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• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  trend line, we convert these to data points by sampling at a consistent ... how can we get our model to generalize to messy data? By making our ... developing algorithms resulting in the high-level understanding of images by a

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

  Happy Pi Day!!! 3.14159!

  

  : What do you get if you divide the circumference of a jack-o-lantern by its diameter? A: Pumpkin pi. Don't forget to celebrate Pi Day (3 ... .14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510..................... How many digits do you know? More to come later today about how MIT

  • by Bryan
  • March 14, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  djent is not a djenre or is it?

  

  Sometime in high school, I was trying to break the ice at a group ... fire shows. I spun to “The Lighthouse” by Halsey for my very first show, a song referencing sirens luring sailors to their deaths. To be fair

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 22, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  OUTRAGED. #ican'tbreathe

  

  wake up every morning to reminders that you once had less rights than a ... , in broad daylight, when a policeman chokes an unarmed black man to ... country as racially traumatized as this to heal with a president who is only

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Nadal, Federer, Helfant ‘85 Adam Helfant '85 is the new boss of professional men's tennis.

  

  national average). From there he went to a New York law firm, then to the NHL ... ) before he got appointed, to sort of get the definite okay," said Federer ... one thing that strikes me is that there are a lot of MIT applicants who

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  End of May updates More waitlist admits, no ARML, Bollywood in Boston, technical theater at MIT.

  

  remain on the waitlist.Unfortunately, I have to take back what I said in a ... to link to a while back about technical theater at MIT (you did know we have a Theater Depatment, right?). More to come...

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Motivation Finals are FUN!

  

  /Sr P/D/F. So even if I get a C, it will appear as a bright and shiny P. (Now if only I thought that way.) Back to studying. Followed by: Various ... AM to 12 PM 20.430: Fields, Forces, and Flows in Biological Systems

  • by Bryan
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  50 Years of NASA One small hack for MIT, one giant leap for NASA.

  

  talking about in the morning, and I managed to catch a glimpse of it on my way to a 7.03 (genetics) exam in the morning. After the exam, I headed ... location for trying to shoot a better photo, so I took the elevator to the 18

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How hard is it, really? Let down

  

  is doing its job. If you get to a class and find yourself extremely ... indicators, MIT does its best to make sure you end up in a physics class that will push you but not break you. They do this by administering a math

  • by Snively '11
  • April 9, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits i answer a bunch of random blogger prompts

  

  respite from a very busy IAP (which I'll hopefully get to blogging about ... to have a cup of tea or coffee to get me going. Otherwise, I like ... took Vassar Street to get to building 9. A prefrosh needs directions to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 18, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hey look, I’m famous…or something

  

  ever interviewed by the Tech (about a year ago) I had a 6.001 (Structure ... too happy about getting a phone call from a reporter. Hmm. I thought I ... my faces on them to get people to vote for our ticket. They tried to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  i was sick when i wrote this :( a largely unedited post where i ramble about getting covid

  

  ="MIT undergraduates have to fulfill a swim requirement by either passing the MIT Swim ... spring classes, I got a positive test last Wednesday and had to quarantine in my room. I feel a lot better compared to the first few days of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Sorting Hat of Sorts Where you live may be one of the most important parts of your time here…

  

  't stress that enough. A lot of times, I see students getting charmed by ... there so that the freshman can get the best idea of where they want to ... voodoo. I seem to remember that most people get their first or second

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Finals Week…A Different View ...Or why I got up way too early this morning...

  

  the Student Center. I look forward each evening to when I get to take a ... out to get some dinner and then going to a movie or campus party. The ... been, a "morning person". When I was a child my mother used to start the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • May 18, 2009
• Blog / Events

  How do you convince MIT students to dress nicely? as with most things in life, the secret involves free food

  

  sometimes get a bad rap with regards to social interactions.  We ... Charm School, a series of classes during IAP that aims to help members of ... about carrying my own DSLR while wearing a suit and tie.  The guy next to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 30, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  You know, a while ago, Mitra did an entry on how to write a winning MIT application essay. I figure it's getting to be around crunch time ... specifically, I'm going to lead by example by posting some of my own writing

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  coming off the path is anyone there?

  

  school to get into a good high school and get good placements in classes. I do well in high school to get into a good college. I do well in college to get a good high paying job and move in with my boyfriend and live in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 30, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The only living boy in New York I get all the news I need from The Colbert Report.

  

  tomorrow. And you don't get to read it unless you vote. Now, I did my part by ... 's Lohengrin. Thanks to Zach for that random fact at the suggestion of a "barbarian wedding." There's going to be a great entry about all the fun Mitra

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Almost Famous You probably think this entry is about me.

  

  have until Mitra gets home to read this entry. So today the first issue ... front page of The Tech. Because, really, if you're going to run a marathon ... SOON (maybe even this weekend!): a step-by-step recap of the marathon I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  flowers of fire and light making art with printed circuit boards!

  

  direction to that of the circle traced out by your arm, hence the term ... organic, inspiring me to recreate this pattern as LEDs on a printed circuit ... allow me to make all the mistakes that a beginner PCB designer would and

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 16, 2023