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• Blog / Challenges

  Cancer life-changing.

  

  businesses. Typically, a “date” is bought by his or her friends, who pool together and “buy” their friend for an impressive sum. (I hope I’m doing a ... were California Pizza Kitchen, F1 Racing, Vapiano’s, Melting Pot, among

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Cool Data Stuff, ft. Immersion I just really like data visualizations, plz don't judge

  

  I emerge from three weeks of being fairly hosed WITH MORE COOL DATA ... tear-inducingly beautiful data visualization that you are about to see ... you to via email. For a data nerd like me, this is basically the best

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 5, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  taking a gap year. My hope is that you will at least consider, just for a ... Class of 2012 and would like to request a one-year (or sometimes two ... online reply form on your MyMIT portal, just choose I will enroll at MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  College The path to self-discovery is lined with my blog entries.

  

  the rest of this story, and some of you who are reading this will live ... ability to make reasonable judgments, however. So, whether or not you ... difficulty that requires you to reach out and work with your classmates, to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: Parts 1 and 2 for Early and Regular Action applicants

  

  future or telepathically reach the Admissions Office. So for now, try to ... Breathe… If you have submitted your application, go to 1. If you are ... essay, go to 3. 1 Congratulations, Early Action applicants! You perfected

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Preparing for the real world An alum's perspective!

  

  . There I was, slaving over a 18.02 or 8.012 pset at 3AM, being really no ... ’t worry,” he said, “After this, the real world will be easy.” I heard that ... solution. You know when you have reached the “right answer,” and the problems

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 18, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  IAP thoughts two weeks late, but with an illustration!

  

  I moved to campus this past weekend! It’s super exciting! I will ... sell all my extra clothing Things I actually had time for during IAP ... , through adjustments to things like the insulation, ventilation, or even just

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  two classes. Assignment 1 – A White Paper (3.010) In true MIT fashion ... .nano or industry researcher: Using transmission electron microscopy to ... “characterize”? What do these big words even mean? “X-ray photo-” what now? Or

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 4, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ISEF Reception MIT will be present at the Intel International Science & Engineering Fair in Albuquerque this…

  

  The MIT Office of Admissions will host a reception for participants ... ) to me (in the comments or via email). I hope you can join us! MIT ISEF ... international students at ISEF, I will be presenting a shoptalk: Admission to US

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  Regrade Request Analysis points, please?

  

  very hit-or-miss: either I reached full points or the request was ... points, partial points, or no points for the question. The grader can also ... : Request: Hi, I'm writing to request a regrade on Problem 1.2. I got points

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Little things that remind me im not home

  

  at home. There’s a concept called tingi, which is buying and selling goods in really small amounts. People buy oil buy the cupful, or ... -use seasoning packs, or shampoo sachets, or sugar, or detergent. Buying in bulk is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 15, 2019
• Blog / Events

  dogg number there is no one better to be than myself!

  

  were from Snoop Dogg, so we were using the Spotify API and the Spotipy ... , trying to figure out what the heck was going on with the Spotify API. It ... around 1 AM, and we submitted it to Devpost, the platform that HackMIT was

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 20, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  grade will come from three projects. Project 1 will be assigned at week 4 ... will also align with months: project 1 due two months into the semester ... for a revised version. Or the deadlines will divide the semester into

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Plot Twist And what MIT Architecture has taught me about design and life.

  

  excitement, a mobilizing force that will propel me to want to learn more for ... ! if you don’t buy it, no one else will. Don’t get caught up wth 100 ... MIT, the result of knowing that after this semester, I will be leaving

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  socializing over zoom it's been rough

  

  forced me to take stock of what relationships I’ve been able to form in ... the end of all that is to go on yet another Zoom call, or even just ... that seek you out to spend time with you – be it to get lunch, or to sit

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Tour of an MIT student’s notebook my brain is a mess so my pages have everything

  

  free time or don’t feel like doing real work. Sometimes, Alexi will ... ’re looking to start keeping a little notebook or everything and have no idea ... [/caption] Historically, I’ve only ever finished three notebooks out of the dozens I’ve had

  • by Anika H. '26
  • July 8, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day of IAP 3 Classes and Soup

  

  complete internships or study abroad in some cases, I spent my first IAP here ... :30 - normally, I end up getting to campus a half-hour or fifteen minutes early. My ... my throat because I’m already starving, or I take a walk around campus

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 16, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership Training Institute by YeSeul Kim '10 and Anne Shen '11.

  -reflection. Throughout the program, students develop their own community service to address ... 2010. This summer, LTI is going global! Semmie (Associate Director ... -Telmex. I will also be traveling to China later in the summer to teach high

  • by mitblogs
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final projects from the fall three coding projects and an alien in disguise

  

  autostitching, or automatically stitching together separate images of the same ... . Whether I actually improved or not is up for debate. I couldn't decide what ... Hollywood actor so he could get rich enough to buy a spaceship and return to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Bloggers invade LA What should Sam and I do in Los Angeles? Suggestions welcome

  

  Break starts today! (Does anyone know if milk is okay past the Sell By date? I don't think mine could have lasted another day or two...) Sam ... instead of a suitcase. On our to-do list so far, we have 1. Roscoe

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 23, 2007