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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Building a Robot in 3 Days FIRST X MIT Edition

  

  limited amount of time to design, build, and program a robot to compete. The ... participate. After a lot of back-and-forth with the coach - and essentially ... of my life. I spent at least twenty hours a week in meetings, then came

  • by Hala K. '29
  • January 25, 2026
• Blog / Classes

  How to build a Tamagotchi and the power of curiosity

  

  care of a virtual pet! My Tamagotchi, fondly named Tamako, was like the fetus version of a full-fledged Tamagotchi—it was capable of walking ... electronics to the point of designing them, and that had been something I

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 25, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Rats ! Foiled Again !

  

  I did… kind of poorly on an exam recently. This exam (which was for 6 ... could drop any one of my classes with practically no consequences for my ... reasons that this particular mistake happened, including the eclipse of

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  必须好 – pt. 1 just keep swimming

  

  , I stared blankly at a wall whenever I was hit with a wave of sadness. But when I felt a bubbling feeling of frustration build in my chest, I knew that a rush of tears would soon follow.  I went through a rush of

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 23, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Hate Superman. (I Love Superman.)

  

  the Great Depression, he was born out of a need for a hero. But I can ... is this behemoth titan hanging over all the weaker, new heroes of today ... flourish because of Superman’s control of comic and superhero media? What

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 16, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  food consumed this week, mostly free or: how to get away with rarely cooking

  

  lot of things,” to “Uhh… I mean… I certainly did. I actually have no ... what I eat. This is partly out of curiosity toward my own collegiate ... the best. Beast (2E) has food on the free food table nearly every day of

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

  starting over and over again

  

  guilty about it. I think I wrote a grand total of two blogs this past semester, maybe three, which for me is probably an all-time low. Of course ... -up of the firehose. But still. Back when I [annotation note="almost two

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  major uncertainty switch 2 A 6-2?

  

  was a solid period of time where I felt pretty set on my major. I ... concentration. Think of it as a flexible version of MechE. I was hoping to do 2A ... was super excited to take 2.007, which is one of the robotics classes at

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  people keep leaving their things in my room and other stories from sophomore fall

  

  character syndrome." I agree. I think my sense of self is a little too acute ... I found myself standing under the widest part of the Great Sail ... backdrop of the rain. It was abnormally warm – maybe as high as [annotation

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet My True Love: Notion a tool for stress-free college applications (and much more)

  

  Throughout high school and my first two years of college, I extensively used a Google Doc to track all of my class assignments and personal ... manually. I imagine some amount of sorting could be accomplished with a

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Friends, Part 1 a cross-registration love story

  

  Cross-registration is one of the most amazing features to exist at ... 't for cross registration, I might never have met some of my best friends ... Harvard friends when we lived Boston. The second part of this story (coming

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 28, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  breathing in and out

  

  common was the mention of ash. there was a lot of ash, which the wind blew ... far without ash sticking to the windshield of your car. there was so ... , an explosion of water, and rock, and steam, and dust, and ash. the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 12, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Being Sick at the Institute the firth law of therbodydabics *sniff*

  

  Hello friends, As you can guess from the title of this post I am ... full weeks of class at MIT (rather than three weeks earlier before we ... have no idea what’s going on in 6.006 (Algorithms), and “The First Law of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Some Useful Things Things that greatly enhanced my chance of survival quality of life at MIT, and lots…

  

  At the start of the semester a close friend of mine gave me her loft ... -averse but also terrified of heights, but it turned out to be a fantastic idea. Different dorms give different levels of control over furniture. If you can, I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 3: Koumon ou rele? Which is Haitian Creole for "What's your name?"

  

  Yesterday was one of those days where we were fortunate enough to have a cloud covering, so though most of the day was hot, it wasn ... poured down my face and into every crevice of my body. On top of that, the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Have you seen your mother baby standing in the shadow? A visitor's guide to Harrisburg, PA, with original soundtrack by Billy Mack.

  

  have a long history of watching awful horror movies (think The Evil Dead ... minutes before finally stumbling upon the new, extended DVD release of ... it would be a winner, since I had already seen it while rushing one of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 18, 2005
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Becoming a better programmer and why i'm excited about software engineering

  

  was programming. I guess that sounds odd; after all, isn't the point of ... there was left to learn. I didn't have a good idea of what separates a junior from a senior developer. Part of that was pride, and the other part

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 24, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  [Guest Post] An Overthinker’s Guide to Finishing Your Transfer Application by Warren K. ’27

  

  -time, so I had to budget my time carefully. I made the plan to do most of my ... making weren’t a good use of my time and weren’t making my application any ... that I had already spent the right amount of time working on it. Since I

  • by Jeremy W.
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Sophomore Stupid It’s morbin’ time

  

  the eventuality of winter break. [caption id="attachment_95733" align ... gave it my all. I used every bit of time I had left to slap together a ... said than done. tooling At the start of the semester, I tried to take

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  november again conversation with myself

  

  see my breath misting in front of me. when i looked up at the sky, it was bright but unforgiving. i’ve been wearing a lot of red, sort of ... dyed over it with red and of course, that’s refused to wash out for the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 1, 2023