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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life of a MIT Mechanical Engineering UROP Student I built an underwater robot :p

  

  Chuck, I helped design underwater robots for students at a university in ... discount on the Boston bike share system, called BlueBikes. For $50 a year ... is an absolute STEAL for when the T doesn't go where you need and you

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 14, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it’s been thirteen days since the Eras Tour began

  

  songs. Ready for It will never not be a banger opening song. I also ... ’t Blame Me vibe of songs. The live performances for these songs were incredible but also empowering for Taylor, which is really cool. In poetry

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 30, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [guest post] on undergrad by laura c. '23

  

  constantly doing is that it’s often hard to put aside time for small things ... someone who actually knows you. for the same reasons, I’m also more cautious ... ’t intend this post as advice for younger students, but I do want to put out

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  project class has regular checkpoints for a project: either the same project ... week, except for weeks when there's an exam, so there's around ten in all ... for a revised version. Or the deadlines will divide the semester into

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  COPENHELL a giant metal fest in Denmark 🤘🏽

  

  . I signed up for two twelve-hour shifts deconstructing the stages, and ... I came up with bucket list items for my first metal fest: crowdsurf ... , a wave of hand-horn symbols rose from the crowd. I understood for the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 28, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  dealing with loss it ain't easy

  

  I visited Japan on exchange for the first time. he lived right next to ... lifetime supply of MIT merch for everyone. since my host sister had visited ... family had been completely normal. I felt immense guilt for not checking in

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Eating Disorder Awareness Week – The Secret I Kept by julia p. '24

  

  . Before I start I want to thank Cami Meija for hosting my guest post! This ... For as long as I can remember, the world has been a scary, anxiety ... grade overall was good for me, as I found a new place where I felt

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 23, 2022
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Choosing a Major there are so many

  

  fall term"]FPOP[/annotation] for Course 10, ChemE, where they sent us ... fisherpeople in Maine to find responses that could be used to argue for a whale ... lives fighting for endangered species protection. I got the sense that

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 20, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  how to restore an old whiteboard, mit style four years of whiteboard wear and care

  

  the how-to :P This is a guide for how to restore an old, dingy whiteboard that: has marks or stains from heavy usage for a long time ... that hadn't been erased for at least two years — now, it works just fine

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 17, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] MIT THINK Scholars – A High School Research Program! From one side of it to the other

  

  receive $1,000 in seed funding for their project and mentorship from MIT students and faculty throughout the spring semester. Applications for the ... to think.mit.edu for guidelines and more information. We’ll be hosting

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  sundays in the parks with friends a post title based on a musical based on a painting

  

  friends for each trip. I also ended up getting a ton of photos ... Riverway and the Back Bay Fens, near the Fenway[annotation note="T stands for ... contemplated whether or not we could get a plot for the bloggers. Further along

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 15, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  The View is Worth It but you have to make the climb yourself to find out

  

  . Anyways, we had two motivations for this trip, and one of them was hiking ... famous hiking trails in the country for its scenic vistas, so as somebody ... definitely surpassed Switzerland for me as the most beautiful place on Earth

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  On keeping on keeping on It's pretty much the only option.

  

  . For those of you in transition years, graduating high school and ... was also (going to be) a transition year for me. I was determined to ... hundreds of miles away from the place I currently live, begin searching for a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Little things that remind me im not home

  

  -student-friends for suggestions, and I’m too lazy to format this in any coherent way, so ... 12!"][/annotation] Back at home, we use spoons and forks for ... .[/annotation] If you’re travelling, kilometers. Yards for textiles, inches for body

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 15, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits i answer a bunch of random blogger prompts

  

  Lydia K. so generously created for us bloggers who can't think of anything ... has already been done for me - check out this fusion performance of ... metaphor for the support that friends and family provide in one’s life - they

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Fight against Gender Discrimination in STEM an excerpt from a fall class paper

  

  the class now. 98LH was one of the required junior tutorial options for ... students for their senior thesis, so we read one long book or several long articles every week (for a total of ~300 pages a week) and wrote a 25-page

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 6, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  That wasn’t skiing, that was falling with style! Guest post by Katy Kem '16

  

  engineering (6-1). Joel has kindly let me write a blog post for him about my favorite thing about MIT – the ski team! For those of you who don’t know, at ... extracurriculars, and the ones I did attempt didn’t really feel right. Desperate for

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Breathless Why it's so hard to tell college students to ease up a bit.

  

  a long while, for dinner. We live farther away from each other this ... -ing for a class or two, and applying to grad school a year early (because he ... Italy for IAP. We’re all busy.” There’s a moment of quiet, after all the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded. 573 students, 10 hours.

  

  classes. For those of you who can't instantly divide numbers by 24 in your ... hard copy of my schedule for the day. Here is a Google calendar ... running around looking for the light switch, then ten minutes running around

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Craziest of Weeks I had one.

  

  books my airline tickets and hotel confirmation for my trip that ... motivation behind our team's product for the upcoming design pitches. Figure 3 ... experiments for my undergrad research project (UROP). I work for this guy on

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 21, 2013