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• Blog / How to MIT

  [joint post] the MIT picture scavenger hunt or, how to drive yourself insane by looking at floorplans

  

  is how I deal with my problems. Alan: The MIT Picture Scavenger Hunt ... became 60 items, which would put us in first place with a fairly ... Gregor, because, you know, Alan and I were staying in MacGregor this summer, Alan

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  -Shirt and that’s fine. I’m supposed to meet up my advisor, Saif Rayyan, in his ... still mostly fried from sleep so I suggest somewhere in MIT. We also ... I’m fast asleep, probably snoring lightly and elegantly. My body

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Travel

  spring break! so much happened, but also so much didn't happen

  

  of the covid restrictions at the time (not that I would've wanted to ... it in New Orleans, so I told myself I needed to finish the paper by the ... landed in Louisiana, I was ready to not think about work for a week

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 16, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking In Just a quick note to say hi from the depths of reading.

  

  Just a quick note to say hi from the depths of reading. :-) I know there are a lot of questions in the comments and I'll definitely get to ... . If you can't find the few minutes it would take to do this, may I

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Experience with Real Analysis epsilons, delta, and the technique

  

  . Throughout my entire time in high school, I used to complain to my math teacher about how I wanted more of the proof and verification for all these theorems. Well, in the most MIT fashion, I can defiently say that I got more

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • June 10, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wolfram Alpha Tonight!

  

  I don't know how familiar you are with "Wolfram," but I'll assume you ... 't search for websites, in fact it's all a closed system, but what it does ... smartest software I've ever seen. What does it do? It does math. Easy math

  • by Snively '11
  • May 15, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I’m Watching ...

  

  window in a high rise or a friend or a tree. Would it be the things I can ... could I would. --------- Being at such a crossroads in my life ... , the streets after a day of rain reflecting colors in the sky, and I said

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Events

  1 / How to MIT again?! An expat returning home to the 'Tute

  

  for so long that you have it all figured out. One week in, I was back ... ?"]first midterm[/annotation] in 7.012 this week. I spent over 5 hours in the shop ... . I had forgotten how stressful of a place MIT could be, how much

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 29, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Splash. Was. Awesome. I taught: 3 classes, 5 sections, 246 kids.

  

  disruptive, and I don't know how to keep 100 kids in line. They might find ... websites I find are pretty complicated. I think about how that can be fixed ... Saturday and bouncing out of bed. I love wearing headphones in a hipster

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  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 ... -specific applications. I found these to be very hit or miss with how informative they

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

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  a knower of MIT-related things, I have been asked many times how ... psyched about brains. When I was in 8th grade, my mom brought home a copy of How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker, who used to be a professor here in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Construction Thoughts on a major.

  

  surprisre: he bought an app, on the spot, that would use the iPod's built-in ... would suggest, or in other fields -- perhaps algorithms? -- but I do know ... I wanted to have a bike for when I came to campus in the fall. I didn

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 26, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thinking Positive Sophomore year was kind of awful. But there were happy things! I'll focus on the…

  

  easier way to put that. I wrote about my first semester in my post called ... love working with this group of people. LOOK HOW PRETTY WE ARE! I ... in for my HASS concentration! I will concentrate in writing and reading

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo and physics and math, oh my 57 units of academic fun fun fun. Now with humanities!

  

  , so I guess I'll find out how much I've learned pretty soon. [In case ... of how to prepare for MIT tests in general. Although I had been ... the fact that I was taking classes I was genuinely interested in, plus a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The one-armed violin player and the Dalai Lama Emad's not the only blogger who got a press pass.

  

  posts in one month and ten days. I noticed that I had put almost all of ... about how lucky I was to have the chance to attend, and one week freaking ... equipment. I guess they did, though, since the lady in charge looked horrified

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  How Albatross Fly Without Flapping Their Wings, And other Lore™️ I learned this semester.

  

  my time in [annotation note="Physics 1"]8.01[/annotation]I was failing ... facts at a blogger meeting early in the semester, I left the admissions ... .009 project. After splitting at a fork in the road, I saw something on a tree on

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 10, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  There is a bench it’s a nice bench

  

  buy lunch, and work on my problem set in the lounge at our floor. Head ... one of these events. Or I’m going to one of my discovery classes in the ... rolled in: I joined a LARP, watched a play, played some board games. Sunday

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 19, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admissions Statistics 2008 We've updated the stats page.

  

  ? How many students were admitted Early Action? Luckily, I can refer most folks to our website, where we offer a plethora of numbers for any ... my class, the MIT Class of 2000, when we were admitted in 1996? [answer

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Puzzle: Are we going to win? another puzzle to stimulate your mind

  

  My friend Brian, Course VI '07, came up with this puzzle. I'll give you one hint for now, use this website for help. I'll be travelling this weekend, so I probably won't get a chance to post the solution until

  • by Bryan
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  country. So, how would you judge/compare/evaluate applicants who had ... opprotunities? A generic answer is "Judging them in their 'contexts'", but how do ... 'm looking forward to hear from you." I've covered some of the question in my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2006