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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every class I’ve taken at MIT RANKED!

  

  'll explain the reasoning for these rankings below in my four-year class roadmap! (Also, I clearly couldn't bear to put anything in the F tier lol. That ... kids stuffed in a New Vassar study room, being on campus during my first

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 26, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art things #1 illustration, graphic design, ceramics, and photography

  

  visual arts presence here (and in the greater Boston area) is super vibrant ... ), and Borderline (murals) are easy ways to meet other people interested in ... -related things I’ve been enjoying in the past few months (numbered #1 because I

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  activities. before sophomore fall, I chose classes I was interested in and I ... I was happy with how fall turned out in the end, I was miserable for ... in his explanations and was passionate about the content.  2. 8

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 4) notes from the last day

  

  stopped outside Elko, NV, and then waking up again with the train in the ... is well, out in the American West; we will just have to see whether I make my dinner plans. The landscape out here in Nevada is somewhat

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  walking mechanics how to walk faster using Facts and Science

  

  it turns out many people at mit walk really slowly. not in the sense that mit is slower than the rest of the world, but in the sense that you ... applied to their walking. with that in mind, this post contains some

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 15, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  An interview with AoPS "What Kinds of Students Does MIT Look For?" but ASMR

  

  hopefully there will be something in here for all readers of the blogs. Eric ... come in the door and that you're ready for MIT's really challenging, fast-paced core curriculum in math and science and in humanities, arts, and social

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  MIT Dining Halls my controversial ranking

  

  , seasonal flowers, pretty architecture, AC in dorms, or just generally ... with our architecture and planning are because of MIT moving in the early ... . Accordingly, MIT lies in this awkward liminal space between having some of the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 19, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  time to figure out their admission status. Essentially, nausea is in the ... . My younger ears knew that it was a very prestigious school in sunny ... dorms I could live in. Some people around me--my mom who went to her state

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guitar Hero… on the oscilloscope! The secret fifth digital instrument revealed

  

  -shaped controller in time with some music to simulate playing a guitar. The notes are ... generate these signals in real time and feed them into the oscilloscope. The ... Tetris as a built-in easter egg. Putting it together With this background

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 14, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what I did this semester in broad strokes!

  

  . It helped that I got an early start, having stayed in Boston during the ... hands-on lab sections where we got to see the theory in action, and I had ... °, cold air has to be pumped in. But how much, and for how long? Too much

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  Happier Than Ever on quitting and long-ish distance biking

  

  by vibes. I avoid listings IN ALL CAPS because they seem [annotation ... laundry list of things going on in my life that can possibly make me tired ... .  It’s a nice view. Concrete strip malls and multilane highways in the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  well, well look who's inside again

  

  cw: suicide ment in lyrics if you'd had told me a year ago that i ... wasted, too. If you wake up in a house that’s full of smoke, Don’t panic ... commodify it, sell it for the blogs under some guise of 'relatability'. But in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 11, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  New Things I’ve Tried mostly experimenting with some looks:)

  

  to risk looking like a mess in a meeting, recitation with ten or fewer ... to put on hair wax in [annotation note=" It seems like there are ways to avoid this though. But I personally don't want to put in the work

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Targets shooting things and hitting them

  

  meetings in the ready room, a room next to the shooting range itself. On the ... practice to always keep the muzzle pointed at a safe direction. In the range ... in order to shoot a pellet; another part of safety was to keep your

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Unwinding how i destress

  

  ="aligncenter" width="592"] RESCIND[/caption] So let's begin. In middle school and a ... found my little niches in the realms of the vlogging world, enjoying the ... lot of comfort in OTV content. Being so absorbed into social media for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  hot chocolate as a panacea navigating through a chaotic first week

  

  I landed in Boston on a cloudy day about a week ago, and...it sure ... , but I’m renting an apartment in Cambridge with two other lovely frosh ... at the kitchen table and I look out at the river, I feel like I’m in

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Three things I didn’t learn from class behold, the listicle

  

  it into the saw in order to make a cut. To use a bandsaw, after ... make it in less than two hours. Here’s what I made: [caption id ... logo of my floor in East Campus, Floor Pi. The symbols surrounding the π

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  finals in the past two days (6.0001, 20.110, and 5.13) and the looming ... fascinating externships, or participate in an assortment of competitions. Last ... yourself in some way. And while this is surely an admirable outlook on life

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hello from seattle This blog post hopefully not brought to you with an NDA.

  

  (characters, not columns – durned kids today, always thinking in pixels). Back in my – err, my dad’s – day... Right. Moving on. Back in January, when I was enrolled in this year’s Silly Robot Extravaganza 4000, I

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 6, 2010
• Blog / Events

  ROFLCON! ROFLMAO!

  

  (Apologies for not posting lately, life has been spitting in my face ... with dial-up internet. That’s the issue with living in the country, slow ... wall in order to get slow internet, all I have to do is turn on my

  • by Snively '11
  • May 2, 2008