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  Decisions, Decisions decisions!

  

  give it to you in the form of a short poem I found recently by Piet Hein ... average confidence in their choices was 66%, but 96% of them ended up ... Fellowship. Part of the application required that I give the name of my

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • April 26, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  From Markets to Math Class

  

  . “It took about three minutes of standing in front of an 8th grade algebra class to confirm that I’d made the right decision in leaving Wall ... I blogged last week (also here, and Kirsten did so here) about the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  reviewing MIT’s Intro To Deep Learning the highs and lows of the beloved IAP class

  

  over CNNs, VAEs, and GANs in one day, and of course by the next morning I ... . You can see all final presentation slides here (...I was in group 6 ... ="Independent Activities Period, aka the month of January where students can take a long

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 12, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline With the deadline approaching and the Office of Admissions closed for the holidays, I'll try…

  

  comments of this entry. From time-to-time over the coming days I'll check back and answer the questions that I can (please limit your questions to ... With the deadline approaching and the Office of Admissions closed for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Joint Post] Chatting with Hank Green, the MIT Commencement Speaker interviewing Hank + sharing student stories!

  

  , daring, and curious. I can’t think of a better speaker. You never truly ... a huge fan of things. Like, I tend to consume content in a way that is ... !” Morgan G. '25 “I relate to Hank in a lot of ways. He's bi, I'm bi. He has

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Virtual Fall, Real Performances coming soon to a zoom very near you!

  

  I've mentioned briefly on this blog before that I'm part of a ... lot of other stressful things in everyone's lives at the time, so all ... fun together again! One of my friends is in the Shakespeare ensemble

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  disruptions of the pandemic have only increased our inclination in this regard ... it is final. I know this can be a difficult decision to receive, but ... MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2027 are now

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 17, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play Labs yay an accelerator for VR startups

  

  film producer. Jeez that's a lot of accomplishments, Riz. I can't wait to ... Students and Alumni Awesome! I love that MIT is putting more of a focus on ... first batch in summer 2017. Each of them will get hands-on mentoring as

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 18, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Following My Passions At MIT [by Susan Shepherd '11] Can a writer fit in at MIT?

  

  [by Susan Shepherd '11] Choosing a set of colleges to apply to can be a daunting task. I discovered MIT fairly early on in my search, and when I read the Admissions Blog entries of a certain biology major

  • by ARTalk
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Legacy of a Media Storyteller [by Leila Kinney, Comparative Media Studies] Recently, Leila Kinney attended a Symposium at the Media…

  

  's Media Fabrics group. "I am a media junkie," Glorianna announced in her own remarks, not in the sense of consuming media "out there" but in her reliance ... Media Lab in 1985. They quickly left behind notions of single

  • by ARTalk
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  assassins – a liveblog day 7: five remain

  

  Cycle of targets, and there can't be any loops: in other words, the hunter ... in the afternoon: i type this quietly in the safety of my room, without ... together of the cycle, while still keeping a foot in the race myself. i do

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cambridge Traditions and 5 Course Meals

  

  college. I think all of the colleges has a matriculation ceremony on the ... you can get as much as you want. And I mean, it was 5 courses so we were ... Here in Cambridge, all new students must go through a matriculation

  • by Cambridge
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Lilly Chin The Spiciest Memelord

  

  , things worked out. I asked when the gravity of it all sunk in. There were ... , and was in the frequent orbits of grad students, crystallizing an ... school’s build team for robotics). Her focus in the world of computer

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 27, 2017
• Blog / Events

  MIT PUMPKIN DROP 2012! chucking pumpkins off the highest building in cambridge. that's an exclamation mark, not a factorial.

  

  guilt, over to the east side of campus, and stood in a semicircle under ... , 1W (the smallest hall in East Campus) throws lots of pumpkins off the ... .  Or because of reasons.  Whatever.  You can't really have a holiday at

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 28, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Aliens, Bitcoin, Camps now i know my ABCs

  

  . Jomny finds friendship in a bear tired of other creatures running away in ... initiative is beginning to bear fruit in the form of scholarly research ... The blogs have been pretty quiet for the last week. Most of our

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 19, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Random Hall Rooms Six rooms and ten stuffed animals.

  

  side of the building. If my door is open I have a strategic view of the ... . Before my sophomore year I finally painted it the three shades of green you can see below, supplied by Random Hall for free: Below are some of my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Mid-May Update Q&A: Athena tips and hints

  

  any questions (I can explain things further or in far less technical ... week of rain. :- But... I bet by now, all you '10 folks have your Athena ... -- you can do so by going to these links, in this order: http

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Scholarship Opportunity: Davidson Fellows A look at a scholarship worth up to $50,000, and some past MIT winners.

  

  for good opportunities, and when one recently appeared in my inbox, I ... accompanied by a $50,000, $25,000 or $10,000 scholarship in recognition of a significant piece of work in Science, Technology, Mathematics, Music, Literature

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ

  

  admissions” means preferring the children of alumni in the admissions process ... Trachtenberg, former President of GWU, made this case in support of legacy ... advantages of learning, who had the means to go to college in an era before

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Travel

  Rejection Therapy and my insatiable urge to collect trading cards

  

  moral of this story, but I can't get over how STINKING COOL MY AIRPLANE ... [/annotation] impending arrival. I was in the airport for my 8AM flight from Louisville to Boston ... , I can talk to MORE PILOTS and collect PILOT TRADING CARDS???? My nerd

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 16, 2025