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  Final projects from the fall three coding projects and an alien in disguise

  

  to the model's confidence[/caption] The model didn't do a good job at ... -planet" images, like this! (credit: 6.8371 staff, NASA)[/caption] We were given a ... blurring effects, while Poisson image editing is a method of automatically

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Ending it's the last day of classes and I am having some feelings.

  

  's whiteboard And we do it damn well, too. Turns out when you put a lot of ... . In about a week, I'll be home in California again--in three, I'll be ... just walked out of my last freshman year class and that a full quarter of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 15, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Spot the Blogger where you'll find bloggers during CPW, and some bonus tips!

  

  club meetings throughout CPW, or a bit of studying or problem sets to do ... lot of your questions if you do have a tough choice to make. My CPW host ... When the CPW schedule came out  when I was a prefrosh 50000 years ago

  • by Connie H. '15
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “All Aboard the Rage Bus” Travelling by bus.

  

  were doing it. I’m a grown adult. I can decide when a comprehensive snack ... up early from a field trip at the Pittsburgh Zoo to go on a road trip ... travelling is stressful and twelve hours is a long time to spend in a room with

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 3, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  North to Peru Not too far from Norway, just south of Mexico.

  

  Day is a very popular weekend for retreats, brief trips back home, or ... The Tech hosted its annual retreat in Maine. Maine seems to have a lot ... a large vacation home located near a lake in the town. The owners of

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Parliamo Italiano! And some other languages too.

  

  reassure you that MIT does have humanities classes, and a lot of them are ... Hispanic Literature. We read a different book each week (Bodas de Sangre, La Nada Cotidiana, La Plaza del Diamante, El Beso de la Mujer Arana, and a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 19, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  intention via YearCompass

  

  , but I figured I should doing something a little more intentional. A ... was a really fun exercise to do because I genuinely forgot that so many ... hobbies this semester, but found that I wasn't able to do that for a variety

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Year 2 at Hogwarts Holy Hell, I'm a sophomore

  

  , delivered right to your e-mail! A lot of the jobs do happen to require ... a ton of circuits, hook them up to the lab computers and have them do ... to do. You choose how to interpret it. Everything just needs to fit a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Feeling Good And mostly musing

  

  weather) slowly melting, and I feel pretty good. It’s been a while I typed up something that wasn’t a p-set or a study paper, a consequence of the ... -sets and exams all culminated in two midterms this past Monday, alongside a p

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA and How to Extract It Messy, slimy, colorful science from a class I taught for Spark.

  

  , small bags of stuff that do a lot of work to keep us alive. We are ... , and the salt. If you’re doing this alone, it’ll be half a cup of ... ’re doing this with a group you’ll want to fill the blender and scale up the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 31, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  CP* restored my faith in the universe i read...My Immortal...with prefrosh

  

  [annotation note="called as such because it's no longer a weekend ... ! These couple of days have been a testament to how amazing the MIT ... impressive to me. I'm so thankful to be a member of this community :) As I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Español Foreign Languages at MIT

  

  sentence using words from a vocabulary list; that I can do. It’s quite ... There are two books in my backpack right now. The first is a little spring break light reading about a French serial killer and the birth of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / MISTI

  Seven Years of Good Luck MISTI paid for all the MIT Japan interns to meet up this weekend in Kyoto.…

  

  up in Kyoto for a whirlwind tour of the temples, food, and more temples in the Kansai area. Since a good percentage of the interns are working somewhere in Tokyo, it was a great opportunity to get out of the city and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Things You Won’t Have to Buy (or spend *that* much on) This one's especially for the incoming freshmen.

  

  Cambridge and Boston a lot (and it's a good idea to make a point of doing so ... student - this guide tells you a bit more about how you can do that. Now, I ... There are some big things coming to a close as my summer begins to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 18, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Other ways I’ve been rejected over the past fifteen years [suffering-from-success.jpg]

  

  -2 years. A pal gruffly rejected my hug; it later comes to pass they do not ... my next degree and had a sensational time. Now, many years later, we revisit rejection with a renewed lens. Professional writers and performers

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  On UROPs Research at a private research institute? Naaaaahhhhh, couldn't be!

  

  Look at this if you don't what a UROP is ... about a program that interests you. If you've read my other posts than you ... , one day in a December, an email showed up in my inbox from the Game Lab

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 21, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Not Farewell After All Hello again!

  

  about a year ago (June 2013) and - because I wasn’t ready to be a Real ... of medical school and absolutely loved it. In the past, I’ve had a lot ... since MIT is known to be a tough school, and whether looking back, I wish

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  So @mitblogs_ebooks exists 'as you might know, i am a full time internet'

  

  Some of you may remember @horse_ebooks, a Twitter account which, before it was bought and subverted by Buzzfeed, was a truly delightful gibberish machine which spouted pseudorandomly generated spam tweets from a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Happenings What's been going on? Recent events at le MIT.

  

  attended the CPW Welcome event Thursday night. It was a 5 minute, 5 step guide on "How to Do CPW", and I heard it was "amusing" though I was really going for inspirational and life-changing. Here's a gif in case you missed

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Classes of Semesters Past, Present, and Future since you asked.

  

  you leave a post with your course history? I want to take every class eventually and I can't decide!" So, here's a post with my course history. It's a nice record of my transition from pre-med/brains to astronomy. More

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2013