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• Blog / MIT Life

  it’s thanksgiving or something and other things happening in my life

  

  -pressed to find another place to stay in, and that's something i'm grateful for ... today, of all days, i feel it's appropriate to begin with a land ... indigenous people connected to this land. american colonialism and oppression

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 26, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainly i am writing a blog post about another song

  

  house team sent care packages to the residents housed in baker. there was ... ) submit a request to remain in on-campus housing. i applied. i also ... , so i try not to. i tell myself i’m in this urop because i’m learning

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  blogs, in spite of talking to upperclassmen and alumni, in spite of going ... finals in three days, I packed my bags and headed back home to South Bend ... of, in order to graduate from MIT), most freshmen take some sort of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007
• Blog / Events

  ROFLCON! ROFLMAO!

  

  wall in order to get slow internet, all I have to do is turn on my computer in order to get blazing fast internet. As such I was very rapidly ... in another class I hustled to my first event of ROFLCON: "Before the

  • by Snively '11
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  winter things a sampling of IAP plans around campus

  

  allows undergraduates to work with professors and in research labs to ... modeling from finger motion, to walking motion [in progress]. Technically, I'm just getting a stick figure to "walk", but we in the research world like

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  in remembrance of the body affirming the mind–body connection

  

  . in days like these the body feels like an inconvenience. i have to tend my hunger. stand up every once in a while. remember to blink, because ... interested in seeing how it'd adapt to a virtual format. after spending an hour

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  the fear and delight of fire spinning do not this at home! I am a trained (semi?)professional.

  

  day comes to close, a fire in my hands, a warmth in my soul ... time. We have this and many more measures in place to keep ourselves ... TRAINING UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. While I’d love this blog to be the reason

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 21, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Alive and In London Updates from the Road

  

  Currently writing to you from the London Apple Store. Spring Break has been a blast so far. Once I find free wireless, I'll upload the real entries.

  • by Bryan
  • March 26, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

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

  

  to shit; in the beginning, I'd created a beautiful cherry blossom theme ... random shit to keep track of, but honestly, I had so much going on in high ... work. Most people know how to use Sheets, anyway. Plus, it's in your

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  On the other side of CPW Being an MIT undergrad during CPW is definitely an interesting experience

  

  were interested in becoming bloggers or at least really excited to meet ... I wrote a blog post about how excited I was for CPW last week.  Other ... be different - but I didn't expect everything to be so weird.  It made

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 16, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT, Medicine, and Success from Any School thirteen years in a thousand words

  

  left or right in response to different noises and then dissected their ... moments free from anxiety about posting slices of my life to the public"]blogging ... school application cycle in the Fall of 2011. I applied to 27 schools but

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Wear Matching Hats Very nearly one year ago, I wore the hat you're all wearing this week.

  

  thing in the world you want right now is an acceptance to MIT. You ... really relate to. .... then we all got here in the fall and haven't seen ... , and in some cases, on my floor. As freshmen, we aren't supposed to know

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Weekend in Kendall Square I know I work here all week, but hey, it's MIT

  

  pick a weekend in March to hang out in the city?" she asked again. "Well ... Corridor. I can't seem to make it to my office in the morning without ... director and I had to email Chris, who was in the middle of committee still

  • by Kris Guay
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  SCIENCE ALERT: “smoking gun” evidence for Alan Guth’s theory of inflation! Good thing I already have Alan Guth's signature on all of my class registration forms.

  

  course, live in the Milky Way, although it's hopeless to try and see that ... to. A few months later, I declared a major in physics, and indicated ... that they do in fact believe I ought to become a professional astronomer

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 17, 2014
• Blog / Events

  21: The Movie Night From the Bay Area to Boston, Seattle to the Florida Keys, Houston to Chicago, the…

  

  -145 was closer to the real thing than most of the rooms in the movie (I ... to finding MIT people =) "It might be noteworthy that 10 people in our ... Before we get to scenes from the MIT Class of 2012 Movie Night, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I auditioned for a musical Oh my goodness, oh my goodness

  

  , though, and there are very few people I'm willing to sing in front of. Late in the evening, I walk back to French House along the back of the dorm ... (the musical's composer, who used to live in French House with me) sent

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo and physics and math, oh my 57 units of academic fun fun fun. Now with humanities!

  

  general excitement to begin my second semester at MIT (keep in mind this was ... UROP, the profs are definitely wiling to hear you out and help you in any ... . In addition to generally helping out the lecturers and other course

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Internships & Externships

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

  

  need to think about what each word means, and how to arrange them in a ... . For example, in our codebase we use Redux Toolkit. To understand the ... , but you still need to load them in your head, and that's hard. One thing

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 24, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] Duolingo Champion How to immerse in education while learning nothing

  

  sponsor me). I’d used the app in the past to learn Italian and to refresh my ... runner up had only ~5,000XP. I put in about two and a half hours and go to ... than I had to put herself 1,000XP ahead of me and firmly in first place

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guitar Hero… on the oscilloscope! The secret fifth digital instrument revealed

  

  -shaped controller in time with some music to simulate playing a guitar. The notes are ... oscilloscope was a list of x and y coordinates in my code. To generate this list ... voltage levels to the oscilloscope. Game controller All the prior labs in 6

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 14, 2024