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• 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 ... and Computer Science (6-2), and I wanted to write a blog about MIT

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  busy semesters and how to manage them it's organizational structures all the way down

  

  I am, by nature, a fairly disorganized person. This sometimes ... there to be a method to the madness: maybe [annotation note ... "]Notion,[/annotation] or Dynalist, or whatever other popular strategies people swear by. In a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 10, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  Vicennial wikipedia says this means 20th

  

  in a couple days, after this eight-week vacation. For now I’m wandering ... high school, and definitely not in the workforce, but not quite a college kid, either. College is itself a sort of bridge, with trappings of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 9, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions ...and happy thanksgiving!

  

  Hi everyone, I'm taking a short break from reading applications today ... comments. Hope these answers help! Have a wonderful and safe thanksgiving. -B ... could attend it for that. now i got a problem in november test due to

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  How I got recruited to play D3 soccer at MIT the college sports recruiting process

  

  The college recruiting process can be a confusing world to maneuver ... definitely intimidating and tiring at times, ended up being a great decision ... . I’m a senior in college now, meaning I did my recruiting process

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Learning about the ABCs Apple Bake Competition, At Burton Conner

  

  . It’s a competition where people bake a lot of goods with apples, to celebrate the bountiful fall harvest of apples and give us all a reason to use ... -picking outings that MIT dorms help subsidise. For most people, it’s a great reason

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 29, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  this ain’t (not) Texas yee, and I cannot stress this enough, haw

  

  get to the parking garage, and my rental car agent greets me with a ... question.   These little things reminded that I was, indeed, in a new ... super desert-y. You do need a car to get around, but some areas are

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 29, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I swear this isn’t an ad for Google But Bard is so much more fun than ChatGPT

  

  Earlier this year, I had planned to write a blog post testing whether it’s possible to train a machine-learning model to learn Course 6’s new ... very controversial among students, but I think it’s a big upgrade from

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  november again conversation with myself

  

  was bright but unforgiving. i’ve been wearing a lot of red, sort of ... to dye a blue streak in my hair but it came out grayish-green, so i ... past month. i crocheted a red scarf for myself earlier this year, and my

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  what we mean when we say the people why we like “the people”

  

  groups + orgs, etc. rather than the student body as a whole or grad ... D students. i don't think this is necessarily a good thing but it would be ... , personalities, and backgrounds that MIT offers. One can argue that the people as a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 25, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  rating classes from this semester the good, the bad & the underrated

  

  , and aesthetics are not so interesting. But maybe I'm in a sentimental ... science classes in general; as a math major, I feel like a lot of concepts ... "just trust that this works." But I like how this class had a flipped

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  Super Sketchy Background Activity the experiment, part 3

  

  , wrote some things, designed some things, and gave away a bunch of playlists. You know, vibes and all that. A year ago we expanded on the idea ... asked them to animate and score a Pi Day video…even though they had almost

  • by kellen manning
  • June 5, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  10 Fun (and REAL) Facts About MIT! Incredibly Correct Facts about MIT!

  

  students to the "Way of the Beaver," a doctrine created by MIT students in ... - Little COOP of Horrors Underneath the MIT COOP store is a basement that ... yourself down into a terrarium and make yourself the leader of a mini alien

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 1, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Last Times waving goodbye to my MIT experience

  

  At some point, when we got kicked out last March, there were a lot of ... that some of them are so very final. Earlier this year, a friend of mine ... , because honestly, some of them are so mundane that I'll forget them in a few

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 22, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part four) senior trinkets

  

  usually include a picture of the ceramic mushroom itself in these posts. But right now, it's wrapped around in a blanket and shielded by pillows, all stuffed in a cardboard box that is locked away in a storage unit. We usually

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 24, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  mit bingo! as done by the bloggers

  

  ^-^ Abby: “been to verdes after 2 am”: I had a radio show from 1-2 in the morning my freshman fall and would often stop at verdes to shop in a completely silent store. “failed an exam”: I got a 12 on a 5.12 exam even after

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  a brief respite finds me on the second floor of [annotation note ... ground; it falls with a feeble “clunk.” exhaling, i attempt to mentally outline the rest of my day, but a [annotation note="i've gotten the freshman

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  misti musings sugar, spice, and everything nice

  

  9 to 5 gig down to a skill. Wake up, go to work, code, go for lunch ... to think, to really process things, to take a breather and, in the ... company I’m interning at put us up at a very posh apartment-style hotel in

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 28, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  about this place I would call home, and I felt a drive to be social, to ... "]the answers to those questions,[/annotation]and this place feels like a home and not a brief and wild summer camp, and so I’m starting to be able to hear

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Experiencing Psycho in Full G(l)ory Sharon L. '21 joins the blogs to talk about movies and art by and large

  

  Growing up, I wasn’t always a fan of movies. It may have been an ... culture myself, and took a few weeks in the start of the summer after my ... crazy how much a few years of perspective could bring to the movie

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2018