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• Blog / Personal Projects

  1 Fish, 2 Fish, a Lot of Fish, and a Snail Putting a Big Box of Water on my Dresser

  

  a 20 gallon fish tank inside of your dorm room"] and more than what MIT policies would allow[/annotation] ). So of course, I realized I ... researching and actually putting together an aquarium so here's an outline of

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 30, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s the middle of November. Do YOU know where your Early Action application components are? How to tell if they are missing, and what to do about it

  

  (relatively small but still nonzero number of) Early Action applicants for whom we are still missing a component of their application. Typically we have pretty reliable email delivery, but just in case some of you didn

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Spoofy Spooky Stories MIT is ~haunted~

  

  cast sharp shadows across the road, cutting gashes of total darkness ... are some of them. All based on true stories, of course.  For those of you who are applying to MIT EA, the deadline tomorrow is probably one of

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 31, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  then and now a reflection on the very bad

  

  didn't know how to respond. My mom pulled me out of school after that, even though we had a couple of days before spring break. "Useless fucking ... ?" I kind of just stared out the window without saying anything. I felt

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: CrowdMath, by Art of Problem Solving and MIT PRIMES, is a thing now a brief note in between committee breaks

  

   founder of Art of Problem Solving (AoPS), an online school and community for ... -tier research mentors and an exceptional peer group. MIT PRIMES and Art of Problem ... both Richard and AoPS, along with lots of other great programs and people

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2016
• Blog / Announcements

  The First-Year Application for the MIT Class of 2026 is now live

  

  -year undergraduate admission to MIT for the aspiring Class of 2026 is now live. You can ... remember that, as I wrote last year, we do not give any kind of preferential ... /ACT requirement for the 2021–2022 application cycle as well.   I asked members of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2021
• 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 ... [annotation note="One of the most eventful days of the UROP, haha"]random day ... one sleeps in them. Instead, everyone sleeps on the third floor of the

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

  MIT ‘10s: Prom, Graduation, And Other End-Of-Year Photos Here are some photos sent to me by various MIT '10s. Feel free to email…

  

  graduation in Hawaii :P" Send your MIT '10 end-of-year photos to benjones at m

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  to MIT certain of one thing: I would never be an engineer. In eighth ... the frustration of attempting engineering drawings. We would draw boxes ... paper covered in layers of faded pencil marks as I erased and redrew

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  moving on, as shown through free t-shirts some spring cleaning

  

  I have never read any of Marie Kondo's books, nor have I claimed to ... . Although it's definitely some form of undiagnosed anxiety or minor mental ... freshman year of high school, I didn't put up any decorations on my walls

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  the Big Rocks are calling and I must go MITOC winter school!!

  

  . So I try to turn to the thing that usually does a good job of making me ... covered by soft ice. But if I can get myself out of the house and into the ... the promise of skies with no end, soft ice touched only by the wind, and

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In which I “get a life” again reclaiming my childhood hobbies

  

  Over this past summer, I spent a lot of time filling out all of those ... question, as if I’d never snapped out of the trance of college apps, and one of the most common ones I noticed was “what are your hobbies?” But

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 12, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fall Adventures a day in rhode island, maine, and boston

  

  baking cozy desserts, love comfy sweaters, and generally love all of the ... during late September, I made it a goal to make the most of autumn ... exploring Boston more than I did the first few weeks of school

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 6, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Video games I’ve played this semester trimps, mother 3, hades, and vampire survivors

  

  Slay the Spire Bundle for Palestinian Aid I'm the kind of person who ... hours. Sometimes I play new games too. I have a huge backlog of games ... to battle. You colonize more and more of the unfamiliar planet you find

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest post] Eating Your Way Through MIT The story behind Chop Stir Hack, an MIT student food magazine

  

  of MindHandHeart-funded initiative to make an MIT student cookbook to ... below, Elizabeth '13 and I were modestly involved at the beginning of that ... proof of concept. I am so impressed by where the CSH team has taken this

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  short term / long term on growth and learning

  

  out of place with recent events. I've tried a lot to figure out how to ... exactly pinpoint my feelings, tired of repeating the same old "I don't feel ... internship, like I've been telling people. It's a subgenre of sorts, meant for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 10, 2020
• Blog / Class Projects

  Final Project Demo Roll if only they were more helpful to the world at large

  

  For those of you who have been following my blog posts this semester ... vast majority of my classes, and created some pretty cool things, even though everything was online and the motivation loss was real. In light of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 1, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  WMBR: College Radio at MIT will anyone watch the entire 36 minute video? probably not

  

  One of the first things I did when I got to MIT was join the campus ... ="aligncenter" width="313"] another perk is the incessant stream of emails from record ... version of history. My [annotation note="Though the station is now operating

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  next to normal on mental health

  

  content warning: extended discussion of suicidal thoughts.     i recently listened to the soundtrack of next to normal, this 2008 musical about a mother who struggles with bipolar disorder. one of the more

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  musings on duty and purpose brought to you by slow ambles through lobby 10 at twilight

  

  contemplative lately. In my first few weeks here I had tons of questions, but they were “easy” ones: how do I register for classes? If I use the last of the ... , apparently, is a lot of much bigger questions. Questions like, “what does it

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 13, 2018