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• Blog / Admissions

  International Men & Women of Mystery

  

  /250/600. * I get lots of questions along the lines of, "In my country ... very, very competitive. I can tell you from experience that making the decisions on international students is very, very difficult. I can also tell

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  cool enough to make me continue in the physics track, so I showed up for ... feel it with physics, too. There must be some reason I made room in my ... study!) So I guess the wine in the wine glass represents our brains

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Happy Pi Day!!! 3.14159!

  

  sponsored a Pi Day Celebration of sorts. This was the email I received advertising the event.   This Wednesday, 3/14 at 5pm in room 2-102, the UMA is celebrating our favorite constant in style with the following

  • by Bryan
  • March 14, 2007
• Blog / Events

  HST Forum 2006… for real The real thing.

  

  . Ho was named Time Magazine's Man of the Year in 1996, and was the recipient of a Presidential Medal in 2001." I will post photographs of the poster session once I can steal them from the MIT News Office. I know for a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / Events

  There is such a thing as a free event Collegefest is going on this weekend, go get yourself some free junk!

  

  Another busy week of classes has come to end! To celebrate, I went with a few friends to the Collegefest in Hynes Convention Center (it ... Advantage Card and $10 if you don't. Anyway, if you're interested in getting a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walk around the blogs Think of it as summer reading.

  

  . I don't know about you, but I think that's a lot to take in all at once. I still haven't even read all of them. Which is my loss, really. Maybe someday I will. With over 2,500 blog entries, you might think that

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Battle of the Bands "Rock on and come to CPW!" ~ Thomas Jefferson"Chris, you made up that quote from…

  

  ! (for concerned parents, I can pretty much guarantee you there will be no lightning sparks involved in the playing of music, though it's totally ... the people I polled about CPW, the one event they said meant more than

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  enroll next fall, please make it a better place. I know you can. I hope you ... available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the ... increased yield in recent years, while our target class size has remained the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Visiting the Museum of Science science is cool

  

  the Museum of Science in Boston this past Sunday. I love museums, and since the last time I went to a science museum was in eighth grade, it was ... the ender dragon kid: i killed the ender dragon in one hit jenny and

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Michael Xiang: Double UROP Extraordinaire! Michael Xiang has two UROPs, one at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and another…

  

  . You can imagine how awesome Michael Xiang, a junior in Biology with ... , you can figure out the DNA coding for the receptor. Voila! His UROP in ... when dramatic results come in or are on their way. The anticipation can

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  . You can see all final presentation slides here (...I was in group 6 ... over CNNs, VAEs, and GANs in one day, and of course by the next morning I ... (which duh was my favorite), but because I personally am only interested in

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 12, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 2: Extracurriculars My academic plans? I've got bigger plans. Better plans.

  

  ." is from a musical written by MIT students that I performed in. The ... semester: Blogging This. French House Cooking I live in French House, one ... cooking team. This means that, every Friday, I show up in the kitchen at 4pm

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

  

  In April of 2018, I left home for a few days to attend [annotation ... , when I did finally get home, I was in for a surprise. Although I was only ... reason, we can refrigerate it, but otherwise we can just keep them in a

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / Hacks

  Athena, Deliver Us From Finals And lead us not into temptation of crying ourselves to sleep at night.

  

  of higher learning and crawled out of their rooms to stand in awe of the hack's serene majesty. Naturally, I was no exception. In spite of ... , hackers erected a giant statue of Athena, the patron goddess of wisdom, in

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 20, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Democrats, Republicans, sportsmanship, books The unbearable awesomeness of literature at MIT.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The combined weight of all the termites in the world is 10 times the combined weight of all the humans in the world. Confused ... vacation in Scotland. From a train window, they saw a black sheep in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: an interdisciplinary collaboration A day in the life of MIT research... on the Internet. A story of how…

  

  IAP, and I have funding from a professor in the Biological Engineering ... looking to get in on the ground floor of new initiatives, but only when I think they've got a high chance of taking off. I agreed to meet him in the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is a zonotope? yes this is a post about math

  

  plane, no two of which are parallel. I picked four vectors. In this ... if it won’t intersect with it. In my example, I’ll draw the third ... zonotope themselves. Notice how, when I drew the edges in this example, I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So, uh… help me pick classes I have no classes.

  

  those has got to go. I will probably keep drumming if I make it in ... It was as bad as I suspected it would be. Turns out I have 5 hasses ... interest in learning how to make forceful arguments in written form. Studies

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Things That Aren’t Studying If you think about it, I get paid to procrastinate

  

  be turned in on that same day. If I start sounding unintelligible, it ... Two weeks ago, my life was studying. On three consecutive days, I had ... .) So last week, I decided to make up for it by...doing a 9.00 essay? How

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 7, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Survive a Nor’easter New England hath no flurries like a winter storm

  

  ; I know a few friends who have never seen snow in such amounts, let ... instance, I was lucky to get one or two of them in a given year, presumably ... conditions here in Cambridge. The good news is there's not much that you can

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 11, 2011