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• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m more than twice as old as when I started my blog Rumors of my relevance are greatly exaggerated

  

  In 2004, I applied to MIT.  It was a paper form, the first part, and ... nicely for it.  I also met my wife thanks to MIT, when we both lived in DC ... feels until it happens to you.  So while you shouldn’t tolerate bad

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  by bike, by train, by wind, by rain getting around different cities

  

  translates to used cars — some are cheap enough that doubling the price wouldn ... to fly past before you can even try; and then more bikes might come and ... objects here, they just lock the back tire to the frame. It’s a little

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  I am an MIT Admissions Officer, AMA you know the drill

  

  questions on a Friday afternoon. Ben used to do these big roundup "answers to ... , according to Google Analytics, but no one is commenting, so here's a place to ... 'll pop in and out as I can to answer whatever gets posted.

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Someone saved my life tonight Survived my squalor, like a butterfly.

  

  . You start to develop new methods of moving around your house, as normal ... would motivate me to put it away so that I would have, you know, a floor to walk on, a desk to use, and a bed to sleep on. No such luck

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 12, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Ridiculous things I’ve been up to in which i wear an exoskeleton

  

  new laptop! It's a beautiful lightly-used ThinkPad T470 that I got off ... RAM, which is neat too. It’s also way lighter and feels nicer to carry ... 's nice. I also finally decided to switch to Linux. I used to avoid

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Come Visit! I promise we'll be nice.

  

  time to visit. And if you really can't make it, no worries. I lived ... roommates (Jeanne '13) discovered that she'd be hosting a prefrosh. In quick succession, her Facebook status was updated, Google-stalking was initiated, and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-Thanksgiving Post-stuff and Foodstuffs In which I'm reminded I have a life, and am thus eligible to give a…

  

  just a cursory glance at these papers I'm using to orient myself, I can ... to then, it still seemed different on some level, because you can't eat ... I've had to study for? It wasn't to make my birthday not fun; it was

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  H^3: Home, Hummus, and HBV The end of my first semester (and Pass/No Record D:) and the beginning of a…

  

  semester will go by quickly and before you know it, you'll be headed to ... It's good to finally be back blogging (: As usual, there was the end ... to be expected from MIT right? But I made it through... of course

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Fashion Free For All like the hunger games but we love each other

  

  moment I got the e-mail, I put it in my Google calendar because the ... it be sometimes"]Somehow, I managed my way to the front ... Black Friday sale where I'd have to snatch clothes quick and fast and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 26, 2019
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do letters of recommendation have to be submitted in the MIT application portal?

  Our preference is for recommenders to use our application portal to submit documents. However, they do have the option to submit their ... how the recommender intends to submit their materials, because it will
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Rainbow Lounge Where the LGBT kids hang out.

  

  participate can get a copy of a small slip of paper, about the size of an index ... LGBT issues in general, and I'm ashamed to say that it got quite ugly on both sides. It did not want to have to do this, but I have deleted all of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes—Fall 05

  

  It's always awkward to post an entry about my classes for the semester, because later when classmates google the class number, they end up ... of hard to summarize our discussions, but I can send you a list of our

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  How I Write My Data Analysis Blogs just in case you were wondering

  

  upload it to Google Sheets, use the "publish to the web" function to ... , I generally send a request to the owner to use it. If the data is ... : I like to use Jupyter Notebooks (or Google Colab notebooks). I like

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Events

  This Isn’t Goodbye This is see you later.

  

  stories to its death onto an equally bulky 400lb grand piano waiting on the ... called it a "piañata".  People scurried to the crashed piano for the candy ... dinner. I used nearly all of my guest passes, but we managed to get all

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 19, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yay for cheap stuff Inexpensive books make me happy.

  

  unfortunately have absolutely nothing interesting to report about it. The most ... says that now she doesn't have to buy it. See? April gives me food, I let ... allowed to use a cheat sheet." Mollie even wrote a whole entry on tests

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When The Omnipotent Hand Of Google Fails You How some classes at the Institvte are justifiably hard.

  

  stub. Me: "Hey google, show me some concrete examples of using the noisy ... equivalent class bases their curriculum on it. The omnipotent hand of Google ... nightmare that I was trying to double major in 18 and 6-3 and had mysteriously

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 23, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  on regression the to your shitty high school self, and not linear, kind

  

  can use quarantine as a chance to master new skills and completely delve ... while. i'm kind of emo about it, but have decided to take advantage of ... feel occupied enough to avoid the quarantine tedium. and it feels very

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s trending?: My Computer Vision final project Where trendy styles = adding styling to trend lines

  

  -based image, it is of little use. If we can begin to analyze the data contained ... .  Given an image of a place, can you sort it into a particular scene ... 100 categories. We used these examples to train a neural network that

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 11, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  In which I am only slightly less boring than usual The title says it all, no?

  

  the blogs- it can be blamed on one of two things: 1) The Shift and A ... it nearly impossible for me to type anything at all ever. Getting ... just took me two minutes to type those sentences. WHY WHY WHY did it have

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the FIRST DAY of CLASSES!!!!! A summary of the first half of the day/how I'm feeling, with many exclamation points!!!

  

  with my mom. I hadn’t been back to China in six years, so it was really ... you’re trying to print something huge, you can’t have a regular printer ... have a cylinder. We’re trying to use an arm instead of a traditional

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 7, 2016