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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Your MIT ID PLASTIC! Shiny plastic, at that!

  

  wondering if there was going to be a chorus line of dancing sea otters or ... buys food (Which is what you need in order to live. You’ll find that ... you need to do is make sure you shop at a place that accepts it (which

  • by Snively '11
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bicycle Race More things happen, and I pretend that I've read your comments.

  

  --just find a half-hour break in classes. If an old friend wants to meet you at ... on the chalkboard as a reference. In his words, the quiz was to "test ... to incompetent peer reviewers. And that is how science works. To take a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Sorting Hat of Sorts Where you live may be one of the most important parts of your time here…

  

  on that in a minute) you're bound to find a group of people with whom ... important thing is that you find a place you like to live. Living near people ... to pick a place you feel most connected to the people in. I can

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s trending?: My Computer Vision final project Where trendy styles = adding styling to trend lines

  

  image and then writing a set of instructions to find the relevant line ... 100 categories. We used these examples to train a neural network that, given a scene image, attempted to guess the corresponding category. Our

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 11, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A The ones that passed the "lmgtfy" test

  

  . Is it very hard to find work with a physics degree? Also, do you kind ... seems to have become a thing of the past, even though site traffic hasn ... : you're likely to get a response more quickly, because current MIT

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  culture within culture i moved to east campus

  

  makes a huge difference. finding how to sustain myself while living in EC ... community in EC, i have to find a balance between sustaining my own culture ... with my dorm being offline due to renovation: find another dorm on campus

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Charmed, I’m Sure What I did my 2nd IAP

  

  't write much here. On Friday, I went to Charm School. I had a hard time finding someone to go with, since people tend to get offended when you suggest that they, um, need lessons on how to dress and flirt. Matt not only

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  News bites from the Institvte A taste of what's happening around campus.

  

  to find a way to make Jerusalem "just, peaceful and sustainable" by ... professors have created a software tool to model interplanetary supply chains ... After a ridiculously awesome weekend in New York, I’m home for Spring

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Christina Royce: Analyzing Re-entry Systems Christina Royce, a senior double majoring in Mechanical Engineering, with a concentration in Manufacturing through…

  

  ability to apply different processes to a wide variety of parts, so ... returning from the trip, she and a group of three other students decided to ... , and a group of 20 students. They worked together to create a 60-page

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Written Post Oh man my handwriting is atrocious

  

  like her little doodles, and I still get extremely happy whenever I find ... another dream about the portabella mushroom burgers last night. I made a ... a million times, because four classes at MIT is a full and very

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Personal Projects

  reflecting on 2020 goals and planning for 2021

  

  a lot easier. I’m already a junior, and I’ve only just started to find ... would sacrifice my time now to get into a good college and then pursue my ... the time I hit 30 and picked a few to work on during 2020. What follows

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to miss deadlines at MIT Policies for late assignments, and ways to keep your grades afloat when life inevitably happens

  

  for ten hours it’s 7 a.m. jesus christ, go to sleep," but I can’t cause ... . Usually, I am fine with losing a night's sleep as long as I don’t have to do ... I had to wake up again for a mandatory-attendance class. I don’t know

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • October 12, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  6.0001 is Done I learned a bit (or should I say 8-bit)

  

  The first quarter comes to a close at MIT. I am crocheting winter ... that useful. Now, I love to find ways to use it. I think of it as an ... learned a lot of new ways to see exactly where I went wrong. This also came

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Party of One A fun day trip idea when you're getting tired of homework.

  

  going to MIT is that you have a long weekend nearly every month. Last ... for you, a la sub sandwich shop) on my way to the T. Descending the ... North Station, you emerge at the street level and walk a short distance to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Take Me *Home* to the Ballgame By Claire S. '25

  

  . I joined clubs where I was able to find a great community of friends ... become the antidote to my homesickness. I’ve always been a fan of the St. Louis Cardinals—it was practically a requirement to live in the small town

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Time I Underpacked a trip to Istanbul, courtesy of MIT

  

  college. Not even for a bit! (I'm starting to think I'm always more homesick ... figured it wouldn't be the worst thing if I stayed a little closer to home ... class works with a different client to learn and apply ideas about

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 25, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Chose To Spend My First Weekend Away From MIT 132 miles north to be exact

  

  upperclassmen, you begin to see things with a new perspective and your priorities begin to shift a little. So yes, I spent my first weekend a little bit up ... witness it come to life. Here's a snapshot of what the weekend looked like

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 16, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  journey to the end of the world visions

  

  problem that i really find quite interesting. this is going to be me nerding ... , imagine trying to come up with a way to automatically generate a pattern of ... want to generate a patch of 128 by 128 meters of land. the most naive

  • by Ali C. '26
  • November 16, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  so you’re starting your first year? boy do I have unsolicited tips for you

  

  observing what you find yourself interested in is a good way to really figure ... students acclimate to MIT. It was a fun, high-energy job. Every OL was ... of a flower, the people of my orientation group seemed to blossom.  As

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 2, 2023
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  tuesday another blog about an ordinary day

  

  a personal project, but after work i usually don't seem to find the ... actually wake up. i take a shower, stop being naked, and am ready to head out ... in my [annotation note="PR stands for pull request, a way to request

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • August 7, 2019