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• Blog / How to Human

  how to meet curious people

  

  at their own universities—student populations filled with clout ... exist in droves—McKinsey information sessions are packed full, pre ... time in college: Not being involved in professional clubs. My sophomore

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  you can care about things revisiting stoicism

  

  both in the context of writing a blog and in the context of being a ... people around you, often in significant and long-lasting ways how do people in these areas reconcile “not being able to change other people

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • July 18, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  On Moving A goodbye that took me a semester, and some distance, to write.

  

  . I graduated more than a month ago with the double major in CMS & 7 ... to MIT. Not in a trapped way. I just thought I'd want to get as far ... back next February. More on all that later, though. Because in the past

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  About MIT Recommendation Letters Some helpful tips and guidelines for your teacher letters.

  

  At MIT, we require all applicants to send in two letters of ... -- teachers in this country are seriously overworked and underpaid; I hope you ... face-to-face time alone with each teacher to ask them in person to write

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 16, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fonts of MIT a typographical tour

  

  building are in Helvetica. So is the "ACCESS RESTRICTED" poster. The poster to its lower left, the one that starts "THIS ACCESS POINT", is in Calibri. For the rightmost poster, the top half is also in Calibri. Then

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Credit for Reddit i am internet and so can you

  

  and audience. My teacher clarified that I was not in trouble because ... , never let my education get in the way of my learning.   Love you ... because in order to teach you have to know your stuff, and because through

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  when the world gets too heavy put it on my back

  

  living in my thoughts a lot and i'm not sure how to write about it in a ... ...general presence and the spaces i inhabit and my role in all of this. i've been dwelling on my high school self, living in the crevices of tumblr and slowly

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why I stayed up until 6am on Thursday More nerdy cake-baking.

  

  my quantum pset 4. Watching the Obama/Romney debate *In order to "see" atomic hydrogen out in space, astronomers look for its signature: radiation ... wavelengths?!" you ask. A fine question. In fact - one might say that it's a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (An Incomplete Guide to) Summer Opportunities for MIT Students Pantsuits, stress, hyperlinks.

  

  intention of nabbing as many free t-shirts as possible (33, in case you were ... invest in some business-casual clothing. And so, before the summer had even ... that recruiting season is so early in the semester, but at this point I

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  . In fact, I had to look at my blog posts to check that I’ve never written these before. I’ve been thinking about the things I’ve done in the ... to run it online. In fact, there’s a Google Colab notebook using gpt-2

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 28, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  The CrimZone. there are 2 impostors at harvard

  

  —a shiny prize wheel in front of a heap of good prizes. A Harvard athlete ... in our hands. The athlete smiled at us and held up a QR code. He made ... fill out a profile and check-in to the event before we could spin the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 16, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair #1 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair. Located in the vast Hynes ... remains a mystery to me (though I did try to find a pattern in the prices ... they ought to be in museums, but were instead bartered and sold by

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 15, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Passions (No, not that kind)

  

  might also know, as I gave away some spoilers. Brought to you just in ... you get up in the morning, give them the reason you stay up late, and give them the reason you like being you! Or if there's something in your

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Rrrrrrr. CPW! [UPDATE] CPW Smoke. Don't breathe this.

  

  Blendie looks like an ordinary blender, it is in fact a voice activated blender -- with a catch. Blenders don't speak English, so in order to ... guys are excited, and in a little over a week you will all know just how

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Public service announcement One stereotype that I just won't accept.

  

  instance, many people in Boston do like the Red Sox and say "ah" instead of ... boys do suck at dancing. In this case, however, I don't see the ... fastest (and most fun) way to get through problem sets is to do them in a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Women’s Week 2005 Learn about both the mission and events associated with this year's week-long promotion.

  

  violence in lesbian, bisexual and trans women. Open to the public Sunday ... programming and instinct, give us tools for taking action and options, and offer ... need to brush up on those dining skills in preparation for those

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 9, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  what i talk about when i talk about running with apologies to murakami

  

  never hit that kind of mileage before. In Chinese, we say "people beyond ... , but arbitrarily it was a women's sport in our school, while the men did ... folks like me in the middle distances freed up the shorter distances for

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  The root of all evil Money, money, money, money... money!

  

  for it... if this is what you really want." My mom was glaring at me in ... State on my full scholarship, she was planning to get a pool in the ... time have a pool in our backyard. My parents haven't totally gone into

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 29, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  dancing at MIT (and beyond) continuity vs. fulfillment and the perils of stagnation

  

  served as Treasurer in my sophomore year and didn't enjoy it since, well ... . many of the people I respected on Mocha graduated in the two years that had passed since I was on the team in person, and the new members we

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  calculator addiction: What if we knew the solution before the calculation? In ... ). Sanjoy Mahajan sees a general trend of pragmatism in the United States ... the material can. In his May 19 xTalk “The Art of Insight

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016