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• Blog / Life after MIT

  i will miss learning and dressing up everyday happy last first week of classes to me and seniors of the world

  

  being a student whose sole responsibility is to learn. To find answers to ... an exercise in color theory or proportions. It’s a chance to experiment ... in rotation. Is the decision of what to wear that much of a burden to

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / Events

  A Brief History of Thursday I met Kip Thorne.

  

  's statistically improbable to win things that aren't in cereal boxes. Well, it ... wonders of educational television, I wanted to be a cosmologist like Stephen ... probably ended with about a bajillion thank-yous in a row. Recipients

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  *Independent* Activities Period an IAP apart!

  

  of using words to describe my project, here is a video I made! But for those lazy to watch, the tldr; is: I used a text-generating neural network ... tutorial: This is a great tutorial about how to use a text generation neural

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Satisfaction New year= New opportunities/classes = Happy Kirsten

  

  to calculate internal forces and deformations. It's a neat class because I've been able to learn more about the force distributions in different support structures. I'll never be able to look at a bridge the same

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 13, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I should’ve started this earlier A statement exemplifying my first month as a Junior

  

  'm getting used to some big changes in my life. The first change that I ... being able to get to class a little earlier in the mornings and having ... anything...) Since I'm a visual person, I drew this little photo to explain

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  A Mentor to Remember – Patrick Winston (1943-2019) Celebrating Professor Winston

  

  but he spent a great deal of time talking about how important it was to prioritize togetherness (especially in a place like MIT where it is easy to ... Excellence in Mentoring award given to a professor who serves as an advisor

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 24, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advising and freshman formalities

  

  happened this week. - Thanks to a freight derailment in Idaho, I spent most of Tuesday on a bus from Montana to Washington state. - Last night, my ... to dinner following a "signing of the forms" (see above). We've had a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 20, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  insanity tldr some of my habits make no sense

  

  intelligent things in conversations, which tends to begin as a deliberate choice ... and is able to be happy solely through a conscious effort to live in the ... pressure to amass a lot of knowledge and competence to be self-sufficient in

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  A Major Crisis haha get it..cause..yeah,

  

  , but this means that flights just force me to think. A lot. In the time ... class that really solidified his decision to be a Course 20. In addition ... I'm currently on a six hour flight back to my sunny, warm, and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Slump and an unexpected summer

  

  ’s common to feel stuck in a rut at times, and there are ways to get out of it ... thankful for those in the tech world who tried to find new positions for the ... My second year of college just ended. I’ve been trying to think of a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • June 2, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring break Q&A: Part 2 where I FINALLY answer the rest of your questions :'D

  

  Thanks to everyone who left questions in my Q&A! I haven't gotten ... while you're a student, and a class that you planned to take in sophomore ... learning it in a theoretical vacuum. This is only in B-tier because we had to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 15, 2026
• Blog / About Decisions

  No Ceilings next steps

  

  , which used to feel 100 steps away (when in fact it was almost 1 ... Part 1: (literal) There are no ceilings. For some reason, in a lot ... for them, and off I went. Because I had attended a community college in

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 12, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m in Round 2! Can You Help Me Make the Top 10? Change.org is running a competition that'll propel 10 ideas to the fore of the next…

  

  As I mentioned in my last entry, Change.org is running a competition ... to Round 2, and the idea to "Establish a 'Global Challenges Wikipedia ... a message, loud and clear, that we don't need to rely on dishonest

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MCAT Advice For the pre-meds out there, MIT or otherwise

  

  are! Courses are useful to some; I just like independence a little too ... a few details; to supplement the Examkrackers materials, I used ... instantly: flowers, a card, and ice cream! My lab is the besttt. ♥ In

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  You can’t live without clean water Alfinio's sustainable water initiative

  

  1667a.html In the summer of 2007, four Harvard graduates will go to Costa Rica to work with their partners in a community to eradicate the ... to create a model for global engagement for students and their partner

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  Today is a Super Important Day This is kind of a big deal.

  

  allowing employees to use their lunch breaks to watch the inaugural swearing-in ... almost a year. Today marks the beginning of a change we can believe in ... big, in fact, that the following email was sent out to the MIT community

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hi, (gasp!) I’m Kim Kimd's first post as an admissions blogger!

  

  as time went on. Eventually I had a power amplifier that I could use to ... , I've gotten to a point where the workload will be manageable from here ... you can see in my bio, I'm a senior at MIT this year. I'm taking a lot

  • by Kim D. '09
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  World’s Largest Collection of Brains The new Brain & Cognitive Sciences Complex opens tomorrow.

  

  define diseases. The hope, he said, is to find patterns in the brain scans ... genetics. So now, he said, it makes more sense to locate brain science in a ... There was a nice article in yesterday's Boston Globe about the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 1, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  More for Admitted Students What to do now if you've been admitted to MIT.

  

  MIT Portal: Over at MyMIT, you'll find a bunch of stuff only available to ... the Medical Release Form. Notes to the wise: if you're flying in, book ... transportation) of MIT -- driving and parking in Boston is not a good experience

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Greek Way What I did for a Klondike Bar, caesar salad, chicken florentine, mushroom ravioli, chocolate torte,…

  

  dinner we headed down to Maggiano's Little Italy in Boston--a trip made in ... actually called the ceremony, but it used the word "covenant" enough times to ... MIT's 27 fraternities or 5 sororities, but I still had to sign a non

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2006