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• Blog / MIT Life

  You Got The Gig So excited about ALL the Things!

  

  got to go to Washington D.C. for a week and I met the most intelligent ... SO HAPPY, but there wasn't much energy in me to get overly happy as ... , I go on calls on a quest to save the world.  I'm technically only in

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / Events

  A Burton Jew Thanksgiving Because I'm game for any excuse to eat stuffing.

  

  no bacon, which was pretty much all I needed to know to be convinced that I could never be a good Jew in the case I decided to spontaneously ... that I’d be living with Kosher keeping people, much less on a floor with

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to train your sticking-together rock I am so happy that "computer" is not a no-no word today

  

  ! How does a computer work? I like to think of a computer as a big house ... use this "not and" door to do... well, a lot of things. Like adding ... does this sticking-together force that we can't see come from? To answer

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Anxiety Level: High A play-by-play of emotional diffusion

  

  wish I wasn’t so much of a freak that I can’t bring myself to respond. I ... at the end of every day to see if I can find any patterns. I take a ... ’s much more helpful to ask Anxiety why it’s acting up instead of ignoring

  • by Powers '23
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Power of suggestion This entry will tell you whether you'll get into MIT or not in two minutes.

  

  same thing, just with a different question. I am so smart. Now that I ... You know, I'm not a real admissions worker, but I bet they often get ... to say something like, "Oh, the campus is incredibly diverse but all

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  i saw twenty one pilots at td garden in boston live music is very much alive and here to stay

  

  much a large arena. The person seated directly next to me did not seem ... I wanted to share that with you all. trigger warnings: talks of ... pressure (self-inflicted, to be fair) academically and a lot of difficulty

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  love is stored in the yarn help i can't stop crocheting

  

  chance to crochet things for the Lounge and buy as much yarn as I need ... selling, I saw a crocheted strawberry cow. ... oh my god i need that ... at that time, but I asked my friend Tiffany L. '24 to get a strawberry

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 14, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  used Coursera a lot in high school to take various Data Science ... :) Week 1: Introduction There wasn't much in this section, to be honest. The ... metrics to heart that much, but it is evident that I feel more productive

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IOI 2015 in Kazakhstan of khans and computer science

  

  to MIT; most of our admitted students were not a part of the ISOs at ... ISOs, and you want to do smart nerdy things with smart nerdy people, you ... ;   I also got to visit Kazakhstan, which is a strange, beautiful

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Does MIT Offer Application Fee Waivers? In a word, yes. Click through for the extended answer.

  

  outside of your family who can help you to determine your need for a waiver ... -Pod I need to save for the Senior Trip/Senior Prom Um, no. So what does ... Does MIT Offer Application Fee Waivers? In a word, yes. As a matter

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 16, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits pieces of advice

  

  this a lot, but I'd rather go to a hard school with a collaborative and ... just to make sure you get through that class a little easier or get to where you need to go and it's one of my favorite aspects of MIT, truly

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To D or not to D? MIT's Design Lab is tempting me.

  

  's already a device that does this, but it's much too expensive. 6) Charcoal ... related to MIT. Going to Honduras was a sort of Grand Finale to a class I ... plastic bags to do this? 2) A Bicycle Trailer -- A previous D-Lab student

  • by Kim D. '09
  • February 17, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Advice v2.0 How to survive the application process without losing your mind.

  

  a read, because I give an in-depth account of how I managed to ... application than to sit in a classroom for 3 hours on a Saturday and pay someone to let you take a test. Once you hit a certain level of SAT scores

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  Moving Out, Up, and In Expanding, now in three dimensions!

  

  I have a theory: free food is positively correlated to quality of ... everything from Chipotle to liquid nitrogen ice cream, but also made a binary ... , witnessed a giant CRT TV implode, gone to Six Flags of New England, won a

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  “Who Needs Harvard?” Generating your college list based on which schools fit your personality, not your ideas of…

  

  the idea that parents need to lighten up. "Just as you've changed and ... likely to see someone wearing a cape than a popped collar. ... Posted on August 13 on TIME.com: Who Needs Harvard? "Competition for

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 15, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  this blogger does not exist join me in the uncanny valley

  

  -CJ, and I wondered if it might make sense to try using a Cycle-GAN to ... IAP. For context, CycleGAN is a conditional image-to-image translation ... create a dataset to train blogger avatar generation models, I wrote a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 28, 2022
• Blog / Class Projects

  neutrality isn’t about objectivity—it’s about who has the power some words on facebook trending topics, and also net neutrality

  

  team. A whole lot of smart people weighed in, including the folks at ... analogies from the past to their lay image of the new technology, create a ... ” (2006). It has nothing to do with objectivity and a lot to do with

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A catchup I answer questions, now that I'm no longer drugged...

  

  need to do after that is a HASS concentration and another HASS-D, and all ... a much more intriguing character, but I've already admitted to having ... 'm happy to report that I feel much better now. I was seriously out of it

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  art and work i really struggled with titling this one

  

  other day i was talking to a friend about research and how much we should ... - specifically, art that takes a while to experience, such as books and movies and ... - watch the first two episodes to get a sense of what each character is like

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 27, 2022
• FAQ / Transfer

  Does MIT offer fee waivers for transfer applicants?

  Fee waivers are available for all applicants, domestic and international. You can request one in the Fee Waiver Request section of the application. MIT offers need-blind admissions, so requesting a fee waiver won