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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  , I've written things in JavaScript and TypeScript, to the point that ... were good, in contrast to some people I know who had bad first ... games in batch, like rock-paper-scissors games from the terminal. I got

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  -- my MIT class. It was fun to see so many of my classmates and hear about what they've been up to after all this time. One frequent question I get ... 's hard to give a comprehensive answer to that question, but perhaps this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  subject of a famous hack in 1991, where hackers hooked up a fire hydrant to ... firehose. In reference to this came the adjective hosed, meaning bogged down ... the blogs, tweeted that he wanted to run an information session about

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  choose to get up and move to a different bench 20 feet away, one that is in ... , which is a big reason that I'm writing this post. In one week, I need to ... up in one week — whether to go to graduate school, or whether to accept

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  , we always went to Shanghai, Nanjing, or Hangzhou, always somewhere in ... China, I was four years old. We arrived in Shanghai and went straight to ... would also say to me, in Amharic (the national language of Ethiopia), “we

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  brain and in my hands and on my paper and on my computer screen. That ... worries in a tangled cloud around me. I'm trying to sort through them one at ... of miles away from family and friends and not really in a place to make

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  of them changed my life in a good way and I’m excited to see the ... was determined to not be embedded into this blog post, but you can click here to watch it in its natural environment. In particular, there are two

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  where you think of yourself in a movie. Or, y’know, a blog. I know a lot ... will give you some ideas. This blog I’m going to talk about what I did ... Alexandre Dumas -- are on my bookshelf in Cambridge, daring me to take them

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  accurately in Harvard Square. His lab has already made a paper airplane that ... actually works in the lab where I’m doing my thesis--we’ll get to that later ... ) and so I’m glad that I’m in this class, both because I really wanted to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  last week. I still had a four- to six-page research paper for 4 ... -sleep around 1am, I set every alarm in my room to an arbitrary time between 2 ... caffeine was in the tea, but I did not feel tired at all. If I wanted to go

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  restaurants in Boston; decisions about when to turn off the heating for spring ... to live in these places until your second year at MIT. Figure 1b ... supplemental tables at the end of this blog post if you would like to perform

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  way to model a cube in 3D? Certainly, there's a very easy way to make a ... "]basics of cooking,[/annotation] but it's very easy to get caught up in the ... constants in all of these recipes, not to be confused with chemical formulas

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  worked so hard to include the world in that passion that Amtrak noticed and ... This whole “is there a formula to get into MIT” thing that’s been dominating College Confidential and the blog comments makes me sad. I

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  in you to move forward, fueled by your determination and goals ... We were deferred when we applied early to MIT, and remember how heartbreaking it felt. We obsessed over MIT unhealthily to the point where going

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  . [...] In addition to the term’s traditional associations of being masculine in appearance or actions, I chose to use “Butch Heroes” to indicate ... 's office to say hi and check in with my pi, a postdoc offered me a

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  this blog- topics to cover, questions to answer, stuff like that, and I ... . Read the blogs, that's what they're for. We try to make them interesting ... topics. In fact, I think I'll link random words in this entry to some

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  did in high school, they tend to mean “what went on their application ... one way to be a living human person in high school and end up at MIT ... ’t understand. It took a bit of time for me to start working as hard as I did in

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  wanted to spend 12 hours on 2.009 in one sitting again. [carousel image1 ... 't burst into [annotation note="if this were to happen, our built-in fan ... , and stumble to lab in search of free caffeine. [annotation note="AND the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  Khan, who used to live in the room of bloggers Danny and Allan? Where are ... people. My quest to trace the past residents of my room began in early ... surprise to learn that several graduates I knew from floorpi lived in my room

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  definitely opened up a brand new skillset for me to flounder in and ultimately ... the related literature. ALL of it. Read it in depth and pay attention to ... little errors or large mistakes in reasoning. Try to make a large

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015