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  Tour of an MIT student’s notebook my brain is a mess so my pages have everything

  

  [/caption] Historically, I’ve only ever finished three notebooks out of the dozens I’ve had over the years, including the most recent one. The first was a composition notebook filled with spelling practices from elementary school. The

  • by Anika H. '26
  • July 8, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I am slowly going insane This is your brain on AI-generated videos

  

  .5940 (TinyML) lecture: the class was holding a competition, with AI development boards (worth $500+) as the top prizes! The competition involved watching ... outsourcing to MIT students was the best way to get the high-quality human

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 6, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sweet summer song

  

  writing mood for the last couple months, but I'm back and I'm excited to start cooking. Yes; as the music changes, Like a prismatic glass, It takes the light and ranges Through all the moods that pass; Dissects the

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 19, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday, Simmons Hall! 20 things I’m grateful for in my dorm

  

  there Can’t say I’m not grateful for that. Moving on… 2. The bathrooms My ... into Apple products. Simmons does have the best bathrooms, though, so I guess it all worked out well in the end. 3. Kaito The heads of house’s dog

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 4, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  a salmonella saga weekend outing tingz

  

  I didn't leave the MIT bubble much my freshman year. hell, I barely left my dorm. there was so much going on all the time that I didn't bother trying to venture out into Boston very often. over the summer

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Art variation on a poem of Elizabeth Bishop

  

  The art of being hosed isn’t hard to master; the tasks (you hope ... many things to-do. The art of being hosed isn’t hard to master. [caption ... carried through the crossword by my friends[/caption] I'm hosed this week

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Last Lap and hoping to finish strong

  

  ="going through the archives, it looks like I missed sophomore fall, which is fine ... (Current Debates in Media): This is the capstone class for the CMS major ... and debate about various things happening in the media at the immediate

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  My Freshman Journey with Internships or: i get rejected a million times in a row

  

  hiring frosh. And in the case that the program is freshman and/or sophomore exclusive, the internship tends to be more competitive and difficult to get. Background Prior to coming to MIT, I had one internship before, but the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 16, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Speed Walking literally and figuratively

  

  For winter break and the first half of IAP, we are in North Miami ... mom, cleaning around the house, meeting up with high school friends, spending time with our family, and also speed walking. During the semester

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back 2 school

  

  a big window in our house and i sat on the couch in front of it and watched the colors in the sky changing.   soon after that i was in an airport and i was in the second-to-last row window seat on a redeye

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Researchers Develop Autonomous Shoe Technology out of the MIT STrIDE group

  

  MIT alumni have been responsible for some of the most revolutionary inventions in the world. Radar, modern lithium-ion batteries, canned soup, and the spreadsheet are just some of them. Today I found out about a new

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 1, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  like? >:( The backstory explaining this is relatively simple. A friend and I were taking the same Intro to Java class this IAP, and spent over 24 hours working on one of the problem sets, 15 (hours) of which

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  were released. On the drive home I considered calling someone to check my ... got home I brought some luggage in to delay the inevitable, or maybe I ... back downstairs to tell them I got in to the other. The feeling was

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! REX! Politics! Science! (Vlog and a Riddle) You have 2012 jars of 1-kg mollusks, with 2012 1-kg mollusks in each jar....

  

  -kg mollusks in each jar. The local dumpster cat gang has raided one jar ... out which jar they raided before you take the mollusks to market. Your evil neighbor, a competing mollusk hunter who owns the dock’s only

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Decisions 2012

  

  As the May 1st reply date has passed, I know many people on the ... . Each year, we always plan on admitting students from the waitlist ... ). Unfortunately, this means that we will not be able to admit anyone off the

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 4, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to MIT! blogging guilt eased...

  

  You may have noticed that blogging has slowed down a bit over the past couple of weeks. As we head into the last couple weeks of the ... /lounges/libraries/other favorite study spot to ready themselves for the barrage of final projects and

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Admissions Decisions Now Available Online News about the 2011 Regular Action cycle.

  

  : decisions.mit.eduYou can log in using the same username and password that you ... in. As has become tradition, the MIT admissions decisions are being ... Preview Weekend in the mail next week. This year, we received 17

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool Toys II Using household items to save the world

  

  How are you planning to spend the day? Jeffrey Warren, a Media Arts ... , one of the MIT students who in September launched a $150 camera balloon into near space, will be photographing the spreading oil slick in

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 6, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Back Why is it that breaks go by so quickly?

  

  where the last two weeks went - and getting excited about IAP :) As Jenny ... , another is implementing a project in the Philippines, and yet another is in ... abroad like the aforementioned individuals, my first IAP still promises to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 3, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Construction Thoughts on a major.

  

  forward a year, and I've had some new thoughts on the matter. I've always ... I wanted to have a bike for when I came to campus in the fall. I didn't want to bring the nice bicycle I had at home, which my grandparents had

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 26, 2009