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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  THE BURTON THIRD BOMBERS pset, party, pset and party party, rinse, repeat

  

  me to MIT, and Burton-Conner in particular, is the fact that it allows ... 've joined a family. MIT is a hard school that can be difficult to survive ... manages to make MIT an incredible place even when it feels like everything

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i learned from classes spoiler: not what i expected

  

  responsibilities tripled. And this is where I learned the value of my MIT education ... wanted to say, “Please! I went to MIT, and you think this is stressful ... subject of what we learned at MIT came up. Now that this semester’s over, I

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life during IAP i dump my brain a little

  

  Skiing is a class I thought didn't exist at MIT until I looked at the PE ... to Software Engineering in Java 6.178 is a six-unit class offered only during IAP. It is student-taught: I actually knew/were friends with several

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  to wrap your collective heads around: 1) MIT students really like to complain about how hard they're working, and 2) MIT students really like ... extracurricular activity when you first come to MIT, at least until you figure out

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Psets from hell Sometimes learning can be painful

  

  upsetting. Here is what one of our 18.03 psets looked like: http://www-math.mit ... apologies. =( So here it is, a long overdue update about everyone's favorite ... volunteered to help out the following year. (You know how it is, when you're in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  in a funk and salvaging hope

  

  this is different this has been a build up a wave   I haven ... MIT thus far.   the weight of the world felt so heavy i was ... reach this point?   but hey it happens this is only natural and

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  a text convo on failure and other stuff i guess

  

  . M K 2:46 AM Where is[annotation note='im hosting a sunrise watch ... Are you up for something? Writing a bunch of[annotation note='the mit ... misti. turns out, miguel is thinking of misti also for the summer

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • December 12, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how i feel about ai-generated art from an artist's perspective

  

  is ai so bad at making hands?[/caption] Recently, I read something by ... , this is only my reaction, and certainly other creatives might not feel ...  don’t feel the same). Artists’ ire is two-pronged. One, artificial intelligence

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 11, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  it’s only a matter of time a post for the deferred

  

  , ended up here at MIT. Waly's here. CJ's here. Instead, a deferral is a ... [annotation note="And, now that the semester is over, that tin can truly is ... offer my congratulations, and a warm welcome to the MIT community. For the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).

  

  Silicon Valley startups, however, is that they often go after "easy money ... -changing potential. Sam Altman (president of Y Combinator) gave a talk today at MIT ... jump into a field 70-80% of the market is chasing the current fad.  This

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 13, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus, Part One Photos and commentary of a sample floor of the East Campus dormitory.

  

  is similar in architecture, layout, and structure. I haven't counted ... called the East Campus Alumni Houses, and each building is split into three ... few times, but still is no match in cleanliness or plushness to shiny

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All About the MCATs All about the MCATs and what you need to take to prepare for it!

  

  and Ben), the first step to getting into medical school is submitting an ... (NHGRI) during the day (which is truly a joy) and then taking MCAT classes at night (which is not). The MCAT is curved multiple-choice knowledge

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hot town In which I complain about the heat and expound wisdom about the bio department.

  

  my window is 15 stories up and falling out is not up there on my list ... department: "I might be interested in doing Biology at MIT... so I have to ask ... bad ones, but is there a general teaching "style" that most professors

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taste ai has no taste.

  

  [judgment] is in brackets, meaning it isn’t part of the original quote. From what I remember (please note my memory is faulty and not subject to the same journalistic standards as the WaPo), this is how the conversation

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 20, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  avoiding responsibility writing this blog to procrastinate on stuff

  

  , and it’s gone now. It feels like my brain is constantly on pause, like ... do tomorrow. My lack of focus causes stress, and the stress is in turn ... . Starting to push a boulder is difficult, and stopping it is equally as hard

  • by Anika H. '26
  • April 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor Ernesto Blanco: A Lesson in Creative Engineering "Science and engineering are like two sides of a coin, where the value of the…

  

  inventions, since I came to MIT to learn from creative engineering gurus like ... , and textile systems. His office is home to many of these devices and it ... when the chair is tilted for climbing. The spokes in essence behave as

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  loveallurfriends <3

  

  time is hard, nowadays. This semester is far and away my busiest at MIT ... scintillations on the surface of the river.  I was tired. This is unsurprising; it ... ’t over until my last meeting is, up to 12 hours later. This isn’t a

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 6, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Friendly Body Pillows body pillows are my love language

  

  , getting a dollar for each body pillow I purchase is a rather inefficient way ... , about a mile from MIT. It was a convenient 8-10 minute walk to get ... the work day. My cat’s name is Mango, and I also love oranges. I missed

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 1, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  sunset/sunrise swiftly flow the days

  

  is possible but unlikely']my first at MIT so far.[/annotation] Tangent ... I've been very busy this semester; this is entirely of my own accord ... post about how I’ve been managing is coming at some point, but that point

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of Burton-Conner long live BC

  

  of varying cultures. The dorm is being renovated starting next year ... important to floor culture, so this is pretty tragic. Thankfully, efforts to ... be restored, but this renovation is still impactful on each of the dorm

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 25, 2020