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• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life Tokens the currency of joy

  

  importantly, though, when you land on these squares, you also get to pick up a ... he agreed to do it. I stand by the truth of that claim. He might not 😆 ... When I was younger, one of my favorite board games to play with my

  • by Allison E. '27
  • July 6, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  a week of summer ft. cafes, lab, and assorted thoughts

  

  my first task was to get ice cream with my advisor, her colleagues, and their interns. We went to New City Creamery. I got something chocolatey ... questions about grad school, I wolfed down ice cream, struggling to get as

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 8, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Veni, Vidi, Jamba I came, I saw, I conquered a lot of smoothies

  

  return to your seats.] By the way, the alum at Muir Woods also mentioned ... Every summer, I tend to get a lot of the same questions about life at MIT. What’s it like? Is it hard? How much sleep do I get? These tend to

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 15, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Wise Words From Mikey A good thing to read as you prepare to arrive on campus and begin your…

  

  far behind my classmates and I'll struggle to get good grades (I know grades aren't everything, but I'd like to get decent enough grades to apply ... " is what I seriously told myself. And I totally get your "poet" vs

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  when apocalypse strikes… on being preemptively torn from my home, living group, and nearly everything i love at…

  

  . We crowded by the elevators to hug him, and when he left, someone said ... get the hell out of Dodge by Sunday. I thought it was optional, so I ... hurt like hell.  So I proceeded to get a tattoo and then party until 3

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 16, 2020
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Is there really a Game Lab?

  is to explore, educate, and engage the public by creating groundbreaking games, interactive online courses, and new applications to real ... scholars, creators, and technologists to teach, conduct research, and develop
• Blog / MIT Life

  When Friends Become Family How MIT has become my home (with some beautiful pics to accompany)

  

  going to go get some food. Do you want some? Wait, nevermind, get your own ... really got the chance to get superrrr close to people. This didn’t mean I ... New House, and you walk up to it like oh this seems like a nice building

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  rural winter, city winter haven't shoveled snow here once

  

  —like trading your morning walk to the barn for a crowded hustle to the Kendall ... to inform how we create welcoming spaces, but also to help me get through the New England winter: by embracing the coziness during the cold

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • February 26, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  A Picture is as much as Ten Hundred Words This is in fact a story that does have pictures.

  

  is hard to not look like a little baby city new person when you pull out your pink picture grabber to grab pictures. Here are some of those ... doing up-goer five, I had the idea to take pictures instead of struggling

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 26, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  My winter break so far take a break

  

  of my life. I am extremely touched by anyone who takes the time to read ... . Anyway, detour ending now.] After this I'm hopefully going to get some of ... blogpost by Mimi, ignoring my AP Lit teacher to watch Mimi's experiment in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 29, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  My Favorite (Kitchen) Things cue julie andrews singing

  

  , and you get your cold butter out of the fridge and try to gently spread ... ’ve got that, gently place your egg into the cyclone by getting the bowl as ... [/caption] Ultimately, an unnecessary item to have, but getting this filled me with a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 7, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have such cool friends! A guest post by a good friend of mine from my undergrad days.

  

  yours, in fact! But I did want to write briefly about something really ... language) to create your job is heaven. Business meetings, marketing strategy ... -up to help make learning foreign languages easier in foreign

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2009
• Blog / Events

  TELETHONNNNN brought to you by Domino's

  

  ones I didn't get to reach. After Nicole and I finished our eightieth ... After my kickboxing class today I ran to the Bush Room and just finished a three hour shift of the Admissions Telethon, calling to

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 1, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Week 1 ...of Year 2.

  

  are “Man, I need to fight the power, but I need that new Ferrari” “My feelings told me love is real, but feelings known to get you killed ... to make myself stronger, to get better at thinking and smiling and

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 14, 2015