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• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Least Responsible Purchase I'm an impulse buyer but THIS was a bit much

  

  an offer in December and, after realizing that I was about to have $50k ... just had an offer on the house, it hadn't actually sold.  Well, in late ... I saw my first Tesla in July, 2009. I knew what Teslas were but it

  • by Snively '11
  • July 17, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  What Makes You Tick? To all the Early applicants.

  

  offering help to one another is in tune with the same spirit. I'm not referring to just my fraternity brothers offering to prep me in 8.01, but also ... directional vectors to me, the girl that offered to sub in for my SAT class when

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded. 573 students, 10 hours.

  

  Universe class session. The kids in my Spontaneous 5-Min Class noticed that ... classes. For those of you who can't instantly divide numbers by 24 in your ... littered with sonic screwdrivers and Tardis t-shirts. I managed to slip in a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  How To Write A College Essay and other things too

  

  situation in which obfuscation is to your advantage. You will frequently ... he lays in this piece - about the importance of language, including writing, in shaping how we are capable of thinking - he later built upon in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT HSSP and Stanford Splash! Seven fundamental questions, and a field trip to the west coast

  

  civilization in history has had a working answer to. "How did the universe begin ... , Clark University, Princeton, U. Chicago, all have Splashes (and those are ... that weekend and are still interested in traveling" - and on Friday April

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Welcoming Environment Because the best way to feel at home at MIT is to know that you…

  

  , noted in her own post on LGBQT life (and more specifically, The Rainbow ... drawing together a closely-knit, conscientious community in which nobody ... temporary offering, had only been around at MIT for five years. Over the two

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The fight’s begun but not yet won me vs. vista

  

  You'd think that if anywhere offered great computing help, it would ... resource right at my fingertips. You see, MIT offers free MATLAB to its ... time, always amidst great fanfare and in every creative, apocalyptic way

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Reno/Sacramento wrap-up The latest from the West Coast.

  

  Davidson Institute offers many programs of interest to the kinds of students ... accomplishment that experts in the field recognize as significant and has the ... database of resources for gifted students. The Institute offers many programs

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Passing Out ...of classes. Or in class. We'll see.

  

  [Editor's note in 2017: The Office of Undergraduate Advising and ... when you were in kindergarten, and the first day of class your mother ... is the only class in which I'm not starting at the very bottom, since I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  I'm briefly emerging from hard work in the application mines to share ... language text in response to prompts.  There has been a tremendous amount of commentary in the popular press (and Discourse™ on social media) about these

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 24, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cue the montage music

  

  offered me a blog and the task of writing about my life at MIT and the ... changed, as I am still (sort of, I’ll explain) in school at MIT, doing ... me assure you that I graduated with a MechE/BME degree in 2008. I have

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Associate Advising and the MedLinks Program I'm sick of unpacking, so here's a blog post

  

  ." *Differential Equations **The error function. It's used a lot in stats, probability, and diff eq. - We're in the midst of freshman orientation, so now ... staff (who works in admissions, maybe, or in the Office of Undergraduate

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Season Taking things into my own hands.

  

  meantime, I'm out enjoying all that Oregon has to offer in the way of ... the tough semester is that between having my time tied up in school and ... , hastily labeled "Ideas for Later". And in this box I keep, surprise, ideas

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ming-fai Fong- Designing an intelligent walking “toddler” robot After learning to sit, bend their knees, squat, and stand, babies can finally gather the…

  

  Mechanical Engineering student with a concentration in Artificial Intelligence ... work in the Seung Lab at MIT to develop the mechanical design of an ... robots have yet to even come close to mimicking the human gait. In an

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Survey says… A LOT of freshmen report that they were leaders in high school!

  

  I’ve explored in the GEL Program, which I thought was pretty exciting ... they held some sort of leadership position in high school. Out of a list ... confident in their the ability to “function effectively as a member of a team

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Cassava Connection Part 1 of a series, starring a man, a plan, and a root vegetable.

  

  Milton, however, stayed in Cameroon, and attended university there at the ... -Eritrean Students’ Association) to my room to discuss recent developments in Ethiopia ... operator’s voice in Spanish, an absurd, confusing moment. These events

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  they were participating in a Media Lab study. (Yes, we would dash from ... subject lines like “free leftover iceberg lettuce in E52”; in fact, a single TikTok in 2025 delivers more dopamine than we would experience in an

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  play dough

  

  Wellness Coordinator in New Vassar offered us a variety of stress toys to get us through midterms and she offered me play dough in two different ... I'm a very Type A person, I'd say. I tend to need to be in control of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class size A response to a comment brought up on Ben's blog.

  

  will be cramped. However, offering this up in advance gives people the ... Concerned Parent brought up an issue in Ben's blog (about halfway ... this would merely require more students to live in uncomfortable living

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  point in moving any further. The universe seemed to be telling me that I ... -achiever-ism go hand in hand whenever people discuss either of those topics, but ... experienced a lot of failure in my sophomore year, it’s not a dramatic

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023