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• Blog / Uncategorized

  would’ve, could’ve, should’ve a newly minted senior's freshman year regrets

  

  spend this last year as an MIT undergrad. And, part of that decision ... figured I'd list out a few of my freshman year regrets, not to beat myself ... yada—but to identify ways I can come out of senior year with at least one

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • June 2, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  the children yearn for the snow quarry 120 bricks, 80 man hours, 3 tons of snow, 2 forts, and a partridge in…

  

  It is 12 am on the second weekend of IAP. Snow has been falling for ... recreational field just outside most of our dorms, and a premier location for any ... unburdened by the demands of classes Step 3: Begin construction There are

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2025
• Blog / Events

  A Trip to AfroTech My Recap of the AfroTech Conference in Houston

  

  ="National Society of Black Engineers - An organization that works to support the professional development of people who identify with the black community"] NSBE ... 1: So the whole trip started off on the Tuesday of that week with

  • by Richard O. '28
  • November 30, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  tick tick tick and the euphoria of it stopping

  

  institute is always churning.  tick There's a constant sound in the back of my ... , instead of what I’m doing right now. tick This is [annotation note='like Las ... quietest moments of the night, you can find someone mulling away over work

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 16, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2022 (ok, i didn't enjoy all of it)

  

  and poetic and pretty. I'm not quite sure what any of it means or what's happening, but it's certainly an experience. I am cut off from the passion of ... -based interactive fiction: type a command to execute it. There's hundreds of commands

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Always Rooting for the Anti-Hero it's me! hi! i'm [the problem?], it's me

  

  where i am Since the beginning of the fall semester of my senior ... . I've historically been known to be somewhat of a firecracker on campus ... looming blanket of anger or sadness underneath it. I noticed the change

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 29, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  The long view days, months, years

  

  puzzles from an issue of P&A Magazine together. The last time the Puzzle ... walking from the west side of campus, so with me living in the east side, we ... you mean?" "Well," he said, "in college, I always thought of hours and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 27, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  [ hard mode ] i'm on hard mode and i'm just a noob

  

  weeks, which have been >> First week of November Saturday (not ... sargent's "triumph of religion," which he spent 29 years on before his death[/caption] Monday: I woke up with cramps. On top of my 3-week old ankle sprain, the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  A salty IAP post Taking a moment to be bitter

  

  SoOoOoOOooooo it’s the most wonderful time of the year: IAP! That time of year where every MIT student can choose to do whatever they ... the crushing guilt that comes with not using every moment of your free

  • by Powers '23
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  kitchen nightmares bugs and toasters and explosions, oh my!

  

  lot of error. Here's a list of my very own freshman housing horror ... big fan of it. What I am not a fan of is bugs. So naturally, I was very ... . The insect was properly disposed of and I thought that was it. NOPE. A

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 5, 2020
• Blog / Class Projects

  We made a website this is a filler post

  

  that one of my friends wrote. You can look at the web.lab schedule here. The way it works is that the first week is a bunch of lectures, starting ... making a website. By the end of week 1, we formed teams and submitted ideas

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 31, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You Can Save the World a post on Kanye West

  

  unironically, wholeheartedly believe that Kanye West is one of the greatest artists of all-time, not just for his incredible lyricism, production, and ... . It's about humanity. Y'all talking about 12 years of oxygen, talkin

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to change majors in just five easy steps!

  

  's, and C's do."] ABC/NR. [/annotation] For me, it came in the fall of my ... tired. It took me all of sophomore fall to learn that difference. I was ... "]machine learning[/annotation] algorithms, and the minutiae of [annotation note="6

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Applying While Transgender #InHonorOfMarshaP

  World Pride in New York City and celebrate the 50th anniversary of the ... reminded of Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera – Black and Puerto Rican ... trans women of color) is that progress has not been as drastic for their

  • by DJ Rock
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  I’m Graduating Early??? [NOT CLICKBAIT] also: the unification of course 7

  

  of the CUP first-year experiment. Here are two that actually affect me. Graduating Early We are within throwing distance of Commencement 2019, in which most of the people who got here in September 2015 will be graduating. The

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give MIT Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance Yultide Day 5

  

  This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover ... Social Sciences) community. Some of our professors are widely recognized

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 7 Days

  

  graduation, and I had to pen some sort of answer, even though honestly I still ... wanted to put myself at the forefront of that field. I started doing ... of my friends were going. They tried to convince me, but I didn't want

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 14, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  This is where my decisions have taken me perspectives from grad school

  

  ; *         *        *   I used to think of decision-making as a complicated optimization ... be prescient enough to solve for the best combination of choices. Once ... of me; once in place, I could follow them where I wanted to go. So

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2016
• Blog / How to MIT

  Dormire et Laborare Sleeping and Working at the Institvte

  

  this spring. This blog post is part of my research proposal. I have discovered a new application for Newton’s Law of Conservation of Energy, which ... understand the true meaning of the word “hosed”. Here is a post exactly in line

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 28, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  points. If you lose control of your attitude, two things happen: (1) you ... is one of the most crucial parts of flying a spacecraft, which is why they’re equipped with suites of sensors and actuators dedicated to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013