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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thinking Positive Sophomore year was kind of awful. But there were happy things! I'll focus on the…

  

  can be fun, but it is hard to find a way to balance everything. The good ... , and I even got to read some of my own work on my friend Valentina C. '16 ... easier way to put that. I wrote about my first semester in my post called

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  one sleeps in them. Instead, everyone sleeps on the third floor of the ... in Cadlab, one of the MIT Lab spaces on campus. If you can call it a ... :30 - Lunch at Chipotle Unfortunately, there isn’t a lot of food on campus

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

  Back Why is it that breaks go by so quickly?

  

  I can't believe winter break is over. My time spent on vacation flew by ridiculously fast, and now, I find myself back on campus, wondering ... of cool things: one of my floormates is studying abroad in Madrid

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 3, 2010
• Blog / How to MIT

  Tips and Tricks to MIT What I have learned in my first semester at MIT

  

  me long time to learn all of these new subjects at MIT." It is more of ... . For many of us simply going for the A isn't good enough, we are going ... MIT. For those of you that don't know, the first semester at MIT is on

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 5, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] A Journey to the W I D E by Wide Tim (Margaret Z. ‘23, MEng ‘24)

  

  hall to a post somewhere on Instagram. I even have a little sticker of ... his 3rd birthday, and he's celebrating some of it right here on the ... autumn leaves, the winter Ice, and the bikes on Memorial drive; Words of

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Remember? A Blast from the Past

  

  , mustard-yellow couches, perfect for me to jump on when I got tired of my ... were beautiful. Standing on one of the wooden ledges, I had a clear view ... lectured on the immorality of thievery. She studied me for a little while

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  making solar cells lessons from my nanotech class

  

  good decision, as 6.2540 is now one of my three favorite technical ... the last month you work on a project where you fabricate something of ... before it can be sold, because supply chains don’t have a way of figuring

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 15, 2022
• Blog / Class Projects

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

  

  spent on taking a picture of a guitar and making it look like a digitally ... all the projects on this list. It was sort of annoying that we didn ... For those of you who have been following my blog posts this semester

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nano @ MIT Puppets! Research! Nanotechnology!

  

  addition to taking classes, the best way to become part of the nanotechnology ... work on some of the more physics-oriented applications of nanotechnology ... , so I figured I might as well take this opportunity to clear up some of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 9, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ruminations and room-inations Written on the anniversary of one year ago.

  

  The past year in retrospect is a telescoping compression of proper time, collapsed into a high-speed parody of months that used to stretch ... disorienting, suffered the raw heat of August sunlight during Susan Hockfield

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 30, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Pageant and pomp and parade The whippoorwill of freedom zapped me right between the eyes.

  

  you a puppy. I awoke from uneasy dreams on the morning of July 4th at 5 ... awesome, and had been reserving a spot on the Esplanade right in front of ... for orchestra easily enough, although it's not on my copy of Queen

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 1 MITWE (+ FJE and VJE) go to Brazil

  

  giant water lilies. On the way, we passed the Meeting of the Waters – a ... I despise cupuaçu, but I’ll focus on the positives of the trip instead ... amusement of the others on the trip. [video width="640" height="352" mp4

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Wise Words From Mikey A good thing to read as you prepare to arrive on campus and begin your…

  

  okay on it, and never went any farther (I had heard of the AIME but wasn ... lot of fun and still get good grades in your classes!) Believe me, there ... I'm going through my in-box today, taking care of some long

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  rethinking perfectionism god i just want to get things done

  

  – even if I don’t follow every single tip I hear, it helps to hear new ways ... I have long been a fan of the corner of the internet known as ‘productivity youtube.’ For those of you unfamiliar, this largely consists of

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 8, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Freedom costs a buck-oh-five Question: What are two broke twenty-somethings to do on a pristine summer day in Boston?Answer:…

  

  's stop and Park Street, and a crowded shuttle bus wasn't on the list of ... cow I like this Red Sox cow because of the World Series ring on the ... Boston on Fridays and Saturdays. You can get pounds and pounds of produce

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 8, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  coronavirus, one year later recounting the craziest ten days of my life

  

  their hands on so much of it. Knowing the way that COVID progressed over ... home from MIT on Saturday, 3/14/2020, after getting kicked off of campus, as a way to remember all of the things that had happened. Brain dumping

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 6, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Order of Operations In what order should your application be submitted?

  

  'll hold on to it until the rest of your application comes in. The same goes ... Recently, I've been getting a lot of questions like, "Can I do my ... of this sort. You can do all of the parts of the MIT application in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Tchau! Labs vai para a praia! And the King of the Internet returns.

  

  way of saying I'm leaving. Yes, this is a goodbye post. But don't worry ... 've definitely heard of) and I wanted to tell you some good news: everyone there ... have very good programs that in some cases prepare students in a way that

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • June 26, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  sticker stories adorned on my water bottles

  

  slipped out of my backpack on the plane...silly me. I checked my location tracker (because I am crazy and put a really old tile on it) and saw it was ... interestingly organic that way. I also put stickers only on my bottle. I used to

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Battle of the Bands "Rock on and come to CPW!" ~ Thomas Jefferson"Chris, you made up that quote from…

  

  , and Crossroads meet in the proverbial octagon on the second floor of the ... is I! Yes I will be sitting on the panel of three judges along with ... ://lmc.mit.edu/battle. Battle of the Bands is put on by the MIT Live Music Connection ( http

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 7, 2010