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• Blog / Summer

  feelings from the summer I wish I could describe more accurately partially inspired by ducks, newburyport

  

  working and you can unravel it later (you can't); a questioning about ... just wear a T-shirt and shorts instead the feeling of making a one ... they didn't already know about; the adventurous feeling of buying a book

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 5, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  oscilloscope from Keysight costs more than 4 years of MIT tuition. (We don't have ... signals against time. This mode of operation, called Y-T mode, is great for ... I could get any output from my speakers. The PSoC doesn’t have enough

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 14, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  “i can only draw stick figures” musings on learning to draw

  

  . I wasn't allowed to take photos, so I won't be adding any references ... felt oddly familiar, but I couldn't put my finger on why. All of a sudden ... confused by. My legs didn’t hurt at all. My mom proceeded to explain that

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • June 4, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, La Vita Nuova a selection of dishes, part 3

  

  saying relationships are hard"]love isn’t always fun and games ... catering to other people’s tastes for so long that I couldn’t find myself in ... blowtorches, you'd think he wasn't a biology major"]flambé,[/annotation] and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 7, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Me and the Firehose on balancing classes, and choosing next year’s schedule

  

  six classes again would be the best option; but maybe it wouldn’t be. So ... that I wouldn’t have had time to write otherwise. [carousel image1 ... quickly realized I didn’t have time. I hung out with my pod a few times per

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 30, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  长大 on family, thanksgiving, and growing up

  

  example, and I smile. When I first got to MIT, I didn’t feel immediately ... freshman year in Asymptones, I couldn’t follow the music and I couldn’t hit ... initiatives I think will help as a member of my dorm’s government. I don’t think

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 28, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  Life on Campus? remastered 2021

  

  gossip and rowing and [annotation note="I don't do either of these things ... . When I lived on campus last fall, weekend trips weren't allowed, and ... , taught me how to play Guitar Hero in Simmons, which isn’t Smash in

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  four weeks in the life a google calendar time capsule

  

  . Unfortunately, these dinners didn’t last too much longer (with COVID kicking us ... couldn’t tell, my favorite color is orange. i have loved it since i was a ... impromptu hanging out that didn’t end up on my calendar. I’m so bad at doing

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 4, 2021
• Blog / Community Projects

  MINECRAFT MIT!!! our most remarkable feat of engineering since...mit

  

  monsters and you don't have to look for resources to stay alive. survival ... offers are wonderful, but it's important to acknowledge that these can't ... :1 scale, blocks are around a meter long, but walls aren't typically one

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Springing into Junior Year actually not Springing, just Spring

  

  don’t fully get this one"]fourth order tensor[/annotation] is, how to ... want to try to learn. Although I don’t feel particularly invested in ... .[/annotation] [caption id="attachment_50976" align="aligncenter" width="294"] don't worry

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 4, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i rode a train across america it took eighty-five hours

  

  . I often find myself flitting from coast to coast, but still haven’t ... peace, comrade. Our bus was scheduled to leave at 12:50 p.m.; we don’t ... online articles titled DON’T TAKE A TRAIN ACROSS AMERICA (wise words I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my year in music, volume 2 just another excuse for me to talk about how much i love music tracking software

  

  after they had moved onto our hall, and after a conversation that i can't ... couldn't tell you when this phase began or when it ended, but i can tell ... by LP - this wasn't really a phase that i went through, but a lot of my

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guide to MIT: Academics requirements, resources, and miscellaneous info

  

  important assignment is due. I didn't realize how invaluable an after ... to do, and I didn't fail my exam! Deans on Call are volunteer staff ... caught up, and it saved my grade! Though maybe I wouldn’t have needed the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Cassava Connection Part 1 of a series, starring a man, a plan, and a root vegetable.

  

  “Nobody is going to do it, if we don’t do it.” The room is quiet ... “international” as a fluid term--I don’t always mean literally students without U ... others that don’t. The discussion is so long, that students’ come and go

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Experience FAQs from high school counselors

  

  together (e.g. Netflix shows, Rick and Morty, John Oliver, and GoT). The 1e ... are not passionate about STEM. Although you don’t have to be a STEM ... ’re going to be really sad if you don’t like STEM. Also, you probably shouldn’t

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Year 2 at Hogwarts Holy Hell, I'm a sophomore

  

  immediately positive. But a heavy physical system can’t simulate that sort of ... semester, I sent an e-mail to Helen Lee saying I didn’t get into the class ... month ago! I can’t believe I’m eighteen, although it apparently doesn’t

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded. 573 students, 10 hours.

  

  classes. For those of you who can't instantly divide numbers by 24 in your ... littered with sonic screwdrivers and Tardis t-shirts. I managed to slip in a ... handy!) Emily T. '15 came in and magically found the light switch, and Ian

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Let’s do a puzzle. Ready to flex some cranial muscle?

  

  . You haven't the faintest idea who those people are, or what that little ... FRIDAY EVENING reading about obscure saints?!) She didn't just Google ... /date/festival puzzle wasn't the only one she tackled that weekend. Her browser history

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Always Moving Forward: An entry by Prof. Patrick Henry Winston MIT has the nation's leading running back in Division III football?!? And he's a Computer…

  

  the season last night. I went because it wasn’t just any last football ... , Virginia. Alas, DeRon got a mild concussion early in the game, so it wasn’t ... of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. But they don't stop

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Heartbreaking Lunch of Staggering Genius I'll write about campus dining some other day.

  

  inflection. Jess disagreed, unbitingly. I can't blame her much; Jess and I have ... long as said patron doesn't show up in jeans. Jean-Georges is not amused ... -moving. Anyway, eventually I sat. I still can't decide whether the literary

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 30, 2009