Search

Search Results

• Blog / Admissions

  New Portlets? Just throwin' some ideas around.

  

  media, customized to your preferences, right in your portal. #2 OCW ... manage to sequester a few minutes of Quinton's schedule, you'll see them in ... making adjustments and enhancements to the application that generates My

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guitar Hero… on the oscilloscope! The secret fifth digital instrument revealed

  

  .2060 is that we get to build the circuits and code that power these ... getting the timing just right. I had to calibrate a few songs manually for ... cool I guess.” Well, Joe, I’m pleased to announce that for my 6

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 14, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Strands literal and metaphorical >:)

  

  just can’t seem to get over the thing with my hair.  My nervous reflex ... deeply fundamental to your identity. My fingernails will be stained indigo ... get my haircut at an actual salon, since she thinks that if I bleach and

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 10, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This is it. the last "what classes I'm taking" blog

  

  , I still have to get through all of the following classes in order to ... is about to catch up to me (just kidding, I'll most likely still be a ... Semester @ MIT | Infographics Well, good luck to all of us this spring

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 20, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  Malibu, I could get used to you.   Monday, September 8th   ... Every year our office travels all over the country to speak to students about MIT. The goal of these presentations is to demystify the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Reuse Poetry Giving things away

  

  was mispronouncing the name of a continent, or the way I refused to call ... it felt elitist to speak in a code no one outside MIT could understand ... , describing what they've left where, and people scurry to claim it and carry it

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  See, I Am! (CI-M) Communication-intensive economics research. (If that sentence doesn't make you want to read this entry, I…

  

  ?) paper was due on Friday. In addition to the two communication-intensive (CI) humanities classes you have to take as part of your 8 class ... CI classes in your major: CI-Ms. I invite you to join me on this

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Events

  The Making of a Mystery A James Grimmelmann Guest Blog

  

  pride: just like solving a puzzle is a way to show off your cleverness ... things like “Best Wrong Answer” — I found myself choking up. Getting to be ... Conditions: Play with this for a bit, until you get the idea. Then try to win

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  it’s ok that it’s not ok sometimes things will happen, and you have to just let yourself be.

  

  while, and then her condition continued to get worse. My aunt called me a ... have a video of her I took on my phone trying to get her to say “Abush ... , below: It took me years to get out of bed today. Or more precisely

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 4, 2018
• 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 / Events

  IAP Jealousy (Hey, Jealousy)

  

  , because of how unique it is to an MIT education. I wanted to update my spiel a little since I tend to talk about glass-blowing and truffle ... but can't because I'm home reading your applications. (It's okay, you

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • January 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  A little something while you wait. Don't plan on doing work until we finish this.

  

  right there with year-ago-me. Yay, you now know where you're going to college (MIT, clearly), your teachers have given up on trying to make you ... can just add their answers to the game you're working on. So have at it

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • March 10, 2009
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Rise and Grind and Build *dolly parton voice* workin' 9 to 5

  

  parts to get assembled. On the day of our assembly, we slugged boxes of ... your materials lie on"]Laser Bed,[/annotation] in order to minimize ... ="going to therapy"]soul searching.[/annotation] I ate toast with peanut butter

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life… [Biochemistry] Life as a biochemist at MIT and Cambridge

  

  ). Happy because I finally get to eat, and because it's my favorite class. It ... front desk of dorm. People hardly come by during this time, so get to get some work done. Desk is such a great job--basically getting paid to do

  • by Cambridge
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Washlava! A Sentiment Analysis quantifying laundry feels, based on MIT Confessions

  

  cleaning was going, but we weren't sure how to get inside MacGregor to check ... this step."]earliest and latest confessions I pulled.[/annotation] To get ... used it mainly to get a second machine opinion on the sentiment of each

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  IAP trip to the natural history museum! turns out nature's history is pretty cool

  

  't that great". I said sure to my friend because doing stuff with your ... it's also cool because there's so much more time to do the kinds of things that you don't need to sign up for. I went into this IAP with no

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bedbugs (fiction) A short story. (It would make me happy if you moused over the bedbugs.) =)

  

  . Concord ate carefully, but not carefully enough to avoid getting grease on ... risen from their beds when the indoor humidity had dropped to forty ... ’t get in trouble.” “No Mom, we did not get in trouble.” There was the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 21, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  Last Lap and hoping to finish strong

  

  write a really great paper. We're hoping to get it published somewhere if ... afford to get better at it, and I know this class will be good for me. It ... we get to build our own storyworlds and creatively write! It's been so

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every class I’ve taken at MIT RANKED!

  

  getting to know Bawston.  FRESHMAN SPRING Introduction to CS and Programming ... spent 40 hours per week in Pappalardo, but get this: I wanted to be there ... was refreshing to get to speak freely, especially about cultural things

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 26, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  When it Rains It Pours

  

  worked it out such that I'll get a new hard drive mailed to me, completely ... computer. I'll have to get Microsoft Office and Mathematica shipped to me ... and skip straight to what the end of the semester at MIT is actually

  • by Snively '11
  • May 6, 2008