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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Women’s Initiative A bit about my classes - and why girls are awesome

  

  Sooo ~ MIT's back in session and life is again much too full with ... , Thurs 7 - 9 pm), but class is so relaxed that it's not really a problem ... - Thanks to this class, I'm finally learning MATLAB. This class is

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  infinite corridors can’t believe there are no posts with this title yet

  

  strike at a high level my life is not so different from what it was like ... ’m grateful that work is easier than ever i still spend a lot of time writing ... forty old white men (don’t ask how) and a breakup and feeling incompetent

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  selecting for obsession

  

  Olympiad the summer after ninth grade. It’s easy to forget how smart he is ... This morning, I was Googling Chris to find a photo of him, and was inadvertently reminded, thanks to news reports, that he was once a child prodigy

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Barker Engineering Library Where sound goes to die.

  

  . Anyway, inside this dome is a library, known as the Barker Engineering ... 's a great place to study. The reading room in the library is the inside ... brown thing to the right isn't a desk, nor is the table. There's a girl

  • by Snively '11
  • February 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 7 Days

  

  to spend the money. I didn't realize how big of a deal CES was. Then I ... On January 1st, I enjoyed a nice New Year's dinner with my family. We ... our dining room table, planning out my year. 2017 is the year that I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 14, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vast Oral Tradition Bela Bartok, a fluorescent rabbit, and Helen Keller walk into a bar. Stop me if…

  

  projects during this week if the class has a final. So, pretty much the ... Okay, I haven't blogged all week... the last week of term here is ... tickets to the BSO through the college card program. They were doing an a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  I made an AI write most of this post because I forgot I needed to post this week

  

  give it. For example, this is the prompt I gave GPT-3. This is a great ... Consider Becoming a Pony in College! Reason #1: You will have a much better ... . If you haven't heard of GPT-3, it's a language model that uses deep

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Blogger Pets some serotonin for your noggin

  

  Nicknames: pup, puppy Notes: She is a Havanese and weighs ten pounds. She is ... , she is still a puppy). She doesn't really like other dogs, but she ... is a bunch of photos because it’s so hard to choose between all of this

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 13, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Thanksgiving a different way All the cool kids call it "Friendsgiving" now, right?

  

  classes is actually, uh, not a break, even if you don't have any class. My ... , which is a real classic MIT experience). Here's what we got up to: I ... ate their fill (and perhaps a little more). I made bread, as is my

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 2, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection notes A brief update from selection.

  

  how things are looking here. Admitting a class is hard work, full of ... announced on the blogs when we mail the decisions.Selection time is a very ... A few notes from selection: No decisions are yet final. We are still

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s like finding candy in your pocket… MIT in the media - Always a treat.

  

  dashboard (Tumblr is a micro-blogging platform by the way). Usually it'd look ... MIT is incredibly wired; wi-fi all over the campus. Students are ... hours to the Internet - aka procrastination. But is it me or are we all

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Public Art And one fantastic sandwich

  

  woman on a crane directed workmen on the ground while pointing out how to ... created specifically by MIT students and faculty. How cool is this? But ... . There is a Frank Stella room-size installation in Building 7 on the 3rd

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 26, 2011
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is NEET?

  NEET is a collaborative and project-based academic program from the ... work as entrepreneurs, innovators, and discoverers. Students choose a ... department they will be majoring in and a NEET Certificate in one of these
• Blog / Academics & Research

  12 / Let’s try law school What's a computer scientist doing in DC?

  

  bias or discrimination before a transportation-tracking technology is ... important?[/caption] Hello, hello! I finally have WiFi (most of the time), a ... semester and briefly reflect after a hectic last few weeks between final

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When I Grow Up In which I contemplate growing up and what I am going to do with my…

  

  up" is often completed with a "I want to be" or a "I will try to." We ... is the uncertainty? Polymers, believe it or not, involve a lot of ... was not and is not easy. There was (is?) a point where the thought of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 8, 2016
• Blog / Events

  A Typical Friday Afternoon on a Thursday Honoring the decades old (?) tradition of the East Campus Friday Afternoon Club (FAC)

  

  East Campus is unique for a wide variety of reasons. We build roller coasters, swim the across the Charles river (YOU HAVE NO PROOF), and have a ... . 5PM. Courtyard. The feast inside is waiting. It might be a bit

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 29, 2014
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  What is Splash?

  analysis, Splash offerings span a wide variety of areas. Want to take a class ... during Splash, you can get your feet wet with a short introduction to any
• Blog / Academics & Research

  EAPS Field Trip In which I pretend to be Course 12 for a weekend

  

  ! This video is pretty much just a compilation of me squinting at the ... that they are welcome. It is a great opportunity to meet new people and talk about geology! We don't have infinite space as this is a tough

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Cacophony of Coats Also, my courseload for this term!

  

  metaphor of a post-it-encrusted cubicle? Anything is possible, but the ... -classical music until high school, so this is all kind of new, but jazz is like a ... ; Computational Photography a.k.a. How To Make Photoshop) - The second lecture

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking ahead to IAP One more week left to go! Feel the burn!

  

  about how useful it is and 98% of participants get a summer job! Finally ... + weeks of winter break and a month of IAP: Priceless Winter break is upon ... . Another popular option is working on a UROP. If you don't have a UROP yet

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2005