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  Passions (No, not that kind)

  

  left the house, and then forgot to publish it. Well, here it is, a year ... this year Kevin, a friend from my high school, is like many of you -- e ... college essay is a lot of work, but the work should not be bad; the reason

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  Welcome to CPW! 'twas the night before cpw...

  

  free food—that reminded me how much I enjoyed exploring MIT for the first time as a prospective student. In light of it being the night before CPW, I wanted to highlight a few pieces of general advice I had

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • April 10, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Homecoming some musings on memory

  

  've learned to appreciate how much of the Institute is its people, but I've also ... felt pale in comparison. This is a reflection of how my memory works ... imperfect fragments of our nostalgia. Three. MIT is not a place. It's never

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 13, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why I stayed up until 6am on Thursday More nerdy cake-baking.

  

  integral is. I was shocked at how much I could remember. 11:30pm. The ... same direction, then the atom is at a higher energy level than if one is ... released, with a magnitude corresponding to 21cm radiation. Ta-da! This is

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  You Gave Love A Bad Name A night of talent.

  

  a big philanthropy event each year. Sigma Kappa's is Late Night which is basically a talent show with acts ranging from magic acts to dances ... lesson to everyone at the performance to highlight how dangerous it is to

  • by Bryan
  • October 8, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Doesn’t Feel Real getting from one place to another

  

  for the course is to pick a spot in nature relatively near to Boston, go ... piece and hope you like it. Doesn't Feel Real   “How did having a ... floor of McCormick Hall in Room 239, where I stayed my freshman year, is a

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 24, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  , and is said to be growing into a small city. Purple mountains shelter us ... Getting Home Instead of flying, my boyfriend Cory and I took a bus ... around a few blocks of New York City for twenty minutes and then arrived at

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Go, ninja, go. A four hour tour of Boston, with Gilligan, and the Skipper too.

  

  've come to the following conclusion: running the Boston Marathon bandit is a ... training hard enough to qualify for Boston. There's a reason that Boston is ... , anyway, take this for what it is: a snapshot in the life of a twenty

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello deferred applicants, i, again, don’t know what to say, but i can try

  

  heal, not again. as much as i want to laugh at how emotional this writing is, and as much as i want to look at this paragraph and say that i was ... was deferred myself, i was eventually accepted to mit. such is the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Embarrassing One Minute everything that can go wrong...will find a worse way to manifest itself

  

  called it a night, feeling pretty happy with how much we’d gotten done. I ... material. And problem sets. And a semester-long project. The project is the ... my team is a college student). We can design apps that connect acapella

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / How to Food

  sourdough start & restart & starter this is and is not a metaphor

  

  I have a sourdough starter! His name is[annotation note="a Roman ... sourdough starter, like having a pet, is very good for me. But also a bit ... . Aulus and his growth, or lack thereof, occupied[annotation note="this is a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 19, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  getting good grades, and one of them is knowing how to cook amazingly simple ... applying to a college outside of Costa Rica, since our education system is ... tourists, and therefore, studying this career in my homeland is like making a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / People & Identities

  someday fate of friends

  

  to my room is one I recognize every stroke of. Now after I’m away for a ... forget if each breath of air is mine or yours. Love is a deal, you sit on ... . There is a story behind this name!"]murph[/annotation] together, you

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 10, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  World Suicide Prevention Day Write love on your arms to show support

  

  MIT is a really stressful place.  Class just started less than one ... .  Look at the boots! And here is a picture of my roommate Maggie making pizza!! On a different note, today is World Suicide Prevention Day

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  natural language generation. A language model is a probability distribution ... the form of a chatbot, while GPT-NeoX-20B is a pure LLM that allows ... providing a full bibliography, there is considerable peer-reviewed literature

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

  2020 Reflections & 2021 Resolutions

  

  things. Maintain a 4.5/5.0 GPA - Accomplished! So this is kind of more ... Spanish) so my GPA doesn't really mean much. Get a summer internship ... , but this is a good way to keep me motivated for school. Read 5 books

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 3, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  someone who is terrible at extinguishing hope. no matter how much i try, i ... drove in sacramento? tracy, where i grew up, is known as a cow town. a ... want to go to the east coast, where culture is!” and throws a fit when

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  work-life balance (without a life)

  

  's what "work-life balance" is about, right? that's why "get a life" is an ... is about. i tell myself that i'm working at a startup, but i don't have ... friends, is what people do outside of work. the other day there was a picnic

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 10, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  finding good what i look forward to

  

  that well in 6.145. Sure, I got an A, but how much of that did I really ... this to a student. Perhaps they should change that. It is now Friday ... a try and my stamina is way worse than I anticipated. I struggle so

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 4, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: From the Life and Times of Cam

  

  Tonight's blog entry is brought to you by Cam, a resident of ... intersection of my life and MIT – which is surprisingly large for a high school ... student! This is the kind of place MIT is. There is naturally much more to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 6, 2009