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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Didn’t You Graduate? I refuse to accept my new label...kind of.

  

  jones - blogger alum?!?!?!? did you really have to remind me? Can I at ... adulthood. OH -- and if you think you can do everything at MIT in four years ... if I'm cool enough, I can become an MIT Lifer (you just found out one

  • by Bryan
  • August 23, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing Workshop I just wrote an entire post and my browser crashed. dfsdfksdfojfoajwefoiajdwf.

  

  robust, lively post. You can imagine that it was once inundated with much ... . If you can find someone like that for you, you're gold. 3) A good way ... opportunity to really take a good look at yourself so you can write about what

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Hey VMars fans Wallace is Course 2!

  

  as I can tell. In your MyMIT account, if you go to Section 8 of Part Two, you can view a PDF preview of what your application will look like ... admissions officers can get to know about this so that they don't think I am an

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m Kind of a Big Deal Leaves and famous people alike think so.

  

  actually stuck to my foot since it was damp out (seriously, you can't make this stuff up. Okay, maybe you can, but I'm not, I swear). To make ... nerds who have no life. Is that true? Can you have a stronger interest in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ten Things I Hate About Europe Well, not really. More like, Ten Things I Like About MIT. You've got to accentuate…

  

  things about MIT that you still can't replicate, no matter how many MIT ... Science this summer is kind of cool, but I can't wait to get back into saving the ... 's got the HPLC back up and running and that we can start collecting data

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam’s Hair Two parables of personal hygiene.

  

  can draw your own conclusions on culture at Stanford and MIT. Anyway, in ... machine, but can only be paid for using a special laundry card, which can ... every four months. If you look at Ben's happy holidays entry, you can see

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is It Possible To Respect A Racist Film? We must learn to embrace the opportunities to confront ourselves by confronting others.

  

  intermarriage." I can't say that I sat through all 3.5 hours of the movie ... isms (sexism, racism, classism, etc.) can lead to serious blowback. The very thing that you hope to deny exposure to the light can often grow in

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • May 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor Ernesto Blanco: A Lesson in Creative Engineering "Science and engineering are like two sides of a coin, where the value of the…

  

  vertebrae that give structure to your neck and can be destroyed by the hit of ... to this area, though you can die instantly from such an injury. On a ... 2004 and was a complete success, since it can nearly instantly transform

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Relaxing Weekend Did you ever hear about that whole firehose analogy?

  

  . There's also a 12-hour introductory class you can take that teaches you to ... upperclassman gave me good advice. It can happen.) I left the shop after only an ... shop so more people can be machining at once.) I helped bore holes on the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m supergirl and I’m here to save the world My day, being thought of as superhuman, and answering several questions.

  

  finally took the swim test! Yay, now I can graduate. In a random bit of ... on yourself and that you can accomplish and succeed and produce and ... , I think programs are overrated -- emailing professors can be a very

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Eighth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 5PM on 01/24/06.

  

  required, but if they can give more information, they can help you. The optional interview claims to be the part of the admissions step that can help ... even looked at? What ever happened to going the extra little bit? I can

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I?TFP

  

  optimistic and cheerful. I always do 004 projects in the lab so that I can get ... that I'm capable and can do engineering things in interesting classes ... 're running on empty, you can run on intensity alone. Maybe not as fast as you

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  , the reason APs help your application, as far as I can tell, is because ... also, I guess, because they can help explain a slightly lower GPA in some cases, not because they have magical properties. If you can otherwise

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’re 18, But You Aren’t Invincible Impressions of my first month at MIT -- both sobering and exciting.

  

  . "Oh my gosh! I'm in college now! I can do whatever I want! Heehee, my ... : time management. I am sure that many of you can start your homework the ... failing stuff if you can help it. So while it's insurance, it's not

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am a hapless klutz Stories about Nobel laureates.

  

  , because that's where the physics department is, and I'm pretty sure you can ... don't think I can just change recitations or lecture times, since I ... advance!" Well, for some classes, you can just accept that you have a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Come together (and eat)

  

  be too spread out? I'm used to a dining hall culture, where you can ... dining hall dorms...you can probably see the conflict). Not in an FSILG ... Center options), or you can go out to eat. But before you decide to do that

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Español Foreign Languages at MIT

  

  sentence using words from a vocabulary list; that I can do. It’s quite ... suppose. I can’t speak for any of the other languages taught here at MIT ... properly pronounce the rolled “rr”. I can’t for the life of me figure it out

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  a blog from the universe aka me + my tarot cards + finals season procrastination

  

  flip- because who can argue against the will of the universe? heads ... outcomes and tarot card readings can be really helpful to encourage ... , I can’t help feeling like my world is smaller again; I’ve already

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • December 14, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Sophomore Stupid It’s morbin’ time

  

  all my extracurricular commitments, and I can’t emphasize how horrible ... a hard place. But as they say, if your software can’t decide how much you can handle, your hardware will decide for you. [caption id

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT writing faculty comment on GPT and other AI assisted writing in education

  

  cases, however, the generated text can be used without a great deal of ... correct. An LLM can determine, for instance, that the most probable ... assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand” and can continue from there. While

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 24, 2023