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• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  My First Few Weeks at MIT … one year ago

  

  much time in [annotation note="Fifth floor of the Stratton Student Center ... to stare at the Great Dome, still in disbelief that you’re actually ... through MITES, I absolutely fell in love with it. I remember stepping out

  • by Hala K. '29
  • September 22, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  How to build a Tamagotchi and the power of curiosity

  

  II comes in! I took this class for one main reason: the final project ... of this blog to see what others in this class created!) Step 1: Design ... schematic, which shows all of these components and their connections in a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 25, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  (Not) Home for the Holidays a very late Thanksgiving post…

  

  ="108229" /] In honor of holiday meals at home, I want to share a holiday meal away ... 12-person feasts on random weekends in the middle of the semester (very ... ’ve decided to remedy that in as overzealous a fashion as possible. I

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  't belong here, or like I was just in the cosmically wrong place. I didn ... believe them."]incredible stubbornness in getting things done ... —I mean, in South Dakota, it snows in late September, or early October at

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Communication Intensive Jumping on the semester-in-review blog train

  

  two classes. Assignment 1 – A White Paper (3.010) In true MIT fashion ... spectroscopy to characterize the surface structures of electrocatalysts used in ... ’s law in this case) and proposes/discusses a path forward to address that

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 4, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  art and work i really struggled with titling this one

  

  . this process was very helpful in the sense that it allowed me to finish ... patience to watch the office in its entirety but was able to get through the highlights in around 15 hours - but i wonder how much of a show’s message or

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 27, 2022
• Blog / Events

  LSC – It Doesn’t Suck! Reject digital, return to 35 mm analogue

  

  ’ll be running the show on your own in no time. Just follow the link on the ... ’t suck! I’d never been a big fan of film back in high school, but watching ... hadn’t used physical film since 2015. That would all change in the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 7, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wordle, french toast, and copyright law fun mit storytime

  

  ) and loved it immediately. In Semantle, you are trying to figure out some ... words; however, in Semantle, your guesses are scored by how close they are in meaning to the secret word. Higher scores are closer in meaning, and

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  this blogger does not exist join me in the uncanny valley

  

  up my alley in terms of what I do for my UROP, so I gave it a shot this ... image placed in a different domain, such as a realistic photo. Pretty neat ... included both avatars drawn in the current style, old style, and out of style

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 28, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  the senior mindset gnothi seauton

  

  less. It's still here, in little bits and pieces: when I realize that the ... others' mouths, the last time I was in this classroom it was for a class I ... 've fallen in love with these little echo moments and the way they assure you

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  home is where the whiteboard is a tradition, continued untraditionally

  

  floor residents are thinking of taking in the next semester, polls about ... ![/caption] Back when we all lived in East Campus, one of my housemates had a huuuuge whiteboard in her room. When we moved our stuff out in September, she insisted

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  My History of Task-Management boy, is it a long one

  

  Being organized is fucking incredible. I like limiting stress in my ... journaling, which I took up in my junior year of high school because I was ... to shit; in the beginning, I'd created a beautiful cherry blossom theme

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Write an Original Song (ex?)-emo kid gone rogue

  

  guitar. This has become a pretty intense hobby in the past few months ... , ranging from absolute flaming garbage to (at least in your opinion) pretty ... living in the middle of the woods anymore. You have no clue what you

  • by Powers '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  many thoughts head full

  

  of it and the power rests in my hands. On days where I had my 10am 8 ... employees in the lab, or just simply observe as they played fun games like ... getting paid to sit in a place that generated so much joy. I love my UROP

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Things That Made Me Happy (and Sick) It’s me and my infection’s TWO MONTH anniversary!! 🎉😍

  

  because I’m wearing all black in the Florida sun). Right now, all I have for ... , chaotic joy.  But I think there might be something to pick apart in those ... graph, I guess I can explain some things about my semester in a way that

  • by Powers '23
  • January 4, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  My winter break so far take a break

  

  . Five of the eight people in crabmeats are from southern California so we ... 'd be visiting Boston later in January and would love to meet up with me ... want to see another piece of sushi again in my life. For the days since

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 29, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Why It’s Special all the things that make CPW amazing

  

  .” I was surprised how naturally I transitioned into MIT life, in my head ... . That’s why CPW (and the Admissions blogs, if you can’t visit in person ... students, IHTFP has meant both during different times in the year. Before you

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Memory down résumé lane Serif or sans-serif?

  

  adjusting to my new schedule and new classes (also more on that in a later ... day off! Last year I went to the fair in between my morning and ... up in the Z Center. Here's a throwback to last year's career fair

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 20, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  How To Fumble Your Way Through MIT and Still Turn Out Pretty Okay Step 1: Fumble. Step 2: Turn out pretty okay.

  

  Sometime in the last four years, between graduation and, oh, a week ... , compassionate human being who plays well in the sandbox with others and is ... -supporting adults do. The illusion of adulthood: it continues. In the last month and

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT HSSP and Stanford Splash! Seven fundamental questions, and a field trip to the west coast

  

  that weekend and are still interested in traveling" - and on Friday April ... totally mind-boggling. This whole "weather in which you can actually stand in lines outside" is not something MIT ESP is used to working with

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 4, 2013