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Latest from the bloggers

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Learning about the ABCs Apple Bake Competition, At Burton Conner
- by Janet G. '27
- October 29, 2024
The Apple Bake Competition is an annual event held by the Burton-Conner⁠01 one of the dorms at MIT, also where i live… Read More
i will meet zendaya even if it’s the death of me a wide-ranging rant written while feverish
- by Aiden H. '28
- October 26, 2024
I’ve always been a little bit of a hypochondriac, and while that is probably connected to a lot of deeper things than this blog can go into, there is one clear trend: I hate being sick. I hate the idea of not being as productive as possible, I hate the… Read More
My highest achievement at MIT.
- by Jenny B. '25
- October 25, 2024
Third to last day of the archery class I took for my final PE requirement The instructor let me take it home! I SPLIT AN ARROW Edit: Okay, it wasn’t split as neatly as that scene in Brave, but that’s the closest I’ll ever get… Read More

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#i'm actually working on a longer post right now i swear
The Romance of Learning rainy days, language tests, and a book called Babel
- by Emiko P. '25
- October 23, 2024
I took a test early last week for my Japanese language and culture class.⁠13 21G.S55: Japanese V I woke up early that morning to study for it, scrubbing the sleep… Read More
I walk a lonely road and it takes a lot of time
- by Ellie F. '28
- October 20, 2024
As a resident of Simmons, one of the farthest dorms from Main Campus⁠17 east of Massachusetts Ave., where most of the academic buildings are , I spend a lot of… Read More
Sweet summer song
- by Uzay G. '26
- October 19, 2024
Hey folks, it’s been a while. I’ve been very focused and not in a writing mood for the last couple months, but I’m back and I’m excited to start cooking. Yes; as the music changes, Like… Read More

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#hot summer

#research
look at the stars hacking mit, six months at a time
- by Janet G. '27
- October 17, 2024
How do you raise hundreds of thousands of dollars, design the merch that defines half of campus fashion, build software that powers hackathons from around the world, and do everything else necessary to run a thousand-person hackathon? My friends have gotten sick of me yapping about… Read More

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#HackMIT

The interdisciplinary magic of mechatronics

The lab-based class 2.737 (Mechatronics) lives between mechanical and electrical engineering. Professor David Trumper has been leading the class since the early '90s, and he teaches students to start simple—with a piece of paper and a pen—to draw sketches, work out key calculations, and design new solutions to problems.

MIT First Nations Launch team won a grand prize

MIT First Nations Launch team stands in back of their rocket.

The MIT First Nations Launch team is a team of all-Indigenous students who integrate Indigenous methodologies in their engineering practices. This spring, they won the grand prize in the 2024 NASA First Nations Launch High-Power Rocket Competition for designing, building, and launching a rocket with a drone as a payload.

Celebrating student entrepreneurship

A student stands on the stage to pitch their startup to an audience at the 2024 delta v Demo Day.

For 50 students from 22 startup teams, the 2024 delta v Demo Day was a chance to showcase all their early business achievements after an intensive summer program with the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship.

love in the time of unlimited data against kindness as utility
- by Kai V. '25
- October 16, 2024
In Milan I was constantly toeing the line between speaking solely in English, which I feared would make me seem like an entitled American who thought the whole world should cater to the dominance of their own language, and being so insistent on communicating in Italian that it posed a… Read More
Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.
- by Kayode D. '27
- October 16, 2024
I never wrote a blog recapping last semester. I thought about it quite a bit this summer and I think I wrote a few drafts but none of them really ever came to anything. Among all the thoughts, only one feels all that important to share with applying students: taking… Read More
how the first midterms actually were xoxo gossip girl?
- by Aiden H. '28
- October 15, 2024
Contrary to popular (and probably well-founded) belief, I once was psychic. Not only did I successfully predict the 2021 Pantone Color of the Year (with a Google Slideshow as evidence) and COVID-19⁠58 tl;dr… Read More
Pictures from a Month into Classes and I'm thrivi... surviving?
- by Richard O. '28
- October 14, 2024
MIT is a weird school. Seriously. If I asked you to picture a normal scene on this campus, you would probably be wrong (very, very, wrong). In the past month, I’ve done everything from holding a ferret in our hallway to climbing a rock wall on the side… Read More
If I had a nickel for every class I was taking this semester… I’d have 4.5 nickels.
- by Andi Q. '25
- October 12, 2024
I’m a crusty senior now, so I have no fun and sparkly adventures to write about like the first-year bloggers have been doing (at least not for this week). However, what I do have as a senior is the freedom to choose fun elective classes… Read More
climbing the wall why so defeatist?
- by Veronica P. '27
- October 7, 2024
There are a lot of phrases in the english language that can be used to describe me- “athletically inclined” is not one of them. I can appreciate and enjoy a sport, but never with a true passion that exceeds, say, a month at a time. All this to say- when… Read More

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From the community

The Great Glass Pumpkin Patch More than 2,000 handblown glass pumpkins are sold each fall to benefit the MIT Glass Lab.

Ride on! The MIT Bike Lab is a student-run bike shop that provides bike repair and maintenance services to the MIT community.

Reshaping the future of clothing manufacturing MIT's Fabric Innovation Hub aims to foster a community of experts in fibers and fabrics and build a network of knowledge that will revolutionize the textile industry.

Sky is no limit MIT alum Sheila Xu '14, who was born deaf, never imagined she could become a pilot, but says MIT put her on that path.

Log Log Land Tap along as the MIT Logarhythms debut their song, "Hall That Never Ends."

Advancing aquaculture Santiago B. '26 and Unyime U. '27 are working with MIT Sea Grant to develop image-recognition tools that will help aquaculture hatcheries monitor shellfish seed.

Life on Mars, together As part of Crew 290 at the Mars Desert Research Station, two MIT students learn what it’s like to be a Martian during a Mars analog mission.

An unusual piano lesson Advanced piano tech offers new ways to engage with music and study live performance data.

The positive power of math MIT alum José Esparza Lozano ’19 is spending a year in Rwanda to help train its math olympiad team, with the aim of using math to bring positive changes to the community.

Recognition for sustainability work MIT’s Anna Kwon '24 and Nicole Doering '26 are the first undergraduate students to receive Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center’s Jane Matlaw Environmental Champion Awards.

Student-athlete excellence Kristen Palmer '23 has been named a finalist for the 2023 NCAA Woman of the Year award.

MIT’s top Tetris player In this Q&A, Justin Yu '25, a computer science and engineering major, talks about how he became the 2023 Classic Tetris World Champion.

Mark Rober visits MIT’s makerspaces Follow along as Mark Rober—engineer, educator, YouTuber, and MIT’s 2023 commencement speaker—gets a look at a few of our makerspaces.

Announcements and deadlines

Latest from the bloggers

Learning about the ABCs Apple Bake Competition, At Burton Conner

i will meet zendaya even if it’s the death of me a wide-ranging rant written while feverish

My highest achievement at MIT.

Tagged:

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

I walk a lonely road and it takes a lot of time

Sweet summer song

Tagged:

look at the stars hacking mit, six months at a time

Tagged:

The interdisciplinary magic of mechatronics

MIT First Nations Launch team won a grand prize

Celebrating student entrepreneurship

love in the time of unlimited data against kindness as utility

Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

how the first midterms actually were xoxo gossip girl?

Pictures from a Month into Classes and I'm thrivi... surviving?

If I had a nickel for every class I was taking this semester… I’d have 4.5 nickels.

climbing the wall why so defeatist?

From the community

The Great Glass Pumpkin Patch More than 2,000 handblown glass pumpkins are sold each fall to benefit the MIT Glass Lab.

Ride on! The MIT Bike Lab is a student-run bike shop that provides bike repair and maintenance services to the MIT community.

Reshaping the future of clothing manufacturing MIT's Fabric Innovation Hub aims to foster a community of experts in fibers and fabrics and build a network of knowledge that will revolutionize the textile industry.

Sky is no limit MIT alum Sheila Xu '14, who was born deaf, never imagined she could become a pilot, but says MIT put her on that path.

Log Log Land Tap along as the MIT Logarhythms debut their song, "Hall That Never Ends."

Advancing aquaculture Santiago B. '26 and Unyime U. '27 are working with MIT Sea Grant to develop image-recognition tools that will help aquaculture hatcheries monitor shellfish seed.

Life on Mars, together As part of Crew 290 at the Mars Desert Research Station, two MIT students learn what it’s like to be a Martian during a Mars analog mission.

An unusual piano lesson Advanced piano tech offers new ways to engage with music and study live performance data.

The positive power of math MIT alum José Esparza Lozano ’19 is spending a year in Rwanda to help train its math olympiad team, with the aim of using math to bring positive changes to the community.

Recognition for sustainability work MIT’s Anna Kwon '24 and Nicole Doering '26 are the first undergraduate students to receive Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center’s Jane Matlaw Environmental Champion Awards.

Student-athlete excellence Kristen Palmer '23 has been named a finalist for the 2023 NCAA Woman of the Year award.

MIT’s top Tetris player In this Q&A, Justin Yu '25, a computer science and engineering major, talks about how he became the 2023 Classic Tetris World Champion.

Mark Rober visits MIT’s makerspaces Follow along as Mark Rober—engineer, educator, YouTuber, and MIT’s 2023 commencement speaker—gets a look at a few of our makerspaces.

MIT’s Hobby Shop New and improved, this makerspace is ready to welcome all members of the MIT community seeking to build their personal projects.

Student Lending Art Program Every September, MIT students can enter a lottery to borrow artwork for free from the List Center's collection.

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The interdisciplinary magic of mechatronics

MIT First Nations Launch team won a grand prize

Celebrating student entrepreneurship

More from the bloggers

From the community

The Great Glass Pumpkin Patch More than 2,000 handblown glass pumpkins are sold each fall to benefit the MIT Glass Lab.

Ride on! The MIT Bike Lab is a student-run bike shop that provides bike repair and maintenance services to the MIT community.

Reshaping the future of clothing manufacturing MIT's Fabric Innovation Hub aims to foster a community of experts in fibers and fabrics and build a network of knowledge that will revolutionize the textile industry.

Sky is no limit MIT alum Sheila Xu '14, who was born deaf, never imagined she could become a pilot, but says MIT put her on that path.

Log Log Land Tap along as the MIT Logarhythms debut their song, "Hall That Never Ends."

Advancing aquaculture Santiago B. '26 and Unyime U. '27 are working with MIT Sea Grant to develop image-recognition tools that will help aquaculture hatcheries monitor shellfish seed.

Life on Mars, together As part of Crew 290 at the Mars Desert Research Station, two MIT students learn what it’s like to be a Martian during a Mars analog mission.

An unusual piano lesson Advanced piano tech offers new ways to engage with music and study live performance data.

The positive power of math MIT alum José Esparza Lozano ’19 is spending a year in Rwanda to help train its math olympiad team, with the aim of using math to bring positive changes to the community.

Recognition for sustainability work MIT’s Anna Kwon '24 and Nicole Doering '26 are the first undergraduate students to receive Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center’s Jane Matlaw Environmental Champion Awards.

Student-athlete excellence Kristen Palmer '23 has been named a finalist for the 2023 NCAA Woman of the Year award.

MIT’s top Tetris player In this Q&A, Justin Yu '25, a computer science and engineering major, talks about how he became the 2023 Classic Tetris World Champion.

Mark Rober visits MIT’s makerspaces Follow along as Mark Rober—engineer, educator, YouTuber, and MIT’s 2023 commencement speaker—gets a look at a few of our makerspaces.

MIT’s Hobby Shop New and improved, this makerspace is ready to welcome all members of the MIT community seeking to build their personal projects.

Student Lending Art Program Every September, MIT students can enter a lottery to borrow artwork for free from the List Center's collection.