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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guitar Hero… on the oscilloscope! The secret fifth digital instrument revealed

  

  the song's rhythms and notes) from an SD card. The special part of 6 ... repeatedly loop over this list of coordinates and output the appropriate ... moving down a screen. Challenges along the way Of course, oscilloscopes and

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 14, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  there is no time left musings on death and the future

  

  and eventual death by overdose. it’s probably one of the saddest things ... and lack of motivation, the cycles of therapy and relapse, the emotional ... is fundamentally an argument about the scarcity of time, and aversion

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 22, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In which I “get a life” again reclaiming my childhood hobbies

  

  question, as if I’d never snapped out of the trance of college apps, and one ... stop. At the beginning of sleepovers we’d build a blanket fort, and then ... massive bag of all the yarn I owned along with us. And then I proceeded to

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 12, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Progression of Spirit You must be this tall to ride the MIT Emotional Rollercoaster

  

  scene. I knew, the instant I saw it, that the stress and pressure of ... freshman over the course of a semester. You start ready to work and soon ... I realize that the title for this post could be the title of a hymn

  • by Snively '11
  • January 8, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  FourFiveUnits all you could ever want to know about my semester schedule

  

  -director for the first year at WMBR (~4 hrs/week) Copy-editing and regular ... :   Hello dear readers. In keeping with the trend of bloggers posting ... will amount to about 28 hours of classwork per week, including the time

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  ’s no longer possible to wing it. The volume of complex information and ... more than just the absence of clutter and ornamentation. It’s about ... in your hand, how it fits in the context of your life.  And the very

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  one hour in which i am Holden Caulfield (but more tragic and less hero)

  

  , and how the first meeting, which was last week, was just as upsetting as ... drained after the midterm last week and how i didn’t study nearly enough for ... water or eating healthy at all, and how all of this is documented in a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Things That Aren’t Studying If you think about it, I get paid to procrastinate

  

  , uh, relaxing. And now, to punctuate the beginning of this week, I ... . Pictured: mad geek cred.Building 46, home of the Brain and Cognitive Sciences ... 7.013, 8.02, and 5.12. (My brain is still recovering from the trauma

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fall Semester Recap my classes so far

  

  tiny class size and the professor, Joseph Checkelsky. He's an incredibly kind and considerate man, the kind of professor that adjusts the psets if ... quick recap of how the semester's gone for me so far since I've wanted to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  624 Hours: Columbia, MO or, Things I Made While I Was Home

  

  the last 26 days in my hometown – Columbia, MO. Located in the heart of ... wrapping Christmas presents and loading the dishwasher. If only I could make ... newfound sense of domesticness and set out to make a bunch of stuff. Because

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Engineering Everything I ever wanted to know about making stuff.

  

    Many thanks to the Global Grand Challeneges Summit staff for the photos, and to Ed McCann and Mark Murcko for some of the anecdotes and quotes of the scientists featured here.

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 8, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken (but not actually)

  

  was in a tremendous amount of pain. So I got the boot. And I healed ... to the edge of the room, and somehow made it to where the people were ... control of the classes and everything else that gets thrown at us and making

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 8, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  the hallway, turning around, and seeing people quiet down instead of ... , oftentimes in a negative way, and even though MIT was my first choice as of my ... the college I got into. It is none of your business." And then sometimes

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memory of a Greatly Beloved Establishment rip the stud subway

  

  growling stomach, and make a beeline to the gates of heaven - also known as ... meals, and I savored every delicious mouthful. And now, in the blink of ... My fellow readers of the MIT Admissions blogs, a great tragedy has

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 3, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  on mit’s mailing list culture update: tetazoo glounge

  

  have the emails of alyssa and ben. and then an email sent to example ... lots of cool mailing lists that mit has. petey talked about the reuse and ... , and the wednesday morning emails being one of the few constant comforts

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 17, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2024 i3 videos megapost

  

  and culture of their residence halls. In the ’90s and early ’00s, these ... with the advent of YouTube/Vimeo/etc they are now posted online ... , and see more videos, at the MIT Guide to Residences. https

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 12, 2024
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2022 i3 videos megapost

  

  and culture of their residence halls. In the ’90s and early ’00s, these ... with the advent of YouTube/Vimeo/etc they are now posted online ... , and see more videos, at the MIT Guide to Residences. https

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 1, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  Language (die Sprache) MIT-Germany student discusses language

  

  scientist found the linguistic diversity of the german-speaking world, and ... had it easy overall. Growing up I spoke English from birth, and the few ... made from a sort of nostalgia -- writing in the language of his land, his

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fuji: Not Your Grandma’s Mountain I guess if we're being honest here there were actually a lot of grandmas climbing…

  

  will be in Japan next (and it's only open two months out of the year ... down and hit up an onsen (hot springs) at the base of the mountain. It ... something truly to be said about the masochism of MIT students, and as I was

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 6, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  November 1st is coming up! What not to do as it approaches (and after it passes)

  

  week away (*cough* *cough*). And I waited! Then, the week of the deadline ... 't be, but it is! And of course, the normal anxiety that comes with ... !). I submitted that the day before the deadline. And, of course, I used

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 26, 2018