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  Robo-CJ writes a college app do neural nets dream of electric essays?

  

  I’m procrastinating on doing psets, so I trained GPT-2, a neural network that’s frighteningly good at writing, on my old blog posts. And then ... ’t find the time. I’ve been working on a new project, and I’m writing a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 28, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Birds Are Real, and So Is Quantum Physics Monkey see, monkey believe

  

  $5 lasers and mirrors you can find on Amazon, we use the “Quantenkoffer ... hard on your equipment) can throw off the entire system. (Ironically ... " (circuits that store quantum information), operations on one qubit affect all

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2020 if you read even one of these i will be happy

  

  terribly wrong. The writing's on the wall: youth participation in the sport ... to raise their newborn daughter. On hiatus. I haven't read a lot of ... us on a stranger's doorstep. No matter how we're eventually raised, all

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 23, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  at least i’m not as sad as i used to be i don’t keep friends, i keep acquainted

  

  time paused when we all left campus— —because yes, i too left campus on ... and singing on i feel this version of the fear of missing out. like, we ... , come on) So this is it? I sold my soul for this? Washed my hands of that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  am i boring or just overstimulated?

  

  commitment to this school? This isn't to say I'm the 10000%-always-on-the-grind ... [annotation note="As much as one can, considering my life is also on campus and

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 5, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  Home is where the Heart is visiting my grandparents

  

  many people took this flight, and nearly everyone on the plane got an ... just ended up trying on weird outfits at the behest of the employees. I ... other little things around the house. It felt nice to be depended on

  • by Anika H. '26
  • August 4, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  the Big Rocks are calling and I must go MITOC winter school!!

  

  I thought about writing about walking on Big Rocks in the cold after ... . Walking through soft ice is quite different from walking on normal ground ... 'm not on a Big Rock -- seem less deep. Sometimes it really isn't that deep

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  goodbye after so long and with so much love

  

  know after five years of living here is more on every level than the one ... to reach that place has come through on here. I hope that if you're a ... show on the blogs. But I have the friends I've made, who can guide me

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  in the prospect of leaving are you proud of the work you've done?

  

  the end than I am to the beginning. As I reflect on the fact that I have ... on psets and office hours and tutoring only to be greeted by C's and D ... especially as I look at my computer science classes. I still heavily lean on

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a quick and dirty guide to MIT jargon what is a 6-3 anyway?

  

  away, typically lab equipment and electronics found on reuse or at Stata ... alums hack, punt, tool: 1. n old MIT saying about what MIT students do on ... you've clicked on any of those links, you may have noticed that each

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 7, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  tryharding but still not enough

  

  has a lot more free time for me to do other things and really focus on ... convince me to take 5.12 (Organic Chemistry) with him except on listener ... would be a great idea because I'm planning on taking it next semester and

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 20, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  trust how do you decide who to trust when there are lots of untrustworthy people?

  

  as a kid, i used to always be on edge when interacting with people ... what was going on it’s sad that the world isn’t safer. it’s sad that ... , having friends that i can rely on during emergencies, etc.) and because of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  dating while asian to love & be loved freely

  

  about him, and she, of course, looked him up on Facebook.  As she ... ’ve developed a crush on. In the years since, Lana Condor (of Vietnamese descent ... .  Yesterday, my mom found a photo of my boyfriend and me on a spring break trip

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 30, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  What Did I Learn at MIT? a surprisingly hard question to answer

  

  on this website apropos of nothing, we were in fact practicing for a ... studious notes on biology and chemistry concepts that I would carefully ... regardless, so I could look back on it now and hopefully be able to marvel at

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 28, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  my application essays try not to cringe

  

  ripening. The sky is full-bellied with sunshine. Still, we're on the verge of ... an impact. In retrospect, this essay could've focused more on why I ... astonishing. I wish I had focused more on that. Tell us about the most

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 27, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  How to decide, when you’re deciding a pretext for productive procrastination

  

  I've met, emailed, Facebooked, Slacked, or spoken on the phone with ... 't even think to think about. things like the one class i took on a whim ... people along the way.   Changes & Choices, by Afeefah K. '21 (on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  November summary: books, playlist, gratitude

  

  I'm on the train home to Philadelphia. Currently: four women run my ... effect, spending this much time with people one-on-one has led to much ... life up to tumult, and I realized, over and over, that I could rely on my

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 25, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  For Newtown

  

  didn't seem as important as calling Ryan, my 10-year-old brother, up on ... circumstance would be hurrying on their way - all stopped to pay tribute to a ... summers and the piercing chill of its winters. And if one will hold on, he

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 18, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  You’re Not That Old [by Elise '14] Not having done it before should be a reason to try, as…

  

  had to choose which hobbies to focus your time on and there just weren ... to MIT and on a spur of the moment deal, tried out for an acapella ... for beginners. Not only do they work to put on a big show each semester

  • by ARTalk
  • June 17, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Neil Gaiman! The uncensored version =P

  

  that Paul was too shy to blog (come on now. we're all adults) was that ... that he was pretty spot-on about something I had noticed, but never ... commenting on how fantastic you are, Mr. Gaiman, and your books really speak to

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 24, 2008