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• Blog / MIT Life

  dear past me stay kind

  

  One of the events for the class of 2024's [annotation note="because this is our first time actually being on campus"]second round of ... Me, to be delivered at the start of the fall semester. That reminded me of

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Days in lives that aren’t mine in a parallel universe

  

  awake this early. Of the four people I'm sharing a room with, I'm the ... back to sleep, and after checking my phone for five minutes, I get out of bed and put on pants. The smell of scrambled eggs brings me downstairs

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  thank you notes before i go

  

  that offers up so much wisdom and perspective to all of us. I can't wait ... , especially this last semester, memorable and good. Here are just a few of them ... reiteration of my Peace Corps rec letter for you, but let this be a public

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Dance at MIT!!! [Collab with Ben O. ’19] hip-hop? contemp? bhangra? lion dance? MIT's got it all

  

  here at MIT.  We’re both active members of the dance community; we joined Mocha Moves in Fall ‘19 and are members of Dance Troupe, but I’ve done it ... ’s memey and lots of fun MissBehavior — an all-female urban dance team; has

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 30, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 2) I better get this up before I forget.

  

  popular in Japan. There is usually very little mention of Lilo, however. 52 ... an extended amount of time, it's really difficult not to hear about ... incidence of these accidents from peaking, the Japanese railway authorities

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 5, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT: REGRESSIONS a documentary on MIT, and why it's so important

  

  ('22) and Wesley Block ('22) on the history of the Institute, spanning from World War 2 to COVID-19. It uses 80 years of AI-enhanced archival ... pinnacle of technological innovation. Exploring several themes and arcs, it

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 12, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT-vangelion: Behind the scenes! how we made the Pi Day 2023 video!

  

  nothing but ramen noodles and slept in the basement of Stata like ... Toonz , the  t h i r d  dimension, and lots of Neon Genesis Evangelion ... didn’t know that I was going to be in charge of this year’s Pi Day video

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • March 12, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  living away from home lessons learned

  

  I've had my fair share of time with roommates and friends in the past ... townhouse in the suburbs of northern Virginia. There were five of us in total ... luxurious apartment in Somerville, Massachusetts, two of those friends the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen: The Sequel! I've written about it before, and now I'm writing about it again!

  

  Back during IAP of last year I wrote an entry about a brand new "toy ... to a couple of people in the room. Chris M (of blogger fame) has one ... seeing what my pen did. "Well shoot, I've already sold like three of these

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  through some possible courses of action, and settled on: moping. First, I moped alone. During this period, I decided that the responsible course of ... January 4, when I returned to campus after winter break. *The TA of the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside

  

  closer as friends and also relieved a lot of the shame we both felt ... semester was a shitshow of epic proportions. Just, ugh, you'll see. 21M.600 ... while in quarantine as a form of “creative writing”. I should have failed

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maseeh Hall: Pros and Cons this is a pros and cons list re: maseeh hall

  

  offering Late Night). Unfortunately, due to the nature of the dining system ... must confess that it was a short struggle. The plethora of options was so ... years on the same floor, and in the same room for three of those four

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 15, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding spiels metal hot glue gun go brrr

  

  advantage of all the cool resources Metropolis has to offer and to finally ... One of my favorite places on campus is the Metropolis makerspace. It ... possible. Kind of a tangent, but I want to shout out the fact that

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 9, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of a Second Semester MIT Student first week impressions

  

  6.009 - Fundamentals of Programming 8.02 - Physics II (E&M) CMS ... 6.042 - Mathematics for Computer Science For all of IAP, I've been kind of fiddling with my spring semester schedule here and there. It

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 7, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  at the South Asian Youth Initiative a New Haven adventure

  

  Asian Youth Initiative conference. The purpose of this conference is to ... track of everything that was happening and I will try to recreate most of ... , Sarah S. ’24 and I meet in front of McCormick to head to South Station to

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 22, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  The Oreo Post i tried them all* !

  

  arrive at MIT in the fall, to trying each and every one of these flavours and writing a review at the end of the process. If hired as a blogger, I will guarantee you exclusive rights to the publishing of this review and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 29, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learn Coding Before School Starts you've got one month left. go!

  

  you many of resources like offering you hosting space where you can ... ("Why the exponential growth? Learning coding consists of two parts. 1 ... of coding. What coding is, how you literally have to tell the computer

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Answers to the many questions left in the comments of McGann's Factors.

  

  practically done everything my school has to offer and am also the president of ... application. Some common supplements we see would include: recording of your music performance; slides/Powerpoint of your artwork; an additional

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Q&A I asked current freshmen about the things they wish they knew for their CPW!

  

  AHHH CPW!!! Was the name of my last blog post I wrote prior to CPW last year, and it is, once again, that time of year! This year I'd like ... of every second of CPW by meeting your prospective classmates and doing

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fuji: Not Your Grandma’s Mountain I guess if we're being honest here there were actually a lot of grandmas climbing…

  

  will be in Japan next (and it's only open two months out of the year ... ,388 ft). It is an active volcano and a well-known symbol of Japan that is ... devouring bowls of chicken, eggs and rice, and buying a backpack cover that

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 6, 2009