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• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s getting colder and i’m getting older on fall, friendship, and growing up

  

  ="course 6 (EECS) has a nice program that allows you to work towards your ... ) instead of my usual four or five. My other academic commitments are to work ... and being not boring are obviously not mutually exclusive, but there’s a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week Robot and sports and owls, oh my

  

  been working in teams to design, build, and control robots to assist a ... class competition to showcase our work.  Specifically, one robot had to ... other robot, which I worked on, had to help a person open a drawer and

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 9, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  success.  Between hard work and natural ability, they've always been ... !  Because if you're not hitting walls, then you're not pushing yourself hard ... in successive outer layers.  It's how the product works, how it feels

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT HSSP and Stanford Splash! Seven fundamental questions, and a field trip to the west coast

  

  in lines outside" is not something MIT ESP is used to working with. Something else I'm not used to working with: the overwhelming scent of trees ... MIT is not the only school with Splashes. It does have the biggest

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  the things i hate and what they say about me

  

  out or not working hard enough makes me a fraud now we arrive at the ... i hate when people ghost me, especially over text or email. not when ... , like if they’re busy or have a bunch of personal issues to work through

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ROTC Is Life (In a Good Way) Everything you ever wanted to know about ROTC at MIT (and then some)

  

  fulfilling part of their MIT experience. I had not known about ROTC at all before I came to MIT (not even as something done at other schools), but ... .    1) So… how does this whole thing work?   ROTC is an

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #1-5 Concerning the half I spent at home

  

  remained at home for two more weeks, not returning to Cambridge until this ... ’s not the end of the world and besides, spring semester is just around the corner during which it will be back to the hard grind of work, work, and

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 17, 2015
• Blog / Events

  “Exactly” the Same We're not being too critical! We're MIT students!

  

  hard to work up the effort to do a comprehensive blog entry that detailed ... published online for you to look at, so I'm not going to bother publishing a ... were working on) got together, read it, and started solving it. Puzzles

  • by Snively '11
  • January 28, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  in a funk and salvaging hope

  

  'm still processing the  fall I've been working really hard to take care of ... was feeling... hopeless? (like, I held the belief that things would not ... i am human   so, after a loooooooooot of emotional work

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  notes on hope despite despite despite

  

  lab doing bench work again after almost a year. i can taste spring on ... session in freshman fall, he read us wild geese by mary oliver. You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 25, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  simfinite hopscotch! hippity hoppity blue tape grandiosity

  

  together on a Sunday morning and started work. It went much slower than chalk ... , resolved to get to square 256, which would be about 2.5 total hours of work ... work being enjoyed by toddlers wrapped in bright puffy coats. Cue a

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • December 15, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  and i’d do it again differently

  

  ), and you're at your friend's family's place for dinner; except you're not ... project we've been working on since this summer. and at one point, one of my ... , i was in my friend's room on a zoom call working on these final edits

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 25, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  last concert

  

  confirmed the equipment from synco and mtg wouldn’t work with our speakers ... mixer to the amp to the speakers, and it worked! it was cool to actually ... it worked! except it turned out the next sing mics were quite noisy and

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  magicians trying to learn magic

  

  magician Not only is any sufficiently advanced technology indistinguishable ... required were completely different. You could not simply scale up my ... outcomes of the model at all. If you asked me to imitate the work of any of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  two years after my book auction in retrospect

  

  phone calls were good and to be honest, I would’ve been happy working with ... , depending on which offer I chose. This process was not very informative and in ... ’d had more perspective. Back then, I’d never worked as a software engineer

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  No Snow, and on singing badly me? singing? and posting it online?!

  

  doing badly. This is one of those quotes that works better without context ... calligraphy was with /r/Scribes, which separates posted work into two broad ... shame in sharing your work. Leave the pursuit of excellence to those who

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things in My MIT Household that just make sense

  

  here, though, I noticed our house has...well, perhaps not the most common ... printer is not enough to satisfy our beloved MechEs of the house, so we ... 's main work station, where she houses her motor (she's a TA for a freshmen

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Prof. Catherine D’Ignazio on Urban Science for Public Good

  

  working to challenge bias in AI and to use data and computation to work ... . Spoiler alert: it's not (only) about women and not (only) for women because ... and participation is a part of all of the classes, where we often work

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 1, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  batteries recharging because that's what IAP is for

  

  work in"]i am spending a lot of that on my UROP[/annotation], but that's work i want to be doing, and not another soul-sucking pset that i have to ... , this IAP really hits different. i forgot what it was like to not have to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 22, 2020
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  hello seattle i'm on the west coast!!

  

  …"]media[/annotation], brushing up on [annotation note="i'll most likely be working with node ... and working for an extended period of time on the west coast almost like ... west coast had an allure to it that was due to not having experienced it

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 3, 2019