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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  I wanted to play with friends. Making something useful for others is ... isn’t for me. I’m not entirely excluding the possibility. […] But Java ... participating actually fun? The project was interesting, and I was certainly

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  —a time for high school seniors to visit campus to see if MIT is really the ... that is good about life as a student. For the visiting senior, there is ... hat. Others took turns playing Mozart’s Turkish March and the Mario

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  I got an email this morning from someone working for MIT News ... freshman year, but generally the first person I went to for help with ... pretty late and it wasn’t my best work. Still, I’m going to be featured

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  I’m home in Pennsylvania for three weeks, for the second time this ... that 92 of my best friends are just beyond my open door. Having an 11 ... far from town. Reading a book while Max plays saxophone, the windows

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  . Location: East Campus 9.50 am: My partner's alarm goes off. I feel like I could sleep for a much longer time. I roll over to cuddle with them and go ... of bed in 20 minutes is unfortunately pretty good for me these days

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Andi and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week :(

  

  for that type of problem. Anyway, I tried my best to live with the pain ... -hot poker iron now. Every. Single. Step. I. Took. I cried for the first time ... Remember two weeks ago when I blogged about how excited I was for

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 3, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  best as I can remember, it was three cups water to one cup barley for the ... you’ve had; on the other hand my wish for you is that through storms and ... that. Chop things. I don't know what reference to give for how small

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  building of dark red brick sootbleakened by more chimneys than its own, set ... software on your language processors. So, for the gentle edification of ... , as explored by Einstein et. al., is especially useful for sublimating

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  Halloween is awesome, for a bajillion reasons. Reason 1 of 1 ... birthday. I'm lame, I know. The firehose stops for no aging ritual, though ... oscillators that it seemed only right to become one. For a driving force, we

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  . Now, I know that sounds confusing, but think of a cube. What is the best ... is the same. Now, let's say you have 50 of these cubes in a model, and ... and that's not the point!"]50 more rectangles.[/annotation] Kind of a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  liberal arts and technical training to be the best path for me to explore ... -traditional” route (for example, opting to put their education on pause to compete in ... edited for clarity. Here are the basic details for each of the six

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  out there just for you where you will strive and thrive and be the best ... with my new best friends and a bunch of current and future nobel ... - my best friend told me that some kids were betting on how long I would

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  buildings for fun, and turn grocery carts into high speed go-karts for no ... Pandora has queued up for us, sipping homemade sweet tea and tossing ideas ... Science to Student Life, the best way to get free food and every tangent in

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  going to be useful or informative to anybody, except for future me who wants to reminisce back on my glory days at MIT. So, for future me: here ... Lightsaber Club used to meet in here and sometimes I'd stop for a few minutes

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  : 1. Take the candidate outside. 2. Wait for the familiar rumble of ... . My reasons for choosing aerospace engineering (Course 16), however, don ... have had a die-hard adoration for spaceflight or aircraft since before

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  , however, and one of those can be access to nutritious, affordable food. For ... occasionally shop for bok choy and Asian pears, but I don’t think it’s known for ... Costco for a few hours on Sunday too, which is helpful, but functionally

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  On my application for MIT, I made it a point to mention that I couldn ... 'm talking about an opportunity for personal growth. It's the big selling ... you need for shelling out something on the order of (tens of) thousands

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  student? it's no secret that coming to MIT is signing yourself up for ... plenty of time for both... so being slammed with opportunities and open ... friends destress through acting or dancing or running 10 miles, but for a

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  hypothesis as the best, and sometimes only, route to understanding most things ... analytical theory for a moment and ground what I'm saying in some concrete ... admission, but there's a 50% difference. Now, I and others are on the record

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  opportunities—for fun, for work, or both—than you have time for, even if you don ... love. I came to MIT for the people here. I've had wonderful experiences

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013