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• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear Prospective 2020s Passing on advice that good people have given me

  

  overwhelmedness – but I also find a lot of solace in kind, honest words. So that ... mentors, because I think I'm still a bit too young and foolish to be ... future where you will be happy: Happiness is largely a choice. It's a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Operabots with Personality Ahhhhh.....music to my ears

  

  will be able to find a home here at MIT. Recently, Professor of Music ... the new The Beatles: Rock Band , you know where to find it ... piece of software that will allow anyone to compose music. Tod is a

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • August 26, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  World’s Largest Collection of Brains The new Brain & Cognitive Sciences Complex opens tomorrow.

  

  building is a plan to try to combine brain-scanning with genetics to figure ... based on sets of symptoms rather than underlying biology, a messy way to define diseases. The hope, he said, is to find patterns in the brain scans

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Swiss Miss "The archangel Michael descends riding a triceratops."

  

  umbrella--it had a big button that you could press to open it, fit perfectly into my small girly hands, had a comfortable strap to fit around my wrist ... a train in Switzerland. I was worried about finding a replacement

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Spring Think Some spring break reflections and thoughts

  

  Institute for a bit if they could, some of us at least to the refuge of sleep ... I’m traveling to a country that has none of my family members in it ... to, and when I find them they’re not always relatable--some people

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 27, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  on knowing what I’m doing in which I decide to go to grad school

  

  to fit in all the classes I want to take, at least not in a way where I ... ways to feel lost:" I feel lost on a much deeper level than ever before ... , like I’m in the middle of a field and there used to be a road I was

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 3, 2022
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

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

  

  where going to college means going to a 2-year institution (which is great ... , students who know what it means to attend a school where AP classes are few ... . When reading applications, we try our best to get a good sense of the

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • May 19, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Juggling Act When you're used to life in Hell...

  

  4-159 and somehow I need to find a stapler in the next five minutes ... Math Office, where I find - as always - a stapler just waiting on the ... Office matters to me: it's where I pick up the twenty (give or take

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i rode a train across america it took eighty-five hours

  

  , and I get off the bus to find a seat on coach. I'll be here until ... . I often find myself flitting from coast to coast, but still haven ... since the beginning of June.  So I decided to take a train from Boston to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  -2024 bore witness to my transformation from a directionless physics major into ... to, nobody wanted to interview me. Internally, I knew I’d find some way ... .  Although my only real coding experience was a month-long IAP course where the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Noise and time chaos and peace in a silver package

  

  very beautiful. I want to run a little reading group with people where we ... On time and noise I've been meaning to write a post recently about ... wrote this post that I really enjoyed, and related to a lot. Notably: I

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 15, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Friendly Neighborhood Dream-Destroyer "How Could You Work There?"

  . However, my goal when reading an application is never to just find a reason ... a buddy who wanted to hang out. Since I was a college admissions ... fun and exciting event where all admitted students who come to campus

  • by DJ Rock
  • May 30, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Harvard Square Photoblog Complete with funny captions. At least, I think they're funny. You be the judge.

  

  mile from my fraternity house (according to GoogleMaps), I got here by a ... around downtown Boston to do a little shopping (which had the added benefit ... wireless and free Photoshop to bring you a blog entry about another set of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fitting In Fitting in at MIT

  

  you how a typical Thanksgiving dinner at my house. If you were to dine ... awkward, but given my background of coming from a family where three ... find that here. There are a lot of cultural affinity groups not only for

  • by Bryan
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The Boston Festival of Indie Games In which I geek out on campus with a bunch of gamers

  

  /iPhone game where you match colors in a specific order to clear levels. It ... the happy expressions of all these people; where learning to play a new ... around 10am, got my pass and a guidebook around 10:45, and headed over to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Blog Graveyard skeletons in my google docs

  

  ’t find the right words to describe a [annotation note="and nothing at all ... before [annotation note="with a minor detour, since i had to actually find ... ’m amputating a precious, home-grown limb. I tell myself that I’ll come back to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 12, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art is Everywhere! [by Emma Frank '15] Public Art at MIT

  

  center. Boyce sees finding the cure to cancer as a matter of being able to ... ’s a place where art and creativity is encouraged. Art brings life to a ... you come to MIT’s campus, take a moment to go find some of these

  • by ARTalk
  • October 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  To the Class of 2016 General life advice

  

  a napkin... I just haven't had a good chunk of time to sit down and ... 't be afraid to take a nap (they'll become your new favorite pastime). If ... , make sure you have time to decompress. "You" time is never a waste of

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  rural winter, city winter haven't shoveled snow here once

  

  of rugged beauty, where Carhartts are more a necessity than a fashion ... relief of the wood stove, where we'd hang our soggy snow pants to dry ... cafes of the city. The familiar rituals of rural life gave way to a more

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • February 26, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s trending?: My Computer Vision final project Where trendy styles = adding styling to trend lines

  

  image and then writing a set of instructions to find the relevant line. The second is a machine learning approach where we train a network to ... 100 categories. We used these examples to train a neural network that

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 11, 2018