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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s new and exciting? You get to pick a blog topic! Yes, you! Definitely not me!

  

  gigantic mental lapse, I barely managed to finish in time. It occurred to me ... 're actually functional in college (unlike in high school) 11.Why I'm actually a ... This afternoon, as I was walking past the Center for Ultracold Atoms

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 16, 2008
• Blog / Events

  look at the stars hacking mit, six months at a time

  

  "]Z*OM’S CONSTANT NEED TO UPDATE.[/annotation] I learned how to dial-in while ... ="one day i will be bold enough to figure out whether the physical firehose in ... , but I’m very proud and excited for our Fall babies to work hard in Hack

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.2050 – Field Programmable Gate Awesomeness Featuring my “aggressive and weird” cat robot

  

  ; these days, you can probably build that in just a few hours because the ... ="95293" /] Although I wrote a lot of code in 6.2050, the whole FPGA engineering process ... around for a while, I discovered it was actually a bug in Manta itself

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: CrowdMath, by Art of Problem Solving and MIT PRIMES, is a thing now a brief note in between committee breaks

  

  A few weeks ago I got an email from Richard Rusczyk. Richard is the ... people who love math, and we occasionally talk about what's going on in the ... Math website: CrowdMath is an open project that gives all high school students

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Valentine’s Day Special Featuring calculus, people who hate me, and a picture puzzle

  

  and curmudgeonry in our observable universe, I've decided to list off ... sending me a Valentine. In no particular order: 1.John Curtice I ... the cereal in your basket on sale?” Later that week, I had a wildly

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  My IAP All the snow has melted since I took these pictures.

  

  lab I most wanted to work in and least expected to take me, the lab ... always empty except for me). I’m hoping to buy prints of some of my ... . You can’t see it in the photo, but there was a beautiful thick snowfall

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 19, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SONIC JUBILANCE A day at the new Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building at MIT

  

  remarkable acoustics in the space I could hear every detail of each performer with striking clarity. After the first piece in the jazz set, I snuck ... workshop in the style of his renowned ensemble, Rambax MIT. I enjoyed the

  • by Jeremy W.
  • February 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A (Not At All) Comprehensive Guide to Your First Year what i've learned as an associate advisor

  

  , so I don't know just how universal everything in this blogpost would be, but I hope this is helpful in some capacity. Table of Contents GIRs ... . Aside from these, I have some general recommendations. In particular, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Short Answers to Big Questions Stolen from the MIT Housing Panel.

  

  let yourself rotate under the stars. On a good night in Boston, I see ... . Class of 2014. Hometown: it's complicated. I was born in Singapore, and ... , a living group in New House. 2) To be perfectly honest, I don't know

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 18, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Haunters what it takes to scare MIT students

  

  , so I’ll go in with a general overview of this year's timeline! [March ... before and were interested in continuing. Additionally, I was able to ... [annotation note="Freshmen can figure out what dorm they want to live in during

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity, Part 2 How your laptop screen works

  

  , etc. In my last blog post, I said that I would write up an explanation ... to your eye. Here's a visual example from this website (which I ... website, you can play around with different combinations (instead of 0

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: Really Random 19 pictures. Don't open on a dialup.

  

  the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Happy Organic Chemistry II Day! I ... going to use the money to build robots instead of buy beer, he threw in an ... is teaching the undergraduate class 21M.304: Writing in Tonal Forms II

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 13, 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 / Admissions

  Selection-time Questions Omnibus

  

  questions as soon as I can... "A Probably Not So Important Question That Might ... out of every 6 applicants. In one of the Oscar-nominated short films I ... Organizational Change. nghi also wrote, "I'm wondering if you can write about the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXit FOMO....or JOMO???

  

  ’m excited to finally move in. I’m especially excited to be a blogger for the ... groups, I have been in Seattle, at home, while the rest of my family has ... out how I am going to unpack, go to 4 different meetings, buy groceries

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  AARRRGHHHHH!!!!🏴‍☠️ (Pirate Post) A Review of 21M.299 - Pirate Songs and Whaling Chanteys

  

  in the world, and I was beyond privileged to learn from him. I can ... I mentioned it in a previous blog, but this semester I took a class ... something like that. I think I’m going to concentrate in Music Technology if I

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 2, 2024
• Blog / Events

  “Freshman Musical Dorms” A question inspires an entire entry about housing. But I threw in some other stuff…

  

  . In other news, April and I got a futon, and now our room is supercool ... went to Flirting 101, because I could. I mean, how can you not? All of ... his pictures are better. In the end, I learned enough to receive a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Summer

  solace in the self it's me! cami!

  

  time. I'm working my first in person internship, a real corporate job ... and live in a country that I haven't lived in before, I want to explore ... , [SCREAM] My internship requires I live in San Francisco. I...was not known

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 30, 2022
• FAQ / Transfer

  Can I apply for transfer admission if I’m a first-year college student?

  Yes, because you finished high school and will complete two terms of college by the time you enter MIT in the fall, you are eligible to apply as a transfer applicant. You're not eligible to apply as a first
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  the material can. In his May 19 xTalk “The Art of Insight ... specifically integration. It’s complicated (so much so, in fact, that I ... expressions, Prof Mahajan suggests that we can, in fact, measure the entropy of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016