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• Blog / About Decisions

  the life I could’ve lived it’s like one of those “what if” episodes

  

  [annotation note="a lot of people say this about themselves, but I actually am the ... decision. I thought about all of the schools I had once dreamed of and had ... weeks ago, my friends who went to the University of Michigan invited me to

  • by Hala K. '29
  • April 12, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I am slowly going insane This is your brain on AI-generated videos

  

  -labeled data that OpenAI can only dream of. The first-place prize was an NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano, which Professor Han had demo-ed at the start of the ... ! I want one :)[/caption] The dataset consisted of a few thousand

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 6, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Battle of the Bands "Rock on and come to CPW!" ~ Thomas Jefferson"Chris, you made up that quote from…

  

  anything to them was Battle of the Bands.* For an hour and a half one night you'll see MIT kids like you never knew them before! Some of the most ... difference from the stage to you to just nigh the electric breakdown of air

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6-3 not a definitive guide

  

  -fledged major that is one of many offered by the Electrical Engineering and ... offering. I don't have an opinion on some of the classes, since I haven ... It's no secret that Course 6-3 (Computer Science) is one of the most

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week Robot and sports and owls, oh my

  

  horizon, but the past few days have been when a lot of project classes begin ... , have no time limit.  They can quickly fling a black hole in the middle of ... hemiplegic patient in a few daily tasks, with the end goal of performing in a

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In case you want to travel over IAP… You have a lot of options!

  

  !). It was literally lifechanging. It was my first time out of the country ... blog detailing some of them, to give people a sense of all the amazing ... is probably the biggest/most popular of the international IAP programs

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  because on the rare occasions I visit it, so much of what's on it makes me angry or sad. A bunch of the parents were very skeptical that you don ... you shouldn't feel compelled. Some of the parents in the thread said

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  A Summer in DC what i've been up to this summer!

  

  of the school year that I still need to revisit. As Kano mentioned in ... by members of the United States Congress. I've never been to a baseball ... , hand-made, and revamped goods. It reminds me of the Fenway Flea in Boston

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • July 30, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  spring break in San Juan journeying to none other than the most popular MIT spreak destination

  

  's status as one of the oldest colonies, definitely more than could fit in a single blog post. I won't dive into the history and implications of U ... for MIT students that I'm aware of are Puerto Rico, Aruba, Mexico, the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 11, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  the classes among us reflections and too many flashbacks on classes ft. ESG

  

  freshman lecture size of 400? One of the quintessential features of American ... intimidating as well. Not in the number of people. But because of how I ... beneficial to me for the most part. So during the summer before MIT, one of

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  beauty is overrated

  

  adjacent to beauty, but beauty does not give others the feeling of an elastic ... about the kind of beauty that arose from symmetry, from clear skin or a ... ’s overused, I think, to the point of meaninglessness. I don’t want my

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  [Joint Post] A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 1) vomiting in Venice and other Italian adventures

  

  group of students to bike across the country, from DC to San Francisco ... – some of the routes promised clear signage and well-maintained roads. I swore I would try it out sooner rather than later. The idea of biking

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 0: from DC to Quito A rough morning, a long nap, and a kindly neighbor

  

  't drag my body out of bed until 4:40. I discovered that the clothes I left ... at which the rest of the world was moving. After listening to a very ... the site of the first (of what I'm sure will be many) amusing Spanish

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to UROP because you basically ARE einstein

  

  : this is not regular and I offered to be there the whole time, it was not ... advice column on the student side of finding and participating in a UROP ... ']something along the lines of:[/annotation] “Hey [Name]! I’m a [year] studying [blank

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 26, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  I wrote to a few of my friends, but I hope you find the material ... the young entrepreneurs around me are college dropouts (all out of ... startups and how to make them work, especially the writings of Paul Graham

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So I said to Einstein… ...think of a name for my new theory while I go talk to my relatives.

  

  for the highest work of advancing civilization. You have to find a way ... sounds out of gravity waves... and probably, like, solve the mysteries of ... magnetism are actually kind of the same thing, I started to get a little

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 19, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  that time of year… ...when every day feels like 48 hours instead of 24. When's summer?

  

  it's that time of year folks, the time of year that I don't even have ... proper grammar standardized english). It's the time of year (midterms ... on a loop:   You are in the front yard of your aunt's house

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2017
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Am I rural or small-town? Read on to learn about what a taco bell index is

  

  from a rural or small town?". This is an iteration of one of the most ... the inherent strengths of this experience. So this is where I come in: because at the end of the day, it’s about your lived experience, not just

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • May 19, 2025
• Blog / Summer

  The Courage to Change Even Through the [Tough] Mud[der]

  

  a lot! So much so that when my friend offered me her ticket for the ... ="although nothing is possible with the heart of the cards 😏 jk please don’t do this ... half marathon by the end of the summer.  But that didn’t end up

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 11, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  , that I would need to pare down my focus or I'd drown in the torrent of activities. I remember the form I had to fill out to accept my offer of ... going?[/caption] One I remember the dozens of things people told me about

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022