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• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  a major at MIT my freshman year, I had come to believe that precision ... it did.  At the end of my freshman year at MIT, I declared brain and ... going to learn anything at all? And that scared the crap out of me – the

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [Live Writing] MARC 2024 A big meeting about small things

  

  using small sticks and soft sweets. They have this game every year at MARC ... table's house was not the tallest, but it was sure fun to build. At the ... reasons why it's so great to learn about computers at MIT – because a lot of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.2050 – Field Programmable Gate Awesomeness Featuring my “aggressive and weird” cat robot

  

  lecturer. 6.2050 was one of the most demanding classes I’ve taken at MIT ... already so powerful, so why even bother using FPGAs at all? To answer those ... ’re using to read this post works. At the heart of any general

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  classes are hard but i’m sure you knew that already an academic case of murphy's law

  

  's like trying to pop a pimple, where you'd poke and prod at the pimple for ... keep poking at it anyways... I took a robotics class last semester that ... (at least for me) OX'ing a class at the end of a semester exists as a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 29, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  i wish we’d grown up on the same advice alternate paths

  

  a few weeks ago i had a job interview. we had some extra time at the ... at hacklodge, a one-week program where ~20 college students live in a ... probably turn out alright one of the mentors at hacklodge, let’s call him c

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Coffee in the Pagi-nation [joint post] breaking cruel rituals

  

  the student community at MIT. I didn’t expect to spend so much time on ... . We met at a local café within walking distance of campus and my home in ... hear about how well she was doing at MIT, especially given that the first

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  10 things I learned in 10 projects a run-down of my making misadventures sophomore year

  

  Bowie, a postdoc at my lab suggested. Another postdoc brought up a video ... was also when I realized that I can be real bad at asking for help ... hadn’t asked him to. Could he hammer it on my project? Looking at the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  impossible to think, or to make any useful decisions at all. I wake up and feel ... for the first time,[/annotation] in my sixth semester here at MIT, and ... at zero bandwidth?  The answer is certainly not schoolwork. I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  like a freight train a schedule post

  

  , since I didn't know anything about French history at the time, or which ... at 9 am.  We're starting with the Enlightenment, which is this era in ... are the days when you could balance pencils at certain angles and drop

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 19, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  how to restore an old whiteboard, mit style four years of whiteboard wear and care

  

  that are stuck on the board, or no longer erases well at all — when ... that hadn't been erased for at least two years — now, it works just fine ... how effective this technique is, take a look at these before

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 17, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  The View is Worth It but you have to make the climb yourself to find out

  

  who loves hiking, I was stoked. I coerced my boyfriend to wake up at 3 ... hours of sleep, the scenery at Glacier National Park almost brought me to ... was worth it. So we slapped it onto our itinerary and started hiking at

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 7, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In Our Bedroom After the Pandemic a bedroom is something that can actually be so personal

  

  child, but at some point I could tape something to my wall or ask for a ... me seem at the time.  When I came to MIT and moved to Senior Haus, I ... . He had no thought of being an artist at all. He sat in his cheap little

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Springing into Junior Year actually not Springing, just Spring

  

  looking back at old blogs, I quickly realized that I’ve never posted my semester-ly schedules, or really talked about my major at all, and that maybe ... myself getting lost at the speed in which we learn material, and all the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 4, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  of relaxation at the very end at the cost of thirty minutes of sleep; a ... will have to, because i can't let this happen again. when i look at the ... , but I have survived it! And now, at the other end, I am having the best

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  1 Week of Meals for $8: How-To’s and Tricks Tackling Food Insecurity

  

  's experience at MIT Explored diverse backgrounds facing difficulty in areas ... backpack Mealplanning Sample Meal List at the bottom Pick something for ... multiple recipes at multiple meals like onions, bread, and eggs. (bread

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • May 2, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Experience FAQs from high school counselors

  

  conference at MIT. One of the events was a student panel, and I got to ... Monday.   How do you make friends? What is your community at MIT ... ’m definitely not unique in that perception. If you look at freshman Admissions

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Person Studying Persons… ...and why the Myers Briggs test is invalid

  

  significant other, Javier W., who’s currently a researcher at an MIT lab. I ... situations, but I think I’ve gotten better at that. Then, I researched the ... , the Myers-Briggs test is, in fact, not scientific at all. Even

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 2 and the power of the many

  

  you could see the stream of numbers you needed to sum up one at a time ... a list of numbers like 2,3,9,15…, the running sum starts out at 0. You ... more involved problem that arose in 6.046. I’ll discuss it at a high

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk

  

  being a wide-eyed froshling (freshman) at MIT (or any other college), the ... lot of people all at the same time during freshman orientation, but ... there says MIT CSC). We have a tradition of taking at least one photo

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 30, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sleep is for the Strong getting through finals week

  

  had to convince myself that… at some point, my health [and mental health ... opportunities at MIT and there is knowing that the social and taking care of ... definitely a very major problem that I experienced at MIT. Whenever I would

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 13, 2015