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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…

  

  ’ve invested so much time. Going to bed early sets you up for a better attempt ... , which means I am responsible for what I like to call “the soul of the car ... , our 550-Volt custom battery, controls algorithms for torque vectoring

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Personal Projects

  The Oreo Post i tried them all* !

  

  blogger for five long (and excellent) years. I have tried SO MANY Oreo flavors. And the time has come for me to share what I learned with you. I have to admit up front my cardinal sin: I have not tried all the flavors

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the classes I took freshman year feeling scholarly, part 1/2

  

  lot about my feelings and about experiencing MIT for the first time ... year. I only noticed it now, but my class selections for the fall and ... difference being that in the spring I took an extra math class. This makes for

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 18, 2021
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  one hour of musings we're so back

  

  this blog. Limits define creativity, or whatever. I've been away for ... subsided, at least for a wee bit, and I'm excited to be back. — Is this ... with D-Lab. Self-built homes there require retrofitting for adequate

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 10, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Joint Post] Chatting with Hank Green, the MIT Commencement Speaker interviewing Hank + sharing student stories!

  

  ’ve been a fan of Hank (and his brother John) for basically my entire ... for good. They nurtured my love for learning in and of itself. Plus ... , but my respect for him is very real. I wouldn't have been surprised if

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Above Ground now breathe

  

  meant to last for. Because I don't know what that next thing will be ... ground. I'm no longer drowning, and I'm just antsy for some project to get ... blog on these outfits"]outfits for presenting,[/annotation] not that this

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 10, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus No exams woohooooo

  

  Longfellow and stayed in the garden for a little bit before signing myself up ... -tuning the software for SandScape, but I'm also going to start updating the code next week for a different project called TRANSFORM so that it can

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 8, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  ungestalt twenty-one years of wandering

  

  've stayed up until five am for most of the past week, working on construction, preparing for hall rush in east campus, worrying about the activities midway ... from the german word for "shape" or "form". the famous example is kanizsa

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 4, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  it’s thanksgiving or something and other things happening in my life

  

  ended up in esp. and as paolo said, i'm grateful for Every Single Person i ... for, what, a month and a half now? it's been two weeks since my last ... as in enclosed spaces for extended periods of time, so this year i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 26, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Got Us iPads! [UNBOXING VIDEO] ft. my cat and my new apple pencil

  

  signed up for an iPad. I decided to transfer my data from my personal i ... plans for the fall, most people reading the FAQ immediately scrolled to ... who made this, but thank you, and thank you to my friend Eren for

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Subtle Art of Being Unhosed what i've learned and what i'm still working on

  

  on a bunch of applications for something that I’m not ready to announce ... to do, whether it’s a chore around the house or something for work. So ... start making time, even if it’s literally just ten minutes, for me. Life

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  To All the Blogs I’ve Loved Before Hello? Is this thing on?

  

  I first set foot on campus about five years ago for my MIT Admissions ... up running around madly and using the compass on my smartphone to ... of college, I searched for opportunities at nonprofit organizations

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • December 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: “Nerd Epistemology” with Woodie Flowers from the co-founder of the FIRST robotics competition

  

  and pedagogy together for effective learning. I blogged an overview of ... education is perfect for the modern word. With the ability to outsource ... . Now, machines can perform calculus operations for us, but it takes a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Selam’s First CPW Some thoughts and odds and ends~

  

  did get myself involved in things (hooray!). Today I went shopping for a ... CPW Midway for Chinese Students Club, and our Noodle Extravaganza event afterward. Then, I’m going to Chocolate City for Ill Vibes, an open mic sort

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 18, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music, Photography, and Two.js i am proficient at two (2) of these things.

  

  . Luckily, I live close enough to home so that when my parents came up to ... artistically. For my Jazz History course, I've been listening to a lot of jazz ... for my photography seminar. I have 24/7 access to the darkroom in the

  • by Joe B. '18
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer begins And I get a brief vacation.

  

  for the weekend. That was yesterday. Today, we woke up late, spent a ... : "hey all, i'm sorry for the noise coming from the kitchen bathroom - i ... rate i will be done in the next 15 minutes. again, thank you so much for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 25, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  retreating and proceeding favorite thing about mit's campus? leaving it

  

  (Looking for a CPW Post? Read Rachel's! Looking for retreat ... substitution, or u-substitution, in that monthly amounts are probably good for ... up to offer an overnight retreat involving students, staff and faculty

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 13, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  A Letter to CPW Prefrosh let the onslaught of CPW-related posts continue

  

  " for the rest of his life), Middle English and the Canterbury Tales (they ... a science essay, and impact crater formation. Lisa is here early for ... going to be here for CPW itself - ESP is flying me to California, to teach

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Jellyfishing and other ways to recruit people to your organizations

  

  Jellyfishing...GEL-ly fishing? Get it? Fishing for new GELs? Maybe it's too late for clever puns, but I'm posting anyway ... Stata Center attempting to do my homework for EID (ESD.051, Engineering

  • by Stanley G.
  • March 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mistakes & the inspiration we need to move on

  

  wanted for myself. I think one thing that gets underestimated here is the pressures that we put on ourselves. Each of us here has high expectations for ... for the tests was honestly the worst experience for me. I stressed so

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2012