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• Blog / Class Projects

  weld your own bike and other IAP activities

  

  man, I was. The smell of the forge is of ash and polishing wax, not ... is less caught under the firehose, so there tends to be more ... the weld will sit atop the workpiece and not fuse much of anything

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 1, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  GET A BIKE very important psa

  

  ...you're chilling! biking in the city is Scary it's really not that bad lol. Boston ... astounding!! i'm currently living near the MIT Museum, which is a couple of ... useful bikes are is...untimely, at the very least. however, i can say that

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Don’t feed the squirrels In which I work with gifted children.

  

  . (This dorm is pretty gross, by the way. Each floor has its own unique ... squirrels, they're almost as vicious as the chipmunks). These include not ... actually happened a few years ago, which is why the rule was implemented in

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 5, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Most Importantly, No Reddit This is actually how people lived.

  

  just using the plug not five minutes earlier. I then unplugged the laptop ... ample time. (Note, for the record, that I absolutely will not be pulling ... On Friday evening, I made the disturbing discovery that my computer

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  swatches of MIT collected like paint chips

  

  drabs.   This is for people on the fence, for those who aren’t sure what MIT is offering, or if the experience here is worth all the work. This place is hard, in all senses of the word. It cuts you to the quick

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2022
• Blog / Travel

  [liveblog] morbing at the airport the flight is delayed for several hours because of toilet issues

  

  airport) for so long that blogging is the only thing that can keep me sane. the toilet got clogged and the gripping plot is slowly revealed over the course of the next many painful hours. Is the blog still live: Nope (last

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 1, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Four years, four summers The stuff I've been up to every summer at MIT.

  

  Summertime, and the livin' is easy... and there are tons of awesome ... were three blocks from the White House. Rose is a fantastic cook, and ... would cook, and I would do the dishes. (Note: If somebody who is an

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Imbibing the Nostalgia Punch More akin to jumping on the bandwagon than drinking the kool-aid in that it is…

  

  virulent microbiomes compacted into the carpet. My 5W is not this hallway but ... College is generally held to be the last enchanted shore of youth. My ... measurable ways, life is largely the same, just with 10pm-6am work inexplicably

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  The American Astronomical Society’s Winter Conference: 2013 Edition THIS IS SO EXCITING I THINK I'M GOING TO CRY

  

  "soon", but all I remember is trying very hard not to faint. Then, the ... . "We're not far enough to be over the Rockies." He then explained that ... 're shallow on the west side and "very jagged" on the east side, that this is

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 15, 2013
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Leavetaking and homecoming

  

  ’ve come to think that home for me is not a place, not yet. It is the things ... like toads."]story.[/annotation] The back yard is still mostly weeds ... -hopping in Europe, where ‘home’ was not the bed I slept in but the backpack

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a ranking of building 68 thesis defense posters graphic design is our passion

  

  is my definitive ranking of all of the thesis defense posters I've seen ... be mean. This is ultimately why I chose to black the names out ... , which makes it overall not too bad.  12. The Assembly and Functions of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians How many MIT graduates have been in the Olympics? No, not the Science Olympiad...

  

  relatively slow, since the track was soft since the Stadium had not been fully ... stadium is named for him: Henry G. Steinbrenner Stadium. The most recent ... thought I'd take a look back at MIT athletes who have participated in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Answered Questions, answers, and Sam's face. This is the real MIT.

  

  's just the better choice. (Yeah, Apple's really not paying me for any of ... kind count, but that's not like the science club or something. I have ... something that I would not want my mother to read, which is even more awkward

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  re-orienting REX et al.

  

  , but still some. I was not alone. Just the feeling of anticipation also ... person’s return, tied to all the memories from the past year. It is as though, in the past year, the sun has finally risen, and now each person is

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 19, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  A sporting chance

  

  'd love to know about it. Not the same few colleges: Bryn Mawr College outside of Philadelphia, PA. Sorry, gents, this one is just for the ladies ... or 9 years old and have been ever since. After the Red Sox' big

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 22, 2004
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Whoa…You’re Old Bryan returns from the crypt of grad school

  

  that the life of a graduate student is not as exciting as an ... realize is what makes MIT the place it is. It's safe to take risks; it ... nothing about. That's what education is about. So to all the new students

  • by Bryan
  • September 8, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Congratulations! You have been named… Time Magazine's Person of the Year!

  

  One of my favorite books ever is The Revolution Will Not Be Televised by ... 's not what it's about. It's about the oxymoron of the 21st century ... Time Magazine's Person of the Year. It's you. The person reading

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 18, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Wandering through the Infinite 3.5ish years of wandering MIT, squeezed into like one month

  

  't visited MIT campus, is the very long (but not infinite) corridor that runs ... basement is generally referred to as Infinite 0, the main hallway is referred to as Infinite 1, and every floor of the Infinite above that is indexed

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Want To Build a Robot? it doesn't have to be a robot (see: electric gokart section)

  

  Below is one of the robots I built for 2.007, MIT's extremely popular ... receiver on it.  It's not pretty, but it drives. At the end of lab, my ... .  ~~~foreshadowing alert~~~ March Early as it is, it's time to start thinking about the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  That rings a bell Made of brass?

  

  . As is often the case, there is that worry about me being scammed or ... the vacuum back. Not a scam!) And these don’t even consider the many ... board game and gaming meetups (think Blood on the Clocktower, not Dungeons

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • January 21, 2025