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• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Other Side The view from another cambridge

  

  from MIT. I was burned out after last semester, and I don't know how I ... MIT experience in a new framework. I appreciate that. I'll never take ... just finish the work in time to submit things. Additionally, I'm taking a

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 31, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Makes Taiwanese Talk Show! All the way across the world

  

  probably can't get at another school or at a school in Taiwan?" Jennifer: "I ... MIT EC in Taipei). I'll try my best to translate/capture the most ... lot of pressure at MIT. I heard that if you get Cs for two semesters in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

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

  

  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 ... . WHAT WAS I THINKING I CAN’T SKI RACE. I didn’t even really know anybody

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Barker Engineering Library Where sound goes to die.

  

  in here. Not a day goes by when I am not absorbed by a mass of tourists ... bulletin board, of a garbage can, of a ceiling, of a vent, and of a door. I ... because 30 people are taking a picture of a paper tree in lobby 10 then I

  • by Snively '11
  • February 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Blogs Turn 10: Looking Back, Looking Ahead data and narrative, past and present

  

  MITAdmissions. If I could assign reading to prospective students like I can assign ... 've had a tremendous impact. In advance of this anniversary, I decided to ... 've gathered, but I am not that person. Part of the decrease in comment activity

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Minerva Delusion the political economy of an educational scam

  

  paragraphs in this Economist interview: “I don’t want or need to disrupt ... Minerva has higher standards then Harvard, then how is a student who can ... prestigious private school I was in love with. I didn't get in. I went to a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 6, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  on a joke. I know I'm really in the zone when I can simultaneously talk ... musing about how I can improve the session I'm giving on the fly. Adittedly ... of the New Yorker. I landed in LAX around 11:30AM PT and picked up my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  We Treat You Nicely VOTE VOTE VOTE!

  

  two things that I want to throw at you today in this entry. The first ... new Macbook) and so I just used that. I don't know how to resize them ... MIT. In fact, I've set up a doodle. Don't worry about the numbers of the

  • by Snively '11
  • November 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  72 Hours Three days can be a long time.

  

  -nighters in a row. 72 hours straight. Three days can be a long time. Before you ... out." In my sleepy haze I grabbed the marker from him and went to the ... battles too, no matter how poor the odds seem. I slept like a rock for 2

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • November 8, 2007
• Blog / Announcements

  We will not be taking anyone from the wait list in 2020 closing out the wait list for the Class of 2024

  

  tried to do the right thing. I can only say that there are [annotation ... Today, I emailed the remaining candidates who have been waiting ... to admit any students from our wait list this year. I am writing this

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW roundup Meet the Bloggers, dinner with a physics professor, and a photography contest for those of…

  

  becomes rich on Flickr**. **In all seriousness, I will give you full credit for your photos***. ***Let's see how many asterisked-footnotes I can ... Contest. In light of my camera's unusual bout of laziness over CPW, I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 20, 2009
• Blog / Best from staff

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  [annotation note='In that role, I saw how both our alumni and our applicants ... highlighted in transparent red — like “explain” is, here — you can hover over it ... backgrounds, and only if they can demonstrate that [annotation note='In other

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  about 80 to go. And then, I have to manipulate the data in Excel so I can ... computer in grad school. I suppose I should mention, in case it wasn ... Like Laura, I also read up a storm in the summer. I (re-)read Robert

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Communication Intensive Jumping on the semester-in-review blog train

  

  diffraction patterns, I had a vague idea of how to structure (no pun intended ... underlying physics of strained silicon. Overall, I was happy with how this ... figures legible. [annotation note="I wanted to embed the poster in this post

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And now for the feature presentation… ...IN STEREO.Don't ask. It's an LSC thing. I don't really get it myself.

  

  my month old photos, so I can share them with you before they become ... duct tape the drive in place. I figured this would be no problem since ... , which came all wrapped up in a bow. I took it apart and found each

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on a desk? That which we call a workspace by any other name would look as depressing...

  

  I’m typing this entry as I’m over 10,000 feet in the air, flying over ... workspace (although I rarely use it as one – I avoid doing work in my room as ... when I wake up and get out of bed in the morning (besides my alarm). The

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Beaver Nation An intro to athletics at MIT

  

  important thing I can say is, in my 3 years on campus, I have never had to ... at 5 and starting at 7. Still, I can’t complain. I know how lucky we ... comes to mind when think of MIT... I don’t blame you. In some ways, it

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • November 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poker, Mountains, and Magic The four words of this title have no other exact match on Google

  

  ? undergoned? underleft?) over IAP, but in the meantime I’ll recap my January and ... dropped before ever attending. In Pokerbots, I worked with Jeff ‘18 and ... university to offer this topic (in case you were wondering). Anyways, I’ve got

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  . You can see all final presentation slides here (...I was in group 6 ... lectures relatively straightforward in terms of how they explained the ... over CNNs, VAEs, and GANs in one day, and of course by the next morning I

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 12, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  Vive la France!

  

  I'm about to head off for a two week in vacation in Paris, Rennes, and Bordeaux. In the meantime, you can check out the MIT France Program, one of MIT's awesome international programs. Current music: A.R. Rahman

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 15, 2004