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• Blog / MIT Life

  “Well, you just cost me money.” Best. Desk Call. EVER.

  

  On any given day, you'll totally forget how awesome it is that you're ... automatically assume that you're some crazy child genius and an expert in anything and everything just because you go here- and then you get emails like

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where do Trees Come From?

  

  does that huge increase in mass come from? I want to hear your answers ... also want your input on something else for 11.125. I need to sit in on ... In my continuing quest to obtain a teaching certificate through MIT

  • by Kim D. '09
  • February 10, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

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

  

  for anything again — you can just trot quickly to your destination ... I didn't know what to write this week, so I made GPT-3 do it for me ... learning to make human-like text, based on whatever prompt and parameters you

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

  Senior Fall Classes Better late than never

  

  joints. Then, we had to hook up the joints to a user interface to get them to move with sliders. Finally, we had to create the mesh by parsing ... .youtube.com/watch?v=dDeEmtCrhdc[/embed] Ray Tracing Ray tracing is a technique to render 3D scenes by shooting

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Don’t feed the squirrels In which I work with gifted children.

  

  Two or three Thursdays before finals, Peach '09 and I went to Au Bon ... complained about something or other, I began to enter the Summer Jobless stage that can only be described as Full-On Panic Mode. (I didn't get final

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 5, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Ups and Downs Currently down.

  

  Not gonna lie, my happy-to-sad ratio is a little sad-heavy at the ... days - and not my usual ten minutes - of moping, I've finally decided to take a different perspective on this problem. I'm going to see this

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 12, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans + Peanuts + Crackerjacks i practically pulled another all-nighter, and again, for a non-academic reason.

  

  getting ready for casual Friday at work where I get to wear flip-flops and a ... able to get a copy of the book. For entertainment, the party had a "Make ... sidewalk outside Fenway Park hoping to get tickets to a game that highlights

  • by Bryan
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Scheduling Conflict Which class should I take? (Results from the previous poll posted.)

  

  't Doonesbury vote-bomb me though! A new class will be offered by the Economics ... for students interested in the challenge posed by massive and persistent ... believe that the economists might have something useful to say about this

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 28, 2006
• Blog / Personal Projects

  writing gary wang’s wikipedia page why did I fill out the wikipedia page for the ftx cto?

  

  as the prime minister. I sent the link to my friends, like, haha check ... entirely sure what compelled me to make a Wikipedia account and add more to ... . Yes, I feel some connection to this entire FTX catastrophe as SBF and

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Live from the Glass Lab! it's...tuesday afternoon??

  

  decorations. It's always easy to know what to get your mom or significant other ... scheduled, we have, thanks to the labors of Erik and Marty Demaine, installed 3 webcams in the lab. Feel free to tune in. Live, from the Lino

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [Announcement] The MIT Bloggers are hosting an AMA! Ask us anything this Friday and Saturday!

  

  get to everybody, but we'll try to answer as many questions as we can ... randomly stumbled on this post, all are welcome. You’re able to comment ... /IAmA subreddit."]AMA ("Ask Me Anything")[/annotation] on April 18 (9 AM EST) to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 15, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Ops Air Force A summer spent with B-1Bs and C-130s.

  

  different squadrons to get a broad view of base operations. I was lucky enough to be assigned to the B-1B Maintenance Group. I was able to get down and dirty in some jets and really get to know the enlisted side of the

  • by ROTC
  • September 4, 2008
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What kind of study abroad programs are available?

  semester in South Africa? Want to improve your foreign language skills by spending a summer in China or heading to Spain during the month of January ... expenses covered by MIT.  
• Blog / Admissions

  The Mystery Of The Missing Application Tracking Portlet A quick clarification.

  

  weren't in your file, we'd contact your school directly to get them.] ... Application Tracking portlet in MyMIT. The system is supposed to display a ... too late in the process to submit additional or missing application

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 3, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians, Part 2 This time, I am talking about science olympiads.

  

  's awesome to go to school with über-geniuses, even if (especially if) you're ... ) next to a friend of mine from Singapore. At the time, he was the only ... as a really cool thing. Being at MIT meant that I was going to school

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Day Before Selection Begins "Tell us about something you do for the pleasure of it."

  

  Sorry for the blog vacation guys. We're scrambling to get ahead in our work before we retreat to selection committee tomorrow. (Don't get ... subjects like UROP and Arts. I am SO excited to roll out the new layout and

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Hayden Christensen Comes to MIT, Looks Pretty Pictures of the top of Hayden Christensen's head inside!

  

  3: (HAYDEN gets beaten to a pulp by SAMUEL L. JACKSON) MALE AND ... me. And also, I didn't get to pick them - Fox did. Okay, here we go ... get there, someone would’ve built a better and faster approach to do it

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston becomes Pottersville The MIT area is full of celebrations for the release of "Harry Potter and the…

  

  on by the Charles Hotel here in Cambridge. Their plan is to turn ... book directly to your room. In the hotel's courtyard, they'll have an ... geeks, and thus you might be asking yourself, if I went to MIT, what would

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Fam Takes the MFA Photodump of semi-artsy pictures ahead

  

  't until 6 AM by MIT rules. Elizabeth was kind enough to organize a trip to ... painting is by Thomas Gainsborough, and the description written next to it ... Occasionally, we bloggers get together and do cool things that are

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 13, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Seatbelts, Everyone! Interrupting Radio Silence...

  

  said "Take chances! Make mistakes! Get messy." I'll add to that only ... speaks the truth. (for those confused, i must point you to the wikipedia ... a week ago, I feel compelled to at least pretend I have some salient

  • by Alina G. '11
  • June 13, 2011