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• Blog / How to MIT

  Learn Coding Before School Starts you've got one month left. go!

  

  fourth? Took less than a day. Fifth. Sixth. You get the idea.\n") print ... to adopt a new syntax.\n") print("So how do you start? Do you pick up a textbook? Watch videos? Take a course? Let me share with you how I started

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  screen, stifles a yawn* What I'm actually doing is a wild variety of projects and whatnot. This is a new phenomenon for me: I had a bit of an ... semesters, and felt like I had squandered a block of time I could have spent

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 27, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Stay Tuned Liveblog, coming your way

  

  a hotel in Portland Oregon absolutely surrounded by prefrosh. Why am I ... not a Brown or Yale admissions blog, I probably won't be blogging about ... memories. I don't know about you guys, but I attend a freaking ton of these

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  . By the time you read this, I'll have been home for over a week - but as ... , everything has. Including me. A lot can happen in a semester, especially a ... . People talk a lot about the "transition" from high school to MIT. But the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode II: Amazing Rain The one where you rapidly cool hot metal.

  

  imagination. I awoke with a jerk. Finding that the weather report was calling for an inch of rain and a thunderstorm in the White Mountains, Joe '08 and I decided that not hiking would be a great idea. Yet, this day, more

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 2

  

  films of all time: Sneakers. I've got a week's worth of questions to catch up on. I've been writing this entry for a while now and am less than ... goes part 1: Random questions Akash asked a common question: "Is it true

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 1 More Q, and more A.

  

  It's time for another Questions Omnibus! (for even more Q&A, check out Bryan's latest post) Rushil wrote, "I have a question regarding the MIT application. I have made a research project on a space settlement on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  tunes of interphase! or, how to leave home and look cool doing it

  

  I. Lift - Radiohead I didn’t really have a good senior year. My ... around, and I left that sleepless, exhilarating set of weekends with a song ... 've been stuck in a lift We've been trying to reach you, Thom This is the

  • by Angie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / Class Projects

  in which i blog again four-ish blogs in one

  

  published at the end of IAP, a blog on how I’m not graduating this year to be published the day of graduation, and maybe one or two process blogs on a few things I’ve made. I had a plan for how and when I’d finish writing. The

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 29, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Exploring MIT’s sports facilities there's so much to see!

  

  It’s a beautiful spring day here at MIT – the sun is peeking through ... -your-rain-jacket-everywhere weather). What better way to enjoy this good weather than by going on a little adventure? I’ve been wanting to do a blog showcasing MIT’s many

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Home(sick) for the Holidays winter break was weird: time capsule 2

  

  grabbed dinner with friends at the dining hall in [annotation note="a dorm ... !"]Simmons[/annotation], and then we walked over to [annotation note="another dorm, where a bunch of my friends live!"]Next[/annotation] to hang out for a while. Around

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 24, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Under Water catch your breath

  

  , which is honestly an okay ratio in my opinion. Especially at a school ... a really good time with friends. I went to the movies, I waded in the ... with a [annotation note="woo!"] C-,[/annotation] but still this took up

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  asleep mid-exam; and, as a result, because I left most of it blank. cue ... , with about twenty minutes left and a blank exam in front of me, and then ... a notoriously difficult exam in a fraction of the time ii. anger I

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Too Good To Go fighting food waste with good bargains

  

  useful.  If you’re planning to forgo a mealplan, I’d recommend that you actually learn how to cook a few filling, [annotation note="eat your veggies ... note="Disclaimer: i'm not sponsored, I just think that TGTG is a great

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  processing in which I visit home and take time to think

  

  listen. this current winter break I’ve been averaging about a bath per day ... just how exhausted I was, from just over a month of being at college. It ... scholarships and internships. All this in the less-than-half-a-square-mile area

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  secondhand stories an allegory

  

  isn't putting on shows, but rehearsing. a few years ago i found some improv companies online, and i looked at the pictures and read a bunch of reviews, and i ended up falling in love with a few of them. then i found out

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 22, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  sunset/sunrise swiftly flow the days

  

  , and, for the most part, I have been[annotation note='I promise that a ... and learning psychology, but this feels a little like the zone of ... are not a breeze, but not totally impossible; in particular, they are

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  Sixteen months ago, in April, I made a promise to myself: if you choose MIT, you get to take a gap year. You’ve been selling your soul to science for too long. I was walking along a riverbed and I was torn. I spent

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  OUTRAGED. #ican'tbreathe

  

  Every day, I realize more and more that I live in a privileged bubble ... what a lot of black people live through in this country. The fact remains ... wake up every morning to reminders that you once had less rights than a

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Good Morning or Good Night? seven am adventures where people say good morning and good night

  

  note="cj: i will also not allow theo to have a stronger annotation game ... ; 18.022 = Multivariable Calculus, a GIR. (One of the professors for 14 ... note="cj: a first-year advising seminar is a class that some first

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 6, 2019