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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  participants. My actual job was to work on the app used to collect data. It ... text editor I use now. A few months ago I decided it's time to migrate ... were using, or the circumstances of the job? Maybe it's a personal reason

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  filled with memories too large to contain any of us. It is the end of my ... , or that I have grown from it. That will take time to see though, and in the meantime, I am left to question whether any of it was worth it. Am I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  Stuyvesant. It was great having them join me on the visit to Stuyvesant. We had ... other commitments, but it was very good for the students to have the ... entry on the interview and how to prepare for it. If you haven't yet set

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  across it in red. I am lucky to still be alive, having brought my spoon ... am not my disease' ad? How difficult is it to maintain an autonomous ... quickly fell to the wayside when I realized the department of aeronautics

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  can curry favor by having all the expansions for Race to the Galaxy. You ... done absolutely nothing to deserve it. 16:47 - 18:17 Bubble Tea and ... problematic? Come chill out with us as we use ice cream, string, and dowels to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  Transportation Authority (MBTA) can take me, so 9 months into the job, I had to ... silence in my car or hotel room, I think to myself, “Would Flat Tim do it ... regional term you use for a major road that you drive relatively fast on

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  you can really go to any group you want. It’s a great way to get ... :18-22? Crazy!), and it has been a game changer to have people I can grow in faith ... ’m not doing it right, and then push it to the backburner. But now this

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  on out) that it’s going to be okay. Everyone likes to hear that. Some will need to hear it more than others. My name is Chel. I left MIT ... “slow and steady,” although I’m reluctant to apply it here because MIT isn

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  My dorm, the 117-year-old Random Hall, is identical to the older ... , with its huge glass atrium, and the famous contemporary Simmons Hall ... architectural styles, the atmosphere of cumulative, continuing history it creates

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  struggles, academically and professionally, and many know what it's like to ... . I held back because I was nervous, and thought it would be better to "make sure I had a solid foundation" before moving on. It's obvious to me

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  about it, for obvious reasons. This idea made it to the second-to ... needed to figure out electronics — we didn't want to use breadboards and ... before it. I actually feel so close to this team. I have so much warmth and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  doesn't mean that it isn't necessarily hard to do so; it can be hard to be ... to navigate the world on his own before. It scared him too: And then ... I found it hard to breathe. In the play, Christopher pictures his dad

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  (it took a lot of effort not to resort to a clickbait-y title like ... results. It turned out, there was a lot people had to say--about their ... means that it’s difficult to make broad claims about having a single

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  whatever other sayings you can think of. It was then that I decided to join ... didn’t make it. Holding hands on the way to class. Falling in and out of ... are for getting to where you are now. MIT is a pretty cool sword, but it’s

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  , who has taken her place. Dog 2 sheds a lot, so it's best not to keep him ... Dog 2 even though they used to live together) eats Dog 1's food, Dog 2 ... everyone is still for too long for it to be a natural pause. I watch as a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  was so gorgeous it didn't matter that it probably makes little sense to ... to be charming things that you said are suddenly swarming it's easy to ... -changing decision arrives. and so admissions decisions can be hard to ignore and easy

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  can apply to their husbands' underwear.") You get the idea. If you don ... in 26-100, three times a week!) It was impossible to pass up, so I ... fabulous dancer. I can't sing, or dance. So, my contribution was to wave my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  . That we exist and it could not be but so. But really it is very close to ... the writing ends because I used the next page and a half to draw the ... can be recalled but never relived. I am grateful to the students, the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  is, it’s usually easy to locate where a specific room is. So once you ... good idea to get familiar with it. It is in fact not that long, so it makes no sense to me why it’s called the Infinite. Again, look at that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  uninitiated? How many hours can you commit? Experts suggest 6 to 10 per week ... importance. {oscilloscope photo credit to Banti G. '17}  I can speak ... I came to MIT a wide-eyed froshling. The sun shone brighter through

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015