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• Blog / Classes

  I’m Graduating Early??? [NOT CLICKBAIT] also: the unification of course 7

  

  last week when I was trying to get my [annotation note="On my way! to a ... MIT is going through changes right now in addition to the new phase ... to occur around the first week of June. The '18s graduated on June 8

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Coworker Shenanigans Summer friends

  

  , we'll all get on a plane and fly to New Mexico, where we'll reduce some ... hid in the biggest one, on top of the bed. Heroically maintaining a ... . The company is one of the big plusses of a summer research program. On

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fraternities @ MIT They're quite a Rush.

  

  made that year, and how they continue to affect my life today. Without a ... freshman was choosing to join a fraternity. It was, in retrospect, also one ... major living and social option for close to a thousand men. Like most

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Wangoballwime?” C'mon. You know what this entry is about. Check out the title!

  

  to a showing of the new movie!" This is actually what he said. I take ... gesturing towards in this picture, hang on. We'll get to that. As I hope you ... afternoon about a month ago, there was a knock on my door. When I opened it

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Conference Where Everyone Was Younger Than Me I'm talking highschool Thiel Fellows, 30 under 30 winners, and Shark Tank participants

  

  either also in college or a recent graduate working on their startup. Even ... a place to sleep though. The conference started at 9am each morning so ... slept sitting on a chair by a coffee table. It was so uncomfortable and I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Turbo)Votes making voting easier by/for MIT students

  

  thanks to their work over the past year, MIT has just unveiled a new voter ... even be mailed an absentee ballot to their dorm. TurboVote is a classic ... collaboratively, and thoughtfully, over a long period of time to make this happen

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions Blogs A quick note on admissions blogging.

  

  applications of the year, I note that I'm getting a lot of new traffic to the blog from a posting on another site asking about admissions officer blogs ... non-student visitors to the blogs (including parents, MIT students &

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

  for something to write, or a new way of seeing one of the stories I ... out on work. I’m planning to take a day or two of rest, instead of ...   “It’s just a few more weeks,” my mom told me, on the phone

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  and they’re going to better places lessons learned from a hard summer

  

  friends who have graduated, they seemed to all mention a common theme: the ... isn't meant to be an "Oh non-MIT people just don't get it" in a snobby ... my chest, a longing to be fully understood and to be home. Though the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bloggers Wrapped 2019 aka i harvest everybodys data, my favorite pastime

  

  of moods on this playlist is very large New artists listened to: 643 ... petey peterson New artists listened to: N/A Best new artist: N/A ... . Comments from me: how did petey manage to not listen to a singular new artist

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 11, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Go, ninja, go. A four hour tour of Boston, with Gilligan, and the Skipper too.

  

  --there's a nice one in Cape Cod. Take the Bolt Bus down to New York (not the ... -- Mitra had the forethought to go to The Coop and buy a red MIT tank-top on ... on the front page of The Tech. It was kind of cathartic; I was a chunky

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Emily Levesque- How megastars evolve Emily spent the summer of 2004 conducting astronomy research at the Kitt Peak National Observatory…

  

  result of a $54 check to the International Star Registry. Rather, Emily has ... ' temperatures to existing models. The last few steps involved a table that also happened to calculate the radii of the stars and one day a fellow astronomer

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  ignorance is a virtue

  

  , you can hit snooze on. you can keep hitting snooze until you need to ... . similarly, looking at my grades is a choice i can make. i don't have to look ... too much. or, when a deadline for a decision is coming, i don't have to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for transgender students in light of the military ban and our ROTC program(s)

  

  on behalf of undocumented and international students, to reaffirm our ... spurred a faculty task force that produced a set of recommendations to ... Education at MIT, sent a letter to the ROTC community regarding the recent

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 3, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  You construct intricate rituals function loses form and form loses function

  

  ? Why does it feel hollow? We'd be quick to blame the fact that we're in a ... just blame it on Zoom and call it a day, and it doesn't satisfy me to end ... ", leading with a question like "what does it mean to be you?" or "what

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  updates cook or get cooked - summer boston edition

  

  amounts of data on a process we want to model, under certain assumptions ... : the mathematical knowhow to take a bunch of scary symbols and boil it ... ML papers a "physicist's mindset" to inference problems: learning how

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 30, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dreams How MIT has helped me keep a life long promise

  

  . As time goes on, it is no longer just a question of what you want to be ... . If you are new to the MIT blogs, mine in particular, there are a few ... choose from to do a research project on. I scrolled up and down the list

  • by Ben O. '19
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Virtual Reality, Startups, and Donuts in a particular order

  

  down and worked for a bit while enjoying the food. Good luck to Suzy on taking on this important position.   -One hour and a thousand ... event was put on by the Division of Student Life and was a welcoming of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 15, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Take 1.618: Film at MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] There are very few things for which I would get up…

  

  class, we've been divided into groups to work on a film project that will ... - should I go to art school, or should I do the "safe" thing and get a "real ... , my determination to put aside art for more "serious" schooling had a

  • by ARTalk
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Hello Summer! Finally done with finals

  

  lazy to finish up this week. Spending a whole year at MIT really changed ... summer, and I think the opportunity to come back as a TA for Calculus, as ... more excited to be a coauthor of a scientific paper, as I told myself I

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • June 1, 2018