MacGregor House led me ... construction of an extra GRT apartment for Spanish House, who were exiled from ... -new MacG.  All MacG rooms were singles except for [annotation note

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Google

  

  in with tech talks and lotteries for electronic swag, which we could ... appointments for resume reviews, interview tips, offer negotiation tactics, and ... and writing experiences from before MIT, as well as compensate for my

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 5, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 2 The deadline is coming!

  

  searching like a hungry rat for this guy's last name over the internet. the ... ), Leon, Niyatee, Sarah, and everyone else for doing a little pinch-hitting for me in the comments... ------------------------------------- Vinayak

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 30, 2005