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  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  can opener—you just can’t get anywhere with it! “Well duh,” you say. You’re ... , who I'll get to later. So clearly, you can tell Adam’s been ... rather how to solve "problems caused by the language". Sorry, that was too

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  unquantifiable growth progress that can't be measured

  

  easy to measure my life at MIT by courseload units, GPA, hours slept ... finish revising my novel by October, so we could send my manuscript out to ... time better (thanks, iCalendar) and how to use a mop (apparently you're

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 5, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stitch n Bitch: Quarantine Edition a tight-knit community scattered across the globe

  

  embroidery. She showed me an embroidery kit she had and encouraged me to get ... was able to talk to and learn from a whole new group of people. To my ... adorable and beautiful things produced by MIT students. 1. Storytime Way back

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Love Poetry The amount of poetry I write is inversely proportional to the amount of sleep I…

  

  students cry en masse, Your confidence, you will come to lament." It could ... , exist only to tool*. *to tool: verb. When used by MIT students, means "to ... will let me be your queen Let me succeed, and bring on 5.13. Ode to 9

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes and Casting and Birthdays, oh my! What are "Things That Wake Me Up at 9am"?

  

  .01 forces you to really get what's going on, a quick scouring of the formula ... hoped to get a deeper understanding of metals so that we could further ... finally take the time to walk to the art store and get the PSET notebook I

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 29, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  You always have been hi everybody!

  

  longer get intimidated by the grocery store to figure out what to eat and I ... basically everything I wanted and more. Let's get into it. NEW YORK [carousel ... love eating. SO MUCH. And there's so much variety here and I get to try

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Updates And Shannon’s Formula Random mid-week fun, and a few small updates for admitted and waitlisted students.

  

  for Campus Preview Weekend via your MyMIT account by March 31st. If ... your plans to stay on the waitlist rather than return the postcard ... thread to write new formulas and solve the puzzle from a variety of

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  chugging along a week in my life

  

  bed, exhausted. i get myself up around 9 pm to shower. around 11:30 pm ... short talks to each other about our projects and getting peer feedback. i ... together where we get to see yet another lovely TA. all of my TAs are so

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 22, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mikey’s Meta TV Post ...In which you find out about the good, bad, and really bad shows I love…

  

  absolutely hate it when something gets spoiled for me (similar to most people ... , on to the TOP TEN: 10. LOST - ABC (only a few more weeks until the new ... to Get Into More, but Haven't Been Able to Yet - Scrubs - Dexter

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet My True Love: Notion a tool for stress-free college applications (and much more)

  

  just highlight your essay and hit Ctrl+Shift+C to get a word count ... takes some effort at the start to sign up and get your pages set up, but ... in browser or download the app to your computer. It's free, and you can

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT on the road Admissions officers are visiting cities across the United States.

  

  colleagues and I will go forth across this continent to tell you tales of MIT ... , Connecticut, New York, Rhode Island, Maine. Soon after, we'll hit California ... applicant "competitive," how we make decisions on which students to admit. We

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 11, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  A Parent’s Perspective (Guest Entry) A Parent's Perspective of MIT

  

  Sadoway’s students working on a new process to make steel with oxygen ... … I did snag a hot dog at Theta Delt (thank you for your kindness to a ... something to be said for being able to get from Mass Ave to Kendall Square

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few

  

  sort it (so you would return 2, 3, 4, 14, 17,19), your ability to do this ... influenced by the majority votes. I don’t intend to delve into my specific and ... ice-cream company and you’re trying to figure out if you should roll out

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes: Junior Spring Edition + notes on MIT academics in general

  

  practice the new material. And, at the end of the semester, we get to write ... class doesn’t get too abstract and is directly applicable to real life ... by Noam Chomsky to an arts exhibition—the class actually encourages you

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 25, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Megaphone, Pressed Against An Insect’s Brain That is what this blog entry resembles.

  

  managed to get him hopelessly lost within like 20 minutes of my house. Also ... Biodiesel@mit, a new club or, uh, something started by my friend Joe '08 ... changed my name to Samsam Siam. No no, I've actually just taken all the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Make a (Short) Movie in 15 Days give or take

  

  "]simple![/annotation] So, here’s a quick step by step guide on how I managed to finish my ... . Conceptualizing FIRST THINGS FIRST, YOU NEED TO HAVE AN IDEA. 1. Create your ... it feels more official. 3. Draw your storyboards. Get an idea of what

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  how can we get our model to generalize to messy data? By making our ... network was able to attain 78.8% accuracy on the test set. If you’re ... to actually pick the trendline out of the graph by transforming the

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

  Making Tracks

  

  be, hanging on to memories of your senior prom and of the countless ... , you're being welcomed to campus and everything is looking up. You're on ... faculty. You're being told how amazing you are, how you're the "new

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  baby steps something tender and new

  

  , texting people if they want to get lunch or go grocery shopping once they ... taking me to the new mccormick basement gym and i showed them my dorm and ... lot of [annotation note="my list: all about love by bell hooks, crying

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 3) notes from the third day

  

  ended deciding to get up and wander Union Station. I have come to the ... ="84400" /] Out of a mild fear of getting lost or left behind, I attached myself to an old lady who was also getting up to stretch her legs; we had a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 13, 2023