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• Blog / Public Statements

  Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic) tl;dr: mostly the same as during normal times, but clarifying some points of anxiety

  

  as the norm. However, it is not uncommon for us to receive letters from ... be especially true and helpful for current times, given all the ... look for at MIT either, it's just what I know was, in hindsight, these

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  Where is Andorra? and other FAQs about my IAP Teaching abroad in a quadrilingual country

  

  addition to 7 local governments, one for each of the 7 parishes. I got to ... parliament is responsible for making the laws of the country. The parliament ... , including electronic voting, which makes it officially fancier than the U

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  /W is also the departmental home for the MIT Writing and Communication ... with systems such as GPT-3, which is the basis for the very recent Chat ... correct. An LLM can determine, for instance, that the most probable

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 24, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why Apply? Putting your hat in the ring if you're not so sure

  

  your questions for the last 9 months as MITAdmin, but I am grateful to ... Cambridge. I love the small city atmosphere where you have lots of options for ... myself to you. The ghosts of Uncle Labs and Beatriz have haunted me all

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 9, 2013
• Blog / Events

  What’s This Mystery Hunt Thing?

  

  addition, the Operator is responsible for "calling in" answers. When you ... official Hunt website, and they call you to check your answer. As the ... pretty rarely, for the record—we're averaging less than one an hour). So I

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Delayed Reaction A day in the life.

  

  -field-hockey-season-rest I had allocated for myself was officially over, so I should get my ... sure. But for now, I have sold my soul to scheme (the programming ... got a job working at the computing help desk last semester- you know, I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Great Expectations i've never read the book, but the title seemed to fit

  

  a blogger. But sometimes reality takes unexpected turns for the ... start. Reality: The square dancing life is not for me :’o Before ... -orientation program. So back in June, I signed up for the Freshman Arts Program (FAP

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions updates ...including the state of the mail and EA application tracking.

  

  date for documents to show up in the tracking system -- this means there ... enforcing a hard cutoff at the deadline for this year's early action; no need ... updates The deadline to schedule your interview if you are applying for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Events

  HST Forum 2006… for real The real thing.

  

  poster session once I can steal them from the MIT News Office. I know for a ... So HST -- the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology ... '76 and Martha L. Gray, Ph.D., HST'86, the directors of HST. Read their

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Where We’ve Been And Where We’re Going A brief history of the blogs and MyMIT.

  

  bottom of the page, were getting all of the traffic. For months I ... writers who now serve as the "front line" for MyMIT. This "primary source ... blogiversary to all of us. Thanks to the '09s for being our guinea pigs; and a

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  in honor of tau the superior circle constant

  

  ’s The Tau Manifesto. I encourage you to read it for a deeper, more ... , but a circle is the only two-dimensional figure for which all points on ... — the relationship between the circumference and the radius. For

  • by Phi A. '21
  • February 20, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Happy Birthday, ‘Murica! (Even though Boston celebrated Independence Day Eve)

  

  here for the next month or so if you’re curious. After that, we ... ordered for an emergency evacuation of the area. Speakers were collapsed ... off while the rest of the nation prepares for huge celebrations tonight

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  I have the best girlfriend ever Gifts at MIT rock.

  

  I bought a new mouse on woot.com the other day for $13.37 and I must ... in just for me! I have the best girlfriend ever. ... inquired "Where's your mousepad?" "Well . . I don't have one. . . but look

  • by Snively '11
  • December 3, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  hey hey HAYMARKET slicing and dicing all over the place.

  

  browsing the entire market for the best looking fruit and prices and also ... advertising auditions for a show on WGBH, so we decided to follow the posters to ... for a new show for high school kids. We were too old :-( In the

  • by Bryan
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  Comics for IAP Doonesbury takes on the 6.270 Autonomous Robot Design Competition.

  

  A few weeks back, MIT's most famous fictitious current student, Alex Doonesbury '10, had an exciting IAP, doing the 6.270 Autonomous Robot Design Competition (not to mention Palmistry, Advanced Sudoku, a chocolate workshop

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 17, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  hihi i’m back featuring all my favorite excuses

  

  resulted in way too many essays for my liking. On the bright side, I didn’t have any final exams so I got to go back home early for the break and ... basically I used up all my writing braincells that I usually save for the

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • December 30, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  My First Week as an EMT It was quite an experience

  

  just thrown up for the second time in two hours and felt awful.  This is ... -mailed all the East Campus Medlinks, asking for help with getting Gatorade and ... quarantined for Tuesday and the foreseeable future. At this point, there were

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • March 7, 2014
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Forum for Waitlisted Students

  In the near future, we'll have some advice and information here on the blogs about being waitlisted. In the meantime, feel free to use this forum to discuss anything waitlist-related.

  • by Admin
  • March 14, 2010
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Forum for Waitlisted Students

  

  In the near future, we'll have some advice and information here on the blogs about being waitlisted. In the meantime, feel free to use this forum to discuss anything waitlist-related.

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ingredients for a black hole: 1. Hydrogen 2. Soda 3. Bottle Irish pub-lic outreach

  

  's missing one of his front teeth. The typical eight-year-old's look. "I'd just ... astrometry, UVA now uses it primarily for teaching and public outreach. On the ... cluster in the dome, waiting for their turn to climb up the wooden steps and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 20, 2013