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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Following My Passions At MIT [by Susan Shepherd '11] Can a writer fit in at MIT?

  

  a daunting task. I discovered MIT fairly early on in my search, and ... a writer fit in at MIT? After arriving at MIT, I quickly learned that ... opportunity to visit the MIT Literary Society, where I met students who were

  • by ARTalk
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  walking mechanics how to walk faster using Facts and Science

  

  than potential energy because i can’t actually tell where the potential ... in ways that impair walking, i’m sorry and i have no idea what it ... considerate - you can in principle walk through busy hallways like the infinite

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dyslexia at MIT Living with dyslexia, and the current state of dyslexia research, at MIT and otherwise

  

  foreign languages, where the nuances in sound were unfamiliar. “When you ... associated with dyslexia can manifest itself in noteworthy talents. “Dyslexic ... class I took last semester. Reading the literature and interviewing people

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 7, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Difference Written at 36,781 feet over Des Moines.

  

  you checked your iPod, and you can't find your boarding pass. Ordinarily ... scared, if I could. But I'm just a ketchupless freshman in 7D getting her chair kicked by the four-year-old in 7F. What do I know?

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New York City in which i go to work on some days and eat lots of cheap food…

  

  apartment in Hell's Kitchen a mile from Times Square. I can't say how much time we spend at home between work and exploring the city, but I can say ... I started obsessively checking the news sometime in middle school. I

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Communication Intensive Jumping on the semester-in-review blog train

  

  most straightforward and familiar, but I had no idea where to start ... figures legible. [annotation note="I wanted to embed the poster in this post ... in a poster that I still have hanging in my room today

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  reviewing MIT’s Intro To Deep Learning the highs and lows of the beloved IAP class

  

  . You can see all final presentation slides here (...I was in group 6 ... ="Independent Activities Period, aka the month of January where students can take a long ... over CNNs, VAEs, and GANs in one day, and of course by the next morning I

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 12, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  17,707 words writing at night like you're running out of time

  

  for me in a way that I haven’t done since college applications ... [/annotation] how much writing I’ve done in just the past month for classes ... assignment where I wrote the following: Dear Mr. Albert Einstein, Thank you

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 24, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT = The American Dream As usual...we procrastinate like mad before finals.

  

  My 5.60 Final is tomorrow at 9:00. In just about 18 hours, I will be ... , I think I'm in plenty good company :P) Anyways, one of my favorite ... you want to be...we talking a bus driver, a secretary, two kids in MIT...can

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 12, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  What Is Your LΔ? What about heart? What about determination? What about resilience?

  

  knowledge base. By focusing on LΔ we can really zero in on YOUR individual ... , and standardized tests. Can we rely solely on these tools? I say no ... One of the first things that I learned about MIT is that everyone

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  A Blog Entry About Transition This blog entry is about transition. The act of passing from one state or place…

  

  transition. And in one sentence, I've completely ruined your hope of being ... total - so I took as many as I could, as if the only way to succeed in ... . (That part's the gravy!) MIT is a hard place - I can say that with

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 2, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m A Famous Rockstar The title is misleading - I'm famous, and I'm a rockstar, but I'm not famous…

  

  -vacation (which is where I've been hiding). So I've got CD's now; stop by 3-107 if ... studies was one of my two majors in college. I probably know more about ... who preach about the environment in an elitist or antagonistic manner. I

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One Year After Michael Jackson An out-of-place tribute to the King of Pop

  

  post, in the voice of last Friday. Where were you a year ago today? Ed ... remember exactly where I was and how I reacted. I don't mean to compare ... ; consider though that for the first, I was only in elementary school, and for

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 30, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  matter where you enroll next fall, please make it a better place. I know you can. I hope you will.   ... available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  fun facts about random stuff sometimes i just like learning new things

  

  I’ve potatoed so much over the past few weeks of break — lounging in ... does harken back to my science bowl days where I memorized so much random ... -quite-potato thing that I’ve been doing is trying to learn a lot of trivia — time on

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 5, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pursuing multiple fields

  

  literature but I'm concerned that it will be too tough to try to get degrees in ... -major because your three "intellectually coherent unit" subjects can be in your ... Aha! We have a question! Jon asks "Also, I was wondering (uh oh here

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  chances the point is to let yourself be helped

  

  updates and discuss what you’ll do in the coming week. I’ve been fortunate ... . I loved spending time in lab, learning more about the design process ... had I asked a TA. I didn’t know anyone else in the class and I wasn

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 26, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Surviving CPW Tips and tricks on making the most of your CPW experience

  

  . Relish in it. Rule #5: Don't knock it 'til you try it. I can't say how many ... settled in enough that I don't remember what my own experience was like :-P ... that I look a lot taller in my picture than I do in real life because

  • by Bryan
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  at the South Asian Youth Initiative a New Haven adventure

  

  thriving in my community, where I am accepted for whoever I choose to be and ... , Sarah S. ’24 and I meet in front of McCormick to head to South Station to ... can hear ‘Hey yo, Westerburg’; on others, I am thinking about literature

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 22, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  What have you been doing lately? SPOILER ALERT: Mostly StumbleUpon

  

  't know, I'll go ask Yan. But if you're interested in what your 4th or maybe 5th favorite blogger is up to, I can tell you! Besides traveling (and ... teaching classes over IAP. I've also acquired a pair of skis so I can now

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 15, 2009