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• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Sound Like an Old Man I'm really not that old...according to CVS cashiers, I apparently look 17 =p

  

  : they forget the rest of the country. And while you don't get a good sense ... mega-sale, so it cost like $15 =p...by the way I'm such good friends with ... semester - and also, I've mastered the art of changing out of a suit in a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  International Men & Women of Mystery

  

  socioeconomically diverse. 2. There is a quota on the number of international ... admitted each year. In each of the past few years, greater than 2000 international students have applied for freshman admission, making the rate of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  teaching web.lab aka what i spent all of january on

  

  day meaning the first three days of web.lab, after which mit announces ... response time feel a lot of anxiety the night before your first lecture ... your life, you don’t have to address a disproportionate amount of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 1, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Woman and Her Lute An epic tale across three centuries. (includes poor fanfic-style prose)

  

  streaming diagonally across the piazza, splashing rays of golden yellow onto ... squabbling over pieces of bread, the plaza is deserted except for an eccentric figure, dozing against one of the sandstone pillars with what appears to be

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Unfolding of Language Your high school English teacher may hate it, but "gonna" really is a word.

  

  . The whole idea was in fact inspired by one of my random "pick a book off the shelf because it looks kind of cool" library trips. Linguistics is now my new favorite topic. I read The Unfolding of Language: an

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Killer Mike, Lupe Fiasco, and the Dancing Body of the State five gatherings of many people

  

  in the back of the room who asked good questions. There are so many new ... Body of the State    Thursday afternoon, Thomas DeFrantz, a ... began with a walk across the front of the room demonstrating a "switch," a

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 27, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule parete legi novembri

  

  dying to check that fateful webpage sometime in the middle of December ... : the rule does not apply to freshman-freshman relationships, but I ... 'll say my spiel anyways. Freshman fall is kind of a shitshow. In the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome People of 2016 part 1 of an incomplete list of the greatest and coolest

  

  awesome people together. Sure, part of the group is reuniting next week for a Youth Lobby Day at the Massachusetts State House. Three of us will ... , intersectionality, and the current state of health services for young people. We

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  21: The Movie Afterthought: You probably have to had seen the movie to understand this entry fully. =/

  

  learn to play the part of Ben in the movie. ;) (he does it multiple times ... . Synopsis: (some spoilers for the first hour of the movie) Ben Campbell (Jim ... brilliantly and is ceremonially welcomed into the team by all of the members

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO #tbt #behindonblogging #seniorspring

  

  Fear Of Missing Out or FOMO. I think that's the best way to describe ... a lot of work that was half done but due later that day. The buses weren't running regularly due to the 3 ft tall piles of snow on

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 12, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Room, A Short Story This story is somewhat weird and slightly dark. Reader's discretion is advised.

  

  decided to kind of throw most of my writing rules out the window and have ... of the parents and the girlfriend was often only suitable after a long period of dewy-eyed joy and the calls to the superior ones about the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 2, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dyslexia at MIT Living with dyslexia, and the current state of dyslexia research, at MIT and otherwise

  

  take language out of the equation they’re just as good. When you put ... enjoy it, for a glimpse of a hot field as well as a bit of the research ... extent that the founder of the MIT Media Lab and the One Laptop per Child

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 7, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  Graduate." It's full of cool ideas about things to do at MIT and the Boston ... much, then how can we say no? So seven of us met at the T stop in Kendall ... sandwiches with out-of-this-world names after political figures ("The Dick

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I am slowly going insane This is your brain on AI-generated videos

  

  -labeled data that OpenAI can only dream of. The first-place prize was an NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano, which Professor Han had demo-ed at the start of the ... ! I want one :)[/caption] The dataset consisted of a few thousand

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 6, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Media That Makes Me Feel Okay School's out! Time to get distracted :D

  

  ’s death. It’s deeply sorrowful, but one of the things that Didion does best ... kicked out of MIT. I’m in the process of writing a blogpost about this ... the more sensitive parts of myself. It feels kind of weird to mention

  • by Powers '23
  • May 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting en route to North Carolina Sectionals vs. Midterms

  

  Junior level, though I had the comfort of the good ol' P/NR. Getting ... , though, was another one of those IHTFP, !!! IHTFP !!!, weeks. The same day ... and trek over to the Skating Club of Boston, a 20-minute Uber-ride away

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 13, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 1) two trains, twelve states, 540 pictures, one Speaker of the House election, and more!

  

  of the reading, and the authors do a good job of presenting interesting ... , however, good night. I leave you with a picture of the most important object ... number of...other things. Over the course of the next four days, I will be

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  year 2 of the course 2 how do you become a mechanical engineer, anyway?

  

  untangled the unruly tangle of shoelaces that is my life schedule and turned ... totally a secret fanboy of (Hard News and The Panic Virus are fantastic ... ??? ? units And for the sake of completeness, here's my fairly standard

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 5, 2013
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2021!

  

  ://youtu.be/Ofp26_oc4CA livestream of me posting the blogger app and prospective bloggers coming out of the woods to feast upon it  What does it mean to be an ... new thing you learned today in class, and so forth. The mission of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I want to be when I grow up Did I go with the baseball announcer idea? Or the Daily Show script writer? Read…

  

  exists, in some scrapbook in the back of the kitchen closet. I don ... of the US. In middle school I wanted to be popular. Freshman year of ... 'm going to let you in on one of the not-so-pretty secrets about MIT: it

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2008