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• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  controller, using an accelerometer to detect steps on a virtual piano keyboard. Kind of like the foot pedals on a pipe organ. [caption id ... wires, you can suspend the cube between your hands. Each face on the cube

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  packing for the road looking back on nights that last forever

  

  of fake blood and medicine bottles on string lights. I chatted with a ... if renovations didn't force it on me? In the end I'll never know. I ... , and rally for floor parties on weekends. At one point, I regretted not

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  No Ceilings next steps

  

  mind as a student (graduation, for one), and you just start working on ... time. But I look back on my time here, and I can't help but feel like it ...  I kept working hard. Getting into MIT was one small step on my journey

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 12, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  am i doing this all wrong? thinking thoughts and feeling feelings

  

  't put a finger on why. Everything is ever so slightly more tiresome: each ... bouts out of the blah. On one of my days of the blah, I sent an email out ... good to clarify...']digress.[/annotation] This was on one of the days

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 4, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Repainting the Smoots A Wacky MIT Tradition

  

  only light on the Harvard Bridge coming from the streetlights and the ... , and green (the fraternity’s colors) tick marks and labels appeared on ... , fast forward all the way from 1958 to 2023. How did I end up here on this

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 27, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to make a glass pumpkin In celebration of the 2023 Great Glass Pumpkin Patch

  

  [annotation note="I may be wrong about this estimate because I’ve never been on ... about it! After all, I’ve made… counts on fingers… two whole glass ... . Roll the blob on a stainless steel table (called a “marver”) until it

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / Events

  life, with the brass rat we're halfway there????????????

  

  waits on one person before taking their photo but that one person is in ... is also taking pictures with another group… and so on. It’s fun. We ... and i ganging up on sonny x. '25 (we weightlifted/kickboxed together on

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 26, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  [Guest Post] The Southbound Train by Kylee C. '23

  

  met in person at MIT post-CPW) Kylee C. '23. Few things on God ... ’ve ridden my fair share of intercity trains here in the USA, on the East Coast ... ’s “Roll On (Eighteen Wheeler).” However, the train, especially the freight

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 10, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  what your favorite study spot says about you badly stereotyping places to work on campus

  

  stop pulling all-nighters. you complain about how much money you spend on ... working on your own and getting things out of the way before you go hang out ... 're impulsive, have a poor attention span, and are terminally on TikTok, which is

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I went to TwitchCon and met so many people!!

  

  stuff, what have you -- I try to always keep a tab on what's going on in ... video live streaming service that primarily focuses on video game live ... , Quackity, and others. I also am a huge fan of OfflineTV and had my eye on

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 3, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  work expands to fill the space available

  

  requirement of being on an f1 visa. in theory, i should have less work to do ... classes i've taken, there's a focus on implementations, and algorithms that ... motivation to start working on that square dancing blog post i keep promising i

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

  ice skating don't fall

  

  when you walk cj: i have my other foot on the ground wayne: yeah it ... feet hurt wayne: mildly. i mean your foot's been on a thin edge for the ... so terrified when i'm on the ice wayne: you're doing fine! you've only

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 16, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  blogger wrapped 2022 judge our music taste (the 5th installment)

  

  always been on top. slay fatima did a lot of listening to TSwift this ... . the top two for top artist minutes listened are on the lower end here ... Spotify usage, I guess...I'm on Spotify more than any social media, I have

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 8, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Rules and who sets them

  

  November Rule. I recommend these posts for more reading/information on the ... . [annotation note="cough cough CJ; (CJ: “i'm a platonist on the weekdays and a formalist on the sundays”)"] Other mathematicians,[/annotation] believe that

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Black Panther 2 Plot (Totally Real) (Not Clickbait) (Please Click Anyway Though) Not a fanfiction about Black Panther (because I am not a fan)

  

  simulations on an MIT-inspired neural network (i.e. after thinking about it for ... correctly days before it premieres. After all, when has someone on the ... on the Harvard bridge. T’Challa won’t feature much in this film

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  is everyone growing up without me? we're only getting older

  

  The other day, my friend sent me photos of herself trying on potential wedding dresses. She recently got engaged to her boyfriend on their ... from college, I now have a network of people whom I connect well with on

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  It Lives. can i be nostalgic yet?

  

  There's always this hum on campus, some whisper of a noise either ... find myself once again back on the MIT grounds. I'm unsure of when the ... walked on Mass Ave, waves of familiarity and warmth washed over me. These

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 2, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The seniors are tired but the frosh are fine

  

  prefrosh are here, so I need to put on a smile, because MIT is supposed ... -orientation program, which means more first-years arriving on campus, which means ... to start on Sunday, REX being residence exploration, [3] and on

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

  Don’t Stop Believing you can take the east camper out of east campus but...

  

  graduation where all the seniors stay on campus and do fun events"]senior week ... committee. Last party, on the last day of classes. Last time linking arms to ... a little teary as we linked arms. On my last night in EC, more than

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  avatar a weird metaphor for careers

  

  they feel the need to work on impactful research, and after a while they ... free time and not care about my impact on the world? you think i can just ... people i’ve ever met at coming up with extended verbal arguments on the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 10, 2022