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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mathisms and other linguistic quirks of the nerd incubator

  

  There exists a nontrivial subset of the MIT population for whom the ... nerds. You start with a soup of universally strong math backgrounds, then toss in a couple hundred ultra math nerds, and a couple hundred more

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 15, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  168 Hours and how to spend them

  

  A/N: This post is coming out weeks after I intended for it to; please forgive me! If it makes it any better, this is a very long and fairly ... dread about the passing of time and a lurking fear that I am wasting my

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 21, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fonts of MIT a typographical tour

  

  typography jargon! A letter's terminal is where its stroke ends ... always has a spur on the lower-right. But the G in the label doesn't have a [annotation note="Strike two. A spur is a piece that extends from a curve

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / Class Projects

  I DON’T NEED YOU ANYMORE. the making of my final video project

  

  I figured I would talk a little bit more about this class. I'll start ... shit at MIT. Seeing as I didn't end up as a pure engineering major, my ... why I took both a comic book writing class and this class. I've always

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2022
• Blog / Class Projects

  weld your own bike and other IAP activities

  

  -imposed activities like clubs, or a handful of sped-up, all-consuming classes. Everyone ... socializing. It is a glorious time to be alive."]IAP,[/annotation] jumping ... Own Bicycle (exactly what it sounds like), 2.670 (learn how to use a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 1, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  hold me (but not too close) on writing the full-length play

  

  act I: prologue When I was a kid, I used to dread going to sleep. I ... , where I suddenly had an infinite amount of time to respond in a way that ... in a while, I’d open my eyes and check the clock, just to see that only

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 7, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  how to restore an old whiteboard, mit style four years of whiteboard wear and care

  

  the how-to :P This is a guide for how to restore an old, dingy whiteboard that: has marks or stains from heavy usage for a long time ... fix a whiteboard that had been sitting in a hallway, filled with writing

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 17, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  books I’ve read this year slowly but surely completing my 2020 resolutions

  

  completed this goal last week! I think by the end of 2020 I’ll have read a ... : I got this book as a birthday gift, and my instinctive reaction to it ... there was a general arc and story in the way the poems were presented and

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 19, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m doing this IAP i guess i need to be more specific

  

  IAP is a concept I didn’t really understand until last month, oops ... IAP classes include: Scheduling. IAP classes are a month long, or less. So the classes happen over a shorter time frame. The scheduling of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Money! Money! Money! Life is like monopoly, except you're not a pewter Tophat and it costs WAY more…

  

  Hard to believe July is nearly gone eh? Yup in just a few short ... ! Want to give me a plasma screen TV for free? Be my guest! Remember, you ... ?" and others are hard like deciding if your relationship with a person you

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  In mid-December a friend of mine, Jared '10, asked if I'd be interested in being on a team with him for a LEGO robot competition during IAP ... official description of the class is: 6.270 is a hands-on, learn

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  Hello Internet! I had a very writing major day, which is to say that ... preservation.)   The protagonist of ThesisNovel is a high school senior ... be an intensely familiar situation for some of you. But it’s a little

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I am slowly going insane This is your brain on AI-generated videos

  

  .5940 (TinyML) lecture: the class was holding a competition, with AI development ... was trying to create a benchmark for evaluating AI-generated videos, and ... semester running a ChatGPT-like application on a [annotation note="The same

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 6, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  [guest post] crumbly fruit and the importance of keeping at it by Caleb M. '27

  

  Caleb is a rising sophomore at MIT. He is currently studying Computer Science and Engineering, as well as a minor or concentration in Linguistics. He is from Dallas, Texas, and is Ethiopian-American. He's a Radio DJ

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 13, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  I was a high achiever since a young age just because I thought school by itself was really boring. The challenge of winning a bunch of stuff made the whole experience more bearable. But I wasn’t always a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  making art for fun what a crazy concept!

  

  When I was applying to be a blogger in September, one of the first questions was about why I wanted to be a blogger in the first place. Amidst feeling a bit of déjà vu and lasting trauma from college application essays

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i don’t know where you’re going but do you got room for one more troubled soul?

  

  [embed]https://open.spotify.com/track/5MsZIaCYY6Tsdph0LiB0hE?si=a10ec ... just a semester of my undergraduate career left, it's hard not to. Every ... you something about graduating with a biomedical engineering degree from

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  23andme happy new year

  

  Twitter. Since my blogs do a decent job of encompassing how 2022 went for me, I won't review the past year on here, but I made a Substack post ... responded, "Hard to say because I have so many flaws." That's a self

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  school projects aka why i havent been writing in the last few weeks

  

  project is to compose a movement of a string quartet, and it’s cool because on the last day of class they invite a local string quartet group to ... ’t very hard - there’s just a checklist of requirements your music has to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  dating while asian to love & be loved freely

  

  In high school, the boys didn’t like me. A friend suggested that ... that I was a little loud and a little awkward in high school. I spent ... sported a brass-colored bob that I can now admit was ill-suited to my skin

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 30, 2021