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• Blog / Personal Projects

  loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo turns out that at mit, even the non-academics are incredibly hard and deeply rewarding

  

  week of school, and then write about it. And here we are, in the fourth ... of the house, and it feels like a soft, smooth wooden hug. I didn ... ; Before and after orbital sanding the edge of a piece of test wood. I liked

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Misconceptions initial thoughts from a first-gen college student

  

  I first stepped onto MIT’s campus in the summer of my junior year, and it was my first impression of what college life could truly look ... , philosophical, and ethical look at the future of biotechnology. Despite it being

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 30, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Summer School's out for it

  

  't used to be very social, I lived in the middle of nowhere and was very ... to be more and more people on campus but not the type of people you ... . Class of '12 is pretty set to go and doesn't have a whole lot left to do

  • by Snively '11
  • June 27, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Kids These Days Don’t Know How Good They’ve Got It and they need to get off my lawn

  

  for me was the AoPS forum. Some of the best and brightest students ... after I joined, I started the first incarnation of my blog, Annoying ... questions, and until the advent of MO I didn't have a good place to ask

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • October 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Throwback I'm gonna throw this out there. If you don't like it, you can throw it…

  

  it also gave me the fresh start I needed, and it gave me a whole new ... I recently bought a pair of rollerblades for $8 from the Garment ... of clothes in a pile being sold at a dollar fifty a pound - and I think

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2010
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  with the best of intentions, even though this may be a difficult time for you, as that is the spirit of these blogs and our whole process ... There were many incredible applicants to the MIT Class of 2028, which

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  I’m Awesome (at) Parkour! and other fun things i'm doing this Independent Activities Period

  

  the IAP acronym, and then spending a quarter of an hour trying to come ... , a version of multivariable calculus that starts in the fall and ... when I visited in October, and I want go to take out a whole stack of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 22, 2019
• Blog / Hacks

  An Olympic Hack Floating rings above Brigg's Field?

  

  : 2011 and 2008.) On the Class of 2016's list, number 82 tells you to Hack ... : Be Safe – Your safety, the safety of others, and the safety of anyone ... line connecting the roofs of MacGregor and Simmons. How did they do it

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  [guest post] The Random Hall Milk: Gone But Not Forgotten an obitu-dairy for Pecker's oldest resident

  

  desk workers, the government, and the like. Last but not least of the ... believe.) The Milk became a staple good - not of someone’s forgone mac and ... years. Someone mentioned that, save the GRAs and Heads of House, the Milk

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  (Guest Post) esolangs oh man

  

  has never written a program in Malbolge, and the first Malbolge program ... [annotation note="Fundamentals of Programming, but the CS department is ... "]more difficult[/annotation] than for some of the other languages in this list

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 5, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  How Albatross Fly Without Flapping Their Wings, And other Lore™️ I learned this semester.

  

  – Pterodactyls and Quezocatlus, two prehistoric flying dinosaurs the size of ... wingspans as a sort of sail, and angling the feathers on each wing's end to ... Amber V., and she shared some of the early developments of her 2

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 10, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  I’m Graduating Early??? [NOT CLICKBAIT] also: the unification of course 7

  

  of the CUP first-year experiment. Here are two that actually affect me ... to occur around the first week of June. The '18s graduated on June 8 ... register for spring semester until the first week of February, we get a 4-day

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 1 MITWE (+ FJE and VJE) go to Brazil

  

  MIT and communities in the Amazon rainforest. For the rest of my first ... would be a one-time event because of the sheer scale and effort of ... weeks ago, and we’ve arrived in Manaus – a Brazilian city in the middle of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Hardest Thing Ever FOP, family, and how I'm doing so far... plus some findings on frisbee and free…

  

  blackberries with my grandpa and built a tipi of sticks just the size for a four ... plants at home. Only a few of them are growing here and the rest are new. I ... the rest of my experience here, I can expect this to be difficult and

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 4, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Gap Year, Part II: Getting Murdered Less How to HelpX, Couchsurf, backpack, and hopefully not die

  

  very far from school. Now I'm in the midst of a lot of school and am ... someone will feel inspired, and we can dream of what we'll be doing when the ... resources I used, the costs, benefits, and how-to of using them, and tips on

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 26, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  No Ceilings next steps

  

  took a leap of faith and applied to MIT. I took the first steps, and ... first). I was lucky to get the opportunity to be here. And while luck may have played a role in some of these things, it isn't the whole story. I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 12, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  seven questions with youtubers the mit side of youtube

  

  they have learned and grown from watching my videos.  The first of these ... sharing.  What’s the best part of making videos and having a You ... of kids (and adults!) from across the world. After a while, there was a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 14, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Least Responsible Purchase I'm an impulse buyer but THIS was a bit much

  

  'd ordered in December and was now facing the prospect of waiting 5 months for ... turns out, my reservation narrowly made the cut and became a part of the ... did most of the driving, but we took turns in the driver's seat) and

  • by Snively '11
  • July 17, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  A Field Trip Every day brings something new.

  

  ’ve corresponded back and forth with a number of the student leaders in these groups ... friends, and a conference for Camp Kesem. More updates on the flip side of ... After two and a half years here, you’d think I’d know most or all of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 22, 2012
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT’s COVID-19 precautions and their impact on admissions relevant news and next steps (updated 4/14); new blog posts below 👇🏼

  

  disrupts the educational plans of many of our applicants and aspirants ... impact of these changes on credit placement at MIT. The first thing you ... at the Office of the First Year (OFY) maintain the comprehensive guide

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 6, 2020