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  look at the stars hacking mit, six months at a time

  

  ’t remember the horrible times of online school back in 2020, think timezone ... How do you raise hundreds of thousands of dollars, design the merch that defines half of campus fashion, build software that powers

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 17, 2024
• Blog / Internships & Externships

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

  

  was programming. I guess that sounds odd; after all, isn't the point of ... there was left to learn. I didn't have a good idea of what separates a junior from a senior developer. Part of that was pride, and the other part

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 24, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  During quarantine, I enrolled in The Science of Well-Being, a free course hosted by Yale on the online learning platform Coursera. A friend from my living community suggested that a group of us take the course

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  confronting the self i am the captain of my soul

  

  content warning: extended discussion of anxiety, depression, suicide ... 's part of the job description. if he doesn't do it, then he's not doing his ... 're already be— cj: okay, shut up. the two of you, shut up. dan: … alan

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  if only I cad more time… Diving into software, ft. a bad pun

  

  , thinking of the online atmosphere, I was very averse to the idea of joining ... ://www.vote.org/polling-place-locator/ ------------ In the past couple of weeks at Zoom University, I have somehow continually found new and improved methods of hosing myself and

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT-vangelion: Behind the scenes! how we made the Pi Day 2023 video!

  

  , 3D model of Sachiel I found online with the hologram shader ... nothing but ramen noodles and slept in the basement of Stata like ... Toonz 🤮, the  t h i r d  dimension, and lots of Neon Genesis Evangelion

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 12, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 In this entry, I answer your recent questions left in the comments of previous entries.

  

  Here are the answers to the questions you've left in the comments of ... know of any other really good vegetarian/vegan restaurants in the area ... restaurants around offer good vegetarian options. For example, on my list of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  High? Teaching was weird. One of my first times reserving a room for ... , it turned out to be the human specimens room. It was full of skeletons, human skeletons and skeletons of human-like primates, and skulls on

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  6.7800 (Inference and Information, the subject of the exam and by far the most challenging class I’ve ever taken) but four years of MIT ... found most of my classes fun (yes, really), rewarding, and memorable (in a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why didn’t MIT have a logo until 2003? tracing the history of MIT's logo and graphic identity

  

  In another instance of historyposting, we'll look into the history ... different style of writing for this post, emphasizing the process of how I do ... asking about why the MIT colors are the way they are. And of course, being

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Siete Ciudades de España A very busy IAP

  

  This IAP was my first time ever outside of the United States! El Mirador del Valle--the most beautiful view of Toledo. Photo credit: Rachel Lily Terry, the amazing photographer of our travel group :) For me, IAP

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  In which I am somehow still an MIT student 4 years later

  

  , and trying to "make the most" of my last semester of college, despite ... graduated online. I didn't watch, but my parents did. I started in the Aero ... Lab, the same lab that I had UROP'ed in. That first year of grad school

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  hearing test because I named the pitch of the note being played instead of ... labelled none of my perfectly plotted points and promptly got a 0. My mother laughed, called me a shrimp-for-brains, and asked when I’d grow out of it

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Answers to the many questions left in the comments of McGann's Factors.

  

  application. Some common supplements we see would include: recording of your music performance; slides/Powerpoint of your artwork; an additional ... school senior from India and thereby an international candidate.I am one of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Yeah, I’m turning twenty, it’s terrifying one year of mit

  

  trailers are right in front of Medical, and the line went in front of and ... long all day. Maybe it's because the tests of the five thousand or so ... , where they scan my ID, ask me for my last name, my date of birth, my phone

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  summer 2021

  

  interesting having to balance work with being in one of the most beautiful and ... from our house. It was some of the tastiest pho I've ever had. I found ... , were dedicated to fun, house-bonding events. Eva is not part of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 5, 2021
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Glimpses of Haiti Just a small fraction of the things I saw while in Port-Au-Prince.

  

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 12, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Portraits of a Campus on Lockdown

  

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 14, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Colors of Campus and other random things on my camera.

  

  A few snippets of life .   Inspired by Kai's Parallel Universe Post      

  • by Richard O. '28
  • February 28, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Year of the Dog Happy Lunar New Year!

  

  Happy Lunar New Year from Evie* and the entire Office of Admissions! *Evie is the dog of Associate Director of Admissions Joanne Cummings, and is my favorite pooch in the world =)

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 29, 2006