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• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Becoming a better programmer and why i'm excited about software engineering

  

  Unknown unknowns As I've talked about several times, this summer, I'm doing an internship as a frontend developer. So far I've blogged about the adulting-oriented questions, because that's what I expected to learn, coming

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 24, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  a season of secondhand joy on mudita and vicarious delight

  

  hey. it's christmas season in mit. i was never a big fan of christmas myself, nor do i really get the whole christmas spirit thing. but it just ... performances. i had already forgotten the joy of listening to live music. it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  head above the water (intro post) an inner dialogue about my first month of classes

  

  When I tried practicing for the swim test, I realized how long it had actually been since I swam. This pool wasn’t like the neighborhood pool where I could slowly ease into the shallow end of the pool feet first so I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Engineering Digital Communities reflecting on the start of the zoomester and the months prior

  

  exhilarating and utterly terrifying days I’ve had in a long time. Especially since I’ve become a real-life potato since quarantine started and things ... exercise I did before for the program I participated in last summer. A little

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Fall this time, with more zoom u!

  

  I did this for my classes last semester, and it was pretty tragic, so ... ! This semester I'm taking 6 classes, but I like to tell people it's 5 ... that much of my time! My classes: 8.021 - Physics E&M; I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  warmth feelings i miss

  

  now, was forever ago. i was standing on the harvard bridge staring into a summer sunset, as it filled the sky with orange and blue, as i held ... were on, but i heard and i felt the wind blowing from behind me, as if it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  oversharing first base what have I been up to for the last 2+ years?

  

  So, hey. I'm Jude - I was hired as a blogger in fall 2017, fell off ... how to get back on - with the end result that I haven't blogged for over a year, and I've been living in comfortable silence for almost all of

  • by Jude H. '21
  • December 11, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Room 251 a room tour!

  

  IAP is almost over! I wasn't on campus for most of it, but I finally ... workshop, which is about to come to a close. I had a wonderful experience, and it was a lot more fun than I expected it to be! I might blog about

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Fifty-Four September 13th shall henceforth be known as National Gauss Appreciation Day.

  

  , clubs and UROPs are underway, and the realization that I have officially begun working towards my degree has settled in. This semester, I took 54 ... , here is my schedule: (NO 9 A.M. CLASSES HEHE) Every weekday, I start

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • September 19, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  100% Completion It’s pretty hard to do, but I’m going to try.

  

  HELLO WORLD and welcome to my playthrough of a new game - college! I’m streaming/blogging live from MIT and I’m indescribably excited to start ... ridiculous amount of sidequests, so I’m going to list the ten that I definitely

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Complementary Post Canvas, balance, lanterns.

  

  (article) to complement this post On Wednesday, I went to classes, graded ... the first session of the oil painting class I'm taking this semester ... memorial event organized by Caroline M. '18. Afterwards, I spent a few hours

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  More Milk Please And a cookie too. If by cookie you mean an awesome metaphor.

  

  -loving entity of your choice). How big is this bowl of milk exactly? Well, I don ... 2017, right now, I’m feeling a little overwhelmed. Before me lies a ... struggling to take it all in. Don’t get me wrong. I love it here already. Sure

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  New Year’s Resolution …of sorts. Since New School Year’s Resolution doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.

  

  (here are a couple). And every new year, I find his musings to be just as ... Gaiman, typography-ish revamp by me) As I enter my sophomore year, remembering that I (and that we all) have the capacity for both bravery and joy

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Brief Retreat How a short trip to Block Island left me revitalized

  

  from the future. I got a crash course in not burning out - and my mentor ... any excuses, I've been looking for ways to recharge myself and face the ... up last weekend, when my family and I took a trip to Block Island, a

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 31, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Sentimentality a.k.a. Why I'm So Glad I Picked MIT.

  

  Last night, I went to bed at 5 am. This morning, I woke up at 9 am. My eyelids currently feel ridiculously heavy - and yet, I don't regret ... very same Walker Memorial in which I have endured many a painful midterm

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being a n00b at MIT Guilty as charged.

  

  You may have heard people say, “I’m not _______ enough to go to MIT ... school – I was definitely of the “I’m not technology-oriented enough to go to MIT” mind-set. And last time I checked, this was the Massachusetts

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Early Morning Construction and other bexley woes.

  

  Yesterday, I wrote to facilities complaining about the noise from the construction in the alley. Yesterday was also somewhat of an exception so I was ... them up with metal plates. Which I didn't so much mind except that it

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Oh the Places You’ll Go! Did you know Dr. Seuss was a SigEp?

  

  outmaneuver any NYC taxi. The Motherland. I woke up last morning to the slow ... gaps in the blinds. I rolled over, and realized - to my delight - that I was back in my "own" bed. I half expected my sister to open the door

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Of Dancing and T-Shirts (Guest Entry) Who had fun at CPW? I did!

  

  coming late! I had a great time at CPW, really. But my SD card corrupted, dumping the gajillions of photos I shot before 3:30pm on Saturday. I can't get over this. Fortunately, the videos were preserved. When I hopped

  • by Snively '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding My Way Around MIT (Guest Entry) CPW was so hugely difficult to take in all at once that it's hard to…

  

  condense your life into 500 words for the admissions office. But I shall try. I arrived at CPW on Friday morning and went to the opening lecture ... projects that really do help people, which I think is a fantastic thing to be

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 20, 2008