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• Blog / Admissions

  Lament for CPW (Guest Entry) Of lanyards, Capture the Flag, and headwraps.

  

  the red team was shown to be the better cheater of the two. While there ... on campus—and there shouldn’t be any reason for me to like it this much ... have almost a complete outfit of MIT clothes—a shirt, a baseball cap, and

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Process of Psetting And the technicals of technicals

  

  The imperative of an Admissions Blogger is to write about life and ... reputable sources agree on the definition of a pset, there is high variance ... am particularly emotional, in which case I will resort to “PSET” or

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Warning: Contains Biology This entry may be unsuitable for children, liberal arts majors, and mathematicians.

  

  've planned on being Course 20* since before coming to MIT**, MIT students tend ... a Course 20 degree, only one of them is, strictly speaking, Course 20. But that's actually part of the point of biological engineering: it is a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 14, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  some definition of success (especially when success is tied to work or a ... number which changes depending on when the Lyft is called (time of day ... , such as to make a valuation on how costly traffic is (just in terms of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons from Loomis and Whitney a math month post

  

  isn't fully coherent. All of which is to say, I am excited to stop ... cool-- that was a lot of math (and it is about to be quite a bit more in ... bunch of points out in 3-dimensional space. Our goal is to (again) bound

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT or Bust Our story begins here...

  

  language by the time I graduate) I'm still deciding whether or not to double major or minor with Biology, which is course 7. My freshman year, I lived ... 's Inauguration last May. In order for you guys to get to know me a little better

  • by Bryan
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  24 Pumpkins a journey through the streets of Boston

  

  utmost duty to take advantage of any fall-related activities that come my ... of leaves (shoutout to the folks who are making these), and trying a variety of fall-themed Trader Joe’s snacks (the maple syrup fudge is

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  I really don't like about CPW is that I suddenly have to convert to ... assigned to each department is a matter of historical contingency, and doesn't relate to the content of the department or the time period it was

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Eighth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 5PM on 01/24/06.

  

  of the day, a person's success is not determined by which school he or ... of a sudden a big optional means that an 800 or 790 or whatever is not ... ." Please remember that no one is ever admitted to MIT based on numbers. The

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Events

  In pursuit of freedom MIT might not be free, but plenty of things are.

  

  day on which I will again not tell you about FASAP. Except, that is, to ... number is first converted to a hash) Not surprisingly, most of Random Hall ... is about as easy to follow as the derivation of the Schrodinger

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Final Presentations Live Webcast Project Engineering Processes aka The Most Fun A Course 2 Major Can Have Without Their…

  

  'm so excited to work on my 6.005 final project for probably the next ... will say, the best part of final projects is when you are done with them ... put into them (almost). I hear it gets even better as you go along--which

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 7, 2015
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  how to make a minecraft bot reflections on my microsoft internship

  

  to see if the bot is capable of generating a reasonable response ...  grammar, which is a set of rules that tells GPT-3 what should and should not be ... interesting lines of code, I get to put Microsoft on my resume, I have more

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Events

  A Burton Jew Thanksgiving Because I'm game for any excuse to eat stuffing.

  

  half of these have to be Kosher. The result is a weekend extravaganza of ... Bombers and for having the largest concentration of Kosher keeping Jews on one floor anywhere, or just the highest concentration of Jews in general

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being a lab rat I flail around trying to explain what I do at work every day.

  

  to sell my organs piece by piece on the global black market, I'm pretty ... of the actin cytoskeleton, which is involved in learning and memory ... interests of MIT biology professors to see which professors were doing

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The most important blog entry ever This is probably the most valuable entry ever written... not kidding. Bookmark it. Class of…

  

  about x or y, etc. The least I can do is try to make your research a ... ://web.mit.edu/olh/Clusters/ Email list management (check which lists you're on, add yourself to other ... ://student.mit.edu/cgi-docs/shrwstop.html Committee on Academic Performance (CAP) petitions to add/drop stuff late: http://web.mit.edu/acadinfo/cap

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 6, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fonts of MIT a typographical tour

  

  know what this one means? A serif is a little spike or slab on the end of ... , which is based on DIN. [caption id="attachment_83910" align ... "ENTERING 12" signs, which is hard to identify because, in the US, pixel fonts

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Listing It All Out you get a list and you get list and you get a list

  

  drop silence of the reading room is honestly better suited for taking ... deserve better Go to a protest or march you care about Try a lobster ... talking to people bc what else is there to do now Eat a crap ton of ice

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 29, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  New York A break from Cambridge.

  

  on the bus to Times Square. The eye-frazzling shock of Manhattan at ... skipped out on the opportunity to radically expand his understanding of the ... suggest converting to Firefox.] [EDIT RELOADED: Manually fixed. My

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Blog Graveyard skeletons in my google docs

  

  , or another kind of art, can be really personal"]humanity added to it ... ’s because I found a newer shinier idea to latch on to or because I couldn ... , not then"]never planned to make,[/annotation] or hours of some guy

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 12, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  their home rivers to spawn the next generation of salmon. This is really ... model which works well on data from one domain and develop some way of ... or reading math papers. What matters is finding something to bridge the

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024