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• Blog / Challenges

  synthesis on changing my mind

  

  are able to reject it. it is like how neoclassicism is not the same as ... media is unsatisfying and how to best address that dissatisfaction. or, to ... . siddhartha tries to bring him back, worrying to his friend “But look, how shall

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 12, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  past, present, future reflections and plans

  

  absolutely no free time whatsoever. I vaguely learned how to manage my time so ... simply memorize how to do the problems (@me on the first midterm). CMS.840 ... psets to do, I realize now how much more I prefer writing papers to doing

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Changes that I’m making this semester wow it's already March isn't that crazy or what

  

  really hard not to show how angry I was at 6.009 and myself. A week after I ... Paper notes I hate taking notes with my iPad, so I went back to good ... sets on my iPad though because that makes it easier to submit the pset on

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  Total immersion An MIT-Italy student finds her way around Rome

  

  ’ve come into a fuller realization of how interconnected Rome is. The first ... stuck like glue to the bus that took me directly from the apartment to ... ). It took me a while to work up the courage to take a different bus to

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Trouble with External Validation Which came first? The admit or the awesome...

  

  limited availability relative to the significant demand, for the exceptional opportunities that await. Since our desire is to make the best possible admission decisions, we utilize a wide range of sources to help confirm and validate our

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Love Affair: 11.027 & New Orleans [by Janet Li '12] Spring break in NOLA.

  

  down to New Orleans for the summer. What are your summer plans, and how ... French Quarter. How did you spend your spring break? Eight students in the class 11.027, City to City, spent our week doing ground research for four

  • by ARTalk
  • March 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part IV This should tie up the loose ends...for now.

  

  who applied for EA got a chance to contact your EC and have an interview ... to talk about what goes into an interview report. What we won't see in ... various projects you worked on or groups you belonged to and worked with

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cream Tea with the MIT Club of Great Britain Meeting MIT alumni in the UK

  

  to hear about how our year aboard has been going so far. Some pictures ... The MIT Club of Great Britain invited us to cream tea recently. Here ... tea was when I went to this event. But the president of the club kindly

  • by Cambridge
  • April 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Boris Alexeev: Solving Graph Theory Problems Boris Alexeev spent five months working on a math UROP with Prof. Daniel Kleitman.

  

  the program, we spent two days presenting our research to a panel of judges and the general public, and I had the privilege of being assigned to a booth right next to Boris'. Despite spending more than fourteen

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ming-fai Fong- Designing an intelligent walking “toddler” robot After learning to sit, bend their knees, squat, and stand, babies can finally gather the…

  

  , the researchers in the Seung Lab designed a robot that learns how to ... little bit of control in how to use these muscles." By creating a ... work in the Seung Lab at MIT to develop the mechanical design of an

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^(n+1)

  

  unanswered questions, let me quickly answer them before heading off to the ... how different our grade system is and how we don't use GPAs etc. My ... grading system it would be unfair on me to compare my grades here to those

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 31, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Friendly Neighborhood Dream-Destroyer "How Could You Work There?"

  of as. So, I thought it'd be helpful to tell you all a bit about how I got to MIT and answer "how I could possibly work here." If we rewind ... a buddy who wanted to hang out. Since I was a college admissions

  • by DJ Rock
  • May 30, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things A collective end-of-the-semester brain dump

  

  Getting a bad grade, but still realizing how much I’ve learned to get to ... president of a dorm Built a CPU in 6.004 Learned how to CAD (computer ... Breathe in, breathe out. Wow. I’ve barely had time to breathe let

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • May 20, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint post] Welcoming you to “Here at MIT” student art in the new welcome center

  

  different ideas about how to do that. We went with our hallway idea for two ... dilemma involved figuring out which aspect to illustrate and how. Our first ... a storyline, a living legacy.   How long did it take to paint

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 3, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  You’re doing it wrong Some constructive advice from the Director for filling out the application

  

  2023 is now live. While some have jumped at the chance to scope out the ... to wait until the very last minute. While I certainly won’t extol the ... doesn’t matter (e.g. has no impact on our decision) when you choose to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  life lessons from my internship career choices moving forward

  

  science. My team was focused on AI-powered audio-to-text transcription. Now ... position where they can't care about compensation. And to be honest, a large ... school year's tuition looming over my head, so I had to make financially

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Optimal Solution It doesn't exist

  

  functioned as a more systemic method to organize how I felt about each option ... My first two weeks of GEL kicked off to a great start. I really like working (some would even call it playing) with my team. To help us get to

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • September 30, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Jellyfishing and other ways to recruit people to your organizations

  

  . No matter how much of a challenge your target audience may be to reach ... . Feedback – It’s nice to get honest feedback from a peer about how ... supplement of material from GEL. 3. Teamwork – Learning how to

  • by Stanley G.
  • March 10, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  shoulders sag against the railing behind me and throw my backpack to the ground; it falls with a feeble “clunk.” exhaling, i attempt to mentally ... , returning to my dorm, and sleeping, but a desire to commit to the events on my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear High School Senior I know you're stalking us

  

  purpose of me writing this blog post is to give you some ideas on how to ... accelerator? Build a particle accelerator! (Don’t know how to build a particle ... language. How else are you ever going to contribute to the conversation of

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • November 17, 2016