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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Fall 06 The inside scoop on all 54 units I am taking this semester

  

  its regulation. How do you read the mutual fund section of a financial ... . Requires a 20-page paper on the economics of long-run economic growth. Professor: Peter Temin format: two 1.5 hour lectures a week, one 1 hour

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 8, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Winter Break Reading List "Take a look, it's in a book, it's reading rainbow"

  

  , I'm reading. Also, what do you guys recommend? I'm typically a sci ... anticipated, but some), I'll be reading a few books to pass the time. Some of these books have had their residence on my bookshelf for a long time. Some

  • by Bryan
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Life, the Universe, and Everything I’m significant! …screamed the dust speck.

  

  support organizations and causes your believe in. They also do a 48-72 hour ... There comes a time in everyone's MIT experience, from the application ... the slight urge to huddle under a blanket with a warm cup of tea and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How the Career Fair saved my summer And forced me to try something new

  

  doing research. Ever since I was a sophomore in high school, I walked ... (“with a focus on Biology,” I said, since I’m course XB) could do for each ... This is a summer of new things for Maggie Lloyd. I rented a car for

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Toy Design Update How couldn't you enjoy building toys?

  

  lot of lab and a lot of time outside of class. I wouldn't be doing my ... Hey all, just thought I'd take a break from the "OMG, CPW TTLY PWND ME!" and give you a quick Toy Design update. I haven't talked about

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Barker Engineering Library Where sound goes to die.

  

  It's a famous dome, and if you've never heard of it then do a google ... like a dome. Do yourself a favor and utilize those 2.4 megabytes of ... into a perpetual tourist. That's not so bad, I guess, because I fit right

  • by Snively '11
  • February 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Residence-Based Advising Residence-Based Advising WILL NOT allow you to change dorms during your freshman year.

  

  do we have an opportunity to use it in a sentence.) You can either have ... Wow, that last post was short. I didn't even tell you what I'm doing ... !.. (three years ago! ahem..) Working at Pixar is kind of like working at a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science is apparently not for the easily-frustrated Stories of woe from the lab

  

  rest of the mice. Hmm, what else... one day I was doing a DNA extraction ... Although most of the time I coast through my days in lab in a whirlwind of science glee, I have to admit that every once in a while, the lab

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  i’m studying abroad this semester hello europe

  

  semester! For real! Okay, sadly, it's a remote program, because *gestures wildly at the state of the world*. Last semester, I took a non-credit class through Budapest Semesters in Mathematics. Here's a photo of me in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 7, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains and treason and bouncy balls, oh my! A brain dump largely about - what else? - brains.

  

  the table without ever being consciously aware of doing so. -There's a ... 're doing grows old quickly, so that's enough of a brain dump for now. I ... Nearly two weeks ago, I promised you a Post of Substance™ to be put

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Personal Projects

  reflecting on 2020 goals and planning for 2021

  

  ’m anemic, but I just could not remember to do it. This ended up being a good ... or incrementing them a little (read 15 books, do 15 photoshoots, etc ... to learn how to install wigs and do my own nails. There are a few other

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ILGs at MIT They're independent! (Guest post by Sondy '07/G/awesome.)

  

  Oh, you all thought you were getting a blog post from me? Not today ... other than "AGH MONKEYS WHY DO I FAIL AT LIFE," stories about what I've been doing with my life and which flights of stairs I've fallen down this

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 5, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  meandering my nonlinear academic path so far

  

  emails with the subject line “help i don’t know what I’m doing with my life ... ; Cognition, which is a joint major between computer science and brain & ... make my visions a reality.  I actually wrote 6.3 instead of 6-3. Thank

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s trending?: My Computer Vision final project Where trendy styles = adding styling to trend lines

  

  . Pick out groups of pixels that represent a trend line. We do this ... , which has to do with investigating how changing the title of a graph ... developing algorithms resulting in the high-level understanding of images by a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 11, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Teaching at MIT we live and we learn and we teach

  

  As my second semester at the Institute draws to a close, I've been ... has consistently inspired me and given me a sense of fulfillment ... solving the problems associated with creating a curriculum and breaking down

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 16, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-Thanksgiving Post-stuff and Foodstuffs In which I'm reminded I have a life, and am thus eligible to give a…

  

  myself up less over the idea of always doing at least a fair amount of work on my birthday, because now I know that it's a sense of responsibility ... 've learned a number of things: At MIT, the week of my birthday has always been

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 25, 2012
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT use my test scores?

  MIT uses a holistic admissions process, so test scores are just one factor among many for evaluating your preparedness for MIT. Test scores are ... determines an admission decision (there is no single factor), but they do help
• Blog / MIT Life

  just vibing tough times out here

  

  enough time to do anything else. Same lesson, I guess, but it hits a little ... lesson: I felt like there was never enough time to commute, do ... ."]I cannot do everything I want to.[/annotation] And this teaches you how to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  go; whatever you do. Stove-cook your oatmeal and never look back. We understand that this may be a difficult time for you, but we ask that you

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  go; whatever you do. Stove-cook your oatmeal and never look back. We understand that this may be a difficult time for you, but we ask that you

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2020