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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why the title of this post is really important I got to present my UROP work looking at the titles of graphs at the…

  

  content. First, we had to come up with some titles. All of our titles were ... substantial work in several key areas of vision science in order to lay the ... , this conference is dedicated to the study of human vision—figuring out

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 28, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  merry christmas from MIT and my newsfeed a snapshot of holiday cheer from cambridge to new zealand

  

  . Timeliness and preparation are the keys to success said no one in my family ... It is standard practice to leave MIT as quickly as possible upon ... passes to exams. Whether this speaks to ultimate time-management skills or

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • December 25, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  my free API key had expired so I had to do it again the next morning ... This past week was the first week of [annotation note ... , aka undergrad research."]UROP,[/annotation] I took Intro to Deep

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

  swatches of MIT collected like paint chips

  

  I am going to put this together haphazardly, work on it in drips and ... . This place is hard, in all senses of the word. It cuts you to the quick. But it can be lovely, too.   When I first thought of this blog

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester customary end-of-semester blog post: sophomore spring edition

  

  minutes away. Getting to MIT is a “commute” now. The bus chugs through the residential areas, stopping at every block to let out tired adults. It’s a “school bus” for the working class. And it’s odd to realize that I am part

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  print “Hello, World!\n”; Everything you ever needed to know about me

  

  everywhere. You might have seen me if you walk down the Infinite at the right time of day. My name is Lydia. We have a lot to catch up on. I was born ... salaries and some help from the government, was just enough to buy half a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Journal of Negative Results, among other things Absurdities I encounter while livin' my life.

  

  , right?) Item the first: The Journal of Negative Results. My advisor and ... in chromosome 5, leading to an extension of the circadian period from ~24 hours to a little over 25 hours. To express this mutation

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  can’t stop smiling a time capsule for freshman fall

  

  ate a breakfast of cheese & crackers. I walked to my first class of ... because I originally expected my first semester to be incredibly rough ... now it’s February... But this one is pretty close to my heart, and I

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Lobby 7 Gotta love it

  

  Here’s a little tribute to lobby 7. Since my start at MIT in January, I’ve walked through this lobby nearly every weekday to get to my office just a few feet down the infinite corridor. I enter with my morning

  • by Kris Guay
  • October 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of SURFing at NIST Using a tiny tractor beam to manipulate nanowires

  

  infinite corridors, acronyms, and research as much as MIT, but alas, I did! My research was on Using Optical Tweezers to Create Nanowire Based ... chip. My project was to find out how to remove those wires from the chip

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Linkdump: Smart Leaves, Burritos, and Shaq cool things on the Internet

  

  childhood was a festival of notes. I'd wake up to a note on my bedside reminding me to brush my teeth; on the bathroom mirror a note would remind me to read the note that would be waiting next to my breakfast. This is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Danger Danger! Listen to Burt, duck and cover!

  

  to be. It's also a really dangerous place to be. No, no, don't freak ... "What could possible be in that room?!" Some are pretty easy to figure out, others aren't. For instance, and It's pretty safe to say that

  • by Snively '11
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Get Home from the Airport for Free For prefrosh who are like me and terrified of entering dank underground tunnels they haven’t…

  

  to Boston from a family vacation in Toronto, I took the T back to MIT for free like I always do. When I first came to MIT I was terrified of ... look into the first floor to contemplate some art. There is a lot of art

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 18, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT-vangelion: Behind the scenes! how we made the Pi Day 2023 video!

  

  ahead animation. Pose to pose is when you define the key frames of your ... the key frame setting from automatic to every 1 second. What do we do ... you haven’t checked it out yet, lookie here. To achieve this, we ate

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 12, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  reflecting on 2020 goals and planning for 2021

  

  In high school, I neglected many of my personal interests to make ... would sacrifice my time now to get into a good college and then pursue my ... . I listed all the goals, skills, habits, etc. I wanted to have/do by

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Lovin’ Tell me more, tell me more!

  

  that you must do a summer program, all the same. The key is to do ... school summers, I strongly recommend you to make this summer a meaningful ... /USA Mathcamp!, Colby College, Maine I visited MIT for my very first time

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Q&A: Food on campus, UROPs, decisions Qs from prospectives and prefrosh, As from me.

  

  /convenience store on the first floor of the Student Center. It tends to be quite ... The four questions I'm going to address: 1) "It seems like the food availability on campus is a little scarce. Do you have time to cook, even if it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: A sneak peak at research @ MIT This new website is sure to change the way that the world thinks about MIT…

  

  December, as I was running from my lab to the bathroom (via the Infinite ... the papers? What does the abbreviation “PhD” mean to you ... that entails? Coming to MIT, I didn’t really know the answers to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW: The Story So Far An update from the frontlines.

  

  Come one, come all to CPW! I don't know about you guys, but the energy on campus right now is absolutely amazing. The Infinite Coordidor is packed with hosts and pre-frosh running to class and with families taking

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  The first step ...is admitting you need help.

  

  in your first year at MIT isn't how to integrate that particularly ... . If you have a personal crisis, the first place to stop is again ... than your high school in ways you can't even begin to imagine. A thousand

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 8, 2006