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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poker, Mountains, and Magic The four words of this title have no other exact match on Google

  

  application to computer science. Unlike Tic-Tac-Toe or Chess, poker is a game of ... - to determine what the best move is in any given scenario, since the “best move” depends on what cards your opponent is holding. Playing poker

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 6, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  24 Things I Learned in My First Semester and a Half for the lovely 2024s!

  

  , obviously. But I still stand by this. 9. Go to events on campus. MIT is pretty ... entire semester flying solo. MIT is very much an environment that not only ... /16/2020) to see if there's anything I should remove or add :) MIT has been

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Repilot A 10th vlogiversary for the 20th blogiversary

  

  many projects in my life. While MIT students have IAP in January and take ... capsule at this point in my post-yet-kind-of-not-post-MIT journey. Also, as ... past) bloggers is, by far, my favorite part of my current job. Many of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Using Fireflies.ai to Write a Post About Fireflies.ai behind the scenes: it's pretty meta

  

  The writing process is different for every one of your favorite ... shared a guest post by Sam U. '16 about how MIT helped him launch his ... stay organized while writing this post about Fireflies. Fireflies is a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 20, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snowed In at the Fraternity the blizzard is real.

  

  testament to the amazing environment of growth MIT is. One example comes from ... Friday (whew! more time to prepare). You saw blizzard coverage on the MIT ... the picture below taken January 27th: Oh well, winter is crazy, but

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 28, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Fall Festival 2014 Some actors came to MIT and told me about their units of measurement

  

  Today was apparently the MIT Undergraduate Association's Fall ... very different comedic styles, which is harder to see on camera but ... positive reactions/Amazon reviews for his Comedy Central show—there is

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / Hacks

  Laser Graffiti I found something cool on the way home.

  

  A Cosi smore-eating fest is a French House orientation tradition; we ... (his name is Ben.) Ben walked us through the setup, then let us create ... important, though: a group of 20 MIT students wandered through campus at 10pm

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 28, 2013
• Blog / How to Food

  Adventures with Miracle Fruit The lemons had a meaty flavor that should not have been there.

  

  sweetness of acidic foods after miraculin is equal to that of a 17% sucrose ... approved by the FDA as a sweetener or food additive, but is mass-produced in ... Bill and the release of Radiohead album The King of Limbs. Multiple MIT

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 12, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Alia Whitney-Johnson: Making a Difference in Sri Lanka Alia Whitney-Johnson, a Junior studying Civil and Environmental Engineering, spent three weeks teaching the art…

  

  The MIT Public Service Center provides fellowships for students to ... each other. How we did this without words is beyond me, but I will always ... at web.mit.edu/emerge. Alia’s commitment to Ma-Sevana and the Emerge

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  happy lunar new year the year of the tiger

  

  Happy Year of the Tiger! It is my birth year, which means that I ... today. note the red sweater[/caption] It is very wild to think that it ... decade-plus: I graduated from middle and high school, I got into MIT, and

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  meet the baby bloggers! (some of whom are older than me)

  

  Hi everybody!! As the first week of class winds down, it is my ... ="this basically means it is my job to be enthusiastic and helpful at everyone and ... CANADA which is exciting perhaps only to me, sits on a hoard of unused

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 6, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  My History of Task-Management boy, is it a long one

  

  Being organized is fucking incredible. I like limiting stress in my ... ="relatable?"]phase.[/annotation] The good thing about bullet journaling is that you have infinite customizability, but the bad thing is that, uh, you have infinite customizability

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wrote a whole post on Halloween and forgot to publish it So here's 2 months of blogging in one post

  

  making 2 cakes, cupcakes, and a giant cookie. Everything is vegan and he ... vegetarians it's wrapped in a bacon weave and the recipe is from a guy named ... excited to share them with you First is a mounted snake skeleton, look how

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • December 26, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s Making Me Happy This Week: Week 1 Spider-Man, Nina Yuen, and More!

  

  , ran the country and their businesses. This is a must read for anyone who ... artist Nina Yuen. I can't put my finger on what it is about the videos but ... Kay Sarah Kay is without a doubt one of my favorite spoken word poets

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 2, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Believe in your magic a thank you to the 2018 applicant class

  

  sort out – well – anything!" (1.131). "The trouble is, the other side can ... view MIT as a magical place and compare it to Hogwarts. They view the ... know anything? Don’t they know you belong there?” The troubling thing is

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 13, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Remember, Remember, the 17th of December… things that happened

  

  numbers and MIT selects "prime" candidates - is that a reason for the date ... perhaps it is an appeal to something which happened on a historically ... 're going live on 12/17 at 12:17? No. What they have to with is this: history

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Goodbye, Hope to See You Again For those moving on today...

  

  This post is for those who are moving on from this blog today, May 1 ... attached to you, and not just for what you'd bring to the MIT community, but ... process, is, of course, a two-way street. You get to choose where to apply

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Super Adventure Club In a little while, I'll be gone.

  

  is in Atlanta, Georgia? Hey, if you came here from Google looking for something about South Park, no luck--this is just another stupid blog. I ... down I-81, which is fortuitously right by my house. So, Moria and company

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role Of A Teacher A discussion regarding recent events in a Colorado classroom.

  

  topic that I think is worthy of discussion. Normally I don't enter this ... classroom. No doubt you've heard about it, as it is getting a lot of press ... right political debate. It's just not appropriate for an MIT admissions

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 8, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Burning Question "Can you tell me why I didn't get in? Why was I not good enough?"

  

  competitive applicant pool in the history of MIT, which is arguably the hardest ... The burning question in my in-box is "Can you tell me why I didn ... applicant pool. So the simple answer is - you didn't do anything wrong, and

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005