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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] MIT THINK Scholars – A High School Research Program! From one side of it to the other

  

  canvas. I wondered if I, a human, couldn’t really understand art, what ... of my proposed methods didn’t work very well in practice and I ended up ... human creativity that can’t (and shouldn’t) be replicated by machines. But

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  hot chocolate as a panacea navigating through a chaotic first week

  

  has been A Week™. Freshmen aren't invited back to campus this semester ... .01L, and 18.01A.[/annotation] The first two weren't so bad this week ... syrup. I don't really know how to describe it, but it's amazing. Hot

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who else is watching infinity train?!?! *a fangirling hub that we will update every day this week*

  

  magical. Can't wait for the next episodes to find out more! The scene ... ??? Everyone walking away from the Cat and then One-One stopping to say "We don't like you" to her was P E R F E C T I O N The Steward at the end

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • August 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s trending?: My Computer Vision final project Where trendy styles = adding styling to trend lines

  

  ! For those of you who aren’t familiar, Computer Vision is the study of ... -world images, as in, stuff we hadn’t made ourselves. So we also scraped (mostly ... -labeled) for our real-world data set. We hand-label so machines of the future don’t

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 11, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skullhouse Road Trip Seattle, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Austin, New Orleans, North Carolina, Delaware, New Jersey, and New…

  

  phone and it turned out my phone hadn't updated the time zone setting and ... ; Day 3, Friday 5/26: Seattle Went out into Seattle with the bros. We didn't ... different colors. We were disappointed when it didn't. Needless to say, Costa

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few

  

  influenced by the majority votes. I don’t intend to delve into my specific and ... doesn’t matter what the 5 test subjects whose responses have been crossed ... %, so that makes some kind of sense. It turns out we can’t do the same

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Kevin’s Room Portrait of an MIT Student

  

  to learn how to play someday, but MIT hasn’t left him with enough time ... isn’t entirely sure what comes after he graduates from MIT. He’s considering grad school in Course 2 or Course 6 (EECS), but he also hasn’t taken

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  StartMIT: IAP for Entrepreneurs Like with anything else, it helps to learn from the best

  

  children. You could hear jaws hit the floor. I don’t know how she does it ... overeager freshman? That’s an opportunity I couldn’t pass up! I asked a lot ... or industry experience. You definitely don’t need a Ph.D. to start a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story behind TIMtalks In other words, a story about stories

  

  was going, but I didn’t know what my overall message was. It just seemed ... wasn't sure how everything was going to happen. [Kim] was perfect: she ... , and I stumbled a lot and begged to see the sheet, but she wouldn't let

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing: La Maison Française (French House) No, you don't have to speak French to live here.

  

  stairs (and feel thankful that you aren’t dragging an enormous suitcase or ... “maybe one person” who wasn't "really nice." Now ask him to tell you about ... second thoughts, maybe you shouldn't talk to Ben. Instead, talk to the girl

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 29, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other CPW CPW guest entry by Sam Range '13

  

  , I'll instead attempt to demonstrate the part of MIT that can't be ... for masochists") lecture, wearing my Maxwell's equations t-shirt, which ... one point that evening, I was simultaneously wearing two t

  • by Bryan
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions? Answers. A valiant attempt at creating an entry that fits as many categories as reasonably possible.

  

  , prickly to handle, and hasn't evolved significantly in the last 30 million ... from TA informally. Generally, MIT doesn't rank students; in fact, this ... from succeeding in it. (In other words, don't worry if you feel as if

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008 – Another Highly Satisfied Customer! (Guest Entry) CPW! Meet the Bloggers! Free t-shirts! Tim the Beaver! Exclamation points!

  

  closeknit and couldn’t wait to meet at CPW. When I stepped off the Peter Pan ... that all of the admissions officers were in the student center. We didn't ... the process. That’s ok though because otherwise I wouldn’t have been

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 2

  

  -Pakistan test matches, Six Nations rugby, why people shouldn't cheer for ... many applicants, how many will be accepted, etc." I still haven't seen ... class size this year. I don't know what the exact target is, but my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Joint Post] Interviewing Two MIT Physics Heroes An Interview with Two MIT Physics Professors that are Departing from MIT.

  

  that I didn’t have the necessary background to teach those kids,” Mohamed ... welcomed by a hallway packed with almost 200 students. “I didn't really ... top but then releases the one that they didn’t choose ahead of the other

  • by Richard O. '28
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three patterns from the pattern language of my life

  

  as they are in the real book. If you don’t relate, you can make your ... don’t remember walking across the stage, but I remember holding up my ... college (here he is in my blog post from 2014), but hadn’t seen each other

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  2024 in Review the things and stuff of 2024

  

  . Drink it down without greed, but don’t forget its slow passage. If your ... right now but don’t want to say too much yet write a lot, in particular ... , probably as a separate post because of how much attention it deserves] I don’t

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choose My Senior Spring Classes for Me pre-registration is open and i will let you decide

  

  it's not worth crying over this class. I don't know. I took organic ... Data Visualization and Society (MW 2:30-4PM; T1-2PM) (12 units) Focuses ... interests. Cons: Conflicts with other classes. Don't know if I really am

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Blockchain and the Niger Delta Creating a system for accountability

  

  House ideas didn’t pan out, but Hassan’s sophomore summer, he interned at ... to farmers. I asked Hassan for pictures of the chicken farm and hE SEnT ... phones or computers weren’t as present, collecting and processing that data

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Wisdom of Khan revealed the MIT secret

  

  running. He simply told me “Don’t waste inspiration.” I reminded him that it is 2 a.m. He said “so what; don’t waste inspiration.” I looked at him ... ever feel inspired, take action with it. Don’t let anyone tell you why

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2012