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  [Guest Post] Why did I come to MIT? by River A. ‘26

  

  least a few years after college graduation. And that’s okay. In fact, I ... …..why did I come to MIT?  Because it’s worth it. The struggle takes me places ... these short few semesters, most notably, this year’s pumpkin drop. It was

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  home

  

  how starry the sky could be, and how blue. It’s almost ridiculously ... “small town girl who’s trying to make it in the big city” is overused, but ... am too old for this now.  There’s a fragment of something from

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • November 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  winter things a sampling of IAP plans around campus

  

  scheduling worked out. Turns out that 4.02A’s hours are flexible, but I got ... workshop[/annotation] and sometimes, cooking with people.  P.S. also playing ... read Fatima’s previous blogs, you know by now that I am somewhat fond of

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living the MEng life same, different, same

  

  12-to-18 month Master’s of Engineering, only available to MIT EECS ... where about a third of undergrads are EECS majors, it’s a popular option ... yeah, and I grade things now, that’s different! The MEng program requires

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 27, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  pole dancing and punching things trying out new classes in Copenhagen

  

  . However— there’s a totally different logic around pole, where you hold ... trapeze. It’s fun going between different aerial apparatus, feeling the way ... end, if you’re lucky, there’s a quick round of sparring. We didn

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 16, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  this blogger does not exist join me in the uncanny valley

  

  . Monet’s painting). Then CycleGAN would spit out the contents of the input ... still some fun things to be done though :).  Here’s a look at the fake ... representations of the data’s features. Interpolation takes a weighted average of

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 28, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  people keep leaving their things in my room and other stories from sophomore fall

  

  friends' things had accumulated in my room. A.'s water bottle standing on ... leaving it. P.'s winter coat, which she left in my room before heading down ... on for her drowsy walk from the fifth floor to the second. S.'s black

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to put together an ohms concert apparently we have a concert this weekend

  

  highest to lowest pitch). we use musescore to arrange songs; it’s a free ... king story was immediately after the death of simba’s dad. similarly one ... to accomplish (eg. it’s probably not worth it to buy a bunch of fish

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 17, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  mmmm wikipedia i ramble about my favorite wikipedia articles

  

  Technology Whoa, something in this post that’s actually related to MIT! Since ... -natured, often eliciting admiration rather than anger from the "victim". It’s not just the joke, but that there’s a warm-heartedness and a deep

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  Campus and Memories low-quality pictures and some memories

  

  have been to a few of Boston’s popular tourist sites. It’s been so ... Lobby 7 before it closes. It’s desperate because I hate walking in the ... Kathleen and I running to my advisor’s room to approve my schedule so that I

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 24, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  scootin’ and zoomin’ a transportation saga

  

  Google Maps. But [annotation note='Of course, there’s other ways of getting ... ']sometimes 40 minutes of walking feels like too much.[/annotation] In ESP’s office ... much. That summer, with some of ESP’s members graduating and becoming

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 18, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  a peek in a week of my summer trying to enjoy it while it lasts

  

  okay:("]pset cycle.[/annotation] For now, here’s a brief overview of what ... Interphase together. It’s really comforting to have a familiar face, especially ... of random things. Then I realize I have work and get back to it. It’s

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  when apocalypse strikes… on being preemptively torn from my home, living group, and nearly everything i love at…

  

  released, screenshots with rumors about the details of MIT’s potential ... could change our lives. It’s crazy how quickly people can come together ... -Conner, a dorm that’s closing down until my senior year for renovations. For

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Mathematics of People Guest post on Economics

  

  jump right into the graduate program’s curriculum this year. I’m taking ... with the times it’s open, how it chooses its prices, why you seem to face ... /supermodular game, where people want to be about as punctual as their peers. It’s

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In case you want to travel over IAP… You have a lot of options!

  

  great. You get to travel and experience living in another country, and it’s ... really technical major, and it’s hard to get outside credit from a school ... French ability. The French program is new, and it’s taking 5 students to

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tour of Phonology, Part 1 fənɛtɪks ɪz fʌn!

  

  teeth. [t] tap - unvoiced [d] door - voiced [s] sail - unvoiced [z] zebra ... the difference between the sounds [s] and [z]? We know they're both alveolar, but [s] is voiceless and [z] is voiced: that's the main difference

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 12, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  How to CPW! Advice from all the bloggers, with love.

  

  , culture, and school. It’s a good skill to acquire, especially if you end up ... here’s what I wish I’d have done! Talk to people! Talk to other ... the options before deciding if it’s a good fit. As an LA native

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sewing minus the machine Costume Design: Featuring the best non-stick-figures I've ever drawn!

  

  send home money to her family. Though it was written in the 1930s, we ... 1870s, because I thought the developmental tension the United States was ... for interpretation--my classmates set Anna in the 20s, 60s, 2100s

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 21, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions for 2016 And what I gained after a semester at MIT

  

  your dreams. It’s really enlightening realizing how my perspective has ... not a second-resort trick, it’s the name of the game. Memorization is ... !). I think that before showing up to college, it’s important to think

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculating a Quantitative Snapshot of Fall Semester Skip to the end for a picture of peas

  

  Inspired by Spotify’s year in review (with which I discovered I ... ; That’s basically a whole February. I spent an entire February of this ... that I closed my eyes to go to sleep and the moment that I woke up. There’s

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 20, 2015