Search

Search Results

• Blog / People & Identities

  Home is where the Heart is visiting my grandparents

  

  high school didn’t feel all that long ago, I could only remember a few blurry memories of restaurants, relatives, and a zoo. I flew over to California a Monday afternoon and stayed there with my family for a day before

  • by Anika H. '26
  • August 4, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  I made an AI write most of this post because I forgot I needed to post this week

  

  . If you haven't heard of GPT-3, it's a language model that uses deep ... give it. For example, this is the prompt I gave GPT-3. This is a great idea for a blog post. Unfortunately, I'm in the mood to post about very

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Chalk of the Week chalk art at the welcome center

  

  This summer, I got a side gig to put up chalk art in the Welcome ... as writing a prompt on the other board that visitors can write answers for. Chalk art's already a thing that you see a lot on campus (see: MIT

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  my first spring break!!! 13 MIT students take San Diego

  

  until a few weeks ago, i'd never had a college spring break (spreak, as some may say). in my freshman year, i was kicked off campus a few ... incredible. this year, there were a few locations in consideration for my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  Celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day with AISES + NASA

  

  Institute community must do to forge a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive ... histories. And, we commit to using the challenge of our past to inform a ... public, are also invited to a celebration of the day hosted by the MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 11, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  As the City Slumbers thoughts while walking in a park

  

  graphic novels from a squat library. I gave a wide berth to a mom with her kids at the playground, and a trio of middle school boys in neon orange ... grade. There’s a tree so gnarled and bent that even little kids can climb

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2021
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  My Freshman Journey with Internships or: i get rejected a million times in a row

  

  I wanted to write a comprehensive post on my experience with being a ... 't really have that much experience in writing cover letters or a resume; in fact, I didn't even know where to start. My resume was honestly kind of a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 16, 2020
• Blog / Hacks

  socially aware hacking, part 2 this time, it's personal ((last time it was also personal))

  

  I wrote a little while ago about a hack on the Dot raising awareness ... th. There's a very, very fancy portrait of David Koch in the first-floor lobby -- or, I guess, there was a fancy portrait. Now there is a very

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finals Week, Minus Finals all the non-academic shenanigans

  

  It's finals week. However, there's a lot going on besides final exams ... took a study break and went for a walk! nice weather, viewed from the Harvard Bridge A few dorms (especially the cook-for-yourself ones

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 20, 2019
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  living the dream: UROP edition! in which i run experiments on children (well, kinda)

  

  break, I applied to a UROP (an undergraduate research opportunity, aka a ... 't relevant to the post as a whole and because I didn't know a lot of the ... trained, so I feel much more qualified to write about it! It's a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 22, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Got Solar? guest post by Peter C'20 and Ashisha P'20

  

  *written by Peter C'20 and Ashisha P'20 (members of MIT SEVT) as a ... we met more team members who flew in for the competition. After a few team discussions and a long night of last minute inspections of the car

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 6, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! (Part 2) late post due to usual MIT firehosing

  

  Part 2/2 documenting my Italy IAP trip :) Enjoy! Day 15: A magical day in Bologna, especially after chancing upon a fellow group of ... girl studying abroad in the quaint city. They included a window into a

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 17, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  The Aftershock In memory of Kate Hunter ‘20 (1997-2017), who will always be remembered for her big…

  

  how grief manifested itself in me. Instead, it was a tangled balloon of ... was a slobbery, deflated mess on the floor. For the sake of writing a ... every few days. And I’m sure it all is a fraction of what her family is

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • January 18, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  we are twins … but ARE OUR AGENDAS?!? (not clickbait)

  

  like using physical agendas more. For one, it’s fun to buy a new one each year with a cute new cover! This year, mine (the one on the right), had a ... agenda less and less. And if I ever need a reminder, I just email it to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 23, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ETH Zürich, hier komme ich! A semester of all things Swiss German and chocolate to come

  

  out to a group chat, and we all drooled at the thought of spending ... a letter of recommendation, and also sent an email to my advisor. In ... . The following day, I got an email with an offer for a spot in the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s FPOP for Entrepreneurship a week of connecting incoming freshmen with MIT startup founders

  

  MIT a week early and learn about a specific aspect of MIT while getting ... ...   So there I was, messaging a few friends about things and in one ... how I really want to do part-time work for a VC firm this fall and he

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 29, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Weekend Trip to Salem, MA romance, adventure, and no witchcraft

  

  (for a visual summary of the trip, scroll down for pictures) “Let’s go on a trip. To Salem,” I asked my partner a week ahead of a long weekend. I wasn’t expecting an affirmative answer, really, as a 4-day

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 7, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Senior Spring ... I'm almost done?

  

  The month of January felt like a whirlwind this year – it was filled ... activities rather than taking the month to rest. But it was a good busy, a ... to take advantage of the fact that New York is a cheap bus ride away

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  readmission what'd i miss?

  

  I've been gone for a while, but I'm coming back! Withdrawing from MIT to work for Amazon for a semester meant that quite suddenly, I had a ... enough to have good friends and a strong community to support me during

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 19, 2016
• Blog / Events

  East Campus Rush 2014: RAW SCIENCE There shall be no entertainment or amusement in our courtyard, only roller coasters

  

  working on over the past week. Some of these science experiments include a three story fort, a roller coaster, a viking ship, and 3D twister. Prefrosh will have the opportunity to battle in a giant wrestling pit made of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 22, 2014