Search

Search Results

• Blog / MIT Life

  Finally, a free minute

  

  Well, the last week and a half has been busy, to say the least. I ... applications this weekend, so I am struggling to write a charming, yet ... /GRE word!) I guess, strictly speaking, I don't have as much of a right to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Deciding to Live on Campus a 4 month long emotional rollercoaster

  

  deadline just to make sure I wouldn't change my mind. I put myself in a pod ... to make.   March to June I'll admit it - when we first got kicked off of campus, I was naive enough to believe that we'd be back by

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I am slowly going insane This is your brain on AI-generated videos

  

  was trying to create a benchmark for evaluating AI-generated videos, and ... videos generated by a handful of AI video models from prompts like “The ... 's website. I didn't feel like sifting through the actual dataset for a minimax

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 6, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP, CES, and other acronyms I spent my MIT IAP with a CEO at CES in LAS, and now I…

  

  January is “supposed” to be an off-month for MIT students - a break ... obligated to continue. Sometimes I feel like I’m slowly devolving into a ... awesome because they’re accessible to anyone and are a bite-sized, low

  • by Joel G. '18
  • March 9, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Friday Night, Off-Campus Style come along on our evening of fish and wine

  

  past midnight. These days, my Fridays tend to be a bit more low-key. In ... Annie team mentions their goal is to “be a center for community.” I think ... around us: to our right, a slightly awkward pair (perhaps on a first date

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How did MIT’s GIRs come to be? the Tech has some answers. Plus, the SATs from 1918, and a mascot on a…

  

  was involved with a class devoted to (re)designing the first ... and not, as every tour guide everywhere ever has lied to you, because a ... electives required by the GIRs, were recommended by a committee chaired by

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 1, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Jargon

  

  -style device which appears unlikely to work but does anyhow. (2) A method by ... sometimes use (a small selection from How To GAMIT's glossary)...   armadillo - A small set of drawers common to a select few dorms. beaver - The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Q&A I asked current freshmen about the things they wish they knew for their CPW!

  

  to make it Q&A styled, where I answer some questions that you might ... .  If you cannot find a Medlink wherever you are, try to make your way to ... friend Emma S. '16, who I make a point to see at least twice each semester

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Wanted to Say to Prefrosh before CPW 2015 a resurrected freshman draft

  

  comprehend my state of mind back then. I want to have a conversation with that ... math major. I had a clear life plan to start in the first semester ... major for almost a semester, and still plan to take more physics courses

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art in burton conner making do in a non-mural building

  

  permanent murals can make a space inhospitable. the ability to take away and ... 's tendency to set off fire alarms. painted by a '25, commemorates C2's ... longer supports student art—there's just been a shift to impermanent forms

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Moment with A Minister kevin rustagi '11 on MIT and entrepreneurship

  

  a recent alum, I’d like to explore that a little further – and ... ? Was it the place that I understood it to be? My 1st choice? A place that ... skills that would help me learn how to get my projects off the ground in a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action FAQs Yes, yes, we got your emails!

  

  you back to zen calm state sooner :) ***AN IMPORTANT NOTE***: A lot of ... ’t make the Early Action deadline, it is okay to apply Regular Action (RA ... poke your interviewer if it’s been a couple days since you reached out to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 24, 2017
• Blog / Summer

  The Courage to Change Even Through the [Tough] Mud[der]

  

  yet.  So now I know I need to make a change. But how? How do I get out ... what wish I would make if I had a genie. What immediately came to mind ... failure.  No more! No more trying to be perfect! We’re making a lot of

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 11, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mathematics for Computer Science – “Top 10 Proof Techniques NOT Allowed” 6.042 has been a very engaging and entertaining class thus far.

  

   seen on 6.042 exams when there was not time to include a complete proof by ... . • Proof by forward reference: Reference is usually to a forthcoming paper of ... education for free in only a year" by dedicating themselves to online

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ancient Chinese secret, eh? MIT researchers discover an uncommon cure for the common cold.

  

  !) of dissolving salt in hot water to make a solution strong enough to ... a friend from high school, who happens to be a pre-med (DING!) at ... snort a salt solution up your nose, I guess, by osmosis, the cells of your

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Times

  

  to do," he says. Dr. Demaine is not a man to be easily defeated by a ... curve and certainly looks real enough - if decidedly tricky to make. Dr ... parabaloid, a shape well known to mathematicians - or something very close to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Brass Rat 2016 tunnels, arc reactors, and skycranes

  

  One of the hardest things to avoid at MIT is a sense of jadedness ... to a fraternity or sorority, and only 2 are from the east side of ... hours while people tried to figure out where to buy a ring. And perhaps

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 8, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  A slightly snarkier guide to visitors How to not be the kind of MIT visitor who drives me up the wall.

  

  interrupted by herdlike groups of tourists each morning, I thought it would be a ... like a tourist" guide is not to stand around like a moo cow in front of ... refer to rooms within buildings by their numbers. It's kind of bewildering

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  how to draw dotted lines on chalkboards, mit style dotted lines go brrrrr

  

  A few months ago, I posted about how to clean old whiteboards. Of ... ="aligncenter" width="1000"] from 8.033[/caption] I learned how to make dotted lines ... .999% of the time. But alas, I cannot teach you in person, so here is a how-to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 20, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Jupiter’s Moons, Doge, and a Tub of Icing how to CPW from Yuliya the Undecided HS Senior

  

  Last April, as part of a high school assignment, I was required to ... Weekend) schedule, determined to favorite a decent number of events and plan ... between “Sushi and Barbeque,” “A Wok to Remember” (a reference to a popular

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2015