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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  13/101 Things To Do Before You Graduate 2 of my favorite days at MIT, to date.

  

  's DDR equipment and set it up in what used to be the "game room." He and ... Bloggers of old have written about the "101 Things To Do Before You ... , if they're me. My friend Daniel '12, on the other hand, used his list

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 22, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are you going with this? The ponderings of an ex-frosh.

  

  course, if I start failing everything, I'll have to drop a few ... mit is as a prefrosh, to a rising sophomore whose gone through all the ... it. I guess now is as good a time as any to ponder the intricacies of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  To the 2024s: Wishing You the Most don't be scared of growth

  

  community to be a smooth journey. The process is inherently one that requires ... growth that has made me the version of myself I am proud to be today ... mistake. Be ready to put in the work, even though it will often be hard

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 1, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  chaos and an exam that I technically failed irl deus ex machina

  

  /post-docs who just so happened to be discussing the fire alarm incident and ... WILL be included in the final grade calculation only if it makes their ... take-home exam will be taken into account and may bump you up to the next

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 28, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What I just did You'll never believe it.

  

  be quite good, and cheap. I clicked on it and was taken to the ever ... the score from my last test. Can you say "fail?" I can! Oh, 2.005 is "Thermal Fluids." 8 minutes ago I discovered the answer. MIT subscribes to

  • by Snively '11
  • October 6, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Who WIll Win the Nobel Prize? Vote for your favorite MIT professor!

  

  pick to win a Nobel Prize this year? Vote Now on Facebook The "nominees ... ; Bengt Holmstrom (Economics) Theory of the firm | Contracting and ... One week from today -- on Monday, October 8 -- the Nobel Foundation

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 30, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  cases 5PM-6PM: answer email, do stuff that needs to be done around the ... call it that) works the same way. I begin each academic year anticipating ... boots. Where the wind blows and the snowflakes start to fall is only

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  This One is for the Families… ...but applicants can read it as well...

  

  smart and when I called them from the airport as I was leaving in September they reminded me to take a moment in my discussion each day for the ... " is not the end of the journey. The next couple of months will not be

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 12, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduled time my classes this semester, and how engineering and sociology go hand in hand

  

  "Communication Systems and Networks", or as I like to call it, "How the Internet ... Is this what it's like to be an upperclassman and only take classes ... ", or as I like to call it, "How To Write Good Code That Won't Kill People

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The Real Deal no impostors here

  

  the chosen few. They begin to wonder, in other words, if they were a mistake; if they really deserved admission. To the members of the Class of ... interview - I frankly expected the students to be, well, a bit insufferable

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 27, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  how to move carts not an athletics post

  

  movement in that direction. you tell yourself, if i plan for the cart to move ... ’ll be next to these friends, if i choose this company i’ll work on these ... deviation will almost surely be corrected by another deviation to the right

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 23, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Day at Stanford University wait, what?

  

  corridors that do happen to be indoors are famous and steeped with historical ... half-day sample of the Stanford Experience. Being home briefly for summer ... talking to the students, however, a strange feeling of familiarity emerged

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 3, 2014
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  dear kuya i promise this post is mostly in english

  

  here, but when it rains It's as if all the world's water is here] kuya is ... degrees (celsius), with the daily mean being 28 degrees. in the summers, daily highs are 35 degrees. during the rainy season, from june to october

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 8, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Lies in MIT, lies about MIT these are the lies that i tell myself at night

  

  't call that a lie. If a person says something they believe to be true ... you've handled this many classes in the past, so I'm going to approve ... more accurately be called falsehoods. If in this post I wrote "falsehood

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Sal Khan, Gabriel Abrantes, and the Man in the Shiny Red Satan Suit Yesterday was crazy, or: How to Quit your Job, Learn Everything, and Think about Art

  

  's about working smart. Go home and have a life.' If not for that, there'd be ... order something, then walks up to the man working the register, throws his ... manager has sidled up to the counter and is standing behind his employee

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 10, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Middle School To those who are having or have had a bad experience

  

  ="Our teacher for eighth grade U.S. History in School B happened to be the teacher ... students who had just moved states, we were also the "new kids" trying to fit ... equate to the fifth grade math curriculum in Florida, so we especially

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  The Starving Student’s Guide to Cooking For Yourself it's easy to ditch that meal plan and save loads of money.

  

  those things off Amazon (I've linked to the stuff I have): around $95.  If ... ; requires just a little preparation the night before) For when you want to be ... 'll be difficult to avoid overcooking it. 1. The night before, season your

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Designing MIT for democracy why is MIT so decentralized and chaotic? BECAUSE DEMOCRACY

  

  seeking uni-formity; let us not fail to discern the gifted mind, to foster ... . We believe that the mission of the Institute should be to encourage ... believe the way you teach people to be responsible is to give them

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being at college MIT, specifically.

  

  . Like, actually, the rectangular building used to be a warehouse for some ... ; walking from one side of campus to the other took less than 4 minutes. MIT ... a mailing list to know where to get the free food), and of course

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • September 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  network was able to attain 78.8% accuracy on the test set. If you ... -based image, it is of little use. If we can begin to analyze the data contained ... leaves a lot to be desired). Option 2: The machine-learning approach  The

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