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• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  conversation with students about it. It is appropriate to explain why AI ... part of the future of our world. We need to teach our students if it is ... , should learn to write prose that is clear, organized, and effective, and to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 24, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The Day Before Selection Begins "Tell us about something you do for the pleasure of it."

  

  is that I read it immediately following our pre-selection meeting, in ... to become 100% about getting into college, which is wrong, wrong, wrong ... her school, she is pretty much a revolution of one as she tries to push

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  proposed to deal with an epidemic that is threatening 600 lives: one program ... 't have a citation for this, which is sketchy, so feel free not to believe ... 't apply 500 times to MIT in a single year, or even in your lifetime, so it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Night at da Opera A Jolly Splendid Time!!

  

  enjoyed it!   Essentially, the opera is about the Peloponnesian War between ... flesh desires, but they also longed to be with their wives. It made them ... Aphrodite and Ares descended to the people to end their war. I think it was a

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 1, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tribute This is not the best joke in the world... actually, maybe it is.

  

  : LUKE: Hello. My name is Luke Skywalker. You killed my father. Prepare to ... to put it in! And "splendid job" to everyone involved in this semester ... that I need to have written by tomorrow, I spent the afternoon in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Beacon St. and Marlborough St. Rooftops and flowers on two streets in Boston.

  

  . Across from Boston is our beloved MIT and its pincer aliens ... -containing street parallel to the water and Marlborough St. is the next one over ... before I graduate I want to show you more of these places I love, starting

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2016
• Blog / Residential Life

  meet the simmons elevators! aka me thinking wayyy too much about elevators

  

  Things always seem to come in threes. The Three Musketeers. The Holy ... tower it calls home.  MIT Wifi doesn’t work in the elevators, so whenever I’m in one, I have no choice but to ponder the machine surrounding me

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 12, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Different Kind of Learning

  

  already tell that this semester is going to be very different from anything I have done at MIT not only because it is a humanities program, but ... and I am excited to see how it intersects with my coursework at MIT, my

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 3 Connecting with your Educational Counselor

  

  still be trying to figure out who your EC is so let's talk a bit about the ... contact information for your EC is to log in to your my.mit.edu account ... too so may not be able to respond right away. After a couple of days, it’s

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bored at work My weekend, a favor to all of you, and some questions to answer

  

  It is currently 10:53 AM. I have been at work for three hours and fifty-three minutes, and I want to take a nap. Since that is not really an ... wonderful and rewarding career, is not really a nine-to-five type of job

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / Events

  “Where art thou, O Higgs?” *insert shimmering transition into the past here*

  

  blogging momentum is really hard to start up again after a certain point. I ... was only beginning to take off as common slang, and MITx, which is now ... come from some exotic particle. The trick is to find a LOT of those

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 7, 2015
• Blog / People & Identities

  an anime fan’s dilemma am I a weeb? please GOD say yes

  

  "]Haikyuu!!.[/annotation] Hell, I'm listening to anime openings as I write this... Anime is such a ... 've started to think about how my relationship to it has changed. Guys, I ... 's actually really funny to me to live at home since my bedroom is such a clear

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mad scientist? “Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to…

  

  , the answer is inevitably “In lab.” My class schedule serves to justify ... blood sugar is regulated through a very complex control system to make sure that your body has enough juice to function.) There is also a lab

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Freedom costs a buck-oh-five Question: What are two broke twenty-somethings to do on a pristine summer day in Boston?Answer:…

  

  which Boston is famous. My parents have done it two or three times while I ... surviving building. Right next to the statehouse is a marker commemorating the ... statehouse, but it costs money, and Adam and I were determined to spend as

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Decisions “I don’t know”

  

  ! Danny: I agree, but it’s so hard for me to take the easy way out. Why is ... , we are going to… well, you’ll see. Danny: “Now, I don't know” is how the musical we’re currently listening to, Ghost Quartet, starts, and it

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  More Information on the Waitlist Further details for waitlisted applicants.

  

  shifting can lead to a second round of waitlist admissions. It is a part of ... know one way or the other. It is in your best interest to complete your ... "yield"), we admitted 1597 students. However, it isn't possible to exactly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The land of the free and the home of the internet Back to life, back to the internet

  

  . True story. It is possible to succeed at MIT even if your high school ... maybe I'll just have to walk to LA. I'm sure it will be awesome. At any ... . s asked if it's necessary to be computer-proficient to come to MIT. It

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  An unexpected discovery, from a few centuries ago It takes more than four years to get to know a place

  

  it was just leveled to fill in the ground where my dorm is now. The ... Revolutionary War. This is why I love Boston--it's so full of history that you ... leveled most of its hills in order to fill in vast swaths of land in South

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 20, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Matt Damon’s Commencement Speech to the Class of 2016 Turn towards the problems you see

  

  to tell, and it was one we can all relate to: the story of falling in love with a problem and wanting to do something about it. Most people ... something about it. It's funny. As he was saying this, I was thinking to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 6, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  So you want to be a student-athlete? Finding the balance

  

  member of a team in college is of real importance to me. Is it to you? ... interscholastically forces me to stay healthy. Another benefit to competing is the sense ... competing in my sports. I want to share my perspective on the pros and cons of

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 29, 2011