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• Blog / Announcements

  Remembering Gisel and honoring twenty years of service and friendship

  

  stationed at the front desk in room 3-108 for the last 20 years. If you called ... admissions officer on duty. If you emailed, [annotation note="In fact, she sent ... school teacher who wrote asking for a poster of MIT to hang in your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 28, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Alone some thoughts on spending winter break in mit

  

  I spent winter break in MIT. I thought I wouldn’t be alone. After all ... finals week, and by Christmas Eve, most of the people living in our hall ... , even in the middle of the day. There wasn’t any classes, or square

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some comforting blogs to read while you await decisions

  

  here with you, talking with you, and existing in the same virtual space ... who wouldn’t be? My usual defense in this kind of situation (aka any kind of situation) is to make lots of plans, so I had ’em ready in spades

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Places I Became Human Hey guys, I think I'm back :)

  

  I kept my composure until I didn’t. Nothing in particular triggered ... to scream. In a single moment, shaking under a stream of hot water, an ... ’t the same person I was at the end of September. In September, I wouldn

  • by Powers '23
  • November 21, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  one hour in which i am Holden Caulfield (but more tragic and less hero)

  

  damn, i haven’t blogged in forever and it’s stressing me out (alongside a ... , which i spent dancing with my team and chilling with my floor in Maine. i ... water or eating healthy at all, and how all of this is documented in a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester’s shenanigans what i've been up to!

  

  .0001 (Intro to Computer Science Programming in Python) — real talk. aside from AP Computer Science, i didn’t do any coding in high school ... THICC 5/5 cannot be described in words 😩 (lol MIT is not a bad place to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Art of Waiting how to burn some time

  

  There are many things in life that require you to have the ever ... . I remember when I was in your shoes. Back in the day, I had to do it not once but TWICE because I was deferred the first time around in

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Hint of fall A Sunday adventure

  

  Last week was MIT in Hard mode. Psets, a midterm, papers, interviews ... were spent in meetings, labs, and libraries, trying not to get smashed by ... and walking, I traveled through God-knows-where in Cambridge and Boston

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 21, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Hello Summer! Finally done with finals

  

  classes in a few months. However, the break from the constant demand of ... appreciated. In the next week or so, I’ll be starting my job as a residential ... combination of R,L, and C circuits possible. I am in the process of learning La

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • June 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The final stretch ...of 2017

  

  choose any topic or field to explore in the realm of computational ... the labs in 6.034 Artificial Intelligence   A Non ... day, and turned it in. My last assignment for Junior fall complete, I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An OME Welcome to the Institute I took Tsegball, and I have no regrets.

  

  , memorabilia, and snacks for college away in my mom’s Kia Rio as the dynamic duo ... last carefree summer in Cape Coma. After a week of I-95 mayhem, I walked into Maseeh Hall, where I awkwardly approached the wrong desk to check-in

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Take Off Gate '21 Calling for Departure

  

  behind my home in Texas to make a new one here. In these past fourteen days ... around in the boarding area. The anxious march through the plane door. And ... ). There are several exits on this aircraft. In order to make this trip more

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Case of the Considerate Robbers and other winter adventures

  

  It was the dead of winter in the smoggy capital city of Chile ... Spanish speakers anywhere else in the world would fail to understand, found ... claims began to roll in. In total, four name brand jackets, about $100 in

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • August 3, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Google

  

  I enjoyed and did reasonably well in was a confidence booster. Soon ... in with tech talks and lotteries for electronic swag, which we could ... ’d implemented in an MIT class. All of a sudden, I had something of a resume, but

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 5, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  interview: joy buolamwini hidden figure, poet of code, low-key actual superhero

  

  i mentioned joy in a blog post a few weeks ago, when she won the $50000 grand prize in the search for hidden figures contest. i've been a ... empower communities via tech education and highlight bias in algorithms. i

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 5, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for undocumented students and clarifying our policies for applicants as Regular Action approaches

  

  As many of you know, there has been a lot of uncertainty in the ... articulating and affirming values they share as educators. In President Reif ... that "Whatever may change in Washington... it will not change the values

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 9, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Hi, Applicant to the Class of 2021! here, i try to convince you that it's ok to be dazed and confused right…

  

  … (in)tense. I haven’t experienced that much uncertainty in my life ... then say whether they did or did not get in. Trust me, there’s no pattern in those posts nor any clues as to whether you will get accepted

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduled time my classes this semester, and how engineering and sociology go hand in hand

  

  ," taught by the inimitable Prof. Julie Shah. In aerospace (and lots of other places) lots of people place their trust in software--software that flies ... operate in social contexts and therefore have social responsibilities, and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 14, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Snow! there is (was) snow and it's freezing (or is it?)

  

  , I realized that it would probably be in my best interest to take the ... in the tunnels with friends a few times before, but as a directionally ... importantly, in one piece. I immediately crashed when I got back. Snow is

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 9, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Is MIT too hard? warning: metaphors ahead

  

  For most people, sprinting a mile in under 5 minutes is physically ... ; ^ a non-metaphorical sprint, from a past weekend in Big Basin.   ... feels that way in the middle of a hell week - what's the point of having

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 18, 2015