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• Blog / Personal Travel

  In Japan, the Elevators Don’t Care - Sort of trying to fit in as an American in Japan - 

  

  even carrying a child in the front and another in the back. I want to ... paper to fold with. Also four story tall Muji's. And in a way, it does ... our own aspirations in life. It is in a way, my job to not blend or fit

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Spring break in Canada Snowboarding ramps, waterfalls, poutine, butterflies, and lots of noodles.

  

  because we had to fly through Newark airport. We got a hotel room in the ... wanted to. Me in our kitchen in Quebec. It was a really short walk to a ... Montreal. Montreal is pretty easy to reach from Boston and as such is a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 4, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  onto the Stanford campus to give a guest lecture in web security, and ... they were participating in a Media Lab study. (Yes, we would dash from ... subject lines like “free leftover iceberg lettuce in E52”; in fact, a single

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vacation = Relaxation, right? What I do over vacation...

  

  to students in, say China, it’s a big change from MIT where our ... really motivated to get a lot of stuff done. But then Christmas came. And ... Apparently this is not the case in England. They do things

  • by Cambridge
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is an Incomplete Grade? ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire situations

  

  Spiral of Doom? Never fear! It’s similar to what a lot of us used in high ... credit limit of 57 units. I used that opportunity to explore Course 1 in a ...   ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! Do yourself a favor and watch this! Make sure you're not doing anything for the…

  

  On Monday, I got to see a pacemaker insertion surgery, eat lunch in ... - I've been sworn to secrecy!) and I find working in the lab to be one ... work (he went on to UCSF after MIT and is now a practicing cardiologist

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding heritage at MIT

  

  this in part to Rush, in part to a slightly larger-than-usual number of ... entrenched in them - maybe high school a little bit, but only to the degree ... all places, to find a cultural identity, and a cultural heritage. It

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I swear this isn’t an ad for Google But Bard is so much more fun than ChatGPT

  

  Earlier this year, I had planned to write a blog post testing whether it’s possible to train a machine-learning model to learn Course 6’s new ... like GPT-4 for not knowing basic facts you can find via a quick Google

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Preparing for the real world An alum's perspective!

  

  -defined problems fed to you by a benevolent manager, then you’re in luck because the ... differences. Each of the teams also wanted to pull the project in a certain ... England, where I learned to work with people from a different culture and in

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 18, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  318 memorial drive a historical rabbit hole

  

  picture. We could verify this by trying to get a picture from the same ... annex, which looks like it has a similar structure to the building in the ... handbooks, and I find a map in the 1959 version. Bingo! Of course, there

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Decision letters mailed

  

  letters each come in a standard #10 window envelope (4.125" x 9.5"). The ... to further contribute to that by leaving only a very small number of ... something like 2699). More later (off to dim sum at China Pearl!)...

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 10, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Typhoon, Wedding Highlights from my trip to Asia.

  

  For most of the past month, I was traveling in southeast Asia, a trip inspired by a friend's wedding in Malaysia. It was a hot and steamy holiday ... over three great weeks. As this was purely a vacation, I decided to not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  H0sed Psets, exams, and being "mediocre" at MIT.

  

  week to do a pset (or two weeks, in classes like 7.01x (Intro Bio)). But ... to matriculate in May 1. The disc contains a 5-minute video ... typing "hosed" into the title bar), but then I decided to finish exporting

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  An MIT Adventure Life at the 'Tute

  

  MIT receives; it’s not uncommon to have folks from Russia, India, China ... : had never seen a taxi, had never been on a subway (except for the one at ... immediately sent to NYC to conduct some school visits. I was so nervous riding

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • August 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  VI-A Course 6? Work experience and a Masters degree all at once!

  

  occasionally want to get out and see the world. In the last year and a half, MIT ... to young'uns about what an awesome opportunity they have in VI-A. You ... "Mankind has always had a yen to travel. Millions of years ago

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 3, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Seventh Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 4PM on 01/09/06.

  

  immature'?" It's possible to be "too honest," yes. :-) I've seen this in a ... that last line, but I only play music in a band to make enough money to ... applying to MIT as a Freshman for the 2nd time in a row. I sent 3 letters of

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  LET ME COOOOOOOK 🍳🍳🍳 I am stupidly excited about learning this Basic Life Skill, and not ashamed to admit…

  

  [annotation note="A program that sends MIT students to work/teach/study in other ... myself. I had grown up in a family of people who loved to eat. Whenever I ... couldn’t find somebody in the dining hall I knew well enough to eat with, I

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 16, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home Sweet College Surviving first semester.

  

  you might find in a BuzzFeed headline. (I’ll do my best.) Since I ... to look back on all that happened and express to you a bigger picture ... 70%. Or 90%.) In the beginning of this year, I suffered from a lot of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 29, 2015
• Blog / MISTI

  Labs throughout the world open their doors to MIT Biology students

  

  self-confidence to pursue a career in biological research, but also a ...  internship gave me an incredible opportunity to not only understand a great deal about cellular biology, but also a chance to improve my French and learn

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Trip to India ...to the slum children who smiled at me even though it seems that they have…

  

  . Traffic in India is bumper-to-bumper in a very real sense. Take a big road ... and started walking around in the hopes of finding a suitable testing ... because I was able to appreciate what I have in my life in a way that I

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 23, 2008