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• Blog / Challenges

  Finding my place at MIT It's an ongoing process

  

  I saw going to college as a rebirth. I really disliked high school. College was a chance to both remake myself in a friendlier mold and to build ... something that I've had to work to seek out and keep and occasionally

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 2, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dreams How MIT has helped me keep a life long promise

  

  For many people, the idea of "what do I want to be when I grow up" is ... , tiger (shoutout to my little sister Mikayla), spaceman, firefighter, president, etc.), but as the time comes for us to truly decide what we are

  • by Ben O. '19
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mexico things my MISTI experience

  

  UROP" to anyone who asked about summer plans, when truthfully I had no idea what to do. Then some time during March or April, I heard two ... and I asked them something like, "oh, it's too late to sign up for MISTI

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 10, 2016
• 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 ... environment, and I’ve been trying to soak in as much of it as I possibly can. So ... students) high school was a relatively straight path. I knew I was going to

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  If you’re scared of decision day Here's an exercise

  

  although I would like to be comforting: 1) I worry that my words will feed ... too vague, or totally misdirected - it's impossible to identify exactly ... refreshing obsessively was masochistic and irrelevant to the outcome of the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A HASS[le-free] Semester Stay for the videos!

  

  were: Introduction to Art History, Rhetoric (a different version from the ... at length about each class, although I do want to write about a few ... and games either. In writing classes, there are essays to write

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Thoughts on coming home With guest appearances by MIT's Dean for Student Life, the communist dracula, Roman lasagna, and…

  

  ascent to 10,000 meters or so of altitude. The night before, I had primly planned to go to bed before midnight, as if MIT were some sort of fairy tale ... apparent reason, starting to go out for pizza with friends before remembering

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 29, 2008
• Blog / Events

  CPW 2008 @ MIT – Awesomeness Guaranteed (Guest Entry) On things that other colleges (namely their dean of admissions) will never letyou do.

  

  blogger, coder, gamer, and web designer (rather, I try to be). I came from distant lands (Lexington, Massachusetts) to attend what is hailed as one of ... bloggers (this one needs to be explained later), and learned quite a bit

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  I'd like to talk a bit about deferring entry to MIT, also known as ... Class of 2012 and would like to request a one-year (or sometimes two-year) deferral from starting at MIT, it's now easier than ever to do so. On your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Consider a Gap Year Deferring enrollment is an option you may want to consider.

  

  As I do each year about this time, I'd like to talk a bit about deferring entry to MIT, also known as taking a gap year. My hope is that you ... details). If you are a member of the Class of 2011 and would like to request

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Application advice Read this. Now. It's important. Promise.

  

  [Productivity! This is my second entry of the day. Be sure to check ... the floor, asking for people to celebrate her last night as a humanities major. (As of last Friday, Ruth switched from Course 17 to Course 11

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A Part II Why the Media Lab is cool. Bonus: A great "You Know You Go to MIT…

  

  technology?" Here's the story: I went to a school called High Technology High School, and a lot of my friends and I would semi-jokingly refer to us as ... preference. So it partly referred to the school and partly referred to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Is this the real life? Guest writer for Sam's Blog, Ruth '07 goes home to Georgia, gets ditched by most…

  

  , coming to you blogged from the Athena cluster in Building 12. While your usual author is at home in H-burg, I get to tell you about my recent ... ) Enjoy your hometown before you leave 2) Say everything you wanted to say

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/16/23, at 12:16 PM ET Your early action decisions, wrapped

  

  I've stopped listening to Jenny's cozy destress vibes playlist while ... ."]psychoanalyzing the bloggers[/annotation] long enough to tell you that Early Action ... GDp?si=026e893c1793453a To check your Early Action decision on Saturday

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 11, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Class of 2012 Profiles of MIT's new freshmen.

  

  have they done, and what do they hope to do? So while I can point to ... , local and regional papers love to publish stories of locals doing well ... to out-of-state private universities. These stories, I think, give a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Social Engineering no no wait not like that–

  

  Alternatively, how to build a cult! Only it’s not a cult, it’s just a ... manufacture mischief opportunities to spend time together. So many ways to title this blog, so many ways to sound truly, deeply weird. But the urge

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 24, 2024
• Blog / Class Projects

  I DON’T NEED YOU ANYMORE. the making of my final video project

  

  off with the same things as Abby said: I've always wanted to make cool ... blogposts. But this semester I wanted to challenge myself creatively, hence ... , then, to combat this is to force myself to make videos. The assignments

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  your best american girl on my first boyfriend

  

  Mitski songs, but I went to her concert anyway because the songs I did know ... vocalist that sounded similar to Mitski. All the merchandise was expensive ... because it was cute enough and partially to remind myself that I was a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 13, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 3 is third time the charm??? questionable

  

  my cave of despair to blog again! I've made this post two years in a row at this point, and I figured that it would only be appropriate to ... Pirate Certificate – 25% complete. In my defense, I'm really trying to take

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s trending?: My Computer Vision final project Where trendy styles = adding styling to trend lines

  

  computer. For instance, here are some questions you might be able to solve ... 100 categories. We used these examples to train a neural network that, given a scene image, attempted to guess the corresponding category. Our

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 11, 2018