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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 ... post of his own about his time on the team, so now we’re bringing it full ... time on the team, requiring us to learn how to build a custom gearbox

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Joint Post] Interviewing Two MIT Physics Heroes An Interview with Two MIT Physics Professors that are Departing from MIT.

  

  community here on campus and beyond. [caption id="attachment_115687" align ... these two professors have had on our institute in their time here and ... Department. “Eventually, the physics department said, ‘just concentrate on

  • by Richard O. '28
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Living Meaningfully and all the things that has entailed

  

  apartment laughing at funny text posts and Final Fantasy 7 fan art on ... Bojack Horseman while gorging on Meredith Farms goat cheese and the ... snowboard. I went on long bike rides and appreciated how beautiful California

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Room Where It Happens my two year tale of student governance, up until the bitter end

  

  me as I cried on and on about failing my first class, the desk workers who let me miss shifts when the world felt like it was coming down on my ... home, whether it lives on one day in sub-communities in other dorms, or

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 13, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Room, A Short Story This story is somewhat weird and slightly dark. Reader's discretion is advised.

  

  weaved around the vehicles. On the other side of the room, Melissa stood ... can of Budweiser on an adjacent wooden table, accepting the cup of water ... from him, on the other side of the hemisphere. Or just how nerve

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 2, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen: The Sequel! I've written about it before, and now I'm writing about it again!

  

  another blog entry. I saw an ad on Facebook for the "Livescribe Campus Rep ... , and introduce the Pulse pen to people on their campus. It's a smart move ... , somebody else paid, and all I had to do was show up at the airport and get on

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Our nation’s greatest injustice I didn't exactly grow up in poverty, but socioeconomic inequalities have featured heavily in my…

  

  Middletown, NJ, the residents on the south side of Highway 35 look down on the ... tired of getting looked down on, so they turn further north and deride the residents on the north side of Highways 36. Obviously not everyone in my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  Earlier this month, I asked for your reflections on the application ... . Ryan, Pennsylvania Click on the image for a flash animation: Carla ... in going on and to avoid being homesick. I think I will cook my own

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fifth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to blog comments from the last month.

  

  I've been working on this one for weeks, but you guys know what the ... decisions will be made available online for RA '06, but we are working on it ... friends on which I can write on in my essays. I would be so grateful if you

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  looking at old journals gap year chronicles, ft thoughts on science, art, and moving through the world

  

  and carried on. I wrote a lot while I was living out of my car ... at a gym with a shower, as various vanlifers on YouTube recommended. I ate a civilized meal of canned beans on a plate, which was the last time

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 23, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint post] Welcoming you to “Here at MIT” student art in the new welcome center

  

  the story of one particular piece of art: the Story Wall. On its own ... stretch of blank tunnel wall on the east side of campus. Then they added ... super cool ways. Most people on campus have seen some of Borderline’s work

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 3, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Eighth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 5PM on 01/24/06.

  

  Answers to questions received through 5PM on 01 ... on the SAT writing section debate, if there really is a debate, but ... ? When I took the AP Calc exam last year, the directions the graders get on

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Take Me *Home* to the Ballgame By Claire S. '25

  

  . Knowing I had friends I could lean on helped make this place feel more like ... eyes, I'm back in the car with my dad, listening to the game on the radio ... on steroids), tennis tournaments, and math competitions. I'm back in my

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [liveblog] presenting at the Open Sauce maker expo! built a funky microscope with my friends

  

  recovered in a year) More on this later, maybe. If you want to sign my cast

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 20, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  clay crash course one month of wheelthrowing later…

  

  , and one-time workshops, I threw on the wheel for an average of eight ... , sat right next to St. Mary’s stop on the green line, across the street ... and wrought-iron gates, with a high square window on the facade. Then it

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Top Ten of All Time; 2024 Edition ft. Barack Obama aka Minesweeper Monday EP 2

  

  In this episode, which was most certainly posted on a Monday, I talk about making a pizza, and how Simmons hall doesn't have a sheet pan in any of the 6 kitchens, but has a muffin tray in every single one?? None of

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 7, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  DO YOU WANNA BUILD A SNOWMAN?? I KNOW YOU DO

  

  one where snow actually collected on the ground and that I was awake for ... displayed on the TV, a large quantity of fake lei, and half the attendees ... ’t end here. As snow began to actually build up on the sidewalk, I went to

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions to be Posted Tuesday, 12/17/24, at 6:28 PM ET exactly what it says on the tin

  

  decision on the 17th, visit apply.mitadmissions.org/apply and go to your ... on your phone like ripping off a bandaid, maybe you want to be on a ... on these blogs with some open threads for you to chat with people who

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 10, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  *THE* double a room tour from an (only slightly) obnoxious duo

  

  sometime around 3 am, sharing food on the sofa of our freshman year suite and ... Boston. Soon enough, of course, we found ourselves actually back on campus ... ,105890" caption="missing the normal version of WNRS which is currently on loan

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  learning how to drive and other matters of identification

  

  some luck based on your circumstances. It's going to be a bit harder if ... friends who do know how to drive. Impress them on aux with your highly curated playlists, and realize on the highway that there's a little piece of

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 12, 2024