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• Blog / Classes

  reviewing my classes this semester but unthoroughly

  

  , here are my thoughts on each of them :-).   (1) incredible ... set of computers to agree on a shared sequence of client operations ... better appreciation of the technologies underpinning the fast and speedy

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 17, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Stomp the Yard, MIT style The Divine 9 and NALFO organizations on campus

  

  , Incorporated was founded on the campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, NY by ... -letter organizations. The Rho Nu Chapter of Alpha was founded on Tuesday, September 26th ... University. We, as a fraternity, pride ourselves on upholding the ideals of our

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • January 26, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Just Run With It Never waste inspiration, even if you're running with it for the first time (in years)

  

  of change, I threw out my well-worn excuses and raised the standards on ... This year's commencement speaker, Salman Khan, founder of the Khan ... something that touched me profoundly: One of my roommates when I was two years

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an album a day the only new year's resolution i've ever completed

  

  , Thinking Fast and Slow, a renowned tome that delves into the intricacies of ... more than once, anyways. that's why I can reflect on my year of music ... thought this would be a good idea because I enjoy the entire process of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Hardest Thing Ever FOP, family, and how I'm doing so far... plus some findings on frisbee and free…

  

  America, breathing, stretching, dancing, hiking, subsisting on a half-fasting ... still, back on campus after a few jam-packed days of orientation, the ... , intermitted with bursts of euphoria. The first summit. On the trail

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 4, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How hard is it, really? Let down

  

  background. I got an 80/100 on the first pset while all of my friends got high ... fail. Completely miserable, frustrated, and on the verge of tears, I ... 'd gotten a 730 on my SAT II but only because I'd crammed two days before the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 9, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Boston Calling Everything I know about having a phone at MIT.

  

  don't really have my finger on the pulse of American youth culture (and ... (basically every academic building on campus) and found a fair number of dead ... from a variety of sites. If you want more features, of course, they seem

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Semester I Played With Chocolate and Ants for a Technical Class Inflatable Chocolate Balloons + Ants as Architects

  

  for context) For the first half of this class, we had to take a ... figure out how I would constrain the balloon. I tried thin strips of duct ... amount of slime I needed was way too much, and removing the slime after the

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  Hey International Kids! Press 'Submit' already!

  

  undergraduates are on need-based financial aid, and there are lots of ways to ... this time I read them imagining myself as one of the students here. I ... special kind of courage. I know some of y'all may be in my shoes in this

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 25, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Having Survived Rejection (guest post) About receiving a rejection letter from the 'Tvte.

  

  essays I helped edit last year. He's a friend of a friend who wrote an entire essay about soldering. Like many of you, he worked toward MIT with a ... , but then he was not admitted to the class of 2019. Here's his story

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 15, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 1 ECs are some of my favorite people in the world and you'll like them too.

  

  Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning interviews has changed (though Kim's observations on the interview and our interviewers remain helpful). A description of the current interview process is

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Two Hosed, feeling, writing, love and hatred and whatever else

  

  to believe it is a defining feature of existing here. I wish I could ... think I wrote some quality pieces. Some of them made their way here, others I published elsewhere, and the rest I kept to myself, on napkins and

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  work // life trying to figure out the balance

  

  consistently. i did a demo of a feature i added for the first time ever ... a group, climbing on rocks and taking pictures of waterfalls. i went ... clip of godaddy's CEO sincerely welcoming us. then a real person goes

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 17, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This is a song about being happy. Not a song about a whale. Sorry. But there's haute couture.

  

  premiere of Beauty and the Geek 2, which Matt's friend Ankur '03 is on. I don ... fashion show on February 1st at the Museum of Science. I went to the show ... Pennsylvania, is an alumnus of the Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity. I wonder if he

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Hesitations about Choosing MIT our experience

  

  A couple days ago in the blogger slack, Petey sent a screenshot of a ... lot of ppl are concerned about choosing MIT due to it being more ... help somehow, if you are still thinking about what to do on May 1st. Let

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 28, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions….. Don't Panic!

  

  hours here – most of my sleeping is done when I'm on vacation =] ). It is ... , decisions day (D-Day from here on out) is upon us and for the prospective ... 't explain (the likes of which you won't see again until prom) and bandwidth

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Global Poverty: ‘This Is Our Crisis’ People lead busy lives, and fighting poverty is hardly an extracurricular activity to which most…

  

  solutions. The conference will feature lectures by some of the world’s ... of others who were in line, I anxiously awaited the chance to hear ... people who want to set up businesses or avail themselves of other economic

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Touring an IS&T Datacenter, and How My Dad Crashed the Internet I promise they're related.

  

  install one of these things at an Internet Service Provider, FastNet, in ... A non-negligible number of people reading this were probably pretty panicked at the submission of their Early Action applications during the last

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 2, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Quick Guide to Adobe Illustrator The very basics, for people who have never used it

  

  toolbar) and click on one of your objects. Hold shift to select multiple ... on the eye symbol at the left side of the layers panel. Don't get ... objects on layer 3 will show up on top of all objects in layer 1. You can re

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • February 19, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  type of display you'd normally see on old-timey electronics like analog ... hundreds of AI-generated videos and rating how realistic each looked. His lab ... -labeled data that OpenAI can only dream of. The first-place prize was an NVIDIA

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 6, 2024