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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Joy of Building a chronicle of my failed attempts to create things that work

  

  smartphones from Google, I tried to build something, anything, that would work ... creativity. Therefore, I was always diligently reading textbooks, writing down ... , counting down seconds until the next class, and over and over again. I

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 3, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Journal of Negative Results, among other things Absurdities I encounter while livin' my life.

  

  joking. I am not. I immediately decided that my life's goal (previously ... television shows. Currently, no one I have spoken to about this idea has approved. I'm just trying to make everyone feel better about themselves

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Climb Every Mountain: a Guest Blog Post by Davie R. ‘12 Davie R.: MOTH HUNTER.

  

  was nothing to lose in trying. Lesson 1. Google is awesome. I searched ... .. - - - First, an explanation of who I am and why I’m posting on Anna’s blog. I’m an alum of French House. I graduated in 2012 with a double major in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 28, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  reviewing my classes this semester but unthoroughly

  

  , and although I wasn’t as excited about the day-to-day work of web ... This semester, due to a [annotation note="decided I could finish both ... "]careening series of events[/annotation], I took an ill-advised courseload of 8

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 17, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  The Art of Juggling please take away my balls

  

  graphic? Because, frankly, I like being busy. I like the full Google ... done this to herself? I entered MIT with a job, a web-based research ... My brain's been on overdrive from the moment I stepped foot onto MIT

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: From the Life and Times of Cam

  

  , to which I responded with some hesitation (to be exact, a few months of ... than basically everything I've ever posted on this page, so I begrudgingly agreed to usher his blog entry into the multicolored web portal of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  Sunrise If a picture is worth a thousand words (minus inflation), that makes this post much…

  

  so much of the "frak it's 4am and I don't understand the material I ... , which means I'm usually awake before the sun rises. During the year, the ... time studying and you won't get to sleep much. But I've really been

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The Birth Of My Third Child The new admissions web site finally launches! Report any bugs here.

  

  admissions web site. I hope you like it! In October (when I get back from fall ... middle of a discussion on Topic X when someone jumps in and posts "I got a 2399 on the SAT I, do I need to retake it?!?" :-) More on the Q

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 14, 2006
• Blog / Events

  A Couple of Firsts With a picture game

  

  , Google, Tumblr, Twitter, Yelp, and Google! (I spent a lot of time at the ... I noticed something great about the MIT Admissions blogs as the days ... aspects of MIT. Then I noticed something that I had missed in my post

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 17, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  I know my calculus… and U2. Bono takes on global poverty, fashion, and Course 18.

  

  I discovered shortly after completing this blog entry that, much like a newly-bought laptop, it has already been rendered obsolete. Well, I ... scheduled entry.... One of the things I like about being home is getting to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10s in the news A series of newspaper articles about incoming MIT freshmen.

  

  Over the next week (or so), I'll be publishing newspaper articles I've collected from across the web (via newsfeeds) about members of the Class of ... 'll start with an article about the awesome Eletha Flores, and I've got about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language classes over IAP

  

  . http://web.mit.edu/fll/www/iap/ Classes are available in French, German ... for the spring. I was given a slot in the French 1 class and am pretty sure I'll do it. I'm excited! I've always wanted to learn French.

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 2

  

  , "I'm so confused. MIT has a beaver? But so does Caltech." Right. The Beaver, nature's engineer, was adopted as MIT's mascot in 1914 (my googling ... for ISEF this year?" Yes! I'm looking forward to the Intel International

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedilemmas Schedule + dilemma = most incompetent-sounding portmanteau ever

  

  Three days before classes start, I woke up at 7:09 AM, ran 6 miles ... light pollution overhead until I was stuffed with numbness and murky starlight. Lately I've been tracing a trajectory through the last week of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 7, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  Fall Hits MIT… in the form of a Giant Spider! I promise I'm not a blog-hog, this is just too good!

  

  's already told you about 6C, but I'll bet it didn't feature a giant spider on a web! I've decided to name him Lucifer. He's huge! He has the ... ?? Sorry to picture-dump again but I'm just so excited about this hack! Last

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wolfram Alpha Tonight!

  

  I don't know how familiar you are with "Wolfram," but I'll assume you ... smartest software I've ever seen. What does it do? It does math. Easy math ... decrypts, it slices, it dices, and it'll take your dog for a walk. I wrote

  • by Snively '11
  • May 15, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  YO! -yo. Learning how to make more toys!!

  

  ...  but more on that later! This blog isn't about the lesson I learned this year or my feelings.... no, it's about my favorite class that I took this ... computer lab pretty much became my second home... Yep, I'm using 3 computers

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 19, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Cloud i live there now

  

  I just restored my laptop to factory condition to get rid of an ... taskbar. Here's what I had to back up before doing this: My ... backgrounds) Here's what I didn't have to back up before doing this

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • February 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Grads Design the Jolt Sensor to help high school athletes detect concussions better

  

  practicing until he suddenly felt a dizziness come over him that rendered him ... distribution. "This is the product that I wish I had growing up. And it’s the product that today’s young athletes need. I want to make sure that nobody

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 2, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Robo-CJ writes a college app do neural nets dream of electric essays?

  

  brighter than the screen of the nearest light. I was introduced to the web ... web was the only thing I had built up since childhood that I'm not going ... I’m procrastinating on doing psets, so I trained GPT-2, a neural

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 28, 2019