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• Blog / People & Identities

  first time in cdmx and first time out of the US, but not the first time having an ethnicity…

  

  Last week, I left the country for the first time! This was really important to me for a couple of reasons: I had a premonition that I was never going…

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 15, 2025
• Blog / Summer

  The Courage to Change Even Through the [Tough] Mud[der]

  

  Last summer, I got into running. And it was really fun! I enjoyed it a lot! So much so that when my friend offered me her ticket for the Cambridge…

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 11, 2025
• Blog / Travel

  clownazoo part 2 this post is two years late

  

  In case you have not seen part 1, I posted it near the end of my freshman year. I am now going into my senior year. I think I may…

  • by Anika H. '26
  • August 1, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Guest Post] Because Racecar, Friendships, and Family By Monica C. '25: "What I’ve learned about being an engineer, friend, and teammate by…

  

  This is a blog by Monica C. ‘25 about her experience on the MIT Formula SAE team! Eight years ago, her brother, Kevin C. ‘17, wrote a guest post of…

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Take Me *Home* to the Ballgame By Claire S. '25

  

  Of all the things to happen in college, I never expected baseball to become the antidote to my homesickness. I’ve always been a fan of the St. Louis Cardinals—it was…

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Robots, Space, and the Stories In-Between Using Sci-Fi to Procrastinate

  

  One thing about me is I love science fiction. Whether it be movies, books, shows, or short stories, science fiction always gives me an opportunity to imagine life in a…

  • by Richard O. '28
  • July 30, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my hottest STEM takes actively starting internet wars

  

  I famously have perfect taste, and with little to do over the summer, I’m left to just sit around and ponder endlessly, refining my taste and opinions indefinitely. I offer…

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • July 28, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  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. '26
  • 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 ⁠16 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