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• Blog / Challenges

  cookies life lessons through six scrumptious sayings

  

  Call it big-boned or call it taste, but I've always loved [annotation ... ??"]cookies.[/annotation] I grew up as a massive baker, and every December I take it as a mission to bake as many cookies as possible and hand them out to people I

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 13, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  New Year Resolutions in Fall An ambitious list of things I wanna do that probably won't get done

  

  pretend it’s December 31st and start making a list of things I want to ... list probably won’t get done anyways. So here are some things I wanna ... , iPad, or laptop Watch the sun set and rise from the Green Building

  • by Richard O. '28
  • August 31, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  meet the simmons elevators! aka me thinking wayyy too much about elevators

  

  I’m in one, I have no choice but to ponder the machine surrounding me ... hear her whir to life and go straight to you like a personal chauffeur. I ... in mechanical box form and if she was a real person I think our

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 12, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Curseroad MIT class roadmaps that shouldn’t exist but theoretically could

  

  explicitly designed as such, I like to use CourseRoad as a quasi-MIT simulator where I test the limits of how one can graduate from MIT. Perfect for ... Laboratory"]6.2220[/annotation] together) Will I graduate? (Yes... hopefully

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  Introducing the baby bloggers! but read it intrrrrrrroduuuucing, like I'm a very excited announcer

  

  bloggers. And I am so excited for you to get to read their work! [image ... -so-closet romantic and beautiful poet, who has drunk more milk tea than anyone else I ... gap year which I just think is freaking awesome, who is on a quest to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / Events

  MIT Mystery Hunt is happening! watch the kickoff at 12 PM EDT today, 1/15

  

  Hello! I'm writing this very, very smol post to tell you that the MIT ... of a hidden coin. I'm [annotation note="I am on the same team as Shuli! I will probably write more about this later."]participating in hunt

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Navigating Offcampus Housing 101 finding housing is a fucking nightmare

  

  This summer, I lived with some other sophomores from my living community. I went home until the end of the semester and moved in mid-May, so I wasn't involved in the process of finding an apartment. I'm told

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 11, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Taylor Pons from the First-Gen Program #FirstGenPride

  One of the coolest parts of my job is that I actually get to spend a ... community what it is!   Hey there MIT Blogs! I’m Taylor, and I work in ... is that I was trending one time on Twitter (lol). Did you know that

  • by DJ Rock
  • April 14, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  How to be Tim The Beaver anyone can wear the mask.

  

  popped up on my phone, I knew I was born for this moment. So for everyone ... mask. You can wear the mask. If you didn't know that before, I hope you do now. Cuz I'm [Tim the Beaver]. And I'm not the only one. Not by a

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • November 4, 2019
• Blog / Hacks

  “futility island” socially conscious hacking? in MY institution?

  

  't just stop at bringing it up to all their friends like I did (maybe their ... , although I may be a little gullible, their sign is so well written that I thought the art installation was put up by a real institute committee! I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 25, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Evaluate your MIT Student Experience Dear {{FIRST_NAME}}, Every four years, MIT surveys all undergraduate students about vario...

  

  [annotation note="this email came on monday, and i had time to kill (which is rare) so i sat down and filled out this incredibly long survey ... ;             I'm not sure

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 27, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Solar Eclipses and Bloggers bloggers around the country all watching the eclipse

  

  sun.   Elizabeth C. '13 and I watched the solar eclipse from ... before the event officially began. Through eclipse glasses, I was ... light. I fiddled around with the ISO and the aperture until I snapped a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 22, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  How to CPW! Advice from all the bloggers, with love.

  

  warm clothes. I’m wearing a ski jacket as I write this…no shame in being ... ) "I’m not from a particularly warm place, but I’m from a dry place, and ... I hate most in life is soggy socks :( Whatever you do, don’t show up

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Follow Me: A Video Tour of Campus in which you get to hang out with my friends and walk around MIT through…

  

  I made a video-thing! During the second snow day of the semester, I ... wonderful readers out there. I followed them around campus while they talked ... to spend your next 21 minutes, then you're in luck. Boy, oh boy, do I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 23, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Mocktails happy new year new you

  

  It's 2017 now according to the Gregorian calendar. I'm a frosh.5 (RIP PNR). I am currently about 1700 miles from MIT, physically where I was a year ago when I spent an entire day writing essays for a number of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  difficult: it has been truly painful. If you are among them, then all I can ... . I'm closing comments on this blog post to concentrate conversation ... . Congratulations to the Class of 2020. I wish all of our applicants well. No matter

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  merry christmas from MIT and my newsfeed a snapshot of holiday cheer from cambridge to new zealand

  

  . See more: The eye of the storm. This christmas, I decided to un-wind by ... ; Since I'm still here for a few days, my flexible family is just ... ever, except maybe DJ Khaled. Scrolling through my facebook feed, I was

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • December 25, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Listen to Admissions: Holly on applications, art, and action team an experiment in the sounds of admissions

  

  Earlier this summer I sent out an email to the office asking if ... reason I love working with Holly is because she's always down to try ... and I finally got to sit down and talk about ourselves. The transcript

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 4, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Walk of the Strandbeest "New life forms" with PVC skeletons march on the Media Lab

  

  new nature. I make skeletons that walk on the wind so they don't have to ... surviving the elements such as storm and water and eventually I want to put ... captivating creatures. They were much smaller than I expected them to be, but I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bump MIT students design products

  

  build cool things and truly embraces MIT's Mens et Manus mentality. I don ... a thing! In the past couple days, I've spent 40+ hours in lab helping ... ...). Sometimes, I don't sleep well at night because I'm worried about 2.009. Yet

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2014