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• Blog / How to Human

  The Quest Continues and into the open world i go

  

  dream. And sometimes, even in spite of the photos, I’ll still wonder if it ... memories, as you normally do in the hubbub of real college life, you ... faded into the background of my college experience. A Monday night when my

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 29, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Now and Then and Maybe Later Tying up loose ends and weathering the calm before the storm we call "Fall Semester"

  

  in a chair in Hayden Library. Although arguably, it’s just a bunch of ... awesome. Ten out of ten would sit in it again. And since Hayden is so, Empty ... squirrels. With Spotify playing in both ears, The freedom of a lazy Saturday

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 30, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  In which I am somehow still an MIT student 4 years later

  

  , and trying to "make the most" of my last semester of college, despite ... Lab, the same lab that I had UROP'ed in. That first year of grad school ... satellite, and on efficiently co-locating data from different types of

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Events

  “Freshman Musical Dorms” A question inspires an entire entry about housing. But I threw in some other stuff…

  

  people, but happy for me, because I'll actually be attending FEWER hours of class once the semester starts. Of course, there will be those pesky ... means I finally finished my EMT training! Yay! Of course, I still have to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  synthesis on changing my mind

  

  different degrees of awareness about why spending too much time on social ... spoilers for the book siddhartha   i. at the beginning of my ... . he got back a wide variety of responses: one student said it documented

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 12, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  My IAP All the snow has melted since I took these pictures.

  

  to that question, no matter the time of year. This winter I have ... , but just kind of maybe her). The fact that I am here is mindblowing ... . After that there are three planned projects of unknown length, at least

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 19, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A *Major* Dilemma Will you forgive the pun if I tell you that I just declared my major?

  

  major by the end of their freshman year. If you're really, really unsure ... temporary decision, for a couple of reasons: 1. More resources. You ... bound to your decision. To change your mind (by the end of sophomore year

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  Leading our transfer admissions program is one of the greatest joys of my work at MIT. Each year, we welcome a small group of transfer ... real magic of the transfer process is that no two transfer students

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear prefrosh, a letter to you

  

  Over these past couple of weeks, I've had the absolute privilege of ... this? During this time, I've been able to talk and spend a lot of time ... it reminds me a lot of my own CPW, though it may be taking place in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 25, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m Still Here (for now) quick reflections on the last ten years

  

  I’m sitting in the quiet car of a Northeast Regional Amtrak train ... MIT in the fall of 2015, I’ve taken the trip from New York to Boston ... melancholy, sometimes scary trips on the medley of NYC – Boston busses

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  . You've probably seen some of the recent news about GPT-3 and Chat ... language text in response to prompts.  There has been a tremendous amount of ... college (or even admissions application) essay, to say nothing of broader

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 24, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Decisions “I don’t know”

  

  of writing in one collective voice, as we have done for our past blogs ... 's also how most of our conversations for the past two weeks have started ... : These “I dont know” conversations have been about both of our

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #1-5 Concerning the half I spent at home

  

  look through a rather long list of names, degrees, and job titles ... cloud of the 7.03 final was fraying my nerves. I’m sure the actual weather ... settled into the comfort of a familiar bed (cuddling cat named Stoopy

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Telethon FAQs from a small but enthusiastic sample of prefroshies

  

  ;insert your own> degree of seriousness? In my personal opinion, the MIT ... roomful of Institvte phones to individually congratulate and chat with each of the freshly admitted candidates for the class of 2016. We all stayed

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 5, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [guest post] on undergrad by laura c. '23

  

  lighting was way better from this side)[/caption] one of the hazards of ... to the next phase of my life. I’m excited to say that I’ll probably be ... where I’ll be next year, but I like to think that’s part of the fun. I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skullhouse Road Trip Seattle, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Austin, New Orleans, North Carolina, Delaware, New Jersey, and New…

  

  mission that we chose to accept is to visit the hometown of every senior ... /24: Leaving Boston I finished my finals on Tuesday, so my flight out of Seattle ... chapter of the University of Washington, nicknamed "Phi Pools". One of our

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Tchau! Labs vai para a praia! And the King of the Internet returns.

  

  - the King of the Internet, Chris Peterson, fresh from a master's degree ... * This is a Goodbye Post * I've always liked the 4th of July. I like fireworks. (Although a couple years ago I had a friend that kind of

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • June 26, 2013
• Blog / How to MIT

  “Learning To Learn At MIT” guest post by the plaz

  

  , he shares a lot of wisdom about MIT. One of his posts which I read on the Class of 2015 Facebook Group and liked very much is called Learning ... , the removal of distractions, and knowing when and how to ask for help

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / Class Projects

  neutrality isn’t about objectivity—it’s about who has the power some words on facebook trending topics, and also net neutrality

  

  team. A whole lot of smart people weighed in, including the folks at ... revelations undermine any presumption of Facebook as a neutral pipeline for news ... Thune, chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee: "...Any attempt by a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 20, 2016
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [joint post] blogston commons with Allison E. ‘27, Ellie F. ‘28, Jebby ‘25, and Sara N. ‘28

  

  ’s episode of [annotation note="censored bc idk if it's trademarked or not ... of other things too! eating, crying over problem sets, and idk like the ... preferred temperature meter is"]70 degrees[/annotation] weather, as you will

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 11, 2024