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• Blog / Class Projects

  Make a Lamp! and cart the pieces of it from IDM to IDC, the forge, Metropolis, and back…

  

  machine in the Hobby Shop for smoothing out wood. Andrea: pokemon lamp ... This fall, I enrolled in EM.S21: Design and Make a Lamp. It's a 3 ... Management"]IDM[/annotation] and the Infinite, as in, it's in the basement. The

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Heartbreaking Lunch of Staggering Genius I'll write about campus dining some other day.

  

  waited for the bus from NYC to Boston in a cramped doorway whose grimy ... , in the midst of dispossessing my own kidney and grapethirsting for ripe ... closets and slurping their eggs half-cooked in cereal spoons for breakfast

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 3) notes from the third day

  

  seats in the lounge car are very full as we prepare for the journey over ... were a lot of people contending for seats in the observation car earlier ... concern, therefore, is that a winter storm warning has been issued for

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 13, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Passing along some e-mails, and my responses to them.

  

  high school senior asked: I am applying to some schools in the US for ... provides a "broad base" for physics at all. The approaches in the two fields ... have any chance of getting in?? I replied: Thanks for getting in touch

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  classes im taking this semester! the classic

  

  help, in addition to regular traditional office hours that are meant for ... = "stands for Independent Activities Period, in which MIT students have the ... papers for my UROP. In this way, 24.09 has indirectly served as a constant

  • by Angie F. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedilemmas Schedule + dilemma = most incompetent-sounding portmanteau ever

  

  -scalding hours in preparation for an all-bacon dinner for 40 people, packed two ... , discovered three new species of granola in an unexplored section of the pantry, preheated an oven to the wrong temperature in Fahrenheit but exactly the right

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 7, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  partner Cory and I have been together for almost nine years now. We met in ... smell of the wet morning air in the early autumn and the hope I had for ... people who do. In grad school I was in a department for zoology and botany

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Scholarship for future engineers Chance to win $2,000

  

  ? Want to be an engineer? Then consider applying for the 2008 Future ... Chapter website (ashraeboston.org). They are awarding 14 scholarships in the amount of $2000. The deadline is May 30, 2008. For more information: http

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  motivation musings as i look back on the year

  

  fixed. For three straight weekends in June, I went on hikes. My road ... again, without a need for always trying to better oneself — in essence ... this. i've always tried to strive for happiness in the present, and it

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’d Like Your Help With My Letter to President Obama… What I'm up to in 21W.747 (Rhetoric) class these days.

  

  I'm in a cool HASS (Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences) class this ... box, every political speech, and in the vast majority of conversations ... coach, Dave Hunter, attempts to motivate us for the next period using a

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • December 1, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  finding meaning at the end of the world i alone determine my destiny

  

  , so what more do i have to ask for in life? sure, i want to look ahead ... thanksgiving break, i'm waiting for mystery hunt in january. heck, i'm even waiting for those internship rejections to come in. it's shortsighted, but

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  My IAP All the snow has melted since I took these pictures.

  

  : specifically, we help build and maintain tools and we playtest (as in, do) the ... latter late, I get to live in my undergraduate dorm for two extra semesters ... started working in the Sabeti lab at the Broad, my thesis lab. This is the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 19, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Done (this summer) or Why I Haven't Blogged in a Month

  

  . For now, I’m struggling to coordinate communications between people in ... prepare for—I’ve talked to alums who have been in the bubble for 30 years, and I, too, will likely retreat to the bubble in the fall. For now, I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Seventh Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 4PM on 01/09/06.

  

  applying to MIT as a Freshman for the 2nd time in a row. I sent 3 letters of ... because this is a real problem for me, getting them in the first place was ... propensity for these subjects in high school generally run into trouble here

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  An interview with AoPS "What Kinds of Students Does MIT Look For?" but ASMR

  

  how we think about issues that have been discussed on the blogs for a ... hopefully there will be something in here for all readers of the blogs. Eric ... come in the door and that you're ready for MIT's really challenging, fast

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  here in Kuwait. It is vital for me to receive my admissions decision ... this fact in the application good enough for the admission commitee? (The ... some really tough courses (3 science subjects and 2 Maths in A Level) for

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  turn in a pset or three, but that’s what P/NR is for, and I stopped ... aside, I don’t want to forget my laundry in the washer for two days; I don ... , who did arrange for me to have accommodations in the interim.. and then

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  Taking the L: Part ✌️ My goal was Heaven anyways.

  

  with them in the beginning, and I am paying for that now. 😬 [carousel ... signed up for it. Apparently it was not. I have not turned in a single pset ... . I wasn’t making room for God. In my scheduling and in my day, I only

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  lookin’ at the blur of this semester and ahead at the next one!

  

  this semester focused on projects for classes: I built a cactus lamp in ... them. However, in total, 72 units was too many. I skipped most of my ... in at 6 am and promptly went to sleep. This wasn’t a great use of time

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  living away from home lessons learned

  

  I've had my fair share of time with roommates and friends in the past year and I've learned a lot. I lived for the first time with friends in a ... need space. You're not a bad roommate for going into your room once in a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2021