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• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  to publish it just before Pi Day, but then COVID happened, and it ... truck stop town. a city in the central valley that used to have a bean ... sharing that part of me felt forbidden, unsacred. not to mention, it wasn

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  The blogs are back in town

  

  managed to blog. Use his feedback page to send him get well wishes! Daniel ... your financial aid forms) should definitely check it out. Mitra is taking advantage of IAP being, well, independent, and is elsewhere for the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  didn’t need to find a GPU to run it, because Google Colab makes it easy to run it online. In fact, there’s a Google Colab notebook using gpt-2-simple that makes it really easy to use it. So most of the actual work was

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

  August Questions Omnibus 1 A Questions Omnibus is a post where I answer your lingering questions left in the…

  

  can list all AP tests that you have taken/plan to take, even if it is ... you do? Well, here's what I can tell you. We're not going to reject you ... down to restrict it to 500 words, I'd take that advice. I hope that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few

  

  challenging classes I’ve ever taken. It’s a natural followup to MIT ... sort it (so you would return 2, 3, 4, 14, 17,19), your ability to do this ... ? 6.046 is the kind of class that teaches you how to use this broken

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  2021 Applicants: Answers to Your Emails Inspiration, Process, Components, Stress Mgmt, and More

  

  addressed to you. It’s a long weekend and thus an excuse to pretend that ... and shouldn’t be used in essays). This post is addressed to all the Applicants who have emailed me, and it contains all the answers to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Happier Than Ever on quitting and long-ish distance biking

  

  that I ride around for a bit before paying for it. A bike thief trying to ... . It’s nice that the commuter rail exists for getting to suburbs outside ... of stairs, but I can’t hold my breath for the entire time it takes for

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SONIC JUBILANCE A day at the new Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building at MIT

  

  JUBILANCE concert, the Linde Building opened its doors to the public for an ... , director Ian Hattwick and his students experimented live using a few methods ... Boston’s Back Bay): The Glee Club and Orchestra are so fortunate as to

  • by Jeremy W.
  • February 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Michael Xiang: Double UROP Extraordinaire! Michael Xiang has two UROPs, one at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and another…

  

  stores glucose in cells). Since adiponectin is used to metabolize, or break down, fats and sugar, you would expect it to be in high levels in obese ... obesity. To find the receptor, Mike and his colleagues are using a technique

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  king of boston -> king of the world? the only good fight there is

  

  , brilliant white, it towered over me in a way that seemed to say “ok, you can be whatever you want. So, what’s it going to be?” [carousel image1 ... to rely on throughout your time at MIT. I couldn't recommend it enough

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2020 if you read even one of these i will be happy

  

  Things I enjoyed reading this year, but I edited the title to make it more ... have to find their strength, and when they do find it, it comes forth ... of Homestuck vibes when I read it, mostly due to its presentation

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

  Kick . . . start

  

  and getting excited to finally make it to campus in just three short ... instructor for 2.00b (toy design). We also sometimes use the 5 Wits shop to ... we're jumping on the Kickstarter bandwagon to see if we can raise some

  • by Snively '11
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 3 is third time the charm??? questionable

  

  , but honestly, it probably won't be, so I better start getting used to it ... that important, but it's unequivocally useful to know how to program. And ... row at this point, and I figured that it would only be appropriate to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Underground An ode to the MIT tunnels

  

  you can also use CopyTech to get papers bound such as for making a ... (-cough- google), I have discovered that you can also go to CopyTech for ... . I googled "how to write an ode" but then got distracted by one of my

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Preparing for the real world An alum's perspective!

  

  independence while still ensuring that their data would contribute to the overall ... academia changing rapidly, it’s reasonable to say that you too might be ... said that she wanted to write up a little entry about how GEL prepared

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 18, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Generally Unrelated to General Relativity In which I am not a graduate student.

  

  .) Also, a small person living on your coffee mug can't tell that it's now a ... urge to say, “Can't we all just relax?” (The same applies for mention of ... , impressionable students training diligently to become Pokemon masters. Never was

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 15, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 5 and a day off (kinda)

  

  up on chores, etc. It was nice to have a day at home, though I used the ... lassis for the staff, to go along with the Indian food we had from India Castle (one of 13 Indian restaurants within a mile of MIT, according to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 21, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  work-life balance (without a life)

  

  or play smash with. i used to think i'd burn out, that by doing ... with me after work, and it's not like people have dorm rooms i can crash ... me, that i can endlessly sharpen my skills, that there's always more to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 10, 2022
• Blog / Events

  2026 ring premiere! and what led up to it!

  

  [annotation note="the google doc we used to document bezel changes/ideas is ... alongside everyone else! As it stands, I’m pretty used to wearing chunky rings ... . It has an extensive history (that I won’t go into but you can read

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Prof. Catherine D’Ignazio on Urban Science for Public Good

  

  values, methods and tools we can adopt for us to start to do better ... working to challenge bias in AI and to use data and computation to work ... applications that a lot of prospective MIT students are interested in how to use

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 1, 2020