Search

Search Results

• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding spiels metal hot glue gun go brrr

  

  trigger for about a second to initiate the arc, and release. Keep the torch ... 's where I learned how to 3D print, lasercut, weld, and fiddle with ... forth towards making, well, making as accessible to the MIT community as

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 9, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  22 Hiatus Adventures stories from my time away and my first semester back!

  

  2020, I applied to join AIM Labs, a then brand-new initiative within the ... growth. Blogging was hard — it was challenging to figure out how to start ... with writer’s block, so I called my parents today and asked them to share

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6-3 not a definitive guide

  

  , if not the most popular major at MIT. According to the Registrar, there ... declared a major)! So it's not just a meme when people say that if you had to ... ) extremely popular and b) associated with a higher probability to earn above

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Random Hall REX! Residence Exploration events at Random Hall. Your orientation booklet is WRONG. :D

  

  over the step to the front door—you! Hello, incoming freshmen! new ... . Truffles, nerf guns, chess. Chess with nerf guns. Come to Random. 8 ... Pancakes. Why are we up this late? To feed you pancakes of course! Pancakes

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 26, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  it’s ok that it’s not ok sometimes things will happen, and you have to just let yourself be.

  

  depression. One is “anhedonia”, or the inability to feel anything, unable to ... feeling where a person loses the ability to even understand what happiness is, or how to go about acquiring it. The other type of depression is

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 4, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maseeh Hall: Pros and Cons this is a pros and cons list re: maseeh hall

  

  to decide which dorm I wanted to live in for my first year at MIT. I ... it looks clean and it’s close to everything. 3) I can’t even remember ... reading this because you might be looking to move here in the future, or

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 15, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Episode 4: A New Hope Addressing the concerns of undecided students.

  

  for her. Having apprehension initially is to be expected. You are ... deadline for your college decision, I figure now is as good a time as any to ... decision? What more would you like to know about MIT? What are your lingering

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] This is Junior Lab, not Junior Theory By Jorian B. '25

  

  it is closer to “how”). Initially, I thought that they (the powers ... experiment, there are only 3 hours of data collection (as opposed to the normal ... first time, but much easier the second so this is your chance to do paper

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 1, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  on mit’s mailing list culture update: tetazoo glounge

  

  blogging more and yet don't want to spend my free time blogging more. like, i ... love email. leading up to mit you get a handful of emails about orientation and things you need to do before that and stuff. and then you come

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 17, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What a Robotics Career Looks Like What does it mean to get paid to work on robots?

  

  I thought it would be good to share here too for those of you who may ... graduated, this is the type of post-college wisdom I might share from time to ... that much. By sophomore year of college, I had to declare my major. I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 14, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  chugging along a week in my life

  

  until tomorrow. we try (and fail) to put up LEDs in my room -- they ... our projects last week, and this recitation is about how to turn those ... more data i've gathered since then, so i still have a lot to do. after

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 22, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Alien in America A display of feelings; a post that might not make any sense.

  

  Last weekend, I wrote “A Guide to Farmer's Markets". Here’s what I ... can be like that too. You have to appreciate small things when they ... would say, take time for yourself, because otherwise it's hard to be

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  initiative, it's your resilience, it's your ability to take feedback, it's your ... MIT Look For?", but that was really a way to open a conversation into ... very long time. It will be unsurprising to longtime readers, therefore

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 2 The deadline is coming!

  

  closest i got was to his yahoo online profile - which failed to mention his ... I've been feeling guilty with these questions piling up so close to ... Virginia) to answer some questions. Props to my old buddy John (Caltech '08

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 30, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Alive and Kicking I kick, therefore I am ~taekwondo~

  

  since high school. Belt Test Initially, I was not supposed to test for my ... Wouldn’t it be cool to try something new? A new sport, perhaps? Or, maybe try and improve at one of the many sports you know how to play in a

  • by Waly N. '24
  • August 3, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  in remembrance of my sticker collections for stickers are vessels for stories

  

  Many months ago, I broke my water bottle cap. I tried to find a ... stickers on this one that I refuse to throw out. Apparently H2GO is a brand that exclusively does corporate swag, so if I wanted to buy one, I'd have

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 5, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  Two weeks ago, while visiting my family in State College, I got to ... ironic to an outsider. “Believe deep down in your heart that you are destined to do great things," a quote from Joe Paterno, sewn in white into a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I chose my classes A graduating senior's perspective; results may vary

  

  about my class projects here. A major contributor to my enjoyment was ... music technology to open-heart surgery. The freedom to choose between so many classes enabled me to learn and apply interesting ideas across all

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating the PM Interview the crash course i wish someone gave to me

  

  keep talking out loud. Freezing is the quickest way to failing these ... I took this internship to figure out whether or not I wanted to pursue ... ultimately came to the conclusion that I really liked product management and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 10, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  helps people who build web applications talk to each other in different ... for Windows. I travel more than I used to, mostly to visit friends who ... games,” [annotation note="CJ tried to explain but I refused to follow, on

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025