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• Blog / Uncategorized

  We Really Aren’t Kids Anymore avoiding the part where it all has to end

  

  supposed to just know where the lounge for our newly declared majors was, and ... it's already beginning to have an (albeit mild) affect on my life. For ... for graduate school. Which, to be clear, I deeply appreciate. It just

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 9, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Ranking Every Class I Took at MIT it's that time

  

  Peterson) This is actually tied for second with the rap class. I loved this ... the way in which I consumed media. For example, we'd look at The Batman ... media for the way that it is and do a 'haha superhero cool brain off', it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Every song I’ve referenced in my admissions blog posts

  

  Lansangan songs, but it's suitable for a lot of holiday season happenings. 4 ... for the pun pagtanda "to get older" and pagtanda "remembrance". 11 ... . It's their most popular song, one I'm comfortable enough singing for a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 15, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  SnowDays while you're waiting for decisions

  

  . Even if you don't close up the cut, SnowDays will close it for you. If you have a closed curve, you can find the winding number for each point ... it does that. For example, try making these sequences of cuts and see

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  work expands to fill the space available

  

  design. this is one of those classes i'm taking for the fun of being with other friends in the class, my top advice for picking classes. i love how ... material changes every time it's offered and i can retake it for credit. this

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  I Hate Change but at least, I'm creating it

  

  ever since I got back from my trip home for winter break. It's making me ... used to how quickly life can change, even if the anticipation for the change has been building for months or years. I knew months ago that my

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 17, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  writing gary wang’s wikipedia page why did I fill out the wikipedia page for the ftx cto?

  

   Gary Wang’s newly-created Wikipedia page. Gary Wang, for the uninitiated, is ... it out. Then I got banned from Wikipedia for vandalism. I’m not ... questions for me about what an MIT education should mean, what

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  whiplash feelings from yesterday

  

  for advice on how to make time for personal projects during the semester ... research and learning about niche startups and recruiting for tech roles when ... DISAPPOINTED upon hearing this - you thought for a while that they were going to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 30, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meeting our new president! my very brief foray into professional journalism

  

  Center this morning at 9.45 am sharp, the arrival time for "press planning ... time set aside for journalists to speak individually with Dr. Kornbluth ... and hear about her plans for her new role as our 18th president, and I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  magicians trying to learn magic

  

  they asked me what i would want to become a magician in, and for a while i wasn’t sure. most technical work doesn’t feel like magic to me - for ... outside what i thought the realm of possibility was, and for the first time

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The seniors are tired but the frosh are fine

  

  pretty lights, and we're building a rollercoaster for it, and I'm not a ... feel guilty for not doing enough, and the Aquarium Puzzle Hunt is ... 'm responsible for making sure it happens, and I didn't know I could be so

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Tales of Two Parallels East Campus History class!

  

  History. It’s a special class, offered for the first time this year, with ... one another back in the 1970’s, now kept in the Archives for future ... classmates for their takeaways, too. Here’s a review by Anhad S. ‘25: This was

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

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

  

  , ready for change, and safe from bugs.[/annotation] I knew I lacked ... . For example, in our codebase we use Redux Toolkit. To understand the ... website is all the data it has. The state for Twitter's website includes the

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

  Cleaning A psychoanalysis of the recently deleted folder in my notes app

  

  how my luggage didn't arrive to Boston for four days. Then, I wrote ... far, I've deep cleaned my dorm room, put in necessary work orders for ... app, which I use religiously. For the most part, I open the app, open a

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fangirl Moment kinda silly, kinda wholesome

  

  was for grad students/postdocs/researchers/profs to nEtwORk, but I was ... a staple for the part of China my dad is from. The food was great, but ... working closely with this past year. We chatted for a bit, also commenting

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  in wonderland hello from the number side

  

  opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, “I—I hardly know ... makes my tendency for already-nebulous statements even more nebulous to ... student or I finally start cooking for the correct number of people. I

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 16, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  back in east campus, the sequel jiggity jig (again)

  

  to be a build lead for a project, and honestly i didn't contribute much ... appreciation for mit's collective coolness has grown deeper.) i recently beat ... spire that is a vibe. it makes me think about how it's so, so unlikely for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 18, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Senior Week On The Blogs!!! oh no, we’re all so old

  

  Well would you look at that, it’s finals week at MIT.  Which means that for a few of your friendly neighborhood bloggers, it’s also our last week on the blogs. *cue all of the sad faces and crying emojis* Writing

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 25, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  Wandering through the Infinite 3.5ish years of wandering MIT, squeezed into like one month

  

  things that caught my eye. The Infinite, for those of you who haven ... day to go to the Stud for quarantine meal plan food. [carousel image1 ... exists for every major, and if anybody has found them. This would make a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 22, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  halfway there musings about currently being an MIT student

  

  ...viscerally uncomfortable. Is time real?? I've already lived at my current house for longer ... beyond anything that could happen in current times; we were dancing for ... real college student. A friend recently asked me for book

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2020