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• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  The reading continues, almost non-stop here… for another perspective on the reading, go on over and visit Ben. Shahab commented with this question:   Would a non-techie passion (like poetry,…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Uncategorized

  My design won an MIT merch contest I don't know why

  

  Author’s note: The original title was going to be “I DUPED THE COOP!” but I decided that was too much. I still wanted to mention it though.   Back in…

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 23, 2025
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [liveblog] presenting at the Open Sauce maker expo! built a funky microscope with my friends

  

  Jul 20, 2025 at 11am My friends (Asal V. ‘25 and Isaac L. ‘25) and I built Waterscope, a microscope that uses water instead of glass for magnification. It’s cool…

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • July 20, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  how to be a microcelebrity or micro-microcelebrity, or micro-micro-microcelebrity, or...

  

  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…

  • by Janet G. '27
  • July 18, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life of a MIT Mechanical Engineering UROP Student I built an underwater robot :p

  

  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…

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 14, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Tour of an MIT student’s notebook my brain is a mess so my pages have everything

  

  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…

  • by Anika H. '26
  • July 8, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life Tokens the currency of joy

  

  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.…

  • by Allison E. '27
  • July 6, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 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…

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 1, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To ASE Or Not To ASE preparing academically for freshman year

  

  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…

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  alone in cologne homesickness, better late than never

  

    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…

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

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

  

  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…

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

  Pictures From a Year of Classes The End of a Saga

  

  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…

  • by Richard O. '28
  • June 20, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  for change in (expected + unexpected): print(change.get_thoughts())

  

  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…

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 19, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  been walking a lot recently furthermore, i like taking pictures

  

  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…

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • June 17, 2025
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  From East to West: An American’s Cross-Atlantic Voyage The start of my MISTI UK experience

  

  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…

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 10, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  [Joint Post] THE WORLD’S gREATEsT CROSSOVER EPISODE Jebby '25 is my flatmate

  

  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…

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 4, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT Bloggers Sniped Wrapped in which people take a LOT of photos of me around campus

  

  At MIT, a lot of groups use Slack to stay connected. It’s like a big series of group chats for work stuff or class materials. What’s really cool is that…

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 2, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2025 i3 videos megapost

  

  As a part of MIT’s unconventional housing process, rising first-year students typically consult the MIT Guide to Residences while they fill out their housing survey and choose where to live on campus.…

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 2, 2025
• Blog / Travel

  [liveblog] morbing at the airport the flight is delayed for several hours because of toilet issues

  

  I’m doing a misti internship in the uk this summer, so I’m at the airport to fly out. I have been stuck in purgatory (aka. boston logan airport) for so…

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 1, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  friendful life recently

  

  one of my labmates has a friend from elementary school who was on the latest season of love on the spectrum. another labmate watched it and told me it was…

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 30, 2025