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• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Good Stuff yeah, man

  

  like math. The story I hear too often is that they loved math up to a ... numeracy - trigonometry, for example - is absurdly old. Haven't you ever wondered what mathematicians have been up to since then?  I think the

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IvyPlus some reflections from an admissions conference

  

  -years-more-or-less-when-we-feel-like-it gathering of admissions folks from the "IvyPlus" schools, defined, for the ... , we all use them in slightly different ways. For example, one colleague ... other for leadership positions, and that energy sort of animates this vast

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Things that make you go hmmmm……. Obama’s transformative presidency………for geeks????

  

  standard for geeks to possibly live up to." All the nerds at home can at ... for the past few months. Well, I’ve been in Cambridge, same place that I ... in Iceland for the summer (unpaid internship, of course). I bumped into

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • December 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I AM THE MASTER!!! Is there really something that this many people can hate? Yes.

  

  greeted by a screen like this: Click It is then up for you, the student ... of precession and calculate capacitance for fun, squashing the less ... * There, all clean now, except for that little bit of bitterness that soaked

  • by Snively '11
  • March 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  supposed implications for all forms of human text generation. For reasons ... . However, it certainly does pose interesting questions for pedagogy ... /W is also the departmental home for the MIT Writing and Communication

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

  MIT after SFFA technology and the dream, deferred

  

  that can set them up for success in college and careers.” Similarly ... evidence that “bridge” programs like Interphase can “make up for” significant ... means to me, both because I am ultimately responsible for the makeup of

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • August 21, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT part 2 our experience trying to prepare for the animation industry at MIT

  

  was a super fun class! We also signed up for 21W.744, The Art of Comic Book Writing, last semester and really loved it, but ended up having to ... very similar for both. Let’s go through this diagram, skill by skill

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 22, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Episode 4: A New Hope Addressing the concerns of undecided students.

  

  deadline for your college decision, I figure now is as good a time as any to ... far as healthy food goes -- if you shop for yourself, Cambridge is full ... tries for healthy and tasty. As far as eating official Campus Dining food

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  World of Wires [by Emily '15] Are you living in a computer simulation?

  

  designer, and I ended up being in the cast myself, so I couldn’t resist ... I saw an email encouraging freshmen to audition, so I showed up on a whim, not knowing what to expect. We ended up throwing together a

  • by ARTalk
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where are you going, where have you been? (Part I) Academics.

  

  miss out on something, that is. I know all about waking up in the morning ... my face, packed up my things and stepped outside in a t-shirt and my ... given up at 11, or 1 or 2, with these daytime thoughts long gone from my

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 27, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  -obsessed Course 8 major with a penchant for iconic phrases like, “Could this ... -budget startups and nonprofits to pay me something resembling minimum wage for my ... was incessantly annoyed with one of them for forgetting his kitchen

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  how not to be a mathematician on taking time & not running away

  

  how hard I tried. Although for many people, MIT convinces them that nothing is impossible (and in some ways, it did that for me), for the most ... math UROP for the first 2.5 years of MIT, I went to office hours less

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 15, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  Amicus briefs and the ABCs of a diverse MIT A SCOTUS filing with Stanford et al, and a strategic action plan for an inclusive…

  

  Communications —  filed an [annotation note='For those less familiar with American litigation practices, an amicus brief —  from the Latin for friend, also known ... education for all students, with particular focus on STEM fields; (2) the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 27, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  How I Write My Data Analysis Blogs just in case you were wondering

  

  inside an app like Facebook, I look for ways through which I can request a ... inconvenient (scattered around the web, for example) and I'd have to go collect ... does it mean for the data to not be ready to analyze? Maybe there's a lot

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  my application essays try not to cringe

  

  had signed up for because, “Hey, there might be free cookies!” (There ... sadly still 5'2". That's 157 cm, for the 95.7% of humans who don't reside ... something you do simply for the pleasure of it. (100 words or fewer) I wrote

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 27, 2019
• Blog / Public Statements

  The Class of 2019 Graduates from MIT

  

  . For me, and for you too, that time has both seemed too long and too ... person I could recognize in the mirror. If that is true for some of you now ... for the rest of your life. Here is a small piece of advice I want to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Summer Reading Challenge Read with me!

  

  found that your busy lifestyle leaves little time for reading for pleasure ... couch reading books for upwards of six hours a day sometimes. Figure 1 ... them!) and my (incomplete) list of 10 books for this coming summer

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP, CES, and other acronyms I spent my MIT IAP with a CEO at CES in LAS, and now I…

  

  January is “supposed” to be an off-month for MIT students - a break ... personal health, just in time for me to start the spring semester at the tail ... undergraduates and alumni for miniature, month-long internships. Externships are

  • by Joel G. '18
  • March 9, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Applying Regular Action – Q&A

  

  Hi Everyone, The Office of Admissions is closing for the holidays ... probably important to get some information out there for people regarding the ... things you can find just by looking around on the site -- for example

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 20, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Latke vs. Hamentashen Debate: LiveBlog FOOD FIGHT!

  

  for the Latke. 8:16 pm This is turning into a roast! I'm not sure they ... introduced for Team Hamentashen. We're all receiving paper plates in the ... for the latkes again. They're playing a video of a tour in the

  • by Snively '11
  • March 5, 2008