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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Oh, the things I can nerd on about not comprehensive

  

  vowels are so open, as if the word wants to hang on to your mouth even when ... Math words, but not the math part. Yes, I can nerd on about math, but ... ; the former from Latin tangere “to touch”, and adding the prefix in-, for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 9, 2020
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Ethics, AI, and the College of Computing some student voices in a campus controversy

  

  Criminal,” appeared on the windows of my usual second-floor study spot at the ... : Two issues to mention here. First, as the panel on AI covered, we need ... ; Second, and only somewhat related, the school lacks a coherent strategy to

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 5, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Vertigo My brain hurts.

  

  to imagine how many lives are playing out on the ground. There are so ...  urged us to reach out to our district office, and tell the staff members how ... decided to have some fun with it: she got together a bunch of the residents

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  [annotation note="i'm on a quest to plaster every inch of the walls of my ... everything i do, and to gain as much as possible from it. i think i'm on the ... !me, on the other hand, would race through book after book just to meet my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  21: The Movie Afterthought: You probably have to had seen the movie to understand this entry fully. =/

  

  on the second floor of Building 4 and Sloan lecture halls. * Random ... not spend time trying to "beat the casino" through intelligence on a day ... . My take on the movie, 21: Completely NO spoilers: * Check out

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  On UROPs Research at a private research institute? Naaaaahhhhh, couldn't be!

  

  -mit-education/undergraduate-research/. On the MIT application, as many of you know, you are asked to talk ... game, one person uses the VR headset to navigate a cell in a first person view, while a second person uses a tablet to highlight different

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 21, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Epilogue An open letter about blogging, growing up, and the end of my first year at…

  

  experience, gently tugging on the writer's (aka, my) natural tendency to share ... the latest tides of prefrosh, but nonetheless I do want to totally sound ... wish: to pluck the wings of a fleeting moment, spread it out in the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Avoiding moonlight on an empty stomach Late-night snack cravings lead me underground on meandering routes to Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  Massachusetts Avenue to reach Building W20, the Stratton Student Center, home to a ... join me on an all-too-familiar excursion. :-) (a closer look at the ... . Once said novelty is firmly affixed to said vacuum attachment, the lid

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  on the atlanta shootings from an asian american woman

  

  also as an Asian woman. It feels like a brutal knife to the heart in a ... subway or walking alone on the street. Seemingly every week, a video clip ... communities, but this time, I didn’t know what words to reach for. I asked him

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 26, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  The View is Worth It but you have to make the climb yourself to find out

  

  reached the trailhead, I fully realized how awful this was going to be. And ... the really hard hike... Maybe you've caught on to the heavy handed ... larger level, I fear what happened to me on the hike: making the climb, and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT writing faculty comment on GPT and other AI assisted writing in education

  

  reliance on this device could deprive students of the opportunities to ... 's experts in the field, and wanted to share them on our blogs since I know ... I'm briefly emerging from hard work in the application mines to share

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 24, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Public MIT panel on the science behind vaccines, and ending the evolving pandemic

  

  A few days ago, President Reif emailed the MIT community to announce a webinar on the science of vaccines, and the role they will play in fighting the pandemic. The webinar is open to the public, and will be hosted

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 4, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions for 2016 And what I gained after a semester at MIT

  

  not to fall asleep in my last stale months of preparatory schooling. The second half of the year I was thrust into a new, thriving, churning ... chance to reach my fullest potential. To paraphrase a favorite song, it had

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  find out how deep it is. It takes T = 4 seconds for the stone to drop ... , with students wishing to just solve the problem without asking the ... examples to illustrate the benefits of getting to the solution before

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  Can a QB Finalist that didn’t rank MIT still apply for RA?

  reached out to us via email. Once you have reached out to our Quest ... , please allow 7–10 business days for this to be reflected on your Applicant ... to add the recommender information to your MIT QuestBridge Supplement
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Holiday Gifts, MIT Style Some unique products from MIT people.

  

  to operate both on the ground and in the air. It can carry two people ... For many, holiday time is the season of giving. While on this blog I more often talk about aspects of MIT that are freely offered to the world

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2006
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  Can I apply as a QB Finalist even if I did not rank any colleges?

  to be reflected on your Applicant Status page (located in the MIT ... you have reached out to us via email. Once you have reached out to our ... Bridge Finalist, you will be able to add the recommender information to your MIT
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that are awesome being published, D-lab, and MISTI. Also cookies. But there are no cookies in this entry.

  

  are going to be on the job market in the next six months, we encourage ... going to MIT that I just looked at the envelope and went, "Oh, that was ... migrate over to the "Accepted Papers" section and happen to see a paper

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bedbugs (fiction) A short story. (It would make me happy if you moused over the bedbugs.) =)

  

  ’s why I had been hoping—” Mrs. Concord sat down on the bed closest to the ... metallic hive, a decision was made to extend the reach of the obsession. The ... dew had dried on the grass and the daybreak cold was over. The twins had

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 21, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  what’s on my desk? creative furniture

  

  on how the internet isn't all it's hyped up to be. excerpt from the ... have a second desk. it turns out that if you turn a desk on its side, it ... corner. the blankets on the floor are on top of a standard foam mattress

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 8, 2016