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• Blog / How to Human

  Time Management Reading this article adds +15 to Time Skills

  

  I'm fairly sure all of you are familiar with the fact that MIT has ... Institute of Technology......) But one of the largest challenges, at least for ... psetted, whilst having plenty of time for movie-thons and Guitar Hero on a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The most beautiful class schedule yes. good

  

  likely demoralize you until your stash of motivation is entirely depleted ... ’ve been a junkie for the kinds of dusty old works of revolutionary politics that continue to organize small modern factions of alternative thought

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • February 3, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Stop and Smell the Seasons Before it's winter and your nose is so numb you can't smell anything.

  

  fabled season of fall has arrived in all of its deciduous glory and is ... consider the brisk weather a welcome change. My impressions of fall, in the absence of any real comparable seasonal changes, are idealized and heavily

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  such automated methods. Conclusion The use of AI/LLM text generation is ...  “New Modes of Learning Enabled by AI Chatbots: Three Methods and Assignments ... . You've probably seen some of the recent news about GPT-3 and Chat

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 24, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  winter in Brazil adventures in WGS.245: Race, Place, and Modernity

  

  prisons — the crux of the issue, ie: incarceration as a method for the state ... culture, with tons of readings, movies, and museum visits each week. The ... taste of what I’ve done. [caption id="attachment_85363" align

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 10, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Selling Point How to tell the difference between MIT and an infomercial

  

  Growing up, I admit that I watched a decent amount of television. I ... shaped sculptures in the sandbox with my friends. The magic of television ... down with a case of the sniffles and the best place to curl up and nap

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finally Finished (for now) Saying goodbye and good riddance to a few things

  

  the flow of an abstract, a background, results, discussions, methods ... scrambling to do well in all of your classes while not losing your sanity. It’s easy to lose track of how much time has passed when you have so many

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • June 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] 8.13 Junior Lab feat. aidan chambers '23

  

  Lab (8.13) is one of the most infamous, trial-by-fire, taxing, and yet ... notoriety of the class and its near-universality among Course 8’s I am fairly ... look into this class long before I did. However, since the theme of this

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus: Building a Camera at the Hobby Shop [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] If you have an idea, you can build it.

  

  --building my own 4x5 pinhole camera out of foam core and playing with the Student ... thought of buying my own 8x10 view camera burst as soon as I looked up the ... ) for around the cost of just the bellows. So I spent the rest of the

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  walking the marathon… part of a four-day weekend

  

  of proof-of-concept for both my planning methods and the distance ... comes to mind is that walking long distances is partially a method of ... which just passed is a result of this obscure Massachusetts holiday known

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Case You Were Wondering… Here's what I do when I don't do anything

  

  the distant glint of the Charles. If you don't feel like craning your ... fair amount of sunlight, especially when we forget to pull down the blinds. There is a nice view of Building 1 and a pleasant reminder that

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  10 Lessons #IAP #Italy #LearningByTeaching #wow #Pi(e)DayCountdown

  

  exploratory methods.  I believe that *discovery* is an essential component of ... polar vortex commotion, my flight to Milan was one of the thousands ... teaching all my subjects, which turned out to be a whooping mix of

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Pluto Flyby and how MIT was involved

  

  invented the Torino Scale, a method for categorizing the danger levels of ... Close up shot of Pluto. (Image Credit: NASA) On Jan 19, 2006, the New ... made its closest approach to Pluto. It sent back a preliminary photo of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  Choosing Classes: Choice Paralysis [skye from valorant voice] help a girl out would ya!

  

  concepts and methods of molecular biology. Covers basic principles of ... One of my favorite things about college is browsing all the classes I could hypothetically take and imagining my futures in them. Of course, the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 3, 2021
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Seven Supervisors A Buzzfeed Style Look At Supervisors

  

  for students. This method of teaching is useful for those who understand ... One of the academic differences between MIT and Cambridge is that instead of having recitations they have supervisions . A supervision

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Tour/Hack/Math Three things that happen a lot at MIT

  

  and Jordan '11. For many of you, a campus tour will be one of the first ... to be as tourist-y as possible and take a bunch of pictures of stuff. Unlike the typical tourist, however, I decided to take pictures OF the tour

  • by Snively '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT announces new College of Computing coordinating the teaching, research, and ethics of AI across all programs of study

  

  Yesterday, President Reif sent a letter to all members of the MIT community announcing the creation of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing ... phenomenon — the ubiquity of computing and the rise of AI. In this new world

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculating a Quantitative Snapshot of Fall Semester Skip to the end for a picture of peas

  

  ; That’s basically a whole February. I spent an entire February of this ... of the semester all the way until the end, recording the exact time ... phone and then manually typed all of the data points into excel while I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  joshua angrist shares the nobel prize! and the research is *so* cool

  

  someone who blogs and is very interested in labor economics and methods of ... world using methods like D-in-D and IV. The seminal work of Card, Angrist ... Some of you may have heard the news already, but if you haven’t: on

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 14, 2021
• 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…

  

  've learned a number of things: At MIT, the week of my birthday has always been ... parties I've typically blogged about in the middle of October? And the exams ... myself up less over the idea of always doing at least a fair amount of work

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 25, 2012