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• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  developing algorithms resulting in the high-level understanding of images by a ... from a line graph: the overarching trend. Given a line graph in pixel ... , decreasing, or neither? The challenge: identify the trend portrayed in a line

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to miss deadlines at MIT Policies for late assignments, and ways to keep your grades afloat when life inevitably happens

  

  anything attention-demanding the next day and can can crash sometime early in ... pset - I found myself lying in bed awake at 4 a.m. And then 5 a.m., 6, 7, until literally I had been lying awake in bed for 6 and a half hours

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • October 12, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Summer Reading List The exciting hobby that I never have time for during the school year...

  

  or if I was just ignoring them. I would get so engrossed in books that ... finish) in lieu of Purple Hibiscus and Unbearable Lightness, because last summer I was back home in Colorado, and also traveled a bit, which meant I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 5, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  That wasn’t skiing, that was falling with style! Guest post by Katy Kem '16

  

  prefer to spend the duration of IAP with the MIT Alpine Ski team, living in a cabin in New Hampshire, and skiing all day every day. Yeah, I ... , though I’d never competed or formally trained in any way. As Winter Break

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48, Part 2 Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do…

  

  of classes I gave in my last post, we're left with the question ... with friends or with activities I enjoy. In spring of 2013, the questions ... . At this point, I've probably gone far too far in the opposite

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wooo Summer The goal as usual is to do ALL the things

  

  ended, but I'd like to sum things up in one post and just get it all out ... hours in the forges of MIT creating metal alloys and casting them.  During ... in the future.  I am now considering doing a concentration in either

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 15, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Urinetown I blame my absence on musical theatre.

  

  would never, ever, perform in a musical during the semester. Rational Part Of Brain: "You got your fix during IAP, in Hack Punt Tool! AND it was a ... decent part in Hack Punt Tool because it was about MIT students and you are

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / Events

  The Making of a Mystery A James Grimmelmann Guest Blog

  

  active in the policy space through several ongoing projects, programs, and ... " today. And, in a landscape strewn with shoddy writing, his articles are ... did Grimmelmann participate in this year's Mystery Hunt; as the 2011

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sororities @ MIT- Become a part of it! Come to the first day of recruitment on September 1st to learn more about what…

  

  incoming freshman will not have this semester to see what being in an MIT ... information…. (from the MIT Panhel website) Over 400 women are in sororities at ... sisters in an informal setting. This is useful for underclassmen who are to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 2

  

  Things are actually pretty calm here in New England, even with the ... excited, sure, but the third win in four years for the Pats is nothing ... in the meantime feel free to use this post's comments section to talk

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  . Instead of spending time in school, I’d have to find other things to do ... years ago, while in the early months of it, I kept being asked why I was ... for me to read. I found it was a good way to check in with myself

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  tunes of interphase! or, how to leave home and look cool doing it

  

  hometown started closing in on me in October, and it would’ve kept doing so ... letter in December. I held tight onto the breath of fresh air I took in that day for months, and the effort of it made me blue in the face by

  • by Angie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  17,707 words writing at night like you're running out of time

  

  graduate students in STEM and STEM-adjacent fields. This was a lot of writing for me in a way that I haven’t done since college applications ... [/annotation] how much writing I’ve done in just the past month for classes

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 24, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Cost of Living at MIT alternatively, how to spend money at MIT

  

  handling their own finances in a day-to-day sense. As someone who notably ... in a very expensive city was difficult.  Boston is consistently ranked as one of the most expensive cities in the US (see: Example A, Example

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  (another) postcard from GTL spain and an unexpected crossover with the Edgerton Center

  

  "] barcelona, with casa battló in the background[/caption]   If there ... turns and the gloom sets in and everything feels cold and bleak, the one ... anyone in my life for granted. Similarly, my brain is swimming in all the

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 1, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything is different now That's ok, I have a cat now

  

  be likable in her posts. She’s not quite as funny as I am. I’ve still ... , and really opened up. I played music in front of people for the first time in my life (it was a modular synth techno set, if you were curious

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  what I’m doing this IAP mostly physics and musical theater

  

  mornings, any inch of skin exposed to the air goes numb in minutes. But this ... previous IAPs have been really fun. In freshman year, I did [annotation note ... "]SEVT[/annotation]. In sophomore year, I helped with the Pi Day video animation and grinded

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Home(sick) for the Holidays winter break was weird: time capsule 2

  

  grabbed dinner with friends at the dining hall in [annotation note="a dorm ... into the big field in front of dorm row. I played some Christmas music out loud in the dark—at home around this time of year, my dad tunes into

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 24, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  november again conversation with myself

  

  novembers that make you remember, something in the sudden, bitter cold. i ... see my breath misting in front of me. when i looked up at the sky, it ... against my will. i keep insisting that i’m in my cool color era, my green

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  23andme happy new year

  

  ? Especially since I'm still in undergrad and so much of my life is ahead of me ... 't really remember if I had any resolutions in 2022, but in retrospect, I grew a lot in the previous year, and I feel much more grounded and clear

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2023