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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  shrouded in distant adulthood to be beyond comparison? Did being a child make ... above the Museum. I got a message saying I would need to pick up a key. When I came by to pick up the key the person in charge was flustered and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT writing faculty comment on GPT and other AI assisted writing in education

  

  language text in response to prompts.  There has been a tremendous amount of ... these systems; for instance, to stimulate thinking or to provide a variety ... critical thought to constitute almost all of a typical college essay. Our

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 24, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Pachyderm Photography I'll try to avoid elephant jokes. There might be one or two, though, just for…

  

  running all the way to the Museum of Science by the Charles just to catch up ... every commuter for several miles! It was a lovely start to the day. We walked back to Burton Conner making elephant noises of triumph, feeling

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 5, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Theory of Actual Reality

  

  musicals (not to mention a brief mention of MIT). Soon after, we were wading ... a classic MIT moment for several reasons. First, it was a challenge to ... 2008 to do something about it: this is a problem waiting to be solved

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 22, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT IS … reflections of a bright sunday afternoon

  

  want to be. It’s taking a break to admire what’s around you. It’s good ... ’s staying up late at night to make sure everyone’s got their pset done. It ... a single smile down the Infinite Corridor. And as time has gone by

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • October 22, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  defense the other bloggers didn’t believe i could write a post about basketball

  

  offenses try to make defense harder by spacing their five players around the ... correct. basketball is a complicated sport and there are many exceptions to ... offense, meaning there is no defender near them, they tend to make their

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots Here's how I spent my summer.

  

  It's been a while since I introduced you to MIT (my way, of course ... of a blogger's life, having so much to blog but not enough time to ... Computer Science), with a heavy interest in biology.  I had intended to get a

  • by Piper '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  It’s not all happy I know, shocker!

  

  you just have to keep going and try to make up for it by working harder ... about is the part where I will sit in a library for 8 hours trying to do a ... it's all balanced by a fair amount of mental strangulation and rigorous

  • by Snively '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An IAP in Texas, chapter two Week two of school away from school as I learn about and work on transportation…

  

  their work activities or just to show me a specific project they ... model dispatching software. Or I'll drop by the desk of a senior manager ... ! I haven't had to do that on a regular basis for what, four years? We

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Oodles Of Doodles Chris Peterson once impersonated me as such: "Blah blah blah Irish people, cartoons blah blah…

  

  have a cold so that means it is the perfect time... TO BLOG. In honor of ... .00 (Introduction to Programming), taught by the epic Prof. John Guttag: Turns out I ... he was just a program, but he was still GUTTAAGGGG!" to myself, a la

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  've had to learn at MIT is: hitting a wall is okay!  Actually, it's great ... , find themselves in a place they never expected to be: the back of the ... coffeeshop where the interview would be to make sure I wouldn't be late.  This

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Slow down, fast train. Take me with you!

  

  finals. Ruth '07, Mitra '07 and I '07 tried to make that a little more ... friend Shana stopped by to visit in Boston this week. Now, that's normally ... to say, was a little wistful. Like how Tim Gunn cries at the end of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor quotes The spurious wisdom and even more spurious wit of MIT professors.

  

  , and that this is going to make me either a good scientist or a raving ... friends said on a daily basis (note: I was going to link to it, but then I ... effect is like when you're at a party, and you're talking to someone, and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  in transit where do i go from here?

  

  needed to be. I've always very much been a more ... bothering to chew.  I find myself feeling like a ghost, wading from one event ... other and tower over me, daring me to shirk them, just for a little. See

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  For Those Weeks When You Just Cannot We all have those weeks, sometimes you need a break

  

  extracurriculars, the negatives and the tragedies all add up to be, in a way ... okay, it is really hard to actually feel okay. So I took a break. I only ... them all away. I went to a new counselor in the morning who taught me

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  I asked people at MIT what they were doing for Pi Day 2025 something is rising... 3/14/25 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  ? (looks at Frank) Didn't that one girl say there's going to be a guest ... making these mini moon-shaped cheeses to celebrate the Blood Moon Fest ... nine celestial bodies you would run over with a fusion-powered trolley to

  • by Jebby B. '25
  • March 7, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Conversations with graders And other ramblings of a frosh...

  

  lathe, which I think makes me pretty cool, thank you very much. I got to ... = verb for using the lathe to machine something) a pin for the pedalbox of ... concepts that I couldn't quite remember how to do and a couple that I just

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions; I’ve got (some) answers Answers to your questions.

  

  make claims as to whether or not someone is a good candidate because in ... science, it's about wanting to make a difference in the world. I'm also just ... of options when I need to make a decision. Sean wrote: "Hi, I am a

  • by Bryan
  • October 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Yay, weekend!

  

  are good photographs. I was going to leave the party and go out with a ... you're an incoming frosh, you should make sure to come. Actually, you should make sure to visit as many dorms as you can during Dorm Rush, so

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Moving On, Moving Out, and the Conservation of Freshmen Reflections of a (kinda) sophomore.

  

  'm heading home to South Bend for a week to recover and recharge before ... than a few Greek guys who choose to live in the dorms - like Alan '09 ... stop trying to make jokes about 18.03.) Basically, everything in the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 22, 2008