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• Blog / Internships & Externships

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

  

  'm doing an internship as a frontend developer. So far I've blogged about the ... a software engineering internship to learn software engineering? Well ... there was left to learn. I didn't have a good idea of what separates a

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

  A recipe for disaster Behind the scenes of the "giant pie" video

  

  , where we made a giant oven and cooked a giant pie in it. Kristen and I, and a bunch of other people (mentioned below) put too much work into it ... through a bunch of ideas, like a Buzzfeed/Tasty-style video of a pie recipe

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • March 11, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Once upon a time Who I was in high school.

  

  to get a driver's permit a few weeks ago, and the lady said, "You have to have a co-signer if you're under 18." I was like, "I AM TWENTY-TWO AND FIVE-TWELFTHS." My high school was a decent suburban Ohio public

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Dive: a cultural app take a look at my team's microsoft project!

  

  As many of you know, I've been completing a seven week internship under Microsoft called The New Technologists program. I wrote a bit about it here, but since today is my last day here, I wanted to write a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding a Second Home love is where you least expect it

  

  Let’s flash back to a sunny weekend in April, where the grills of MIT ... , or CPW as it’s often written, was a scene that had unfolded in many of ... , concrete walls. When Day Two rolled along, a metaphorical wrench was thrown

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s a puzzlement… ...or why I really love reading your applications!

  

  take breaks from reading so I used one of them to take a quick walk ... anytime I need just a few minutes of peace and quiet or when I need to clear ... reading applications because they are a lot like doing jigsaw puzzles. When

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 16, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  A point to clarify

  

  within the same dorm!" Omar, you have a good point, but you are ... for a flimsy reason of short-term convenience like it being easier to move your stuff within a dorm than between dorms. Thanks to a lot of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2023!

  

  decide how to pick your classes, or a really cool new thing you learned ... who have good judgment, a compelling voice and perspective, and the disciplined exuberance to post at least twice a month on average. We may ask you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Quick Update I am busy, this is short.

  

  there, watch some kids and can't do all the cool stuff... Being a ... , You do realize that General Relativity is a very advanced physics course. There's a difference between hard and advanced. The only prereqs for the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  a fun bet spicing up the admissions process

  

  When I was once a high school senior drowning in college applications ... represent everything about who I am as a person in 250 words? I couldn’t, so I ... research , or swing from a giant rope in the trees, I held it with such high

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  memorial for a dorm goodbye east campus (for now)

  

  https://soundcloud.com/user-192959956/memorial-for-a-dorm i felt the ... years that this room has lived i've only been here to bear witness a small part, only trace a quarter of it i don't know your full history

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 6, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Save a tree… ...eat a Beaver. MIT makes me fill out lots of paperwork. Get it? Beaver? Oh…

  

  ...eat a Beaver. Speaking of beavers killing trees...let's talk ... forcing upon me. As a new MIT athlete, the first thing I had to do was ... a little apology note attached and crossed my fingers that it won

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  assassins – a liveblog day 7: five remain

  

  , has an annual fall tradition in which we play a hall-wide game of assassins. the premise is simple: everyone gets a randomized target, and your ... is your target's target, so if A was hunting B and B was hunting C, and

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  A salty IAP post Taking a moment to be bitter

  

  conversation a few times, but the more I think about IAP, the more I don’t like it. When I was a prospective student, I thought that IAP was the coolest. thing. ever. A whole month or more to just do whatever you want

  • by Powers '23
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  A Part of Me or apart of me?

  

  experience with imposter syndrome has been a somewhat interesting one. For me, imposter syndrome just sort of, exists. It’s a voice in the back of my head ... graduate, and so, in two years, I should have a degree in mathematics from

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Weekend of Hacking three events, one weekend

  

  between all the reality TV and cooking show. Then you come across a channel that catches your attention. A brilliantly parodied logo appears on the ... ".   a parody of Animal Planet     This week on MIT

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 24, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Q&A I asked current freshmen about the things they wish they knew for their CPW!

  

  to make it Q&A styled, where I answer some questions that you might ... you don't miss a thing (I actually did that) - but relax! Take advantage ... alone as a prefrosh, and my agreement with my mother was that I would

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  A Running Journey ft. running 13 miles in the middle of nowhere with petey

  

  . I think I maybe had a brief stint with it in the summer before? 9th ... /athletic hype playlists because it is a BANGER. Other than that, though, I did not do a single sport until college, where I started fencing in freshman

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 19, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  A CPW Challenge I hope Chris Peterson doesn't fire me for too many prefrosh stealing his nametag...

  

  include my oh-so-awesome CPW event? Oh right, I'm a blogger. So here it is ... challenge to you: Eat free food. Find a hack somewhere on campus Build and/or destroy something Meet a professor in the department you might

  • by Kate R. '14
  • April 7, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Q&A A bit of clarification on being waitlisted.

  

  a class of about 1,120 students this year. Based on our estimates of ... uncertainties, we also keep a waitlist of students. Is the waitlist ranked? No ... -- approximately 6% of applicants -- a spot on the waitlist. Not all of those

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011