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• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding heritage at MIT

  

  't have any way of knowing what it meant for me, or what it would come to ... , one of our new freshmen was moving into her room, which happened to be a ... . I like knowing that I'm making new stories, new parts of the history

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in Internet in the bathtub! And a bunch of stuff on choosing a major.

  

  choosing a major section on their website. Additionally, all of the ... Center and continued on my merry way. It wasn't until IAP of my sophomore ... Well, I'm back home in the great state of Ohio, getting ready for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Pictures that don’t belong anywhere else – Part I because i'm a slackslackslackball.

  

  other day on my way to Brigg's Field. It was lookin' pretty good so I took ... This entry is a lot of things. Read! First here are some pictures ... , all dressed up for Christmas. This is my side of the room: and

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • February 17, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  swatches of MIT collected like paint chips

  

  voices in sci-fi/fantasy, and the importance of story. On good weeks you ... weeks you read titles on the way to class. You are taking three ... , scrambling to finish on time.   Parts of MIT are wonderful in this

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hosed Hosed- adj. Bogged down with work (From the glossary of the 2007-2008 How to Get…

  

  , from the same website, found within 5 minutes of each other with ... TO WRITE THEM. Seriously. Why? Because the end of the semester has me ... a taste of things to come. Item 1: How hosed am I? According to the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Jenny Hu- Adapting to Artifical Gravity Junior Jenny Hu worked in the MIT Man Vehicle Laboratory to study if people can…

  

  of astronauts by creating new spacecrafts that generate artificial ... the effects of head turns in artificial gravity on the neurovestibular ... , found this UROP on the UROP website. The Man Vehicle Laboratory often

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 7, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  New year, new bloggers! introducing the new bloggers for fall 2019

  

  Today is the first day of classes, and, as new MIT students are introduced to the fun of the firehose, we also wanted to introduce our new bloggers to you! On July 1, we posted the blogger application; by the end of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  “Learning To Learn At MIT” guest post by the plaz

  

  (or EECS). His website - ThePlaz.com - also has a wiki, and on this wiki, he shares a lot of wisdom about MIT. One of his posts which I read on ... unnecessary evil of attending MIT. I was not good at math or problem solving in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  a week of summer ft. cafes, lab, and assorted thoughts

  

  me thinks I should be actually cooking, instead of relying on canned ... people fighting the good fight. There are a lot of things that need doing ... ’ll keep trying new ones on. Saturday My housemates and I went to Tatte to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 8, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updates i'm still here.

  

  !’ is always a good one- an honest and unquestionable summation of what it ... precise. There are all sorts of random reasons I could give for my disappearance, drawn from the same set of valid reasons I give to my friends or

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • January 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  new ways to teach. At MIT, an institution which is at the forefront of ... GPT. The following thoughts on this topic are advisory from the two of us ... over sequences of words; ones that are “large” have been trained on

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

  Fixing a trapeze! then hanging upside-down on it

  

  concepts of damped harmonic motion and centripetal forces, which is to say we swung around and spun each other very fast. The tire swing reminded me of ... Harvard, where there was a tire swing on a tree. We laid aside our physics

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 29, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  my shattered laptop in the midst of pre-finals season

  

  was with my group presenting our project, I left my coat on a chair, backpack to the side, and laptop on the ground. I didn't expect anyone to sit ... . In the process of him sitting in my chair, the seat flipped down and

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Scholarship for future engineers Chance to win $2,000

  

  Are any of you high school seniors who are Massachusetts residents ... Engineers Scholarship. The application has been posted on the ASHRAE's Boston Chapter website (ashraeboston.org). They are awarding 14 scholarships in the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6-3 not a definitive guide

  

  on Reddit that had a lot of really good questions about 6-3 that I didn ... offering. I don't have an opinion on some of the classes, since I haven ... going over proofs and ways to construct them, then takes you on the tour

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Set Your Alarm for CPW 2019 i'm entirely serious

  

  – like, 5AM late – talking to students on Saturday night of CPW. When I ... – to this day I don't remember who – pounding on the door of my host ... leapt out of bed and answered the door. Figure out the damage. On the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • April 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  reviewing MIT’s Intro To Deep Learning the highs and lows of the beloved IAP class

  

  and labs being open-sourced on the website and Youtube, with this Obama ... lecture hall of like 250. Still, the length of pure lecture on completely ... guest lectures on a variety of topics to give more specifics on industry

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 12, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Post-Valentine Blog Roundup Valentine's Day capped off by a serenade.

  

  were made at the Cambridge headquarters of NECCO (the New England ... finest memories of walking to class in the morning from my dorm were on ... more in the way of biomedical internships are quite happy). Tootsie Roll

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  a most beautiful camping trip it's always good to get back to nature <3

  

  day. On the way back on Sunday, we hit up a farm selling produce, a ... It's pretty common at MIT for living groups to take advantage of the ... luxury!!) to go on fun trips and retreats. On Friday, my floor, Putz

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 17, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not my college essay It's Blog Action Day and the topic is poverty.

  

  a thick layer of college-related paperwork on top of that unholy ... website yields a transcript of Muhammad Yunus' insightful and conscientious ... agencies. I participated, made a lot of new friends, and got the best peanut

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 14, 2008