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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT HSSP and Stanford Splash! Seven fundamental questions, and a field trip to the west coast

  

  At MIT, I've taught for two Splashes, three Sparks, and two HSSPs. My ... just the ones I'm aware of.) We want Splash programs to learn from each ... February, Chelsea V. '15 and I received an e-mail saying "You've been

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wolfram Alpha Tonight!

  

  I don't know how familiar you are with "Wolfram," but I'll assume you ... smartest software I've ever seen. What does it do? It does math. Easy math ... decrypts, it slices, it dices, and it'll take your dog for a walk. I wrote

  • by Snively '11
  • May 15, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  The Five Stages of Grief (Jonathan’s Version) on a journey from New Hampshire to Next House [guest post]

  

  . [annotation note="Generally, we (as in Google Maps and I) take 3 miles per hour ... the Google Maps route. 1. Denial 09:20 [31.4 miles from home] I am ... sadly I could not use it in 8.033 (Relativity)."]the calories per dollar

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Math. by Joy ‘13 I’m not a complete nerd…but I am convinced that math is a language

  

    I’m not a complete nerd…but I am convinced that math is a ... important to our form of communication. The web addresses we need to connect ... the number of beats per minute. The notes played out work on the circle

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Events

  A Sweet Deal An offer I will not refuse.

  

  I just got this email, and I'm excited. Any recommendations on who ... Professor Virk teaches 10.301 and I hear he's a fan of Nelly ... any restaurant you want. And we will cover up to $25 per person at the

  • by Bryan
  • February 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  “I’ve Got 99 Problems… Admissions Is Not One” Really 52, but who's counting? I know that you love numbers, stats and checklists, so…

  

  Okay, so it's really 52, but who's counting? So far I've been fairly serious with my entries about the college admissions process. I think that ... , I've been on an AWARD TOUR WITH MOHAMMED MY MAN. And everywhere I go

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sewing minus the machine Costume Design: Featuring the best non-stick-figures I've ever drawn!

  

  I'm taking a somewhat lighter course load this semester. I signed up for the header software design class that assigns 15-hour-per-week psets, so I decided to compensate by only taking two technicals and two HASSes

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 21, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  June Questions Omnibus 1 Bigfoot asked a few weeks back, "Will you be posting an omnibus soon, Matt?" Yes,…

  

  summer so stay tuned! http://web.mit.edu/i3/ Relatedly, thejoker wrote, "It ... , Matt?" Yes, here it is (finally!). Freshman Admissions sara wrote, "I have a question and I hope you can give my your insight on it.. I'm going

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  will work for me. I'm not a big google calendar user, unlike some people ... part i it's been kind of a hard fall. all mit students are ... semester of realizing that of the x things i have due tomorrow, only floor

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Robo-CJ writes a college app do neural nets dream of electric essays?

  

  brighter than the screen of the nearest light. I was introduced to the web ... web was the only thing I had built up since childhood that I'm not going ... I’m procrastinating on doing psets, so I trained GPT-2, a neural

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 28, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Cloud i live there now

  

  I just restored my laptop to factory condition to get rid of an ... taskbar. Here's what I had to back up before doing this: My ... backgrounds) Here's what I didn't have to back up before doing this

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • February 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Computer Timesharing in the 1960’s an extremely influential solution to computer bottlenecks

  

  my 15.565 Digital Evolution: Managing Web 3.0 class, we learned of the ... "Google". We learned that this mode of computing is not all that different ... infrastructure in their own homes. That's how Google serves it's hundreds of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A flash of brilliance and answers to some questions

  

  class?" I think I've generally taken 2 or 3 biology classes per semester ... 75 units per semester for the last several terms -- but I should ... Necessity is the mother of invention. So I was making meatballs

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Introduction To MIT World ...and my blog's first feature: Akamai, Clever and Cool!

  

  free and open on-demand video streaming web site that features public ... one to be the first one to reflect on in this new forum. So, I thought ... delivers tens of billions of daily web interactions on the web, (including

  • by Laurie Everett
  • January 11, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  *Independent* Activities Period an IAP apart!

  

  * Activities Periods Allan’s IAP I arrived with my parents to Berkeley ... bus tour, since I was jetlagged. It’s only a three hour difference, but ... internship I got settled into where I’d be living, ready for my first day of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2019
• Blog / Hacks

  A Fool’s Holiday How MIT celebrates April Fool's Day

  

  I was just reading Wired Magazine online and came across this. Specifically, let's look at 1998. 1998 Disney has bought MIT for $6.9 billion ... broke into the MIT web server and changed the MIT home page to indicate

  • by Bryan
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Visit YouTube to Participate in the World Economic Forum! Have world leaders watch and respond to your video at this year's World Economic Forum!

  

  President Hockfield has asked the MIT International Review (http://web.mit.edu/mitir/) to spread awareness of an unprecedented opportunity: You can participate in this year's World Economic Forum! Visit http

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [Guest Post] How to Write a Chess Variant Website in Six Months protochess.com: the chess website that lets you make custom pieces and boards

  

  This is a blogpost from my friend that is a boy, Raymond Tran '23. I ... website. I am incredibly proud of Raymond and have been so excited for this blogpost since I've been watching it grow and develop since the very

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  All About The Author A bit about me and my job as Director of this site.

  

  /Writing and Environmental Studies. Since then I've been a paralegal, a web ... Hi folks, My name is Ben Jones and I work in the MIT admissions office. My job, among other things, is to manage this site. I write stuff

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Open Sesame A look at Brewster Kahle '82 and the Internet Archive.

  

  I was not seated on a jury today at the Middlesex Superior Court, so I'm back to work tomorrow, hopefully posting a new Questions Omnibus tomorrow evening. While waiting to be called from the jury pool, I had

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 15, 2005