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  Thoughts from Science Bowl 🥣 a story about now-nostalgic times

  

  ’s, like, a more powerful movement for me. So I do it with more force ... , all for just a chance at victory. Even the air here felt elite, spiced ... changed every round. All I needed to do was report our team’s answers for

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 30, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  what I’m doing this IAP mostly physics and musical theater

  

  for Battlecode with two of my friends. In junior year, I worked on a ... knowledge, since the class goes at a rapid pace that doesn’t allow for much ... floating in a fluid (which is what we’ve been talking about for two weeks

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  was trying to create a benchmark for evaluating AI-generated videos, and ... really wanted to build one for myself, so I knew I had to compete ... videos were generated for free, so I didn't expect them to be that good in

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 6, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  summertime! and the livin's easy?

  

  burning sun will, some day, rise So what am I gonna be doin' for a while ... myself. Suspiciously chill these days, for the most part. Dancing in the ... for a little bit. Watch me eat my words in a few months time. I love

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • July 15, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  the Big Rocks are calling and I must go MITOC winter school!!

  

  pictures, which speak for themselves. The Big Rocks have a lot to say, just ... of course, more green living things than my heart could ever wish for ... rental and gas fees for undergrads :)"]group of people[/annotation] who

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?

  

  well for me—I like focusing on fewer things at any given time, and in ... at a company in exchange for that company funding your degree. I TA an ... are funded. This funding pays for tuition, health insurance, and a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 9, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  make?” I was, for better or worse, all too familiar with this “ultra ... New York City like a normal college student. For those of you who ... vehicles for traversing Hyrule to full-on attack drones that mow down hordes

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis

  

  ="aligncenter" width="768"] Figure 1 – Mohs hardness scale for some common materials [2 ... ” opening in July) to measure their Vickers hardnesses. To correct for human error, I took three measurements for each sample using the indenter and

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  blind spots on privilege

  

  glassblowing and psycholinguistics to creative computation. There are clubs for ... . Through the Council for the Arts at MIT, you can get free or discounted ... attendance to professional or academic conferences for undergraduate students

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 4, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  what happened yesterday? "what's the name of the mushroom shop?"

  

  ="not that there's anything wrong with that; i absolutely live for vincent ... City to stay for the summer about a week prior. Most of my stuff was ... . I sat on the edge of my bed for a while, admiring the midday sunshine

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  MNL → BOS → SFO we live in a so(ci)e(ty)

  

  destination isn't in downtown someplace, you'd probably have to walk for half an hour. I have a friend who's also living in Mountain View for the summer ... means that things are far from each other. For example, a friend was

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 1, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  trust how do you decide who to trust when there are lots of untrustworthy people?

  

  . for instance, i remember when i was in elementary school, my parents ... every time an adult passed me i’d tense up and brace for the possibility ... you to great outcomes that you otherwise would never experience. for

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  making space in my schedule to go to the maker space and 100 other things I was bad at this semester

  

  training. For this, you had to do different modules based on which track you chose to learn for the maker space. Just for reference, I was doing the ... campus. I registered for one of the first in-person trainings because I

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  creative lockdown: low points of a virtual fall Part 2 of a fall semester recap

  

  happened for sure. Yet, it was mixed with a variety of other complicated and ... for some things to improve and change as time goes on. One of the most ... . For my classes with synchronous lectures, I never missed a single one. I

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 27, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  socializing over zoom it's been rough

  

  this strange semester. So, as I wait for the news, I thought this might ... stare at my phone for an hour to have a conversation with a friend. Beyond ... , make breakout rooms, and it becomes weird. As grateful as I am for the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  Diving In transforming myself into a cs bro

  

  field. For so long, I had put off taking any initiative outside of class ... around with it for 10 minutes and finding it horribly disgusting. But with ... of myself for doing these things, and even though it seems kind of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 23, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  four semesters in music and food just some lists and reminisces

  

  for their rant.) This is also true of food; I like to eat the same ... loves to cook for myself. As I move through the semesters at MIT, the food I choose to cook has come to be as defining, for me, as the music I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 28, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  finding direction reasonable goal-setting? who is she?

  

  outlining my goals for this quarantine. i also made a habit tracker for some ... day of the month. but my streak for filling said chart out lasted a ... , i thought i'd have much more time for personal growth. turns out

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

  Second Semester Schedule + Thoughts A mind-dump of excellent quality

  

  waitlist for my gym class, so everything’s set! Scheduling classes this ... /no-record policy for first-semester freshmen"]"P-NR mindset"[/annotation] can be ... -reqs for a lot of course 6 classes"]6.145[/annotation] final and end up

  • by Powers '23
  • February 19, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 vision new year's resolutions

  

  Happy New Year! Even though I'm nearsighted, this is the year for ... out of things to talk about and have to cast about for a forced small ... advocate for more funding and build more community for humanities students. I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2020