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• Blog / MIT Life

  A Supposedly Fun Thing That I’ll Probably Do Again On July 4th, I reenacted The Old Man and the Sea, minus the old man…

  

  My first Fourth of July in Boston was spent on an inflatable 61-inch ... on the busiest river in Boston during the busiest hours of the busiest ... . (No kidding.) 3.Launch rafts onto the Charles River around 6 pm on July

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 7, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Sophomore Stupid It’s morbin’ time

  

  , maybe I would have understood more, if I spent less time scrolling on my ... .002), and Fundamentals of Programming 6.101(6.009) at the same time on top of ... welding and working on research and making a leather mask and getting cheese

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  rating classes from this semester the good, the bad & the underrated

  

  on grades...the most I've ever taken), so I opted to stay on campus instead to meet my deadlines and work on projects I've been dreaming about ... too early, but I love the aesthetics: children in knit caps, sunshine on

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Video games I’ve played this semester trimps, mother 3, hades, and vampire survivors

  

  the gameplay, so for the second half of the game, I turned on some ... Quest IX as a kid and finding it hard.) I want to put on the record that I ... it's grinding, turning on the cheats, or watching a Let's Play instead

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Sensations On Having Feelings

  

  could get my hands on. I loved (and love) learning with every fiber of my ... about was the searing heat of the tears on my face. You can’t really see ... blossoming grief in my chest had worn off, [/annotation]I began to focus on the

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 9, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  over 24 hours working on one of the problem sets, 15 (hours) of which happened consecutively (from 9pm on Thursday to Noon on Friday). Ever since ... terrifying cyclones captured on a blank canvass might be beautiful—the kind of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Finding Your Match and why it matters

  

  I went on to Princeton Review, searched for liberal arts colleges ... 's Admissions Office. The first time I stepped foot on MIT's campus was for my job interview. I had gotten lost on my way in and called the admissions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Feedback Works Warning: analogy ahead

  

  on the student's performance as a leader. The assessed students then fill out a "yellow card" on their own time. Yes! The blue and yellow ... the cheerers last year, and I ran around with a red "M" painted on my

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thank Goodness! "There are bridges you cross / You didn't know you crossed / until you've crossed."

  

  last 40 hours because of studying for the test). Sigh. Any hints on how ... in orgo. Argh! < begins long rant on organic chemistry > (I ... " about chemistry and no longer depend on the memorization or the erroneous

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Testimony from an ’11 By: Debbie, '11

  

  things than simply stalking other prefrosh on facebook or refreshing the ... . So I arrived on campus on Thursday, and I was actually delayed about 6 ... , whom I thought were pretty funny. One was leaving on Friday to go to prom

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump News and updates for admitted students from the last few weeks, in no particular order...

  

  ? Make sure to show up to our annual party at CPW on Friday The 13th ... Marilee perform with my band at ZBT's fifth annual Battle Of The Bands on ... thought I'd share it here: I'm so sorry that some of you have been on the

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 28, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exercises in Style with apologies to queneau

  

  which? Homeoptotes On a certain date, I carried a crate with a lot of weight, and on a cart it did skate. It was late, three hours past eight ... predators and nets, intent on approaching a desination. They swam past a rock

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 20, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  you can care about things revisiting stoicism

  

  friend. i was pretty confused, so i asked on twitter:  “a dilemma I ... much do I care about changing other peoples’ minds vs focusing solely on ... out of your control, so it doesn’t make sense to put too much weight on

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • July 18, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  this blogger does not exist join me in the uncanny valley

  

  thousands, if not millions of images to train well, so 148 images was on the ... GAN reported evaluation metrics on had >500 images, so I wasn’t confident that CycleGAN could be trained on the tiny blogger dataset. So I decided to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 28, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Plot Twist And what MIT Architecture has taught me about design and life.

  

  , but another critic zooms in on a detail. You do know that your building ... think that when I know it’s my fault my project is behind on development ... shifting to the next presenter on my left, I’d started walking right, past

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  Physics demos at MIT are pretty high on the list of awesome things in ... theory) ranged from rubbing dead cats on sticks to pouring super ... education to drinking from a firehose. I'd like to go out on a limb and

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final projects from the fall three coding projects and an alien in disguise

  

  work on a simulated robotic arm that can detect and stack cups into a ... Tom Cruise and wrote a 20-page script based on it. The final script is about an alien who crash-landed on Earth, and disguised himself as a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  The Craziest 3 Days of Soccer Ever broken records, halloween practice, and senior day!

  

  On Wednesday, we had our second to last game of the regular season ... someone who has been on the soccer team since freshman year, Senior Day has ... gorged ourselves on cake and Chipotle with our families and friends and

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 4, 2024
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Romance of Learning rainy days, language tests, and a book called Babel

  

  characters, brushed up on Japanese geography, and drilled myself on the grammar ... drilled on the differences between Japanese and English spoken word. We then ... windows on the first floor. The windows face the river, and the infinite

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 23, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Beantown. sketchbook showcase!

  

  if I was going to go on some grand tour. I only ended up going to like ... a great time! [You can click on the pics below to enlarge them ... 't have any pics saved on my phone. I finally got those pics to her

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 31, 2023