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• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of Chocolate and Octagons Some thoughts and some pictures.

  

  . Simply put, an Octagon is a concrete mass used in capacities of ... , or Friday Afternoon Club. This is a study break event in the dorm ... , week, month, whatever, is over. I have a strange feeling my entire four

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My 7 Favorite Places to P-Set! Eat, Work, Repeat.

  

  is perfect for reading. I really enjoy reading in general, so I spend a ... courtyard that is now occupied by the huge Christmas tree in the picture! I do ... locations when I am by myself working. It is on campus! Just a walk, well, a

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  My ML model finished training right after I finished this post technically i *am* doing work right now

  

  ="aligncenter" width="768"] clarification: this is a scientist who just got their eyes ... Junior year was a milestone for me because it was the first time ... code to run on my computer for my UROP project this summer, which is

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10,000 Ways That Won’t Work

  

  , especially at my level, is probably not a realistic goal to set in the first ... just sat there and shook my head in silence. “No? What about a publication in a peer-reviewed journal? Or at least a patent? I know MIT kids

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 27, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  socializing over zoom it's been rough

  

  then plan to form a pod with these people in the spring"]staple[/annotation] with was a whole process in itself. Thinking about the spring and pods ... . The main problem, I think, is that Zoom fatigue is real. Staring at a

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  On Friendship how my beliefs have changed over the years

  

  high school, I felt a (self-inflicted) pressure to be introverted in ... , everyone is a nErD!!1!!1! Being smart was no longer a distinguishing identity ... .         Was it in search of a community? Maybe, though it shames me to admit

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 2, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Truth Values [by Ken Haggerty '11] A fantastic one-woman show about life at MIT. (Now playing!)

  

  playwright. Truth Values, written by Gioia De Cari in 2008, is a roman à clef about her real-life experience as a graduate student in mathematics here ... Nobel Prize (for which the last female recipient in a physical science was

  • by ARTalk
  • September 22, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An MIT Apprentice!!!!!! MIT Alum Randal Pinkett has won The Apprentice!

  

  of the Future" issue. He is a proud member of First Baptist Church in ... .Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Oxford in England as a Rhodes Scholar -an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from MIT (May 1998) -an M.B.A

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Average The benefits of challenging yourself in high school

  

  As a freshman in college, one of the most important things I do is ... in everything I did. Then, I came to MIT.  Here, everyone is the best ... honest, this is Sparta MIT. It's physically exhausting to get A's on every

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Stand Back! I'm going to try . . . well, you know the rest.

  

  2.671 is an AMAZING class (that many people dislike, for reasons that are totally beyond me) and I've been having a great time in it. I ... setup, another has a beam that is wired up to record its response to an

  • by Snively '11
  • December 9, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  O’Reilly Primes?

  

  to really like it, for a few reasons. Certainly, it is a swiping of the ... totally list that as a talent on your application). Number theory is fun ... Java's mascot is a tiger. This got me thinking that the various O

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 12, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Notes From The Middle Of Selection What interdisciplinary fields will exist 100 years from now? What will people be able to…

  

  table. So while we're buried in the committee room, here's a topic I ... we offer has grown over time as a result of advancements in science and ... on the web, as we've been in selection committee since last wednesday

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Questions Fall 2007 Here are answers to the questions posted in my blog over the last month or…

  

  has had me in junior or senior year. Is this true, or can I submit a ... room in the budget to add a 'match'; it is already contained in the MIT ... 't in: Will the same happen if a teacher recommendation is sent later? The

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  how you group words. There’s a certain power in a sentence that is more ... your application will know you in a way you might not have known yourself ... , in the sense that you can build a support network and enjoy things that

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  quiet moments out in the rural English countryside

  

  material that is a 1-atom thick layer of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal ... had so far, and my company is out in Somersham, a nearby town. anyhow, you get the point: my home base this summer is a remote place out in the

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 19, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Slow down, fast train. Take me with you!

  

  took it back to her room, which was 222A at the time, and hung it up in ... in a saucepan just to see what would happen. I remember meeting French ... until a beautiful reunion in a senior seminar. With Pulitzer Prize

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).

  

  jump into a field 70-80% of the market is chasing the current fad.  This ... established companies and other startups. Far better is to think of a new idea ... cost and cycle time.  If the costs in a field have come down recently, or

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 13, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Small Victories The view from a month into MIT

  

  , In Time ), and I have to decide how to spend it. MIT is a culture ... fact that people say an education at MIT is like drinking from a fire ... to be involved in all of them, short of finding a way to clone myself

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I can, I think I can The word "student" sounds like "study." I wonder if there's a correlation.

  

  ...or taking a nap. Keep in mind, this is just my take on things. I ... fun?" I think this is a very interesting question to pursue. So one ... -nighters six out of seven nights a week. Here's what I say to that; yes, MIT is

  • by Bryan
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT Goes To Senegal Like Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, except with fewer filibusters and more dancing.

  

  name is Jess, and I graduated in 2010. That doesn't mean I'm not allowed ... on the beach in Dakar: The music scene in Dakar is one of the most ... : And finally, just for fun: here is a love song we wrote about Chocoleca

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 18, 2012