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  Accepting criticism please criticize this blog post

  

  look at my work's flaws and see them for what they are, or at least admit ... . I get a lot of calls looking for someone named Juanita, saying they ... something with my friends for fun. When I'm writing for the admissions blogs

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Following My Passions At MIT [by Susan Shepherd '11] Can a writer fit in at MIT?

  

  books in the MITSFS library. Clubs aren't the only way for literature fans ... successfully wrote a novel for NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) in ... look a little more closely, you might notice that for every student with

  • by ARTalk
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  increase in student use of AI assistance for writing recently. Instructors ... an explicit policy regarding AI/LLM assistance in your syllabus ... series have many uses, for instance in machine translation and speech

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 24, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  World of Wires [by Emily '15] Are you living in a computer simulation?

  

  ever!) being the best class ever. All the way back in September, we talked about a play called World of Wires by MIT Associate Professor in ... designer, and I ended up being in the cast myself, so I couldn’t resist

  • by ARTalk
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  partner Cory and I have been together for almost nine years now. We met in ... smell of the wet morning air in the early autumn and the hope I had for ... an entire six years? In that case, it should be important to de

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

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

  

  Hunt is the title of this blog post. The author’s an MIT alum whom I know ... times, looking for where 188 could possibly be. Alan: We found a variety ... around Stata with them as they looked for it. They noticed the bathroom

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thank Goodness! "There are bridges you cross / You didn't know you crossed / until you've crossed."

  

  know that he graduated first? =p). For some reason (to be discussed in ... in the US) in the Japanese society. For example, "MIT" was often uttered with an air of awe in the drama, and we often see Touma writing

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus No exams woohooooo

  

  Longfellow and stayed in the garden for a little bit before signing myself up ... from the other side, for the Boston Celtics playing in the NBA Finals ... I've actually been involved in TMG since the spring semester, but

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Two households, totally unalike in dignity…” On picking majors and following your dreams, Romeo and Juliet, Twitter, Sherlock, and the future…

  

  it allows the potential for interactivity. The characters in Romeo and ... toward it? C: CMS as a department has an incredible amount of variance in ... things in there about video games—writing for video games, making video

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 21, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Bryan Nance Name: Bryan Nance; Job title: Director of Minority Recruitment; Hometown: Queens, NY

  

  scores. We are looking for well-rounded students. Since we focus on so much ... Corridor actually ends... in a parking lot Favorite thing about Boston ... . In fact, it was not until Sesame Street began broadcasting 30 years ago

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Fall Semester random happenings, senior year edition

  

  authors, which I think means Allan has made it in academia (read his paper ... pitch (paraphrased): “Here’s an opportunity for you to put 'employed by ... , my future looks like a dark void. Not in the usual “will I pass this

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Unfolding of Language Your high school English teacher may hate it, but "gonna" really is a word.

  

  in doubt, track down an email address and bug a professor for answers ... awesome. In content, anyway. The author tends to ramble on a bit, and seems ... element- more specifically, an auxiliary verb. For example, the sentence "I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you want to be when you grow up? Worst. Question. Ever.

  

  Now that I'm a junior in college, I'm supposed to be almost an adult ... wrists as it was. I probably looked like an idiot. Maybe I should have gone ... short today), and then I wandered around the fair, looking for cool

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 2, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Talent Show ua innovation gets lit

  

  . It was originally intended to be an in-person event, but the committee decided that it was an achievable way to bring students together in a ... show! Since Yiming is currently living in China, the team had to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  New year, new bloggers! introducing the new bloggers for fall 2019

  

  another 64 partially completed, which might be an alltime record. In early ... Hampshire, an autodidact dancer (and dancing autodidact), proud author of a ... -esque summer subsisting on mostly gummy worms in Taipei Cami M. ’23 of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Virginia Tech’s Commencement

  

  use about moving on. Closure has become an amazingly overused word in ... , and author of "The Unfinished Bombing: Oklahoma City in American Memory ... . This is an incredibly insightful talk. I first watched it in 2002, and

  • by Laurie Everett
  • May 31, 2007
• Blog / Events

  A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…

  

  simpler. I was in China visiting relatives all IAP. That would be my last ... Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics at Yale (CUWPY). So, instead of ... 'm in the area. It turns out that using a new camera, for me, was a little

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What a Robotics Career Looks Like What does it mean to get paid to work on robots?

  

  in robotics looks like for me. This is a general description of all the ... people in other fields, too, but we’ll see. For now, I’ll just start with ... home delivery. I once worked at an e-commerce startup, and I now work in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to UROP because you basically ARE einstein

  

  want an academia focus), so you should advocate for yourself to get in ... look for a bunch of projects at once, talk to a bunch of people to get a ... more as an extracurricular, tell your advisor you just want to assist for

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 26, 2026
• Blog / MISTI

  Break New Ground Join the NEW MIT-Chile Program

  

  . Opportunities are available for 2012 in fields such as engineering, physics ... , MISTI has programs in Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Israel, Italy ... Economy, Development and Tourism, MIT-Chile will create opportunities for

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 17, 2011