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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…

  

  the car is not working, I often ask myself this question. [caption id ... This is a blog by Monica C. ‘25 about her experience on the MIT ... technical prowess. This year is the largest technical jump we’ve made in my

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  socializing safely ...but also leaving my room maybe once a day

  

  , but is it enough? should I be trying harder, given that the majority of ... don't know what the healthy balance is. my process for meeting up with friends is ensuring that the friend/someone in their group has been tested

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 15, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Reuse Poetry Giving things away

  

  most of it is pretty mundane. The author of MIT Reuse Poetry takes Reuse ... Appearing shortly on the bench outside of the first floor nautical museum is a ... Wars republic commando (this reuse pile is cashing in on the latest Star

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The second-to-last first two days of class Having classes 3 days a week rocks.

  

  achieve it, the result is the same: a couple of 24 hour periods each week ... . But of course, the real proof in the pudding is in the eating...only here, the pudding is classes, and the eating is doing p-sets. We'll see

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skullhouse Road Trip Seattle, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Austin, New Orleans, North Carolina, Delaware, New Jersey, and New…

  

  the past four years. Skullhouse may not be where we grew big but it is ... mission that we chose to accept is to visit the hometown of every senior ... is on Wednesday. At Seattle, we're crashing at the Phi Kappa Sigma

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  how to adult spoiler alert: no one knows

  

  eleven, not until you're almost twelve. That's the way it is.” working on ... ? each life has its ups and downs. all you can do is live the one you have ... Adult. And you don't always feel smart Adult either. That's the way it is

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  tryharding but still not enough

  

  just to keep my head above the water. 5.601 is more or less the same ... realized that, though; they stopped offering 5.60 which is the full semester ... different tutoring services. So all of the free time I had from not taking a

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and ends and Canada A study break, plus some other highlights of the week

  

  , not Hemingway's novella. I tried to split The Old Man and the Sea into ... , if not a roomwarming one. On the trek back to my room from the front ... , my childhood had taught me that the correct response to free candy is

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  . The remaining challenges mostly lie in engineering, not esoteric plasma ... not being right for me in the long term."][/annotation] Nothing else I ... their home rivers to spawn the next generation of salmon. This is really

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that

  

  . Not 30 minutes later, I found myself stuck (yes, stuck.) in the bathroom ... small town living, the recurring bit I’ve landed on is that, at the very ... of of United Airline’s weight limit— it was the perfect day for all of

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 9, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Green Building Challenge hex wins third place!

  

  Building 54) is the tallest building in Cambridge. When it was built in 1964 ... I competed in the Green Building Challenge as part of this year's Bad ... teams competed to see who could climb up the 18-story Green Building the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 31, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  Buying books You shouldn't have to spend all your money on textbooks!

  

  bookstores in Kendall Square. The Coop is guaranteed to have your textbook and ... ! That's CRAZY! If you're going to be taking the General Institute ... to sell books. Ask around your dorm, spam the email lists, and you

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome People of 2016 part 1 of an incomplete list of the greatest and coolest

  

  awesome people together. Sure, part of the group is reuniting next week for ... considered taboo, the play is meant as a tool for female empowerment ... (which, apparently, is quite useful). We reminisced about the fun times in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introducing Amino: Desktop Bioengineering for Everyone an MIT alumna makes a counter-top sized biolab that enables anyone to grow living cells…

  

  and continuous culturing." Here is the abstract from her thesis: With ... material -- sets out not simply to educate but to also be part of the early culture that metabolizes the changes underway. Amino is a design driven mini

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

  “…being a geek works out…” A UROP at the Center for Sports Innovation.

  

  streamlined gear. Not all of Cote's work is for the business world. An avid ... advances in aerodynamic cycling gear. Not bad, considering that Cote, 21, is ... Sports Innovation, whose mission is to involve undergraduates in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Hack Punt Tool: The Musical Now, the music can be yours.

  

  is accompanied by epic music (like all real hacks): The central ... . WHY? Because the soundtrack to Hack Punt Tool, a musical about MIT ... been released! A little bit of background, in case you missed the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 30, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  deep talks , strange person

  

  The weird thing about quarantine is that I'm actually being better ... to capture is ~the deep talk~. Most college students have experienced ... . Anyway, one thing that I've started to do with my friends is playing the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  A Texan’s Guide to Surviving a Boston Winter it's possible

  

  . This is what the East Coast looks like from an airplane window: I’d imagine that is exactly what Antarctica looks like. With the wet residue of ... wet. Not to mention, it’s also super comfy. Along with the socks, I wear

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 9, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Hawk Flies High Spontaneous jazz improv at 77 Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  the Kresge Oval with some friends. As we ran around, we could hear music ... night. At first I attributed it to the loudspeakers that blast rock and roll across Massachusetts Avenue from Bexley, but these notes were the

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • August 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Math = Broken Whatchu know about math?

  

  This OFFICIAL MIT blog is probably not designed for late ... Part II, 4) d?" Me: "No, solving for k was impossible, not even Mathematica could do it." Jon: "I know, the same thing happened to me. I think I

  • by Snively '11
  • February 22, 2008