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• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  internship two years ago was part of the race to build the world’s first ... to MIT certain of one thing: I would never be an engineer. In eighth ... , erased and redrew, over and over again. I remember taking a ruler to add

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Coming Into My Own ft. an exciting semester and an exciting job lined up + making positive changes to…

  

  systems interact with pen strokes, and our first assignment is to write code ... direction that I'm going in, as compared to the first few years as a student ... 'm going to do the best that I've ever done at this school, and I'm super

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 16, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Large Format Photography [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] Please, please let there be no light-leaks.

  

  the bellows to the camera body, readying it for its first (and hopefully ... [by Biyeun Buczyk ‘10] I need a mule. I also need to train for ... August, just in time for its first shoot during the Student Art Association

  • by ARTalk
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  ambitious. I didn’t have to work that hard. I’ll be the first to admit that I ... desire to stay in academia at least for a while yet. Hearing me talk, he made a comment, half-joking, something to the effect of "I can't wait to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I swear this isn’t an ad for Google But Bard is so much more fun than ChatGPT

  

  Earlier this year, I had planned to write a blog post testing whether it’s possible to train a machine-learning model to learn Course 6’s new class numbering system. It would’ve been so cool – I was going to code up

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Building the Yearbook [by Ken Haggerty '11] An inside look at Technique 2010 (shhh!!!)

  

  finishing the first 200 pages of the book in early February, we sent it out to ... ), it was my duty not only to come up with a concept, design the book, and make sure every page was laid out correctly, but also to steer the design

  • by ARTalk
  • March 29, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2011 Brass Rat! Can I turn this in in lieu of my blank lab report for tomorrow?

  

  a line of almost 1000 people, first to get raffle tickets, and the first to get seats near the back so that we could make a quick escape ... deal. Look at the application that Snively used to determine which

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  living having the time of my life

  

  schooler first picking a fight. Everything is treated like an experience to ... I’ve learned many things after coming to MIT. But among the differential equations and op amp PSETs, I’ve learned how to take care of myself

  • by Anika H. '26
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  I painted my door! and it only took 2.5 years

  

  put on it to be special, to reflect the fact that it was the first time ... first step was to make some sketches on my[annotation note="During the ... In my dorm, East Campus, residents are allowed to paint the door to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 19, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  defined by its discontinuities. The first half of the year was spent trying not to fall asleep in my last stale months of preparatory schooling. The ... environment, and I’ve been trying to soak in as much of it as I possibly can. So

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  If you’re scared of decision day Here's an exercise

  

  although I would like to be comforting: 1) I worry that my words will feed ... too vague, or totally misdirected - it's impossible to identify exactly ... refreshing obsessively was masochistic and irrelevant to the outcome of the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 13, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  *CW:  Death, Rejection, Anxiety* I have been wanting to write a ... fingers would freeze up and suddenly the activation energy required to start ... will not be able to do any of this justice.  But here it goes anyway. A

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Three cheers for the MIT Marching Band Is the band ready? You bet they are.

  

  was also my first football game as a member of the world ... . Here are 10 things I remember: 1. Taking a good two minutse to cram four ... school it used to take us two weeks of seven-hour band camp days just to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what i drew this summer i took an art class

  

  to draw[/caption] One of our first tasks was to draw a display of ... make[/caption] For our first extensive assignment, Timmy asked us to do ... a scholarship.) I missed drawing. I used to draw a lot as a kid; I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fangirl Moment kinda silly, kinda wholesome

  

  demo was my first exposure to computer vision and deep learning, and a ... was for grad students/postdocs/researchers/profs to nEtwORk, but I was too tired to cook and just went anyway. The allure of free food is

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  FourFiveUnits all you could ever want to know about my semester schedule

  

  tl;dr: Look how empty my Firehose is compared to the other bloggers ... to pick up new activities to fill any available time, like a gas expanding to fill its container. I am enrolled in 45 units, which is 3

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  Fortin’ with Mimi Let’s. Talk. About. Queer stuff.

  

  , first-year dinners, and a trip to Provincetown. Check 'em out during CPW ... next week detailing my first few weeks at MIT. Also, feel free to ... So, in Massachusetts, there is a law called “An Act Relative to

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • September 18, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  an essay writing journey one of my MIT essays, as told through revision history

  

  desire to learn two things. The first was programming - I wanted to know ... intangible. {} planted in me a burning desire to learn two things. The first ... ago - that first opened my eyes to so many unexplored realms within the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other Side from prefrosh to cpw chair

  

  like to finally be on MIT’s campus. As my Uber pulled up on Mass Ave, the hustle and bustle of the street had a certain magic to it. The cars were ... happening. And yet, that moment is embedded into my mind. It’s the first thing

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Community Projects

  CASE: Identity and Intersectionality and some bunnies if you hate everything else about this post

  

  about 2016, then you probably know someone who is. Maybe you want to ... open to all MIT students regardless of identity. How did you find out about it? Well, I got this email earlier in the year. As a first

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 30, 2016