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  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  way to describe a rotation in 3D is with a matrix – a 3x3 grid of ... ) to get another direction. A sequence of rotations is then equivalent to ... make?” I was, for better or worse, all too familiar with this “ultra

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Purgatory My 2023 IAP

  

  't agree with either of those sentiments. I like to think IAP is a sort of ...  lifting, which I personally think is hilarious. Lifting is a very blogger thing to ... working on my spread for MIT's Infinite Fashion Magazine, which is an

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an album a day the only new year's resolution i've ever completed

  

  studying or psetting, since it's hard to focus on what you're hearing if you ... songs, which is 28% of the music of the year's playlist! it seems like an ... exposes you to music you'd never hear on a "This is..*artist*" playlist, for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  what i talk about when i talk about running with apologies to murakami

  

  where to be on the court? How do you set up plays? Volleyball was better ... Marathon next year!" "Okay." I joke to Kathy now that this is one of those ... Michigan is that people are so courteous to you when you're running on the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Fall this time, with more zoom u!

  

  to get 100s on the psets and above 80s on the remaining midterms, which ... to see four or five us, including myself!, turn on our cameras and see ... part of this is attending a whole shitload of info sessions to try and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 5, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The seniors are tired but the frosh are fine

  

  prefrosh are here, so I need to put on a smile, because MIT is supposed to be a happy place, or at least, that's the lie I'm going with ... , which I honestly don't have the bandwidth to think about, and REX is going

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I love musicals! Wicked just dropped and I am LOSING MY MIND

  

  of it. My first Broadway Rave was on February 18th, 2023, thanks to an ... pause on the world to let the emotions and struggles of a character ... —are some of the moments in which I’ve felt most connected to others. Where

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 29, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  A Year at MIT, by the Numbers quantifying my MIT experience

  

  to 3 Class of 2023 events. One was a tunnel hunt and it was a ton of ... had to leave MIT. I spent around 190 days at MIT. 185 of those days ... "]REX[/annotation] events in my Google Calendar. I actually went to 4 of these; the rest were

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Hesitations about Choosing MIT our experience

  

  lot of ppl are concerned about choosing MIT due to it being more ... regret coming to MIT, or if you feel Y, you will definitely love being at ... help somehow, if you are still thinking about what to do on May 1st. Let

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 28, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  every book I read in 2022 all nine-plus of them

  

  Reading is one of the few real hobbies I've managed to hold onto ... enjoy. So, to reflect on that reading, here's some mini-reviews of ... "paradigm shifts" that change the very assumptions on which a field of science

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 8, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  a hackathon, a marathon I went to MIT EnergyHack!

  

  -chip cooling, which pipes liquid to plates on different parts of the server ... is still to pass people on the way up hills, which is kinda silly but ... went through the list of challenges and narrowed down to which ones

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  because I enjoy them. I'm getting better advice, or at least I'm learning to ... mental bets on whether or not I succeed. So, out of spite, these are my ... or go to a meeting. I want to actually have a full grasp on the lecture

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  personal effects on my desk or pinned to the walls of my cubicle, but that ... fiction. I'm on the third draft of my first novel, which is a ghost story ... future, the vision or meaning of which I hadn’t thought through at all

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / CPW

  the two sides of CPW CPW as told by a prefrosh and an upperclassman

  

  screenshot of my spreadsheet. I went to 18/33 of the events I put on my ... has been a blur). Our job is to basically coordinate all of the events ... forgotten to buy cheese :P which prompted one of not two, but

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 24, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is a jock school the secret is out

  

  championship level of the NCAA tournament. This is such a cool award to win ... smart, the draw of an amazing academic school is too much to resist. MIT ... task—no, my duty—to finally say what needs to be said: MIT is a jock

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  A New Year, A New President Introducing Dr. Sally Kornbluth, the 18th President of MIT

  

  press passes to attend the announcement, on account of the blogs.']In her ... -elect; her term will inaugurate with the New Year on January 1, 2023. You can ... will be a public livestream on mit.edu to introduce her to the community

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Skill Issues (spoiler alert: i've got them)

  

  , or even particularly good at many things, to be worthy of grace. So, in ... opening plays memorized, but to be entirely clear, I’m not one of them. My ... tendency to just sort of... not follow the rules), and as a result I never

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • June 29, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gala a premiere event celebrating fashion, arts, and culture

  

  bit of which went to the printing of the magazines. This was incredible ... was wearing the Science Surface collection, which is on display at the ... art on campus. While the future of this event is uncertain, I have no

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Clinging to the Coattails of Identity Who am I now?

  

  important to me than my studies. Is that enough to make an identity? A pile of ... The summer before you come to MIT, there’s a bunch of forms to fill ... culture. If you’re in the market for somewhere to be from, I give Hawaii a

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 29, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  albums i like and why i like them pov: i ramble about music and won't shut up

  

  Match (climax of the album), in which Chavo took on Eddie, and the loser ... the song “prom dress,” which went viral on tiktok in 2018. The album is ... -pop" which to me sounds how it felt to apply to college, haha. Kind of like how

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • September 8, 2025