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• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is EECS?

  undergraduate and graduate students to become leaders in diverse career fields ... creating the best possible education, which is based on their innovative and ... , nanotechnology and more. Part of both the Schwarzman College of Computing and the
• Blog / Challenges

  and i am afraid of falling a long winded chess metaphor

  

  music. Strange rhythms and patterns, hard to predict. Not as easy to follow. I think to myself, as I'm hunched over my laptop and holed up in ... dedicated myself to the black and white pieces on the board and learned the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 21, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recollections of a Stranded Traveler IHTFP: I Have To Find a Plane. In the meantime, I reflect on happier interpretations…

  

  .” Mystery resolved, the fruitcake was donated to Random Hall and East Campus ... biology notes in a sleepthirsty stupor and was preparing to dive into ... pinwheel-engineering and just left the peppermint and chocolate to phase

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Real Deal no impostors here

  

  still. :) ... I sort of want to email admissions and ask "So thank you ... -accomplished that they begin to question themselves, and wonder why they were among ... ." ... "Impostor syndrome" is the name given to the feelings that Abigail and many

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play Labs yay an accelerator for VR startups

  

  , and artificial intelligence to improve video games, e-sports, healthcare ... 've been involved with the Game Lab and VR@MIT before, so it was exciting to ... apocalypse shooter. Coresights is combing VR and AR with biometric wearables to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 18, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The waking of all creatures that live on the land Lingering at MIT with my wandering eye. UPDATED, BABY.

  

  Harrisburg and moving them all into my room would motivate me more to start unpacking. Instead, it just makes me want to get out of my room as much as ... , with myself as the tare, to carefully measure out my luggage and make

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  All the Blogs I Didn’t Blog A memorial

  

  had a commute and a “9-5” job and an apartment to myself, and had to make time to cook and workout and sleep. Through it all I had many a ... min bus rides to class sound incredibly unappealing. As does getting

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall 2024 🍂 aka, things settle down.

  

  ” sounded to me and how much I loved Physics 1 / Mechanics, astrophysics might ... favorite thing I build has to be the light sensing robot, a robot created ... robot Adam Hartz, and Adam personally came to look at my robot 😳😳😳

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 21, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summer Decisions

  

  ) Return to the NRAO, to work with the same mentor and finish my project from ... . Some people said: you should absolutely go back to the NRAO and finish ... future graduate student Anna who knows how to focus on a project and see it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Friendly Body Pillows body pillows are my love language

  

  with mangos and oranges. To quote Eren '23, body pillows can be sold "at ... supposed to be thinking about Pytorch and graph networks, but my lizard brain ... looking for people interested in adding to my order and asked to add three

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 1, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  Too Much Noise once or twice a semester; my homework was now digital and ... prelude. I used to be a (slightly) strange child. I once failed a ... was going to be a day where I suddenly stopped being scatterbrained and

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  relearning what i know now or: hi, i learned wrong my entire life.

  

  pass. And this was good enough for high school. This was enough to get ... want to take a semester off and just recollect myself and learn how to ... 'll continue to progress. And I won't. And I'll get left behind. There's a lot

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 22, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  The Fringe that Stole Christmas hair @ MIT, and several hair-raising puns

  

  Supercuts or whatever. In the summers I’d get a buzzcut to stay cool, and my ... (especially because I never bothered to comb it). But it felt sort of goofy and ... center, who would buzz me down to a 2 or 3 and then I’d just let it grow

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 25, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  Two Years and how it's changed me

  

  returning to East Campus time and time again, and since I was temped here in ... and midnight tea and cheese and cookies. I lived next door to Allan K ... , and there's this indirect but constant pressure for you to get some form

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  About Tomorrow Good Luck Tomorrow!

  

  be occupying many of your minds, and so I'd like to offer some brief ... were you and someone said that to me, I'd probably have ignored them and ... hopefully you're not like me, and will be willing to give it some thought. I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Pottermania hits MIT Excitement for the release of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows.

  

  intense, and he told me how very very much he was waiting for the final novel to come out this summer. I checked into the hotel and went across ... ," Jones says. It is, of course, just a book, and that's a fine thing to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 19, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Entry: MIT Cycling Team Training Camp Hundreds of miles of riding and thousands of kilojoules spent.

  

  to upload ride data to Strava and Golden Cheetah, comparing critical ... semi-truck and had to abort our cannonball run.    Day three was a ... and Shaena showed us how to get our bodies out over the side of the bike

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Students Operate On Hawaii Time! MIT's learning environment supports a wide range of learning styles and experiences.

  

  .001 and created audio-annotated PowerPoint presentations for each lecture ... hand gestures, bad jokes, pacing back and forth - to an inscrutable ... spending hours at a time talking animatedly to myself.) We created an online

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Former MIT Students on TV Two in a flattering way, one in a potentially embarassing way.

  

  Beauty and the Geek. The concept of the show is to take eight geeky guys ... that much stronger at MIT – you need two Harvard geeks to equal just one ... or on your iPod. Aomawa was Course 12 (Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Falling in Love with a Language at MIT interviews with two of my inspirations

  

  before I even feel close to fluent, so there's so much left to learn and ... popped up and started speaking to my friend in Chinese. I hardly even got ... and Kristina display so much enthusiasm for a foreign language, I feel

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 10, 2013