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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Birds Are Real, and So Is Quantum Physics Monkey see, monkey believe

  

  I believe in quantum physics now. The past few weeks have changed ... was able to see these phenomena with my own two eyes, in the flesh ... experiments in 6.2410 (Quantum Systems Engineering Lab) – a class I’m taking

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  168 Hours and how to spend them

  

  lot of time eating brunch in Next dining, and proceed to mess around in ... gym in the morning, and affectionately listen to Alison bemoan bicep ... holy of days), Leo and Athena were sitting in ML. I don’t remember all

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 21, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  i wish we’d grown up on the same advice alternate paths

  

  questions me: what would you say is the primary source of joy in your life ... sense of meaning in different ways - social things help me feel a sense of ... obligations make me feel like i have weight in the world, like i’m not

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Class Projects

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

  

  I've mentioned in the past that I'm taking CMS.335 Short Attention Span Documentary. Abby '20 has blogged about this class in the past, but ... methods of making things sit in the digital world, mainly in the form of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, La Vita Nuova a selection of dishes, part 3

  

  feel like I have developed my own signature style in cooking – dishes that are authentic reflections of myself. A lot has happened in the ... grappled with changes in my personal life that led me to question my reason

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 7, 2022
• Blog / Class Projects

  weld your own bike and other IAP activities

  

  in and weld your seat tube. This would be very simple had I in fact ... is bad). So I came in to D-Lab and did a lot of practice welds, and ... 't burn any holes in the actual seat tube, I welded that. The welds weren

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 1, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  every muscle in my body already sore, regardless of how much physical activity I’ve done in the past day. This unshakable exhaustion is not new to ... " (2015) Last semester was extremely hard on me. In most senses, I was doing

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  walking the marathon… part of a four-day weekend

  

  moved to October"]run on Patriots' Day,[/annotation] and, in combination ... about a month ago, in the sense that Petey and I penciled in a date, and ... itself. In the two days before the marathon, I made a Google Doc estimating

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  My Rejection Resume working up the courage to look failure in the eye

  

  About a year ago, in the midst of job recruiting season, I wrote a ... school. That's totally okay. In fact, the point of this post is mostly to advise you that learning how to deal with those feelings in a healthy way

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  you can run but you can't hide

  

  do it anyway. In recent weeks, I've realized that I've been running. I run from the shitty things I did in high school. I run from the mistakes ... happened in the past and be born again in this new world, shedding away the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 24, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 3 is third time the charm??? questionable

  

  my cave of despair to blog again! I've made this post two years in a ... Pirate Certificate – 25% complete. In my defense, I'm really trying to take ... in-depth analysis of a TV Tropes page for T.L. Taylor's Games and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Black Lives Matter until they don't.

  

  . The food is wildly different. In Nigeria, food is abacha and achicha and eba and fufu and egusi and suya. In America, food is burger and pasta and coleslaw and pizza and fries and Coca-Cola in three cup sizes. And

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  In 1965, Jocelyn Bell arrived at Cambridge University to earn her Ph ... built a radio telescope that could fit 57 tennis courts. Bell was put in charge of operating the telescope, and collecting data. Bear in mind that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  ’m currently a junior at MIT majoring in course VI-III. Melis has graciously ... in its infancy but quickly gaining momentum and recognition as a ... interested in, and, now after working for one, I am convinced that it is the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Dorms: Burton Conner House Why is BC awesome? Because three bloggers live there. Plus, lots of other stuff too.…

  

  So I suck at life and haven't blogged in FOREVER. =( But! I'm making ... checks in and out. The front desk is also where you can get your mail, find ... dorm collection, or borrow the pool cues/ping pong paddles/etc to use in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  on knowing what I’m doing in which I decide to go to grad school

  

  , like I’m in the middle of a field and there used to be a road I was ... sophomore fall. I wasn't really certain in what I wanted to do after college ... it is perhaps the fact that I wouldn't mind staying in academia forever

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 3, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  on friends / minsan in which i ramble about friendship

  

  "]Kalayaan,[/annotation] we bumped into each other Each with their own ambitions in life Under ... , which in practice, is an excuse for Harvard and MIT students to hang out with their friends in Princeton for a weekend while getting travel

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  roots in my father’s nation, Ethiopia, and my mother’s, China. I consider ... !) (and also hands and feet, in case that wasn’t clear). I speak Chinese fluently; I can communicate pretty well in my dad’s regional language, Kafa

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: From the Life and Times of Cam

  

  myself in a mudslide of classwork and undergrad research this January, so ... computer screen in the coming weeks. For the record, it's virtually unheard ... on a personal blog, but also for the admissions blogs in the hopes that

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  your thumb above the buzzer, so you’re always ready to buzz in.” “Okay ... tiny. “Who’s your favorite supervillain?” We buzzed in to give our ... worked. I was in the “captain” spot on my team, a symbolic position that

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 30, 2025