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• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  will be presenting writing as their own that they did not produce. To be ... GPT is not only acceptable to you but is integrated into the subject, and ... adequately prepared them to be effective communicators.[1] It may be, in the

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

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  . MIT is likely not the best place to be if you know that writing is your ... find when you read between the lines.     Visual Arts To be ... yet to be indoctrinated into the Institute's habit of numbering

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  walking mechanics how to walk faster using Facts and Science

  

  wide enough. and again, i will refer you to the point about being ... . the first is that you should try not to walk while inhibiting arm motion ... a step, your foot does not actually rise to the height of the new step

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hell. handling the hardest semester at MIT, virtually

  

  about not succumbing to stress as the semester gets progressively harder ... about why sophomore fall is such a grind. We came to the conclusion that ... "]HASS[/annotation] ones, so my workload isn't as bad as it could be, but I'm struggling to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Room Where It Happens my two year tale of student governance, up until the bitter end

  

  students on floorplans that would be brought back to the Chancellor. The ... things as a cause for concern that had to be addressed. The original plan ... these meetings were the way to come to a conclusion everyone could be

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 13, 2017
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Cost of Living at MIT alternatively, how to spend money at MIT

  

  rules, median and IQR will be better indicators of the data because it was ... the meal plan if you are not on a meal plan, the average student will ... the option to pay for a meal plan, but are not required."]meal plans

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m sitting at work right now Seems like as good a time as any to bang out a quick blog post

  

  -acknowledged among Sensible People to be the most awesome objects in the universe ... to the size of a sugarcube...not sure who figured that one out ... is, after all, intended to be a snapshot + the requisite background

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / Personal Projects

  A Recycled-Material Selfie Stick Engineering and problem solving in developing nations (the most important problems only, of course....)

  

  (we just happen to be the biggest and nerdiest) (that’s just my opinion ... ratchet, or a screwdriver, or even pliers--he just has to use the tip of a ... --but not always in the condition that you’d like. Rows and rows of stalls

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 0: from DC to Quito A rough morning, a long nap, and a kindly neighbor

  

  the site of the first (of what I'm sure will be many) amusing Spanish ... January 10 On the plane from Panama to Quito What a goofy ... out to dry were still SOAKED, and applied the hairdryer treatment with

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Been Up To No, not back around finals week - still not thinking about it... DURING IAP! When…

  

  could not bring myself to do anything that would require thought over ... 'm switching from IAP mode to work mode!) Let me start with the fun stuff then - lessons learned at IAP. #1 - Cambridge and Boston are meant to be explored

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • February 9, 2010
• Blog / People & Identities

  first time in cdmx and first time out of the US, but not the first time having an ethnicity…

  

  Italy after begging my parents into debt to pay the EF Tours fee, and then the day before I was supposed to leave was COVID"]international pandemic[/annotation]--will ... stood out to me"]I do not speak the language fluently[/annotation] was

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 15, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  what we mean when we say the people why we like “the people”

  

  a pool of similar enough peers that will at the very least be not that ... academics, even if it’s not the same passion; I enjoy being able to grab ... either wouldn't have the skills and/or wouldn't be willing to put in a ton

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 25, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  novelty the closest thing to time travel

  

  really important. Not only does doing new things seem to slow down the ... 22 to 28 will pass in the blink of an eye, and so on. thank you for ... ’s beautifully written but it also makes me want to scream at the author - why aren

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 5, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Best of the Ben Blogs Looking back at Ben's four years on the blogs.

  

  the Blogs Bad haiku will be Ben's legacy (wait 'til the fall...). "Bad ... couldn't be done. Meanwhile, the blogs just seemed to get more and more ... with it, regardless of the details. MyMIT was never designed to be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Chose To Spend My First Weekend Away From MIT 132 miles north to be exact

  

  really am not the type of person that would willingly spend the first ... north of MIT, and here's why: 1. I Kind Of Had To The morning of retreat ... do not do justice to actually being surrounded by some of your closest

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First term freshman year A horror story, I guess... but one with a happy ending

  

  -- is there a good chance that I'll be able to get the HASS-D course I ... a few people who decide not to take the class, so it's worth showing ... This is entry #2 in my series "entries that need to be written

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  624 Hours: Columbia, MO or, Things I Made While I Was Home

  

  parts like this: (I call this one, What The Two Hour Drive To The ... if I was going to do the housewife thing over break, I was going to do ... entirely out of the desire to hardcore om nom nom on these suckers to prove

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Marilee Jones in the news The Associated Press article about Dean Marilee Jones.

  

  surgeon in the audience who will come up to me and say, 'You're not even ... , thinks 18-year-olds ought to be doing. Not many sleep eight hours a night ... educator, or am I marketer?"' The answer may not be as easy as it sounds. A

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 18, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I do too much stuff at MIT 1)My mom doesn't have a problem with it.

  

  to get through MIT is hard, and you'll often wonder whether or not the ... 'll be relatively independent and your primary responsibility will be to learn things, and not just the material in your classes. Why would you

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 13, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Burning Question "Can you tell me why I didn't get in? Why was I not good enough?"

  

  the best we can. There's really not much else to say. :-/ ... The burning question in my in-box is "Can you tell me why I didn't get in? Will you look at my app and tell me what I did wrong? Why was I

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005