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• Blog / Challenges

  Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience

  

  engineering and robotics because I was also interested in those things. At one ... school. CS can be hard for beginners, more so at MIT, so I'm at an area ... University of Alabama at Birmingham is a popular choice that people from my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  teaching web.lab aka what i spent all of january on

  

  every iap at mit. i took the class in 2020 and was an instructor in 2022 ... time, and marvel at how this is the first time you’ve ever seen the green ... eecs-sponsored events where mit students are encouraged to work at tech

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 1, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  长大 on family, thanksgiving, and growing up

  

  lot of what I believe reflected back at me. It counts to put in the ... at home. I remember being completely out of place, and wondering why ... to visit my friends at Harvard, I felt even more out of place there. To

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 28, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  girls just wanna have fun when u gonna live ur life right?

  

  , I realized I was good at STEM, or as good as you could be at that age ... before, doing research at the Education Arcade and I wasn't really sure if ... . There's also a fear that I'm not actually going to be good at the media

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 24, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  books I’ve read this year slowly but surely completing my 2020 resolutions

  

  note=" or at least can be a quick read. I think I read this at a slower ... me at least start answering a lot of my questions about life and impact ... people at MIT come in wanting to change the world and become disillusioned

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 19, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits i answer a bunch of random blogger prompts

  

  person I got into a relationship with at MIT is now my boyfriend :) We ... at a fencing practice last year: “This is MUCH less sexual if you ... that I enjoy eating, that’s going to be hard. I also want to be better at

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Twenty-One Days Abroad in Twenty-One Photographs a curated photo dump of an IAP in Spain

  

  Wood Grain [Library at the Instituto Internacional] Classes were held at ... the Metro. At the time of my visit, the Glass Palace, which is inside ... public and can actually be entered, though at the time of my visit, it was

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Black Lives Matter until they don't.

  

  . Suddenly, I was at the airport, hugging everyone as tightly as I could ... ’m done at the post office, I’m walking down Central Square feeling pretty ... even. I’m almost at my dorm when I hear someone screaming, “Hey! HEY!” I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48, Part 2 Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do…

  

  should be doing. Different concept. *stares blearily at computer ... existentialist crisis at the end of sophomore year, when I realized that I hadn' ... . At this point, I've probably gone far too far in the opposite

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 27, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Recap—The Book Launch Oh hi there...yes, I'm back!

  

  looked at you with furrowed brows and a surprised look. Why? Why I ... published, at least not until the later stages of the novel, a hundred ... fast, seemed sort of normal at the time. I write with every chance I get

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where did my Summer Go? Written 30,000 feet above the ground in a giant piece of metal

  

  gawked (okay, I gawked) at the penguins, and then to Pleasure Pier where we ... sorts of other things, and it was really enjoyable talking to him. At the ... for gazing at the view and watching Adventure Time in Korean. We did

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 15, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 2 With guest appearances by NJ Representative Rush Holt and MA Senator Elizabeth Warren

  

  (Sean) and thank him for giving such a helpful presentation at the AAAS ... undergraduate at MIT majoring in physics. Rush Holt: Physics! Me: Yes, I gather ... awkward” alarm. Rush Holt: Who do you work with at MIT? Is Rush Holt

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 5, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slam Dunked Long crazy week...a few necessary lessons

  

  an “A” at the end of the semester, a grade that was necessary if I ... would let me handle anything thrown my way. Last week, MIT laughed at ... remark at how awful my diagrams were, and took a break only when my stomach

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  In 1965, Jocelyn Bell arrived at Cambridge University to earn her Ph ... 's coming at us from space, or b) out in space, that aren't what we're intending to look at . Basically, it's extraneous, hard to get rid of, and the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Heartbreaking Lunch of Staggering Genius I'll write about campus dining some other day.

  

  of dried squid meat from a pungent Chinese grocery dig that sold at ... “gewurtztraminer” and “garbanzo beans” in the same line, Jean-Georges towers at a ... 's practically radioactive. At skin depth, Jean-Georges is the type of celebrity

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Valentine’s Day Special Featuring calculus, people who hate me, and a picture puzzle

  

  commercialism; namely, Valentine's Day celebrations. 2. Nobody at MIT hates me ... to talk about things that they write at the bottom of lists. In ... the people/entities/organizations at MIT who probably will not be

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  By Omar Abudayyeh '12 While I’m not cool enough to enroll at MIT on ... , I am cool enough to now say, “I am enrolled at MIT!” In fact, I just ... closeknit and couldn’t wait to meet at CPW. When I stepped off the Peter Pan

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Perfect weekend Sun, fun, and Plymouth Rock.

  

  cells today.) I ate lunch at ABP, which is a special treat for me because ... , and there was hardly anybody at the water park. We went on all the water ... at the grocery store, or order them on Campusfood.com from Beantown

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  ASK US (the MIT Bloggers) ANYTHING! YES

  

  -handed, which has been… less than ideal for glassblowing at MIT. I play the bass ... and Japan over the summer) Learning new skills at MIT (I’m a ... ) being an international student at MIT travel opportunities at MIT (study

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 18, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  seven scenes from Paris a simple story

  

  felt like to see her apart from my annoyance at the bodies pushing firmly ... towards the exit. I was fed up with Paris at the end of it all. Though I ... amplified with every twinge of repulsion I felt at shops selling T-shirts with

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 31, 2025