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• Blog / Athletics

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

  

  started working in the Sabeti lab at the Broad, my thesis lab. This is the lab I most wanted to work in and least expected to take me, the lab ... always empty except for me). I’m hoping to buy prints of some of my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 19, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  How to jump out of an airplane and live We have football, pistol, fencing, and TKD. . . but did you know we also…

  

  Hello again from out in the real world!  It's been a little more than ... more difficult. In the summer between sophomore and junior year at MIT I did my first tandem skydive while I was back home in Oregon.  I didn

  • by Snively '11
  • July 31, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Boston’s 3rd of July It's almost a holiday, but not quite.

  

  , threw my shoes in my backpack, and skated down to the Longfellow bridge ... what very well could have been the longest line ever. I got in it. It ... enough, a line with 2 people in it (as opposed to several hundred, as was

  • by Snively '11
  • July 4, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  6.115 Microcomputer Lab! literally the coolest class i've taken so far

  

  mighty in the S-tier. Sometimes classes at MIT feel difficult for the sake ... approximately 1.28% of what was said in lecture, but it was reassuring to know that some of my friends were in the same boat. Lab was a whole 'nother

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 16, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  catching up what are you doing over the summer?

  

  . it's tuesday the 24th and we're waiting outside a house in mid ... , along with a yellow house that stopped me in my tracks. "that looks a lot ... chord in my memory. jeff and i met four years ago in the summer after

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • June 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Liveblog: Info Session with Karyn Blaser! Learn about MIT

  

  Hey everybody, I'm taking a break from working on 2.004 in order to ... signing in on OLPC's (somehow the admissions office got a hold of two of them and use them for signing in now) with Mac keyboards (thank goodness

  • by Snively '11
  • October 12, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Day Cats cats cats cats cats cats cats....

  

  finally woke up. I sprayed dry shampoo in my hair, and headed to MIT Medical ... him in the basement of the medical building, and Will R. '16 and I got trained in Narcan administration and passed the exam for the session. After

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interphase This entry has nothing to do with cell division

  

  ) getting an early start. And that’s where the OME comes in! The Office of ... exactly do students do in Interphase? Well, just about everything normal ... are not, at least in one way, normal. You’re smarter than most of the

  • by Karen F. '11
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Common Misconceptions and Un-Expectations a list of things i've noticed

  

  not, in fact, normal "What classes are you taking?" - Our Number System ... . In MIT speak, I'm a CMS/6-3 and this past semester I took 3.091, 21M.011, 18.01, and 8.01L. In non-MIT speak, I'm a double major in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 5, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Let’s do a puzzle. Ready to flex some cranial muscle?

  

  You're sitting in your living room, one eye on an Agatha Christie ... that there is one puzzle in the universe you have not solved: what did ... life (right? right?) - e-mail her! You're in the mood for a more

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  in the sense of rushing to try and get an answer. yes, the answers to ... in life. The “things” I think about are vague and amorphous, but all ... figured out before college (or in college) — let me be evidence that you

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Seventh Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 4PM on 01/09/06.

  

  /09/06... ------------------------------------- Many people wrote in with concerns about the application tracking portlet ... . ------------------------------------- A few people wrote in asking if I accept personal email and what my ... -by-case basis, because until I'm in the committee room with the rest of my

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 2 and the power of the many

  

  , accuracy) and understanding the compromises settled for in attaining this ... ,3,9,15,...) and told you to find their sum, you might store all the numbers in ... . In fact, you’d only need to keep track of one thing, the running sum

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Before you Register for Classes: Tools, Tips, and Resources Scheduling Tools and Tips for Incoming Students

  

  . Course Picker: here, you can log in to save and edit your schedule for the ... styles. During Orientation, professors in various departments will talk ... . Adding, Dropping, and (Not) Failing If you feel overloaded in the beginning

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  decisions, decisions why are there so many of them

  

  decisions I've made over the past few weeks across all sorts of areas in my life. In [annotation note='i don’t wanna order this by order of ... decisions and let the little things in life pass you by. how would one even

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 9, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All? how do i live without regret?

  

  sitting in the admissions website, crying out for me to finish them, but I ... there, either in your research lab or your car on your morning commute or in your suffocating little cubicle, and you're going to think: Is this

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] Duolingo Champion How to immerse in education while learning nothing

  

  sponsor me). I’d used the app in the past to learn Italian and to refresh my ... they announced Arabic for English speakers. In doing so I found out that ... 1st within the Diamond League, essentially being the world’s best in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  post-semester paradise two weeks with no psets or exams in sight

  

  semester are spent in a sleep-deprived and over-caffeinated haze, probably at ... year i'll be back in Burton Conner, my freshman year dorm. my EC floor, Slugfest, all pulled up together in our new hall tanks. once the party died

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 3, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 In this entry, I answer your recent questions left in the comments of previous entries.

  

  Here are the answers to the questions you've left in the comments of ... know of any other really good vegetarian/vegan restaurants in the area?" Well, there are only a few vegetarian-only restaurants in the area (such

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  reviewing MIT’s Intro To Deep Learning the highs and lows of the beloved IAP class

  

  participate in a MISTI program, among other things."]IAP.[/annotation] Along ... and labs being open-sourced on the website and Youtube, with this Obama deepfake specifically making the rounds in 2020. Given the opportunity to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 12, 2025