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• Blog / MIT Life

  Living the MEng life same, different, same

  

  'm doing research, the main part of my actual degree. To be honest, so far, I ... signed a job offer two days ago (!), so I guess that means the next year of ... '."]Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science[/annotation]offers a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 27, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  out of the semester or a weak ideology with which I choose classes and ... that the class demanded a certain level of mathematical maturity and went ... him. we didn’t have lecture recordings available until the end of the

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Where’s My Stuff? Updates from the MyMIT Application Tracking System.

  

  lots of materials, many of which were postmarked before the deadline. So ... -- Way West 15). Mail Services sorts the mail and brings it by the ... are taken out of the envelope, given an official MIT Office of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  checkboxes this semester in a list

  

  letters of the [annotation note="in case you are wondering, the best letter ... am a native speaker, I don’t explicitly know a lot of the rules so it ... had an entire car of just [annotation note='four west, my wing in Next

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  In which I am somehow still an MIT student 4 years later

  

  ,[/annotation] we had a taste of the Wild West at [annotation note ... , and trying to "make the most" of my last semester of college, despite ... Lab, the same lab that I had UROP'ed in. That first year of grad school

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  The Art of Trying New Things V.2

  

  In my sophomore fall, I wrote the art of trying new things, where I ... ="Comparative Media Studies"]CMS[/annotation] CI-M. CI-Ms are part of the communication ... typically get out of the way your freshman and sophomore year. Then there are

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Post-engagement, pre-Bahamas An exciting week!

  

  Museum of Science today to check out the reception site. Hanging in the ... of! Going on vaca Adam and I are going to the Bahamas tomorrow and ... 't been to the beach since spring break of sophomore year (when I went to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  What the end of the semester does to Conner 2 For one thing, no one does the dishes. And I mean no one.

  

  " of intro bio- another flavor offered in the fall as 7 ... what finals week did to the 213 suite. First of all, everyone is always eating and never doing dishes, so the sink looks like that. Second of all

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  meandering my nonlinear academic path so far

  

  "]CSAIL[/annotation] that left me starry eyed towards what the world of computer science research has to offer. By the April of my freshman year, I declared 6-9 as my ... computer science side with a side of brains, or focus on the brain side with

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  Fortin’ with Mimi Let’s. Talk. About. Queer stuff.

  

  discriminated against in public areas based on gender identity. One of the most ... ://malegislature.gov/Bills/189/Senate/S2407. It’s super short. In November, the people of ... live on East Campus, one of the most visibly queer dorms on campus (the

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • September 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 / Keep Calm and Carry On Getting some much-needed vitamin D on the other coast

  

  it's already October. We're a third of the way into the semester ... week of November. 6 others on the MIT Figure Skating team are also going. Construction of the rink in Johnson Arena has been underway, too. I also carved

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life during IAP i dump my brain a little

  

  of the instructors. The first two lectures or so were focused on using ... in the class). Differentiating between the lingo of add, commit, push, clone, et cetera was confusing at first, but by the end of the first week

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Meetings with Brown & Yale in CA, IL, MI, NV, OH MIT Admissions starts to look forward to the Class of 2013 (!).

  

  're excited to have these conversations with your counselor about the state of ... breakfasts. I should note that in addition to the west coast and midwest, MIT ... England. Of course, we'll also be visiting 70+ cities across the country in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  When I’m Home Did you enter the PE lottery yet?

  

  Thanksgiving. I spent most of it watching Food Network and The Jeffersons on TV ... , which I found basically unwatchable despite the presence of Xena and the ... thanks to the combined efforts of Course X, Rob and Amber, Family Edition

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  . You've probably seen some of the recent news about GPT-3 and Chat ... out of the belief that MIT students, regardless of their field of study ... GPT. The following thoughts on this topic are advisory from the two of us

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

  total eclipse of the cruft

  

  of others, I traveled to northern New England to see the total solar ... around the mountain west, and it was an incredible experience, so I knew I ... , the cloud forecast was looking gloomy all month and up to the morning of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Al Kwon ‘08: Researching drug delivery Al Kwon, a Junior majoring in Biology, talks about some of his really exciting work…

  

  Robert Langer, an MIT Chemical Engineering professor, is one of the ... pending patents and is in the National Inventors Hall of Fame for his ... winner of Charles Stark Draper Prize (considered to be the “Nobel

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sounds of Summer What've you been listening to lately?

  

  Company of Thieves - This is the kind of song that you enthusiastically sing ... . This is completely uncharacteristic of the rest of their material, just sos ya knows. "The Walk" by Mayer Hawthorne - This is the kind of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Curseroad MIT class roadmaps that shouldn’t exist but theoretically could

  

  information about the requirements for each major, when classes are offered, and even the average number of hours for each class (based on course ... where I test the limits of how one can graduate from MIT. Perfect for

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life as a Physics Major- Research and Junior Lab(Part 2) Long and verbose. But I hope you find time to read it.

  

  figure has been found to a high degree of accuracy, the question then ... the latter, (Save your notes.) but sometimes, they can offer a little of ... one of the easier 8.13 experiments) and gives you, to varying degrees

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 29, 2008