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• Blog / Internships & Externships

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

  

  need to think about what each word means, and how to arrange them in a ... . For example, in our codebase we use Redux Toolkit. To understand the ... , but you still need to load them in your head, and that's hard. One thing

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 24, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  Quarantine and Social Life trying to maintain some connection

  

  see what people are working on and get to know what’s happening in each ... face-to-face interactions in the hallways and classrooms. Obviously, this ... mentor from my fellowship challenged me to reach out to someone in my

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Deadline where I attempt to reason through an approaching all-nighter

  

  don't mind a lack of sleep too much. In the morning, I get to watch the ... , have coordinated their Problem Sets to be due in almost symmetrical time ... . Challenges come in bursts and send an electrifying signal to the brain. "12

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Marathon If Mollie's boyfriend can complain, so can I.

  

  . (Manchester photos to come soon, I promise!) I'll travel home on Sunday in time ... goes to this retreat at a Catholic college in NJ, and they make a banner ... of time with my good friend Sarah, visit cool places in NJ, and go to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If I had a nickel for every class I was taking this semester… I’d have 4.5 nickels.

  

  that we weren’t smart enough for/didn’t have enough time to cover in 6 ... , except now we get to use FPGAs that are more than 10x as powerful as the ... -grown cucumbers to lecturers sometimes). Overall, I’m having a great time in this

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some F Words ****!!!

  

  Lately I’ve struggled to blog, due to being in the middle (!!!) of ... bridge, and I’m starting to apply for jobs and work in tech and do those ... , who was the one to fix all the things in the house (from computers to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 15, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pre-Orientation Begins Pre-Orientation and a mini-contest!

  

  begins on Sunday, but for half of the class, they are already getting to ... great opportunity to get to know a few dozen classmates well, before ... control boxes, participants get to take a cruise of Boston Harbor and learn

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PE classes are…great!? catch me at the 2028 summer olympics

  

  a syllabus just gets me going idk."]to itch the little part of my ... .[/annotation] So imagine me flabbergasted when I learn that in addition to all the ... of 11 to get points. Varsity Athletics: A year of competition is 4

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Stop and Smell the Seasons Before it's winter and your nose is so numb you can't smell anything.

  

  effervescence of autumn in just one day. Photo credits to Elisa '17. Thanks for ... pumpkin patch, breathing in the smell of falling leaves and listening to the ... . Despite the rampant snacking, our bags were filled to the brim in no time

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Splash. Was. Awesome. I taught: 3 classes, 5 sections, 246 kids.

  

  Room, for teacher registration. To be fair, it's no less chaotic in here ... /she traveled the furthest to get to Splash. 7-8 hands go up. A girl says she ... to my next class: "Topics in Modern Physics," 48 kids. Different kids

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  registration day! aka "registration day blues", but like, only in the good sense of blues

  

  classes. My friends going to university closer to home had all signed up in ... 're registered for classes, and the emails begin to pour in! It's all very exciting ... that each September I seemed to get acclimatized more quickly: the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Reality is merely an illusion… Ben : The OC :: Sam : ?? . Oh wait, you took the new…

  

  until I can get home and watch the show in its full glory. Yeah, I really ... you go if you want to spend six years making toys and get a PHD out of ... season has been horrible. Sigh... it's been my dream to go on The Amazing

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Day at Stanford University wait, what?

  

  break, I decided to visit some of my Stanford friends and spend a day in ... . Stanford...is not like MIT. Where to start? Stanford is sunny and spacious ... , rectangular. Instead of drowning in camera-armed Chinese tourists you should

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 3, 2014
• Blog / Hacks

  Practice Safe Hacking No, there are no LEDs

  

  Hacking at MIT is steeped in tradition and still occurs to this day. Hackers deploying any hack always subscribe to a strict code of ethics. This ... was rather impressive. How did hackers manage to get a 600 pound

  • by Snively '11
  • April 24, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  road trip here in my car I feel safest of all I can lock all my doors…

  

  I really like driving. I wanted to go to college in a city with ... groceries. I go to chain restaurants with parking lots. Sometimes after I get ... /con Should I go to MIT? list was "I can't take my car with me." Freshman year

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 21, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  regression and imposter syndrome let's talk about computer science!!

  

  reminds me of my old high school habits. In high school, I pushed myself to ... this desperation I can't even describe, this need to understand and get ... closer. It feels like something I should get. I whisper to myself, "You

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 11, 2021
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  i quit an internship on the second day cut your losses early

  

  qualifications, but I was scared I wouldn't be able to get a job at all. So despite ... wanted to get paid, then offer me less than that—I accepted the offer ... Near the start of the pandemic, I decided not to come back to MIT

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life etc “fine,” “nice,” “good," "quiet"

  

  had slept) to go back to my room in East Campus and I don't know, listen ... how many unread emails I had in my inbox, decide to skip my HASS class, make coffee, try to get into a productive mindset. Think about blogging

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet My True Love: Notion a tool for stress-free college applications (and much more)

  

  in browser or download the app to your computer. It's free, and you can ... of pre-made templates for you to copy and use as your own! In this ... representation of information is a lot easier to take in quickly for me than just

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music, Photography, and Two.js i am proficient at two (2) of these things.

  

  for my photography seminar. I have 24/7 access to the darkroom in the ... contrast was pretty tricky to get right, but I'm pretty happy with how it ... Javascript to do neat 2-D animations in web browsers. Now, I'll preface this

  • by Joe B. '18
  • November 15, 2014