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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doing What You Love it's both priceless and utilitarian

  

  forward a little bit at a time in one tiny, specific system. But she loves ... 's a terrible metric for uselessness.) But the same is true, to varying ... blogger now, but he's worried a couple of times that focusing on math is

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Boston’s 4th of July Boston has arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country, and MIT has…

  

  separates Boston from Cambridge and MIT. The fireworks barge is moored in the ... th of July celebrations is that the Boston Pops do a special, less ... river in East Cambridge. I think the Back Bay area of Boston is very

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Twas the week before Thanksgiving ...and I'm not really feeling all that thankful. Yet.

  

  work in a short week, professors seem to believe that it is perfectly reasonable to assign the same amount of work in a short week and just make it ... -Thanksgiving dinner last night. We had two turkeys! In this picture, everybody is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  New York A break from Cambridge.

  

  15 dollars later, Ben '10 and I were on a last-minute, cheap-as-anything-in ... Donald's is better at mutagenizing potatoes. Not-so-shortly thereafter, in ... sight of a Chinese-operated fried chicken joint. Deposited squarely in

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 1 The answers to your recent questions.

  

  ://mit-admissions.org/rsvp/session_link.asp. At the Sacramento meeting, say hi to Stu for me! Vivek asked, "is a freshman assigned a particular discipline he is to major in or it is decided in later years?" When you apply to MIT, you are not applying to a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  by bike, by train, by wind, by rain getting around different cities

  

  with the other.  apparently Copenhagen in winter is a city of darkness ... Boston is a sweet in-between in terms of transportation. Many students ... is more trouble than it's worth. I still plan to own a car later in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Ode From A Science Fair Junkie in honor of intel isef 2018

  

  than others. If there is any such life experience that’s had a lasting ... models in hand. I’m walking around today too. In Cambridge. With a backpack ... grade, I came across a highlights video for the 2014 Fair held in Los

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 13, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  meandering my nonlinear academic path so far

  

  ; Cognition, which is a joint major between computer science and brain & ... for 2023 is Jan 9th, so you might still have a few days). That was my single most impactful academic experience in high school, so it informed a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  how to make a minecraft bot reflections on my microsoft internship

  

  think GPT-3 is super cool. After exploring a few ideas of what my ... strawberries in a bowl, then bake at 365 degrees for 20 minutes." (Baking ... to see if the bot is capable of generating a reasonable response

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

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

  

  is similar to the Associate Advising program, in the sense that it's a ... ." *Differential Equations **The error function. It's used a lot in stats ... MedLinks in every dorm. Here, the focus is on student health: mental

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  halfway across the world moving to russia for the semester

  

  . I’m in a small town in Russia. Why I’m here is a complicated question ... -up instinct, and then I jaunt around for the morning, and crash for a nap in the ... , I attended a few Zoom sessions in the morning for [annotation note

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The coolest spring break ever? Visit a College Campus!

  enroll in is a college where they would be happiest. Finding a space where ... amount of students you see. Perhaps there is a ton of student activity in a ... more agonizing) - that is all actually just a portion of my day

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Parliamo Italiano! And some other languages too.

  

  so close to each other that I often forget which is which. A perfect example: the word "and" in Spanish is "y" (pronounced like a long E), while the word "and" in Italian is "e" (pronounced like a long A). You can

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 19, 2008
• Blog / Events

  TBP Dinner Sex@MIT is the most-watched video on CNN.com! (but it's not pornography!)

  

  a Tau Beta Pi (National Engineering Honors Society) dinner (courtesy of Sam '07, a nationally honored engineer) to hear a musicologist (rastrologist?) deliver a speech on economics. And in other news, Mollie '06

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 10, 2005
• FAQ / Transfer

  Can I apply if I’ve completed more than 2.5 years of college?

  study area or intended program of study at MIT. If a summer semester is ... than two and a half years (five terms) of college may not be eligible because of our residency requirements. If you have been enrolled in college
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Because Racecar Guest post by Kevin C. '17 on the MIT Formula SAE team!

  

  in Germany last year is even based in a shipping container. Our team ... 2001: A Space Odyssey? The black monolith in the movie is a mysterious ... Kevin C. '17 (pictured above at the Porsche Museum) is now a grad

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 2, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Everything You Ever Wanted to Know All your wishes have been magically granted.

  

  in an AP class is better than an A in a normal class.” It shows that ... . Describe the manifestations of the impact, not the impact itself. This is a ... in for your interview. Maybe the night before come up with a list of

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Manolis Kellis: Combining computer science with biology An interview with Manolis Kellis, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, who was honored as one…

  

  wiped out by a single antibiotic. In the same way, cloning is boring since ... studies at MIT by getting a Masters in Engineering (M. Eng) in Electrical ... what in the genome is important and how organisms might have evolved. For

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to put together an ohms concert apparently we have a concert this weekend

  

  asian a cappella group. this post is a look at the different components of ... a part for each voice group (which, in the case of the ohms, means ... on trying to produce a score which is as close to the original song as

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 17, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  Thinking Outside of Absolutes A short thought piece on thinking about thinking

  

  lot. And I think this is something a lot of people can relate to. There ... , where everything is absolute. A view of the world where I feel if I don ... touch with reality and lives in a world of illusions.”    For me, I

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025