Search

Search Results

• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainly i am writing a blog post about another song

  

  ) submit a request to remain in on-campus housing. i applied. i also ... in the summer. baker isn’t east campus, but it’s more than i feel like ... time in my three years of joining code jam, i won a shirt. [caption id

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Number Game A few words of advice before applying to college.

  

  existed, and I'm kind of glad I didn't because I think I would have gone ... baseball cards in my kindergarten days. I guess the whole point is MIT looks ... , and got H A's in my entire life. I applied and got into MIT. Someone

  • by Bryan
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  ’s nighttime when my eyes open, and the middle of the day when I go to bed. In ... something about snow. Now, I saw snow for the first time in November 2013 ... in snow, thick white snow that looked like they would be so much fun to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Andi and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week :(

  

  this semester? Well, in a dramatic turn of events, I suddenly became ... all started last Friday when I woke up with a sharp pain in my butt ... no idea what caused it (and still have no idea), but I assumed it would

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 3, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  This Post Has a Happy Ending dealing with obstacles @ MIT

  

  available (as in trying to drink from a firehose). (context: MIT)” I drank ... unpredictable times in the evening. I’d immediately sit down to compose frantic ... success. I expected a bright solution. “Maybe it would be better if you took

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sweet summer song

  

  Hey folks, it's been a while. I've been very focused and not in a ... here. I stayed in Boston for June-July and then traveled and saw family ... optimization in language models. I met people and took in new media: I met

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 19, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Doing well??? Uh, sure... I guess

  

  In my last post (which was way too long ago 😖), but I guess I should ... ! I never would have guessed. Even though, I still have a lot for work ... dropped 9.00. It was interesting, but I wasn't in the mood to write an essay

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • April 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where I’ve Been All this time ...

  

  hostage; not completely involuntary I would say. It’s so easy to go into studio and not come out…till the wee hours of the morning. I think I recall ... – that’s how I function. Using a stool to press down on a drying foam

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 30, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT’s Newest Nobel Laureate Can you autograph my problem set?

  

  , winner of the Nobel Prize in 2001. I think I would have asked them to ... swap places--in 1990. Now I don't know about you, but I think this is ... EDIT: Matt mentioned there was a lecture in 10-250 by Prof. Schrock. I

  • by Bryan
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  V&Q&A Video, Questions, and Answers

  

  thought I would never apply to MIT because I thought I wouldn’t “fit in” to ... chance, which is why I’ve been reaching out to others in the GEL Program ... some video up in this blog. Joe ‘12, Kevin ‘11, and I met up to talk

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  bumpers a revelation i had while bowling

  

  I'm in Washington, D.C. today for a work trip, so I write this blog ... the D.C. area. In retrospect, I should have just flown in last night and ... what it is about yet. In a Harvard class I took years ago, the lecturer

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 2, 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 ... myself with the strongest support system I could ever imagine in order to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a few new things is it too late to talk about the spring semester?

  

  and a Next Exec meeting, and, every week, I would go in terrified and ... finishing it. Every time I've started it, I've gotten caught up in this ... blog I would've written during the semester, if I'd had time, so it

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Advice I give others that I don’t follow myself (yet)

  

  chances, in the long run, that you’ll write something good. (As a corollary ... cliches, so take extra effort to remind yourself it’s true. In practice, it ... , because you’ll forget otherwise. In fact, just schedule time for things that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Three Tales of Junior Year Accidental Harvard Class, UROPs, Experimenting in College

  

  applicants: I feel your pain. In a perfect world, I would be an investigative ... final class for my Education (Course 11) concentration. Just in case, I ... of SOC-STD 98LH. In the end, I couldn't take Philosophy of Education

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 10, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are you going with this? The ponderings of an ex-frosh.

  

  . Next year I'll be taking smaller, specialized classes in the major I ... together some random project or something. In high school, this was great. I ... at that. But in the interest of full disclosure to you guys, I should

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP, CES, and other acronyms I spent my MIT IAP with a CEO at CES in LAS, and now I…

  

  I managed to be at least as busy as I was in October or November ... Markov Chain. I drafted most of this post in the eerie, apprehensive calm ... the city I grew up in) and over 3,600 companies, including 82 of the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • March 9, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What makes me an MIT student? Some thoughts about blogging and a special question for returning readers.

  

  . There are two '09 bloggers (so far), and I'm one of them, so one would ... 't make school my reason for living. I came in with an existing, established ... has nothing to do with MIT, as most of the things in which I'm involved

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final Projects Some examples of some projects you might see in MIT writing classes

  

  taken, and the projects I've done in them.   21W.750: Experimental ... hospital and at home in New York. I had to miss my final classes for recovery ... nicely. Here I am all healthy and not in hospital scrubs: And here is

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017 fourth time seen, first time competing

  

  next time I was in a hackathon, I would finish the project no matter what ... that uses it. One of the most interesting companies I've seen in this ... MIT for years, but I still haven't competed in one. So I figured Hack

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 25, 2017