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• Blog / Challenges

  Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience

  

  fox will make sense later[/caption] I want to major in computer science ... where I feel like a lot of my STEM background amounted to nothing, since it holds little relevance to my prospective major. computer science

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  perception but who *are* you?

  

  , and nothing else. It seems almost inevitable that this is going to ... sense. That researcher sucks.” Or “That’s such an uninteresting thing to ... some point in my grad school life, I’ll have to come up with ideas and be

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 18, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Middle School To those who are having or have had a bad experience

  

  it. We think it would have helped middle school Allan and Danny to read ... want to write today.  It started when we moved from Brooklyn, New York to Miami, Florida when we were 10. We started 5th grade in Miami at a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / Residential Life

  [guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes notes from a hall exchange in 2017

  

  always on different dorms, live in each other's rooms for several days to ... would to a joint blog post and write about our experiences, but never got to finish it. two years later, jessica and i are neighbors at next

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Making friends by learning languages Welcome to the Language Conversation Exchange

  

  wasn't really something I expected to continue in earnest in college. After coming to MIT I stopped studying languages for three semesters because there were so many other interesting humanities classes I wanted to

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Before you Register for Classes: Tools, Tips, and Resources Scheduling Tools and Tips for Incoming Students

  

  , who wrote about it here. This is the best tool to plan your academic ... completed classes on difficulty, pace, and other factors on a scale of 0 to 7 ... courses, recitation sessions, or checking when it's best to take a certain

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Recap—The Book Launch Oh hi there...yes, I'm back!

  

  journey from the first uncertain scrawl of words to the final product was a ... ’m writing it? Because…because… I want to? No, not quite. I mean, yes, of course I want to write. But that’s not why. I don’t know what the why is. I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 2 With guest appearances by NJ Representative Rush Holt and MA Senator Elizabeth Warren

  

  people haven’t noticed. To be fair, he’s a name rather than a face for ... district. I happen to know what he looks like because an assistant addressed ... science and engineering organizations, waiting for Rep. Holt to give a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 5, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Liveblog: Info Session with Karyn Blaser! Learn about MIT

  

  Hey everybody, I'm taking a break from working on 2.004 in order to ... often just to stay fresh on current admissions policies and procedures ... we go! Right now I'm just waiting for it to start, people are all

  • by Snively '11
  • October 12, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Stay Tuned Liveblog, coming your way

  

  Hey hey! Welcome to the liveblog! At this very moment I'm sitting in ... information session, waiting to here all about two schools I've never been to ... always involved hour drives to Portland, free pitchers of water, free pens

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What happened since the end. Bringing you up to speed on life since I finished all my schoolwork. FOREVER. (You're…

  

  closer together those entries were. I used to say that after 3 or 4 days ... /weeks/months that I haven't had time to write anything. Here, check out my full page to-do list." This time, I haven't written for a week an a half

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ILGs at MIT They're independent! (Guest post by Sondy '07/G/awesome.)

  

  another one tomorrow morning. Since I'd actually like to write something ... term will just have to wait. It's not like I'm leaving you out in the cold with nothing to read about, though. (Speaking of, why is it so

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 5, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  finals in three days, I packed my bags and headed back home to South Bend ... blogs, in spite of talking to upperclassmen and alumni, in spite of going to CPW - I really had very little idea of what college life is like

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview It's only going to be as fun as you want it to be.

  

  surprised when I noticed that many trees have started to don a new coat of ... "wet and not-so-hot." It's quite an experience to be in a place where the trees change color according to the seasons. Saurav from India asks

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  it was all a joke. Mr. Lazar decided to attend Cornell University this fall, for reasons unrelated to the pseudo-kidnapping, which took place at ... difficult it is to get into top colleges, weird, funny, poignant, and even

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / Events

  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  I love to play with big weird words, so writing in Up-Goer Five makes ... 🫠. But because the point of using only simple words is NOT to make ... studying-people that might be hard for you to find if I did not say them. You

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  updates cook or get cooked - summer boston edition

  

  enough as you can tell, but I want to be prolific this summer. This ... and statistical setup people have found to describe the problem of learning & inferring things given data, when evaluated with respect to

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 30, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art in burton conner making do in a non-mural building

  

  if you've seen any [annotation note = "Interactive Introduction to ... murals. of the existing dorms, there used to be four buildings where murals ... the walls"]permanent murals.[/annotation] this isn't to say MIT no

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Communication Intensive Jumping on the semester-in-review blog train

  

  ’ve written everything there is to write. I am never writing another word of ... to their majors. The requirement’s purpose is to make us more effective writers and orators. A large part of that comes from exposing us to new

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 4, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  knot again my spread for Infinite Magazine Issue 9

  

  . All of the [annotation note="we use the word spread to refer to one ... this post I'm going to focus mostly on the spread that I directed for ... , even as compared to the other options, so I was really pleased when it

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 20, 2022