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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Years Through A Laptop Case a walk down memory lane

  

  MIT, I received a handful of free succulents, all of which did not ... like 2017 I think? A Hijabi Queen: I got this sticker with an online ... yeah. San Fran: This was the one souvenir I bought for myself after the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 10, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Joint Post] Chatting with Hank Green, the MIT Commencement Speaker interviewing Hank + sharing student stories!

  

  's been cancer free for a year now!) I like watching his YouTube videos, and ... ’ve been a fan of Hank (and his brother John) for basically my entire ... for good. They nurtured my love for learning in and of itself. Plus

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience

  

  pig’s feet for some reason. Even though it was run online because of ... school. CS can be hard for beginners, more so at MIT, so I'm at an area ... beings (alive or dead), so I opted for an interest in artificial

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest blog: “Me, Marvel, and MIT” Jade's experience working on a SHASS UROP for me

  

  [*] dressed up as Scarlet Witch for Halloween [*] saw Spider-Man: No Way Home ... place for me to embrace my interests with others who seemed to be just as ... on campus. I was taking 18.02a and 8.01L. I was cooking for myself and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2023
• Blog / Events

  look at the stars hacking mit, six months at a time

  

  [annotation note="occasionally 36 hours for some other hackathons. the point is that ... /or hardware. We run two hackathons every year — one in the spring for high ... apply!), and one in the fall for ~1000 undergraduates. Our Fall hackathon

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 17, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  finding good what i look forward to

  

  opened up, where you can sign up for a slot and you have the gym to ... for 6.009 and realized this on Sunday morning. From my calculations, there was no possible way for me to pass 6.009 unless I did extremely well

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 4, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our Independent Studies the making of a (very) short film

  

  .837 Computer Graphics, the class we had been slowly working up towards for our ... shopped around for a few different course 6 classes in the first week of the ... , for context, we got really lucky with our supervisor. Finding a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 18, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends at college Lots of 'don't's and a couple of 'do's.

  

  Ocean away. I was ready for new streets, new faces, new classes and ... , signed up for every activity ever, and enjoyed rushing around from one ... speaking a word to anyone (no time for words), rushed back out to my next

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  gesturing around MIT drawing sights and sites around MIT

  

  about less thrilling aspects of my third year so far for a thousand words ... I took a leap this school year that I’ve wanted to do for a while. I moved around some of my extracurriculars for this year; I dropped a club I

  • by Waly N. '24
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Holy Grail of Classes Think of the coolest class you can. Then think of one that's a million times…

  

  class on Tuesday (a math recitation at 1 o'clock for an hour). I ... quickly surprised by my classes today. First off, before I get too far ... (home of the OLPC) and its description states that it is Intended for

  • by Snively '11
  • February 6, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a brief walk to Caffè Nero alternatively titled: life update since i am comically bad at blogging this semester

  

  you. i hear "online order for Ankita!" the barista puts my drink on the ... my house in Central, and the latte is conveniently free thanks to a ... [/annotation] and i stapled into an eight-person group (the maximum number for BC

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  thank you notes before i go

  

  For my (maybe?) last blog post, I felt that it was only fitting to write some notes for the people that have made my MIT experience ... reiteration of my Peace Corps rec letter for you, but let this be a public

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (An Incomplete Guide to) Summer Opportunities for MIT Students Pantsuits, stress, hyperlinks.

  

  intention of nabbing as many free t-shirts as possible (33, in case you were interested); I attended company talks primarily for the free meals. I spent my ... advisor about programs within your major, or do some research online. For

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vast Oral Tradition Bela Bartok, a fluorescent rabbit, and Helen Keller walk into a bar. Stop me if…

  

  recuperation from, my oral presentation on GFP for 10.28: Saturday: Scored free ... the tune of $25 a gram online for my UROP project and braving the ... program consisting only of works that were orignally commissioned for the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  coronavirus, one year later recounting the craziest ten days of my life

  

  for online classes, and non-refundable tickets and hotels. There’s also ... you're not interested. but for this post in particular, i think it ... than you have to. and if that is you, you are incredibly valid for

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s FPOP for Entrepreneurship a week of connecting incoming freshmen with MIT startup founders

  

  Freshman Arts Program. If only there was an FPOP for entrepreneurship ... how I really want to do part-time work for a VC firm this fall and he ... also asked the VC if he was available for a luncheon for incoming MIT

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 29, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  so you’re starting your first year? boy do i have unsolicited tips for you

  

  sorry not sorry']they didn’t ask for help nor prompt the discussion at all ... training program, made specifically for first year students. By completing it, you get a free Arduino, toolbox filled with tools, MakerLodge T

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • September 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Want to Declare a Double Major? This is why/how I'm doing it, in case you were curious

  

  I'm going to start this out with a quick disclaimer: no, a double major isn't for everyone and please don't feel like you're an inferior student/person/wizard/etc. for only pursuing a single major. Do what makes

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 5, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Adventures of Comic Artist Girl (+ Doodles!) In which comics class gets a talk from an award-winning cartoonist

  

  York Times bestselling!) novelist who’s also written comics for Marvel ... medium for pretty much all of us. Most recently, we’ve been considering ... website.   Faith spoke to us for about an hour, and then we had

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Good Will Mystery Hunting 63 hours of puzzle solving: a classic part of the MIT experience

  

  Virginia, the most important city in the world that night for all I cared ... hyperenergetic refueling station for the 2009 Mystery Hunt team members as we ... explicable context. For two protein-deprived days, I had lived off the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 21, 2009