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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sabar drums, Rwanda, and the C.I.A Can you guess what all this stuff has in common?

  

  only wants you to be able to use maths to solve all sorts of problems ... ? me either I just googled "hard math") To fulfill this, you're required ... to Gambia and found a nice car and drove and drove and drove it back to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I painted a mural for Borderline! bird-erline mural

  

  paint a human face on a wall. Sketch I had to flip the drawing so it ... before, so I wasn't sure what kind of paint I should use. There were cans ... design, but I didn't want to commit to it for a whole painting. I only

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prettylatebuthere’sanIAPpost on MIT's independent activities period (ft. friends!!)

  

  , you have to at least look into it, right?” the first place i looked was ... ! anyways, i’m here to talk about IAP! i used my first IAP to rest from 1st ... had no time to waste. i honestly can’t remember much from the days

  • by Angie F. '28
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Summer School's out for it

  

  as TechCash. It lets you store money on your ID card and use that to ... 't used to be very social, I lived in the middle of nowhere and was very ... , but not like during the year. During the summer it'd be pretty hard to

  • by Snively '11
  • June 27, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  “What Should I Bring To College?” (partly) answered my everyday carry

  

  down, as opposed to just typing it out. Using pencil & paper doesn ... being said, in some contexts a tablet can be a useful supplement to a ... I like to pack light. Maybe it's some combination of old hiking

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 23, 2013
• 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 / Life after MIT

  The Nobel Connection 2 MIT alums have won Nobel prizes this week!

  

  it was 364.4 smoots + 1 ear long. Google even considers the Smoot to be ... amazing ability to turn genes on and off at their whim. I used RNAi during ... prize in Physics for using cosmic radiation data to support the Big Bang

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2006
• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 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 / 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 / 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