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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…

  

  of acrylic and hung 3-D printed stars from it. The lamp hangs from the ... learned about all types of making, from woodworking to 3-D printing. I was ... ourselves. The head lecturer, Andy MacInnis, had a lot of woodworking

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Halfway Through MIT Where I’ve been, and where I’m going

  

  wonderful result, reflecting on the midpoint of a journey through MIT as well as a collection of significant places Mitali frequented. I hope you ... . But it’s also a bit of a comfortable spot to do some reflecting and

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hosed life the last few weeks

  

  state of business, stress, and exhaustion; swamped and overloaded with ... a firehose. Here's a quick look at my calendar and a recap of the past few weeks.   WINTER BREAK It's been a whirlwind of events

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 20, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  in a funk and salvaging hope

  

  ='MLK-inspired: “The Arc of the Moral Universe is Long, But it Bends Toward Justice ... its ways of wading in and out of life it never goes away it will always be a part of who you are it just takes on different forms some

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  in wonderland hello from the number side

  

  the point of unwritability. I would probably still be re ... that you can describe yourself in terms of probabilities. If my electrons can be unsure of where they are, then so can I! Unlike my electrons

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 16, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Digging through old bookmarks time for some blasts from the past

  

  ”, from the University of Warwick. I first read about it in the Math ... and share some of the old bookmarks I was digging through today. It's a window into the kinds of things I was interested in three to five years ago

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Was Great in the 1800s (and it's still awesome today)

  

  diversity throughout history. At the beginning of the 20th century, the ... and Latin America (read more here). At the beginning of the 21st century ... fun parts of MIT culture from the late 1800s, showing how eerily similar

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2017
• Blog / Community Projects

  Blown Back to Oz the close of the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition: day 4.

  

  University of Southern California, for instance, had a mission score only 80 ... On Sunday morning the Design/Build/Fly team rolled out of bed at 6:30 AM, roughed up and ready to fly on the last day of the competition. We

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Row, row, row your boat aka varsity sports at MIT

  

  alarm go off at 6am. A lot of people seem to think I’m crazy for waking up ... it any other way. The home of MIT rowing is the Pierce Boathouse ... think of the boathouse as kind of a second home. It’s where half my

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 27, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  A few nights ago I insinuated that there was a list of questions ... work? Is the program composed of self-starters, with very little peer ... work hard? Is hard work a virtue or an expletive? Is there a lot of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part four) senior trinkets

  

  This is the fourth and final installment of our sentimental objects ... usually include a picture of the ceramic mushroom itself in these posts. But ... time to do so before we left campus in what was the craziest week of our

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Actually Doing Things or not...but actually, really

  

  A lot of what an engineer does is makes things more efficient. As I ... action. The ELLs we’ve done for the past couple of weeks in GEL have covered that. Let me explain to you my life in the context of those ELLs in

  • by Stanley G.
  • November 20, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on a desk? That which we call a workspace by any other name would look as depressing...

  

  ’ll be in Columbia, MO, hanging out with my little brother and his dog ... , both of which were yesterday. It’s funny how slowly three hours passes by ... structure elucidation problem… Anyway. The point is I’ve done a lot of work

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do Alums do? Are you exceptionally forward minded? Already thinking about what you'll be doing as an alumni?…

  

  . By the end of the night, we had people coming over to hang out in our ... you Stanford!!!!* So by now you might think you have a fair idea of ... past weekend, Snively and I were invited to be a part of a start

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Making Tracks

  

  be, hanging on to memories of your senior prom and of the countless ... I just turned nineteen, and the journey billed as the first year of the rest of my life is meeting an anxious end. I'm still in the same

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  See me, feel me, milq me, heal me Picture entry! Don't read if you're on dialup! DON'T DO IT! Sorry, but it's for…

  

  I have a lot of free time tonight after finishing my 21F.401: German I listening assignments, courtesy of the LLARC. I'm still not very good at it; I transcribed one line of dictation as "Wen essen Sie?" which

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I want you to burn Unfortunately, usually somebody just blew up their spaghetti-o's.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The word meaning "the closest approach of an orbiting ... floor is arranged into suites of 4-10 people each. This means that for a ... Target refrigerator from Omaha, NE in the back of your parents' minivan

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

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

  

  paid trip to MIT  consisting of hanging out with the THINK committee ... about the MIT THINK Scholars Program, which I had the privilege of taking part of during my junior year of high school. Now as a college freshman

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] A Note to the Class of ‘28 by Andre H. ‘24

  

  This year, Jeremy, Nikki, and I were in charge of the Admitted Student Welcome and Closing Show—two of the flagship events of CPW. Jeremy ... , wisdom, and honesty about some of the tough parts of MIT, so I asked him if

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 21, 2024
• Blog / Personal Projects

  I painted my door! and it only took 2.5 years

  

  that added another degree of freedom. I tested out some options on the ... knows how many times, and each one has a story, whether it's that of the ... at the start of my sophomore year, the door was not only blank, it was

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 19, 2022