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• Blog / Academics & Research

  cognitive augmentation probably the most mindblowing course i’ve encountered at mit

  

  cognitive augmentation (mas.s65), a class on using technology to augment human ... ; if you’re curious, you can find the other readings on the course site linked above before we go on, i should mention that the replication crisis

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 19, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  survive on ramen and coffee before getting scurvy, but the mundane details ... grasp on the concepts to follow my professor's explanation. Cosmology! We got a lecture or two on the shape of the universe, and the Higgs

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge Math, exchange programs, and why we love MIT.

  

  , octagenarian professor on paper, but in real life, he's a fun-loving guy with an ... on learning math on your own, or been wondering whether MIT's academic ... lolcats, you're also in luck. Read on. What's Cambridge like after two

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Pythagorean Triple of Awesome Otherwise known as the weekend of the 4th of July. Just another long weekend in…

  

  the Sox had a home game based on if lights were on in Fenway. Even then ... /internship/volunteering or on the weekends that we crusty upperclassmen who are so accustomed ... kayaking on the Charles. It’s very touristy, I know, but when you’ve walked

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • July 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The Undecideds VI: The Undiscovered Country Even more undecided students' questions & answers.

  

  willing to give an extension on the May 1 deadline for financial aid ... entries! I'm holding off on all questions except Undecideds until my next ... , Dhrubo, Jon, Shammi, Evan, and Justin. On to the questions... Tish asked

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  Thinking Outside of Absolutes A short thought piece on thinking about thinking

  

  yourself in different worlds and try to predict the outcome based on the ... event B, which will have some other consequence C, and so on). Even as I ... that will have consequences on how my blog impacts those people, and so

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the Scenes of MIT Gala liveblog - how a fashion show is made!

  

  Over the past three years, I’ve been on the organizing board for MIT ... pics. All the models are dressed in all black, learning how to walk on ... Gala will be held on the 6th floor, set design (Maggie + Julia + Lindsay

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • April 27, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  listening in on breakfast conversations. “The curse of this degree is that now ... my posters on the brick wall facing my and Uzay’s desks. Every day, it seems, another poster falls, and I stick it back on grimly with another

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Semester of poetry

  

  't really damage the end product but just bring me to a new perspective on ... images and seeing where I'm taking, picking some things to add on as I go ... bloom in unpredictable ways. I was planning on just talking about poetry

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • November 24, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how i feel about ai-generated art from an artist's perspective

  

  people can just enter these trivial prompts and then pass this work off on ... by AI “written in Rona’s style” or trained on my publicly available ... rely on writing as a steady source of income, and if everything goes as

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 11, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] GetSimmons! Writing is hard, so here's a video game instead

  

  is not intended to be a ranking (boo), but is instead based on how many ... by Summer Moulder '26. Inspired by GetMIT by Mitchell Gu. Based on 2048

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  living the sloth life regressing to my feral weeb childhood self

  

  juniors experienced less than a year of it. that's why being on campus this ... as much time as possible with people. i'm most productive on my own ... Squid Game i'd watch with a big group of friends. i settled on reading a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  making things a blog about being a meche major

  

  .001 and jointly scrolling through MIT Confessions. 2.001, a core class on ... lounge as the night wears on, sitting on sofas or the carpeted floor ... sleep than we will get that night. On Fridays I have lab in 2.678, an

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  this is fine some thoughts at the end of the semester

  

  being on campus, and my freshman year in general. I don't really have any ... on campus has worn off. Or maybe it’s just because I’m burnt out at the ... too much on, worried about not getting the opportunity to rest enough

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • May 17, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  a tour of New Vassar also known as west garage

  

  This semester, I'm living in New Vassar, the newest undergrad dorm on ... , through the building, and up to my room on the fifth floor. We'll start ... well as the design of the little overhangs on the [annotation note

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Watch this year’s 2.s009 final presentations designing kindness during a time of covid

  

  This is a very brief blog post to remind you —  as our announcement on the right hand side already says —  that the 2.s009 product launch ... 's flagship hands-on courses, with a class budget larger than some offices at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  so i guess fall is happening kinda hard to believe, huh?

  

  in april, i was sure that in september, i'd be on MIT's campus again ... home situation and fast wifi, there was no way i would make it on ... stuck on a meal plan anyway. i just would stay home! i like my parents, i

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 23, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Astrology Forecast for the Class of 2023 Some big aquarius energy is coming...

  their college transition. In order to prepare, I reached out to Crissy on ... high-stakes projects I have ever worked on: before I met the incoming ... accuracy. Furthermore, we could only find data on US birthdays, but our

  • by DJ Rock
  • August 22, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pixar Pi

  

  other doors than just the one on pi day you are waiting to open.   ... , whatever it may be!   Taking a chance on yourself can be scary

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 12, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Hello Blogosphere! My dirty little secret...(I've never taken calculus)

  as good-looking, even without the locs on my head) got perfect scores ... together (not because they had done good research on school fit, just only ... AP Literature because those classes felt less focused on scores and

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 8, 2018