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• Blog / Challenges

  emails to self & the long goodbye

  

  leaves me yearning for a do-over, a second chance at the past four years ... very eternal-sunshine-of-a-spotless-mind-coded way, i do now think that ... what a strange feeling it is to be in your last semester at MIT

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 27, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m taking this semester! senior fall

  

  because a meat blob full of electricity and chemicals is telling me to do it ... a comic longer than I've wanted to do anything science and engineering ... now it's 12:45AM. I haven't done a "what am I taking this semester

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  I made an AI write most of this post because I forgot I needed to post this week

  

  I didn't know what to write this week, so I made GPT-3 do it for me. If you haven't heard of GPT-3, it's a language model that uses deep ... give it. For example, this is the prompt I gave GPT-3. This is a great

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / Hacks

  socially aware hacking, part 2 this time, it's personal ((last time it was also personal))

  

  I wrote a little while ago about a hack on the Dot raising awareness ... doing great on the climate change front. Here's another one by the same ... th. There's a very, very fancy portrait of David Koch in the first

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  living the dream: UROP edition! in which i run experiments on children (well, kinda)

  

  do my part for the statistic that 90% of students have had a UROP by ... , learning a new programming language, and doing real research. As added ... break, I applied to a UROP (an undergraduate research opportunity, aka a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 22, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  The Aftershock In memory of Kate Hunter ‘20 (1997-2017), who will always be remembered for her big…

  

  how grief manifested itself in me. Instead, it was a tangled balloon of ... was a slobbery, deflated mess on the floor. For the sake of writing a ... every few days. And I’m sure it all is a fraction of what her family is

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • January 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ETH Zürich, hier komme ich! A semester of all things Swiss German and chocolate to come

  

  help and advice. Though we do have a group chat for all of us studying ... out to a group chat, and we all drooled at the thought of spending ... a letter of recommendation, and also sent an email to my advisor. In

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 1, 2017
• Blog / Events

  The Newest Member of Our Family What could possibly be more exciting than prefrosh?

  

  What could possibly be more exciting than prefrosh? A NEW KITTEN!!! I did not get one (although I was very tempted to do so), but Kayla E ... Boston today to help her pick out a little companion for the new semester

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 17, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  With Apologies to Dr. Seuss why MIT is amazing, a la buzzfeed

  

  do to people as brainy and footsy as you. And when things start to ... can get all hung up in a prickle-ly perch. And your gang will fly on. You'll be left in a Lurch. You'll come down from the Lurch with an

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 4, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Listening What's in your stereo?

  

  the fact that I do listen to a lot of jazz, classical and instrumental ... and a low R value with this one, but it's SO CATCHY. I sing it when I do ... What all started as a blatant rip-off of Kris's post on summer

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 12, 2011
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Minecraft: Discuss Open thread.

  

  't anything else to this post. Minecraft is a fun silly game in which you can do ... entirely: Minecraft. What is Minecraft? Quoth Wikipedia: a sandbox building ... cubes in a 3D world...The game is divided into two main modes, Alpha and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Watch this! An MIT blogger alum deservedly gets a moment in the spotlight.

  

  in it. Mollie was a blog legend; her entries are still as relevant ... , she is a graduate student at Harvard, and is still involved with the MIT community as member of the MIT Cheerleading Team (yes, MIT has a Cheerleading

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Saying Yes (or No) Decision time is upon the Class of 2014. How to choose?

  

  CPW is over. The May 3 reply date is quickly approaching. What to do ... 're making the best choice for yourself), or to request a deferral/gap year(s) before enrolling at MIT (for a gap year, military service, or other reason

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorms The closest I'll get to an entry about the different dorms

  

  . Even if I described my own dorm, a lot of people would probably disagree ... on the admissions website. What I will do, however, is let the dorms speak for themselves, and our friends over at CalTech have helped us out a

  • by Snively '11
  • June 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break! *frantically waves arms in the air*

  

  It's always exciting to get not just a three-day weekend, but an ... have spring break a week or two earlier, meaning we don't get to see many ... they start the spring semester weeks before we do because we have IAP. So

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 20, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  February updates Midyear grades and more.

  

  grade report is not necessary. We do no yet have a set date for the ... is a record number. With so many excellent applicants this year, it ... anything you send in as a supplement. I think it is important to remember

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Transfer Wrap-Up 2008 Looking back at MIT Transfer Admissions for entry this coming year.

  

  , the conclusion of our transfer admissions cycle, seems as good a time as any to do so. The numbers for this year look remarkably like they did ... , admitting 16, with 14 enrolling in the fall. This season's admits are a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Name in Flashing Lights Or maybe just mitadmissions.org

  

  minutes of fame? Well here's your chance to be a blogger. Last year, I piloted an effort to capture CPW through the eyes of a prefrosh, and this ... will be a great opportunity to share your CPW experiences as well as

  • by Bryan
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  Where the Sun Shines, There Hack They MIT is known for many things, including its legendary hacks.

  

  MIT is known for many things, including its legendary hacks. Long a ... subculture—providing a deeper understanding about intelligence, strategic ... Samuel Jay Keyser gave a talk on the history of hacks. In Where the Sun

  • by Laurie Everett
  • August 2, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Some CPW Thoughts The latest on CPW planning from the Admissions Office.

  

  from Snakes on a Plane. I'm not really sure why we were doing it at CPW ... matching you with an MIT student host for CPW. With a record number of you expected for CPW, and a large portion of the campus hoping to serve as a host

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2007