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• Blog / Majors & Minors

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

  

  and meticulousness were the defining traits of a good engineer ... it did.  At the end of my freshman year at MIT, I declared brain and ... because of cool space applications. The idea of black holes and dark energy

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

  Happy Valentine’s Day from MIT Because theobromine is delicious.

  

  in the long run that only degrades the full impact and true value of ... dedicate the full measure of their time, passion, and energies to admitting ... diagram of chocolate and one of the most hilarious love poems ever written

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Night at da Opera A Jolly Splendid Time!!

  

  ="it's like the difference between just living in a town, and being a citizen of that town. The citizen actually cares about the wellbeing of the town and ... up for FOUR HOURS of a thing I didn't even understand! And the

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 1, 2025
• Blog / Events

  BLOOD MOON FEST IS REAL!! "the blood moon rises and the blood moon falls but the wave of whimsy it…

  

  . The morning of, Anoushka and I got to work in the kitchen, but waiting ... Blood Moon Fest. After some Blood Moon Chanting and the indulgence of ... tools, we resorted to variations of stomping, kicking, and throwing the

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  social groups a different angle on the 'i found my people in college' trope

  

  in the first twenty years of my life, and so when i see everyone in ... of due to the inevitability of group conflict and breakup, and because ... be this is why the philosophies of self-care and self-help and

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots Here's how I spent my summer.

  

  to join the team of 10 UROPs that made this happen. Our first order of ... ... ... the joys of making ice cream with liquid nitrogen ... ... and MIT ... competition began. Since the summer and fall versions of the game are quite

  • by Piper '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  turn the dial to 88.1 hello caller, you're live on the air.

  

  my season pass the first day I had it; I just never asked to go back ... WMBR, the MIT radio station, invited a few of us to go join him on the ... come down to the studio and do 30 minute shows, I might impersonate a

  • by Bryan
  • August 21, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Ich Spreche Kein Deutsch. Apparently that's how you say "I don't speak German"...not that I would know.

  

  two words of the language native to the country you'll be traveling to ... Deutschland. I'm going with four other girls as part of a MISTI (MIT Science and ... girls and I hope to do quite a bit of sight-seeing. We especially have our

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 3, 2010
• Blog / Events

  SNOW SNOW SNOW! And other festivities.

  

  So yesterday I saw the first real snow of the season!! (come on, the ... was walking out of Lobby 7 after spending the afternoon teaching my last SAT class of the semester, and I suddenly saw specks of white fall from

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / Events

  A Latino Christmas An introducción to Next House's newest student group.

  

  Latino students paraded through the halls of the dorm playing accordion and ... weather. Two days ago it was 15F and sunny, and parts of the Charles had ... list: "Apparently a lot of people are curious/furious about the parade

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • December 11, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Hello, Layover (Part Two) Electric Boog-a-loo.

  

  upperclassmen, many of which directly contradict each other. The latter point and ... 've been there, and we know it's a bit of a shock when you fail your first test and you can't answer half the questions on your first pset. All we

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 23, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goodbye goodbye goodbye what's in store for me?

  

  for the first time in my life and I will be simply doing whatever the ... the rest of my life now? But on the other hand, I know that this chapter of my life is done and that in order to grow we need to put

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

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

  

  first meal was a huge plate of salmon and eggs. [caption id ... 's who in the following series of pictures, you haven't read enough blogs ... are names of real places. I've been here for two days and I'm really

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

  24 Pumpkins a journey through the streets of Boston

  

  of leaves (shoutout to the folks who are making these), and trying a ... way. Amongst other things, I’ve been taking pictures of the changing leaves (for some reason, the trees on campus are sad and brown, while the

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  You Gave Love A Bad Name A night of talent.

  

  . Last night, it was made a smash hit by Michael Borohovski and the Sexy ... to serenades. Some of the acts from the night included my former ... of a 4" PVC pipe and a sheet of plywood. He also gave a short physics

  • by Bryan
  • October 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  So let’s build a snowman. In the moat. One of the better ideas I’ve had in a while.

  

  probably one of the more epic things we’d done in a while, and proceed to ... lifting though (mainly, me just lifting it and making the two of them feel ... . :) Coolest moment of IAP: sitting in the student center and hearing someone

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Why I haven’t posted in forever In picture form, no less.

  

  minutes ago and writing the first 2 lines of this entry, I remembered another one. But I've run out of actual lines on the sheet, and had to ... going insane. Unfortunately, one of the "fun" items has the description

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wish I Joined the MIT 100K as a Freshman four years of this would've been great

  

  , and journalists, all eager to see the next wave of MIT startups present ... reusing it. Finally, Smart News won the Audience Choice Award of $2,000, and ... Natalya Brikner and the judging panel   At the beginning of this year

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 8, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Retreat! Retreat! 24 wonderful hours of sister-time in the MIT mansion!

  

  prepared by a gourmet chef. The retreat was a mix of bonding and business ... -out was amazing, considering we’re a month into the term and the first round ... ? Surely I provide plenty of material on this blog), event planning, and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laura Stonehill: Designing Italian Pedestrian Bridges Laura Stonehill spent a summer working at a civil engineering company in Venice, Italy.

  

  the weekends and spent a week at the end of her internship traveling to ... bridges, the Ponte Celestia and the Portanuova, for a military area of ... site layouts and she was given the freedom to size the elements of the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 24, 2005