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• Blog / Academics & Research

  updates cook or get cooked - summer boston edition

  

  posts, but here are the more easily explained things. Classes Inference ... you learn a few things in this class, but mainly: what is the formal and statistical setup people have found to describe the problem of

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 30, 2024
• Blog / Residential Life

  last fall / last fall it's senior year and i still haven't learned anything

  

  events for first-year students, followed by acapella auditions and the first week of classes. It was a fun time, in the sense that I enjoyed ... like I was burnt-out before the semester had even started, and it left me

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  by bike, by train, by wind, by rain getting around different cities

  

  . In the past three years, I’ve visited over 10 cities and lived in three ... , Tucson drives, and Boston, among other things, rides the metro. I grew up ... " align="alignright" width="300"] this is the bike lane! It is very wide

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  My first year was a little rough. I could've written more about the ... didn't have them in the earlier part of last year. I'm moving to a new ... attainable (it wasn't), then that was the goal. If landing a big

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on fitness, health, and food a couple of moments over the years

  

  lot of pretty strong memories over the years. Throughout elementary ... seeing the way that this person took the heat for their weight made me ... and headstrong as this person was reduced to merely their number on the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week in My Life of My Final Week of My Junior Fall i have no finals

  

  on the blogs. This semester I took 3 [annotation note="Humanities, Arts ... ="Spanish IV"]21G.704.[/annotation] One of the benefits of this is that I had no finals for these classes. The unfortunate drawback was that I then had

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 15, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i ran out of social energy and other great ways to say no

  

  coming so quickly. we've been planning for rush since the spring, of course, but right now it feels so close. east campus always builds things in the ... build lead involves more than that oops. thank goodness the other build

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 18, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  And tomorrow brings a new day

  

  Around this time of the year, we're always told to write something ... the people with more nuance and who could write better than I ever could ... time and sometimes there are not enough words in the world to comfort

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 15, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  an exhibit for the Singapore Writers Festival. So I wanted to write about my relationship with poetry over the years. Here’s the earliest ... from the smell of newly cut grass Tangy, sweet, like a fresh Saturday

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  socializing safely ...but also leaving my room maybe once a day

  

  here's the thing: most of my MIT friends are currently in the ... to meet up with all of them since I'm hosed all the time. given current ... friends in the halls, at Stud, or as I'm hurrying down Dorm Row to class. I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 15, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  A Late Recap of IAP 2020 externing at Microsoft, baking butter mochi, and more!

  

  Between the fall and spring semesters at MIT there is a period spanning the month of January called the Independent Activities Period, or ... without knowing what day of the week it is, you can spend all your time

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Makibaka! Huwag matakot! black lives matter! junk terror bill!

  

  happening back in the Philippines. Here, it’s ever present: news of gruesome ... should care because the situation fucking sucks. And I should care, because when the police bring conflict into peaceful protests, I should be angry

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT launches AI Education website I worked on this cool thing for my UROP!

  

  some frequent readers of the blogs might know, I have a UROP at the Media ... the Admissions blogs and collaborated on a very official and detailed blog post about the project launch. You can check it out on Medium as

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 6, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for September imagine a movie montage, but for politely asking teachers to say nice things about you

  

  We're big fans of Spotify here on the blogs and have been for awhile. You can go back to 2012 to Qiaochu's post about his life in the cloud ... about how much much she loves Spotify; and Abby's post about the blogger

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!

  

  years together, and they were three of the most formative years of my life ... indestructible, and according to the Internet a solid development machine. It had ... offer. It was with me the first time I went abroad and has been to as many

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guide to MIT: Academics requirements, resources, and miscellaneous info

  

  . It is the first installment of the Guide to MIT (coming next: residential system), inspired by the recent comMITment of the Class of 2022—WELCOME PREFROSH!!! The sections of this post are: 1. Degree Requirements

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 6, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Person Studying Persons… ...and why the Myers Briggs test is invalid

  

  (especially as they appear in the Tumblr studyblr community). I had long ago lodged “MBTI” (the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator) into a closet in my head ... friends who all told me that over the summer they’d been going through

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2017-18 Application Essay Questions

  

  We've gotten some questions about our essay prompts for the ... (maybe the most underappreciated thing a good college applicant can do is ... application, with 5 short-answer essay questions (I've blogged about the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 31, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skullhouse CPW chicken waffles fire smores volcano steak shake

  

  having classes and tests during CPW, we still put in the effort to throw events and have a good time with the prefrosh. My fraternity, Phi Kappa ... the ones we do for Rush. FSILG's (Fraternities, Sororities, and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 13, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Reuse Poetry Giving things away

  

  "I got it on Reuse," people say, with the emphasis in the word falling on the re-. When I see the word elsewhere and say reuse in my head, I'm reminded of the times I said 'UROP' and my grandparents thought I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 13, 2015