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• Blog / MIT Life

  40 Hours in Cape Cod Take note, I typed this entire post with a broken shift key. Please appreciate the…

  

  physics problem sets, sketches for a full-length blues arrangement for jazz ensemble due in a week. Exhale: raw spring air blistering against penuriously ... . Overhead, a countable infinity of little stars twinkled, and I pondered their

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Know when to hold ‘em Know when to fold 'em

  

  This, potentially, is the longest I've gone without a blog entry ... have a Brass Rat. I've completed most of the "book" classes and am about ... the emotions that coincide with the MIT Gamut (a term I just made up

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  Over this past weekend, many prefroshies asked me a very interesting question - and I believe that this warrants a more drawn-out response from me ... too nerdy. I question whether I would even be able to find a balanced

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Burton-Conner Floor Rush and Rooming How does it work?

  

  very outdated website here: It's almost exactly one year old! I get a ... works. In some respects that's tricky to answer, but I can give it a shot ... discussed over a dozen times by various bloggers, websites, and other people

  • by Snively '11
  • August 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What makes me an MIT student? Some thoughts about blogging and a special question for returning readers.

  

  in more than a month, and the time had come to catch up on MIT ... topic of blogging. I want to reflect on a couple of points -- this ... ... The MIT admissions blogs are, as a whole, supposed to convey a diverse

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Is this the real life? Guest writer for Sam's Blog, Ruth '07 goes home to Georgia, gets ditched by most…

  

  adventure down memory lane. And for those of you who I haven't told a billion ... sounding like a bad Xanga entry, I'll warn you, gentle reader, that thar be ... 't throw diesel fuel on a fire 5) Don't invite someone to something, even if

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh no the future obligatory “i am old” post with pretentious morbing

  

  As I start writing this, I have a midterm in exactly 24 hours. I ... year, I am a senior. Most of the friends I first made here have all ... chaos when I graduate. Despite hanging out with my alumni friends a lot, I

  • by Anika H. '26
  • October 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Arma virumque cano: a guest post by Quynh N. ‘15 Why you should take Old English at MIT

  

  Hi guys! My name is Quynh, and like Connie, I’m a crusty old senior about to leave MIT in less than a month. I want to thank Connie for ... —I’m majoring in biology with a minor in chemistry and have spent the last four

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 11, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Q&A: Food on campus, UROPs, decisions Qs from prospectives and prefrosh, As from me.

  

  availability on campus is a little scarce. Do you have time to cook, even if it's just once every two weeks as part of a co-op? Or do most kids just end up eating whatever is quickly made?" 2) "If you (or anyone you know) has a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  summer 2021

  

  6. I'd cook dinner and shower; now it's 7:45. Then I'd watch a movie ... dedication to work, especially since I'm working so hard on securing a return ... times we'd go to our favorite pho place, Pho Saigon, a quick 5 minute walk

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 5, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  New York City like a normal college student. For those of you who ... . At a high level, it allows him to lift, rotate, and fuse objects ... accurately answer Fatema’s question – 6 directions (one for each face of a cube

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  Thinking Outside of Absolutes A short thought piece on thinking about thinking

  

  For a while now, I’ve had this realization that I tend to overthink a lot. And I think this is something a lot of people can relate to. There are always moments when you’re presented with a decision, and naturally

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final projects from the fall three coding projects and an alien in disguise

  

  -planet" images, like this! (credit: 6.8371 staff, NASA)[/caption] We were given a ... blurring effects, while Poisson image editing is a method of automatically combining two images together in a way that looks seamless and natural as

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cubes, Tetrahedrons, and Wind Chimes Silly lil musical instruments for a silly lil guy (me)

  

  semester, I’m taking 21M.370 – Digital Instrument Design! It’s a new ... [annotation note="For our first assignment, I made a synthesizer patch that emulated an ambulance siren during a rainy day, and he loved it

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  cleats on feet, smile on face thoughts on injuries and spring season

  

  and practice for the first time in eight and a half months? You guessed it: I did! Since my injury in preseason this past fall, where a collision in our scrimmage against Harvard left me with a broken bone and a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  classes are over!!!! i feel so free

  

  Today was the last day of classes for the spring semester—and, as a ... very last class, a seminar-style class on modern drama, I texted[annotation note="a wonderful Next House subcommunity where I live called 4W, or the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 16, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  happy singles awareness day

  

  ’s Day plans. I didn’t, so he asked me if I wanted to go out to a nice ... somewhat expensive. But I wasn’t sure what his intentions were: was this a ... was he hoping for something more? While Mike was a nice dude, I wasn

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  life lessons from my internship career choices moving forward

  

  This summer, I worked for fourteen weeks as a software engineering intern at a start-up that focuses on artificial intelligence and data ... 't care that much about compensation. Of course, most people are not in a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Dance ‘Til You Drop 53rd planning a 53-year old party i've never even been to

  

  .[/annotation] The party is open to the entire MIT campus and features a hack and a ... ) wanted to celebrate their 21st birthdays and decided to indulge in a party that lasted four whole days. Burton Third had always held a floor party

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 3, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  my room an evolution

  

  I had a vision. Every year, my room would have a different aesthetic. Was this followed to a T? [annotation note= " thank you covid ... year, I lived in a double in New House. My side was colored yellow and

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 8, 2022