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how to be a microcelebrity or micro-microcelebrity, or micro-micro-microcelebrity, or...
- by Janet G. '27
- July 18, 2025
I’m not very good at impulse management. In my last (real) post, I spent like 15 hours writing ⁠01 to be fair, most of it went into sorting and captioning every image... this… Read More
Day in the Life of a MIT Mechanical Engineering UROP Student I built an underwater robot :p
- by Kayode D. '27
- July 14, 2025
One of the coolest things at MIT is how easily undergrads can join research through UROPs (Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program). I did my first one this past semester and finished it over the summer, working in Professor David Wallace’s lab. Alongside a grad student named Chuck, I helped design underwater… Read More
Tour of an MIT student’s notebook my brain is a mess so my pages have everything
- by Anika H. '26
- July 8, 2025
Note: This is not a guide to keeping a notebook because everyone has their own style of taking notes and keeping organized. But if you’re looking to start keeping a little notebook or everything and have no idea where to start, feel free to use this as inspiration. Read More
Life Tokens the currency of joy
- by Allison E. '27
- July 6, 2025
When I was younger, one of my favorite board games to play with my family was “The Game of Life.” It’s a bit like the mobile game BitLife, I suppose. You start as a young adult, and walk along the pathways of life–choosing a career, getting married, having… Read More
Be a Blogger 2025!
- by Ceri R. '16
- July 1, 2025
It’s July again, which means that: I started a co-op Stardew Valley save file with my partner and am trying to squeeze in some night gardening when I can to stay cool during extreme heat waves I’m fleeing to the mountains… Read More
To ASE Or Not To ASE preparing academically for freshman year
- by Aiden H. '28
- June 26, 2025
It’s June! Which means of course you’re not interested in the graduating seniors, or Hank Green’s commencement address, or all the cool things people are doing over the summer–you’re interested in me, because I just finished my freshman year, and what a scary and tumultuous time it was! Nonetheless, it… Read More
alone in cologne homesickness, better late than never
- by Veronica P. '27
- June 26, 2025
I counted today, and since freshman year orientation I have said goodbye to my parents ten times. The first time they dropped me off at MIT, my mom couldn’t contain her tears. Holding my hand, she was the only one of us truly overcome with sadness. She’d squeeze… Read More

From MIT online to a data science career

Hilal Mohammadzai shares his journey of resilience and his experience graduating from the MIT Emerging Talent Certificate in Computer and Data Science as part of his path to a career in data science.

MIT Infinite Threads

Infinite Threads, a spinoff of the MIT Undergraduate Association Sustainability Committee, held nine popup clothing thrift sales in the 2024-25 academic year and diverted about 750 pounds of textiles from landfills.

Open access publishing

MIT Press announces plans to add Duke University Press and Goldsmiths Press to Direct to Open (D2O), their sustainable framework for open access monographs.

the fear and delight of fire spinning do not this at home! I am a trained (semi?)professional.
- by Anika H. '26
- June 21, 2025
quick note: i did a TED talk with kano about fire spinning once, but we were asked to do it four days before the event, so we had three days to prepare, and i shrivel from embarrassment every time someone mentions or finds it. so, i’m writing a very high… Read More
Pictures From a Year of Classes The End of a Saga
- by Richard O. '28
- June 20, 2025
So, about a month ago, I submitted my last exam for the year in Johnson Athletic Center which marked the end of a very, very, very long first year at MIT. So, like the first and second two times, I’m going to finish off the year by giving… Read More
for change in (expected + unexpected): print(change.get_thoughts())
- by Allison E. '27
- June 19, 2025
Before coming to MIT, I consumed a lot of Content™ about college. Probably too much content. Some of that was my own doing, whether it was YouTube advice videos or romanticized audiobooks or way too many of the MIT Admissions blogs (oops). But some of it was also… Read More
been walking a lot recently furthermore, i like taking pictures
- by Ellie F. '28
- June 17, 2025
I’m not living on campus for the summer, but I have a lot of things to do on campus (tours, glassblowing, UROP meetings, seeing friends), so I’ve been walking to and from campus nearly every day. I accidentally used up almost all my data for the month downloading audiobooks, so… Read More

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From East to West: An American’s Cross-Atlantic Voyage The start of my MISTI UK experience
- by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
- June 10, 2025
I’m currently in the exotic land of England. Over a week ago, I flew into Heathrow Airport on a dragon, and then I rode with a group of knights from London to Bristol, where I currently reside in a castle. I’m here through MISTI, or MIT… Read More
[Joint Post] THE WORLD’S gREATEsT CROSSOVER EPISODE Jebby '25 is my flatmate
- by Anika H. '26
- June 4, 2025
Note: Anika drew Anika and Jebby drew Jebby. If you can’t tell who’s who in the following series of pictures, you haven’t read enough blogs. Everything is jarringly British in Bristol (wow what a shock). I know I’m in the UK, but it’s still surprising when I go to… Read More

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Integrated photonics Sabrina Corsetti builds photonic devices that manipulate light to enable the previously unimaginable, like pocket-sized 3D printers.

Magnetic Breakthrough MIT physicists have observed a new form of magnetism that could offer a path to “spintronic” memory devices.

Art meets science Designed and built by Gloria Z. '26 and Lee L. '26, this calligraphy machine has a way with words.

An underwater robot with a mission Developed by MIT Sea Grant, SeaPerch is a maker project that provides an approachable path for middle and high school students to learn more about sensors, robotics, climate science, and more.

Engineering joy Watch as MechE remembers the late Dr. Woodie Flowers who led the way for hands-on engineering education at MIT and spread the joy of designing and building things to students—not only on campus but around the world.

Robot research MIT AeroAstro associate professor Luca Carlone and his students in the SPARK Lab are working to expand a robot’s awareness of its environment in ways that approach human-level perception.

Blending coffee and science In class 3.000 (Coffee Matters: Using the Breakerspace to Make the Perfect Cup), students explore coffee chemistry and what makes a good brew through hands-on experiments.

“The Whole Student Experience” The latest issue of Spectrum delves into what it means to educate the whole student at MIT.

Mind and hand Rhea Vedro, a technical instructor of metalsmithing, aims to transform the lives of her students through the art of making.

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.

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