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• Blog / Admissions

  Campus visit, revisited In which I dissect the campus tour/ info session and forget to clean up afterward

  

  going to be the new trend in blogging. Thursday: Woke up at 8:30 AM to the ... course that instantly earned a spot at the top of my “101 Greatest Science ... guide sort of pointed at the plastic cow and said, “MIT has a fun and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Product Design, MIT style Sometimes, lab is the best place for a dance party.

  

  big presentations per year? They're usually at the end of a unit or ... snowballed into a lot of repressed anger and frustration being released at each ... ? Well, I have this folder on my desktop full of pictures and half written

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An MIT Week general structure and personal experience

  

  time for cleaning and organization with the sound of music. At the end ... and 8 hours at home, a 4-0-8 scheme. Lab/design/field work classes have ... 3-0-9, 5-0-7, etc. There are also classes of a different number of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a Polaroid Picture My alleged lack of football fandom triggers an epiphany.

  

  program so far. I figure you can go look at pictures of the French Riviera ... certain elements of the process. At the time, I thought it was a ... DID YOU KNOW? Frank Zappa played The Pope on an episode of Ren and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  i [don’t] have covid?? in conclusion, i am the absolute worst at managing stress

  

  back at home instead of my new place in Cambridge. I think it's ironic ... . During my third nap of the day, at 6 pm, I was jerked out of half ... with a sore throat. I didn't think much of it—I get colds quite often, it

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Extracurricular Information We discuss life over lunch.

  

  care of sick students in my hall and at MIT in general, which I'm really ... , pianist, feelings-book kind of guy, and not at all your typical frat brother ... So this morning I went to lunch with three of my friends from high

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  unicorns big confusion

  

  to finally confront the question at the heart of the problem: what do i ... evolved to excel at. i suppose i should be more forgiving of myself ... i. in the business world, a unicorn is a startup with a valuation of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 18, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  You gotta have stuff Places to get different kinds of stuff around campus. And rudimentary directions, too!

  

  websites. I spent a great deal of the summer before my freshman year at MIT ... think that's true of most chain supermarkets. If you go at night ... I'm taking a break from my weekend of watching Lost episodes

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 6, 2006
• Blog / Summer

  I am reading so many books! getting back to my bookworm roots

  

  , medication, and race, but at the end of the day, in the real world and in the ... of capitalism and sentience aren't new to sci-fi, I liked the irreverent take on them. The level of action was a bit overwhelming for me at

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  someone’s gotta do it, but not me is it cool not to care?

  

  part of, like tech squares or the assassins guild or esp or puzzle club ... funding to throw parties at not-frats every week. i cared that east campus ... and traditions fade more with each year, with nothing new coming up to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 16, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside

  

  [annotation note="OX is a grade that you can get at the end of the semester if ... closer as friends and also relieved a lot of the shame we both felt ... semester was a shitshow of epic proportions. Just, ugh, you'll see. 21M.600

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Narrative of Discovery Most people would be hard pressed to tell a story that has both James Watson…

  

  Watson and Richard Nixon in it, but at MIT, anything is possible. The MIT ... expression, "the cure for cancer is research" throughout the corridors at MIT, Nancy Hopkins provides a passionate, first person account of the

  • by Laurie Everett
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  How To Fumble Your Way Through MIT and Still Turn Out Pretty Okay Step 1: Fumble. Step 2: Turn out pretty okay.

  

  – they're not great – but as the blogs already have four years of Keri-is-not-good-at ... first day of school in the United States, at the start of third grade, was ... I was doing. Regardless of whether or not you end up at MIT, I hope

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2012 Profile Posted 49 states... what's missing? And what are the most popular names?

  

  Class Profile page for this year's incoming class, the MIT Class of 2012 ... For the MIT class of 2012 Gender Male 54% Female 46% Ethnicity & ... % International citizens 9% Geography New England 14% Mid-Atlantic 18% Southeast

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  some amount of noise at each point. Originally, we just used straight ... The last couple weeks of my fall semester were almost entirely ... ! For those of you who aren’t familiar, Computer Vision is the study of

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 11, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2018-19 Application Essay Questions

  

  fewer) At MIT, we bring people together to better the lives of others ... planning ahead of time, which I respect and value (maybe the most ... lead a busy life, full of activities, many of which are required of you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  In which I am somehow still an MIT student 4 years later

  

  of recent papers from ACL and related groups at other institutions, and ... those papers cited. At one point, I spent a weekend in New Hampshire ... a stack of papers to read in my sleeping bag at night

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Speaking of mu…

  

  I love MIT, because starting a sentence with "Speaking of mu..." doesn't get you looked at funny. A quick rundown of tonight's activities ... scrimmage at 10pm. Should be a good day. Opening up a big can of worms: so, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 17, 2004
• Blog / Personal Projects

  reflecting on 2020 goals and planning for 2021

  

  if I managed to find balance at MIT, then the rest of my life should be ... that balance. And doing so has come at the cost of my grades which has ... In high school, I neglected many of my personal interests to make

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP reveal!! it's like a gender reveal but important

  

  path to nor desire for avoidance. [annotation note="At apparently one of ... explain because words are hard. The output is a bunch of new sequences ... research.[/annotation] Mind you, how could I not? Over 90% of MIT students

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 11, 2025