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• Blog / MIT Life

  A Blogographical Biography ...although whatever 'blogographical' means, I somehow doubt it applies to a blog containing graphs.

  

  in ways that are overliteralized to the point of meaninglessness. For ... At 8:57 AM on December 15, 2007, I was admitted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, class of 2012. The topics of my application essays

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Ah, TV… A super-sized value meal for the mind, not the body.

  

  for your mind, not your body. Look at the bright side: unlike the real ... As you know, we are hunkered down reviewing all of the MIT Regular ... stressful! So we agree, we are all stressed. For this entry I propose that

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Robo-CJ writes a college app do neural nets dream of electric essays?

  

  'm fully prepared for the prospect of college. Sure, I'm familiar with the ... with GPT-2-small, and waited for an hour or so. The first attempt was ... something I’m pretty satisfied with. For the purposes of this post, this

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 28, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [live blog] BLUEPRINT 2025 by the Blueprint Team // come see what we're baking!

  

  out the final logistics for our event today. It's March 1st, which ... laughs from sanjith and timmy's bird demo for the blueprint meme ... " "Looking forward to workshops and making a final project :D" "The swag is

  • by Janet G. '27
  • March 1, 2025
• Blog / Events

  MIT IreneCam tracking the storm - here and on the web.

  

  I've decamped from the Boston area northwards to New Hampshire for the weekend. My house in the suburbs of Cambridge, while high enough to ... before I left, I set up a webcam in the office, looking out over Killian

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 28, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Lazy Day Today is one of them

  

  just play it by ear and do whatever you like for a while. So, to the ... It's Sunday, and the beginning of the second full week of June ... sleep. (I nearly slept again after that, but hey, it was also 1 in the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Events

  When Friday Arrives… A glimpse into my social life, among other things.

  

  prefrosh, but for the past few weeks we've both pretty busy with our own ... Oh, hey, the weekend's here. Awesome. In other news, the last full ... the last problem sets I will ever do as a freshman, which is a pretty

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 10, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  How to (Im)properly Get an Independent Study another step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  the list we made in this post. Come up with an idea for a project ... grad student said, and see the professor is not there For the next two ... around for ten minutes as the professor finishes his meeting FINALLY meet

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  seattle ➞ mit an epilogue in bullet points and pictures

  

  for a brief moment over the summer i think i truly believed that i was a working adult, living the 9 to 5, subconsciously looking forward ... 't care much for. the software i did was pretty interesting. i liked the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 8, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Then and Now The two are remarkably similar.

  

  your many fits of frustration. So you decide to punt the thing - for now ... someone clear that up for me here? Cut to the day after my last final, the day before I flew home for the first time since August, the day I saw

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Telethon FAQs from a small but enthusiastic sample of prefroshies

  

  of the freshly admitted candidates for the class of 2016. We all stayed ... telethoning, in hopes that they'll be useful for some of the prefrosh we didn ... hussies", because you are the best judge of which school is best for you, I

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second Home You're in your room doing a pset. I'm in my lab making science happen.

  

  run. :P My results for the lab class are due November 9 (less than two ... the microscope for an assay that I was doing, and after 3 hours I had ... molecular research is not necessarily the right future career path for me, but

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 30, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An old man’s thought of school Whitman. X-men. Youth. Zymurgy.

  

  literally look up the last word in the dictionary, but decided that "zymurgy ... jerk all the time. I mean, not all the time. Today I was looking at an ... control you!", which I've been trying unsuccessfully to write for the past

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  mit made me rational on decision-making

  

   was the rational decision, right? But I knew that I hadn't accounted for ... Rodrigo concert ticket, I made the correct financial choice for myself, even ... I once asked a boyfriend if he would give up his life for ten billion

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 19, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  FourFiveUnits all you could ever want to know about my semester schedule

  

  tl;dr: Look how empty my Firehose is compared to the other bloggers ... 's healthy for my brain and GPA to have a little bit more "free" time in the ... addition to all of the above, I will be... Cooking food for myself instead

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Kindred Spirits or, "Making Friends"

  

  waiting for class to begin. The magic of making friends, of course, is that ... and all the extracurriculars I'd signed up for, however, and my newfound ... of language (like me). We even found out we were in the same crew for

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 19, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Characterization This might or might not enrage you.

  

  for school. For some reason, the whole sci-fi/fantasy world has never ... which for some reason look like people (vain creators perhaps?) creep me ... and do what I need to do. Mostly I can speak for the Financial Aid

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s "Do we start and end at the same place on the river?"

  

  happened to be in Cambridge for the weekend, called me up and invited me down ... crisis, I guess. Fearful I would be late for the rafting trip's departure ... where Joe and I first discovered the X-Knot, so we had to settle for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that Scare Me 1) Mornings.2) Psets.3) Exams.4) All of the above.

  

  .) I've been taking the 8-9AM hour at desk every weekday morning for the ... ." So far, the voice is compelling enough for me to immediately get up ... My classes start at 9:30 every morning this term. If the world

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 19, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Polar Vortex or my third IAP, and how externships work

  

  You might wonder what possessed me to go to Chicago for the month of January. The weather forecast for my first day of work. Granted, this ... by IDEO for the winter, with the stipulation that I would be working at

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 16, 2014