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• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Becoming a better programmer and why i'm excited about software engineering

  

  're having a conversation. What happens is that: I have this big picture in ... I'm working on is too large, I find that I can't get in the zone. It ... 'm doing an internship as a frontend developer. So far I've blogged about the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

  convince myself that quantum physics is real. I found out about 6.2410 a ... I don’t believe in quantum physics. Yes, I know that all the math ...  real. I simply refuse to believe in such strange, unintuitive physics that I

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  the perfect choice doesn’t exist not the same river, not the same you

  

  the first things i learned in mit is that identity is so fluid, and ... . they exist, definitely, but not in a way that i can say. nine. of course ... doing the internship application grind a few weeks ago. i've been doing

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 22, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  friendful life recently

  

  in the summer (and i do have a couple more posts planned for that), but ... ’m doing things that i’m genuinely interested in. and that’s more important ... . i've come to peace with a lot of the things that kept me up late at

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  making space in my schedule to go to the maker space and 100 other things I was bad at this semester

  

  no avail. As is standard procedure in Makerlodge, I submitted a safety ... ... In December 2020, I learned about the MakerLodge training that first ... training was an in-person event that students could do once they got on

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Advice from Graduating Seniors to incoming freshmen

  

  initiatives that sound interesting to you even if they do not have a place in ... I think the advice that has helped me the most is the advice from ... personal growth, and a big part of that is understanding your limits. Find

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 28, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  The Complexity of Simplicity Not as paradoxical as it sounds

  

  final presentation I will be in part presenting on Monday, so that'll be a ... is one that I've learned more and more throughout my time here at MIT ... 'm averaging 12hrs a day in lab with at least another 4 spent on work for that

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Ultimate Showdown Making important college purchase #1

  

  're about to head off to college, and you're thinking to yourself, do I need a ... disclaimer now that I'm a spoiled first grandchild and thus, I did go off to ... this is a necessary evil.) After freshman year, I got a new laptop and

  • by Bryan
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  a time capsule of east campus multi-media, community-built

  

  , west, texas-y, I  don’t do anything. In the dark, I am a child, I don ... of windows, I want to live in a village. I want that now, Driving in ... is an absolute nightmare.  I’m friends with four cats in a trenchcoat

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Colors! Burton-Conner:12523 kbps1649 kbps140 ms

  

  ." Yay, I'm officially kind of in a national publication! That's all for ... surprise when I saw this in the hallway. As exciting as it is to have an ... 't purchase anything that was on sale, I did buy a lava lamp! I had a lava lamp

  • by Snively '11
  • September 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 365 Days 8,760 hours of work, sleep, and play

  

  (a well-balanced diet if you know where to look). I used the money that ... everything went my way. I did have a lot of hardships in both the school of MIT ... When I was a kid, I always imagined my future as a certain genius

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  they want to see you fail managing others' envy

  

  —it’s like I’m claiming there’s something about me or what I have that is so ... . I switched to a math major (from a humanities major) in fall 2019 ... -regarded international programs. I was admitted into a research program that led me to co

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Small Victories The view from a month into MIT

  

  , In Time ), and I have to decide how to spend it. MIT is a culture ... fact that people say an education at MIT is like drinking from a fire ... AVERAGE!! Friend 1: Man... in high school when I got a 95, I used to think

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  grading. Grading is probably the only part of being a TA that I don’t like ... Pratchett, the third book in a trilogy that Cory and I started over the summer ... finals, and, in a travel mug that GRT Shaiyan lends me, some coffee. It is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Well, you just cost me money.” Best. Desk Call. EVER.

  

  : can you connect me to the science department? me: this is a dorm, I don ... On any given day, you'll totally forget how awesome it is that you ... automatically assume that you're some crazy child genius and an expert in anything

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  Let me introduce myself. Alternatively titled: Whomst'd've?

  

  I am. All of that stuff is mostly true. I do like music! I bake every ... 't know if that's the truth. In a previous blog post, I listed out my ... that cooking is not as hard as I thought it was before, and, in fact, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Promise of Ending ...is labor and sharing and loving.

  

  ." I noticed that it had to be in by February 9 or I would suffer a $40 fine, so I figured there'd be no harm in doing it tonight. A few moments ... MIT. How does that feel." Now, in my mind I know that it was a long time

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  choosing where to go for my younger brother

  

  . That’s a lesson I could’ve possibly learned at another school. But MIT is ... -carpet photoshoots and limousine rides. In another universe, she is a sign-spinner on a ... a bone-deep, ferocious sense that is probably uncool for an

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 1, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Questions Fall 2007 Here are answers to the questions posted in my blog over the last month or…

  

  with a skillet as i wrote it (which is NOT that case ;). Do you know what i should do to correct this problem?" I know that formatting is an ... has had me in junior or senior year. Is this true, or can I submit a

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  pole dancing and punching things trying out new classes in Copenhagen

  

  Copenhagen that I haven't tried in a while. I took a pole class, a week of krav ... pounds of me, were to get in a fight, the last thing I’d want is for it to ... smiled a lot, which is neither what you do in Denmark nor what you do in a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 16, 2022