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• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo

  

  The end of the semester has come and gone, and although I meant to ... trip to India drained me of all motivation and I basically just sat ... some point this semester, I did have to ask a friend where the hell

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  That wasn’t skiing, that was falling with style! Guest post by Katy Kem '16

  

  choose to take condensed classes, conduct research, work on projects, work ... prefer to spend the duration of IAP with the MIT Alpine Ski team, living in ... , or to put it another way, a total wuss. I avoid compromising situations

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / How to MIT

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

  

  ) concepts. 2) syntax. With your first language, you have to learn the concepts of coding. What coding is, how you literally have to tell the computer what to do step by step, what variables, etc. Then, you learn the syntax

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

  My IAP All the snow has melted since I took these pictures.

  

  What am I up to? My Thesis This is probably any grad student’s answer to that question, no matter the time of year. This winter I have ... lab I most wanted to work in and least expected to take me, the lab

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 19, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Answered Questions, answers, and Sam's face. This is the real MIT.

  

  : I'm gonna say that Windows Vista is going to look very Mac-ish when it comes to OS, so I plan on just sticking to Windows, far superior. Although ... mean, I think I will end up getting one but I just want to make sure I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Felicitation Answers... and hopefully minimal snark.

  

  Christina wasn't serious, because she goes to MIT and is one hot piece, but other people in the world are shallow in what I editorially find to be a ... . My other close professor friend got to know me because I took a lab

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Tricky Questions A follow-up entry to answer all of the 50 million comments I got about the…

  

  Admissions Ben) was awesome enough to send a link to my blog in to the ... crazy! Needless to say, this generated a lot of comments, so I decided to ... -up to the hack entry and answer some questions about it if I can. (Plus I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  (another) postcard from GTL spain and an unexpected crossover with the Edgerton Center

  

  thing that helps is to pick your head up, to stop staring at the sidewalk ... name off the top of my head"][/annotation] Hi again blog, I write to you ... finished watching “My Old Ass”[annotation note="thank you to my roommate

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 1, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything is different now That's ok, I have a cat now

  

  now. For better or for worse, everything about me has changed. I want to ... both get so obsessed about things and immediately have to share it with as many people as possible. Although, old Mimi tried a bit too hard to

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Circle Professor Anna

  

  the external examiner (“extern”) for a PhD Viva, and now I’m trying to ... PhD. There’s a coda to that story. Over a decade ago (!), when I was an ... from being a postdoc to being a faculty member was the most abrupt of my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / IAP

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

  

  mornings, any inch of skin exposed to the air goes numb in minutes. But this ... get pushed to the back of my mind during the school year. All my ... like 8-6), and when I got off work I’d walk to the climbing gym or the

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  november again conversation with myself

  

  walked to campus today and let the mid-fall breeze bite at my face. i could ... and white and blue era, but i’m shuttled back to red every time. i tried to dye a blue streak in my hair but it came out grayish-green, so i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Video games I’ve played this semester trimps, mother 3, hades, and vampire survivors

  

  rate than adding them to my to-play list. Oops! Trimps Trimps is an ... to battle. You colonize more and more of the unfamiliar planet you find yourself in, while trying to discover what caused your laser-guided amnesia

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  bear its name are sold everywhere from the airport to Boston Commons ... humanities. I’ve taken classes from the history of the French Revolution, to Latinx studies, to a literature class on dystopian novels. However, looking

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  bay area parties well, two of them

  

  in the last two weeks, i've been invited to two parties in the bay ... group text with all the other company interns in the bay. it was a link to ... , pizza, and people standing around talking to each other. no dance floor

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 15, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  oh, the crash and the burn

  

  gotten it since it gives me an excuse to not go to any of my ... reflecting and the first place my mind went to, genuinely, was: Do I deserve ... , seeing as my immediate reaction to getting sick was thinking that this was

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  how i got my book deal *flailing intensifies*

  

  hope you all are safe and well! Here’s what I’ve been up to in ... got too addicting subscribing to Disney+ only to be stunningly ... was so in love with this series as a kid. we are going to pretend this

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  A half semester told through paper grownup show and tell

  

  temporary) state of having a lot of work to do at the moment"]Hosed™[/annotation] to put effort into a blog post, so here’s what you get instead. Me going through a stack of paper and talking to you about it. So fun, right

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Downtown if you could see it then you’d understand

  

  have to do today/do you want to meet at like Downtown Crossing between ... better, so he chooses where to go, and we start walking. The first thing ... different. It’s out of place. Like a round peg trying to fit in the square

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2019
• Blog / Events

  East Campus REX Events! welcome to the wild wild west

  

  To all the prefrosh who are about to arrive / on their way here / already here: Welcome to MIT! All of us, no matter our class year or living group, are excited to have you here :) We at East Campus are especially

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 20, 2018