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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains, Voltaire’s Son, and Other MIT Things Notes from the Start of Junior Year

  

  , I’m just so glad, happy, elated, delighted to be here with people I’m already in love with and in a place I’m so proud to call home. (Alexa J. ‘20 ... despite everything, it’s hardest to leave. So what’s the third year like

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  fewer-than-half of applicants insufficiently prepared to do the work at MIT) and then threw dice to stochastically select among the remaining ... takes you to an article from New York Times magazine by Daniel Kahneman

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Off What happens to an MIT student when the firehose gets turned off temporarily?

  

  With the title of this entry, you might think I’m about to tell you ... talking about the weekend BEFORE that, which happened to be a rare breed of weekend. “Being hosed” is an MIT phrase meaning “having too much to do and

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Psets from hell Sometimes learning can be painful

  

  thekeri said: And to Laura: update? Please? I'm suffering over Spring ... ). While technically you don't need any knowledge of 18.02 to understand 18 ... mad at me because my kindergarden teacher wanted to talk to her, and she

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Happier Than Ever on quitting and long-ish distance biking

  

  ’s final projects hell month, my stack of moving boxes are begging me to fill ... /full when you need to borrow/return a bike respectively. MIT also has an ... that I ride around for a bit before paying for it. A bike thief trying to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Me and the Firehose on balancing classes, and choosing next year’s schedule

  

  . My mom once told me about an experiment where lemmings learned to swim ... complex, convoluted routes to the center. Every time they were returned to ... to take six classes, bitch about it, have no time…  [caption id

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 30, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  ramen this is a ramen post.

  

  immediately to your left, and go-go curry straight ahead. all around are tv ... curry and donkatsu fills your nose and you smile. are you going to get donkatsu today? nope. you've decided to give all the ramen places you

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Black Lives Matter until they don't.

  

  only way I could bring words to my feelings.  ** I moved to the United ... invariably leads to them finding out I’m from Nigeria, they ask variations of ... to pop up with surprising regularity. A lot of my newly made African

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Valentine’s Day Special Featuring calculus, people who hate me, and a picture puzzle

  

  students would rather do calculus than succumb to the byproducts of rampant ... . 3. People who go to MIT lose their ability to count. Also, they forget to talk about things that they write at the bottom of lists. In

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2019 everything from autobiographies to magic the gathering blog posts

  

  have plans to. I’m also not the kind of person to have new year’s resolutions. But I couldn’t come up with anything else to post, and I wanted to ... that I’m applying to liberal arts colleges, so WHY does she ask a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 30, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fuji: Not Your Grandma’s Mountain I guess if we're being honest here there were actually a lot of grandmas climbing…

  

  Mt. Fuji. I have to preface this story with a couple facts: 1) I am not ... shoes and vowed "never again." 2) For some reason, I have been wanting to ... halfway up the mountain, legs and throat on fire, clothes soaked through to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 6, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  it’s ok that it’s not ok sometimes things will happen, and you have to just let yourself be.

  

  depression. One is “anhedonia”, or the inability to feel anything, unable to ... feeling where a person loses the ability to even understand what happiness is, or how to go about acquiring it. The other type of depression is

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 4, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I swear this isn’t an ad for Google But Bard is so much more fun than ChatGPT

  

  Earlier this year, I had planned to write a blog post testing whether it’s possible to train a machine-learning model to learn Course 6’s new class numbering system. It would’ve been so cool – I was going to code up

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  slow burn you and the void

  

  cw: gore ?  # The void is calling to you. You speak to the machines. You rose closer with the sun today, shivered on the way to lab, the ... , forgot half the holes and channels. You set to fixing it, blinking through

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 6, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Regrade Request Analysis points, please?

  

  online-submission platforms I've used. It comes down to the grading system ... Regrade" button and a little text box appears where they can write a note to ... hypothesize that the discrepancies were just due to different graders. To sort

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

  Chang Ning District, Shanghai 上海，长宁区

  

  Shout out to the MIT VPN for helping me climb the Great Firewall ... summer--researching at the Media Lab and going to Ethiopia for the water ... choice in going back to China. But I felt a pang of both regret and longing

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 4, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask A VC Boston 2016 networking with over 20 venture capitalists all over the startup scene

  

  startups to make returns. As an entrepreneur, being in their good graces and ... for one's company. I wanted to meet as many as I could and learn as much ... sleeping from 6am to noon for the past month so I wasn't sure how my body

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for EA Deferred and Regular Action students your last minute questions

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... only need to send in your February Updates and Notes report, which will ... you'd like to provide (new awards, changes to your activities, etc

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 20, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  from Boston to New York City and another bus from New York to Pennsylvania to visit my family. After we got off the first bus we wandered ... up to the driver, asking to pay in cash for a seat. The driver reached

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Building the Yearbook [by Ken Haggerty '11] An inside look at Technique 2010 (shhh!!!)

  

  ), it was my duty not only to come up with a concept, design the book, and make sure every page was laid out correctly, but also to steer the design ... what needed to get done, who was doing each task, who wasn't doing each

  • by ARTalk
  • March 29, 2010