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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Sophomore Stupid It’s morbin’ time

  

  comforting that time would not slow down for either my last-minute studying or ... talk and a fireshow, write a 10 page essay, and study for my two finals ... a bit more, and promised myself not to pset when I was on shift for a

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  making meaning exit right in 0.1 miles

  

  job on IQ-TREE has been running for more than an hour. For my UROP, I ... supervisor. me: i've been running it for A While now and it's on iteration 700 ... semester I took five classes, which was a first for me. 6

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 30, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  love is stored in the yarn help i can't stop crocheting

  

  , I'd gotten myself a shiny new UROP for IAP. It was my first time ... that knit. For a relatively small lab with about ten or so people, that ... , collapse in my chair, and crochet for hours. I finished my first big project

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 14, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  rating classes from this semester the good, the bad & the underrated

  

  The semester is over and I didn't go home for winter break because I ... courses again for this semester, I think I would've just taken something ... time, I hadn't even passed 6.101 (Fundamentals of Programming), for

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday, Simmons Hall! 20 things I’m grateful for in my dorm

  

  event, here are 20 things that I’m grateful for in my dorm. 1. I live there Can’t say I’m not grateful for that. Moving on… 2. The bathrooms My ... emoji. I was a 🅱️elevator 🅱️itch last year until it broke down for a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 4, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  how dorm structure shapes social life in more ways than i can count, actually

  

  dorm for all four years of undergrad. At this school, students can have ... undergraduate residential experience so varied. Some dorms are "cook for yourself ... dorm, Burton Conner (BC), which was under renovations for the past two

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  the first day of work lessons i'm learning

  

  are done. say alyssa and ben were estimating how long it'd take for them ... been busy. despite spending hours cramming for 6.033 computer systems engineering, grading the final for 6.036 introduction to machine learning, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  processing in which I visit home and take time to think

  

  focus. It's just that when I step back for a second, I realize that I ... are particularly out of place for my life now. It’s just that the ... ="all that introspecting when writing college essays has to count for something

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint post] Welcoming you to “Here at MIT” student art in the new welcome center

  

  Welcome Center. The new center is going to be the starting point for ... , activities, and workshops for Cambridge residents and visitors from around the ... out a call for artists.  I saw the call for artists on dormspam and I

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 3, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)

  

  -brain freshman year me decided that it was completely okay for me to ignore the ... essential. the first few months form the basis for the rest of your experience ... ability to do any of these things. you have to make time for your partner

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 23, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  nice moments on campus things are okay, actually

  

  It's April. I’ve been on campus for close to two months now. It ... out the [annotation note="curse my room for having such a good view ... , though! Just today it was like [annotation note="24 celsius for the normal

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 10, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  What Did I Learn at MIT? a surprisingly hard question to answer

  

  and I were Protobowling feverishly. For those of you who weren't quiz ... practice for competitions. And while Paolo and I would definitely just play on this website apropos of nothing, we were in fact practicing for a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 28, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  sunset/sunrise swiftly flow the days

  

  , and, for the most part, I have been[annotation note='I promise that a ... horrible, not great. It was fine, for the most part, until two weeks ago ... meant seeing the sunrise very occasionally for the first time in months

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  ran for the next week or so and then stopped because it was allergy ... day after not running for a while, I shocked myself by running my first ... waited for the right day, and in the middle of a snowstorm in early May

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

  dormspam-the-game (Part 1) wits, skill, and the teeniest amount of luck

  

  "]anonymous Gamemasters[/annotation] and funded by the de Florez Fund for Humor, dormspam ... :30PM ET!"]progress to a live game show[/annotation] to compete for $399 ... the is the term for emails sent through dorm mailing lists. The games

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 13, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  summer in boston that summertime, summertime, uh, gladness

  

  [annotation note="great for nighttime walks"]Paul Revere Landing Park ... 't for me working outside — a few weeks ago, i gathered the freshmen in ... camera and read/worked/painted for a couple of hours. it was really nice

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 15, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  semester 4, take 2 positivity edition!

  

  future a void. But maybe for this blog post we could pretend? We could ... my advisor to let me sign up for three humanities classes and one ... leisure. But, for the first seven weeks we met, it was really nice! I took

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 23, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Watch the 2.009 final presentations webcast!

  

  2.009: Product Engineering Processes is a capstone course in Course 2 (Mechanical Engineering) and one of the most famous courses at MIT. For my fellow FIRST alumni out there, it's sort of like FRC, but for products

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 9, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  November was … read until the end to find out

  

  through this initial job hunt, we realized there is still A Lot for us to ... hadn't reached out to anyone for recommendations. We hadn't requested any ... signed up for two test dates and found 3 recommenders willing to write us

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 29, 2019
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  A Year away from home An intro video rant to my time in China

  

  so please forgive me for the countless mistakes I make… I still have so ... it in Chinese and writing English subtitles (I have a new respect for

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 5, 2019