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• Blog / People & Identities

  HAPPY THANKSGIVING!! 🦃 Yara has a peath sign on her head!

  

  there in the name). So, I figured I’d use this post to give thanks. I’m thankful for the opportunity to be home in Michigan for Thanksgiving. I ... .” Unfortunately, they’re all wrong. Because MY mom is the best cook. To the extent

  • by Hala K. '29
  • November 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  making solar cells lessons from my nanotech class

  

  out which produce is closer to ripening. in one of the labs we built an ... like magic to me - in the sense that the material was so far beyond my ... that they were the exact same: i’m not going to talk much about the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 15, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  information. It’s probably one of the most interesting concepts in the world to ... listening in on breakfast conversations. “The curse of this degree is that now ... chemistry and the recitations they had to attend or TA. pika gets much louder

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iap: this year vs. last

  

  't like very much, so I dropped it in the second week and didn't even log a ... + friends right in my dorm. the good thing about quarantine is that it makes ... choreographing 4-5 hours a day for the entire month in preparation for Mocha Show

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 10, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  meandering my nonlinear academic path so far

  

  major. 6-9 is a very flexible major: you can decide to focus on the ... how much I enjoyed being in the makerspace, making physical objects that ... classes. In order to take 2.007 Design & Manufacturing I (the robot

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  things work out following up on confusion

  

  wrote Axes of Confusion. In the end, what let us decide to dedicate last ... happens in the this Michael Jackson Music Video)! Coding is now fun ... in the process! Also fun fact: Nisha is also in this class and we are

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 9, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  GET A BIKE very important psa

  

  've left around 10 and gotten to class in time!! what about the infamous 15 ... get to MTC in under five. WILD. this is so revolutionary for me ... my bike in a car and driving down to Cambridge. and the benefits are

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blagoblagz*: Why I’m a History Major at MIT (Guest Blog!) By Dora '11, who is a Physics and History double major and is super awesome.…

  

  relationships with professors, something that is much harder to do in the larger ... is 1120 A.D., and the fates of four empires hang in the balance as the ... made a pact to share the fruits of their research and resources in a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  in spurts and spasms, and it can hurt. The transition is not a straight ... of, in order to graduate from MIT), most freshmen take some sort of ... continue in 8.012 or drop down to regular 8.01. The unfortunate caveat: I had

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a few new things is it too late to talk about the spring semester?

  

  least five times in the past few months, but never gotten around to ... semester in order to present you an honest picture of life at MIT. There is ... . The reason I keep coming back to this blog post, however, is that even

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Ambulance! Ambulance! So I'm in this serious long-term relationship.

  

  It is four days into IAP and I have yet to sleep in my own bed. In ... that?? is that even REAL??). All of our student EMTs are certified in the ... /7 urgent care, though we take most emergent patients to the surrounding

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have such cool friends! A guest post by a good friend of mine from my undergrad days.

  

  first UROP at the robotics lab. In the same way that I had wanted to ... much alive, which is perhaps the greatest benefit of choosing ... yours, in fact! But I did want to write briefly about something really

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Part 3 Helping the Class of 2010 with their decisions.

  

  The third in a series... With fewer than 10 days to go until the May ... , another anon, the email address doesn't seem to be the one in our database ... aid is resolved. We want you to be able to make the best decision you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Parafilm Effect The center cannot hold... unless you stick it together with Parafilm.

  

  the people living in my suite, we were using it to seal off cell ... 's used in pretty much every research lab in the entire world. Even Glad ... film for numerous uses in the typical laboratory including the typical

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coffee Talk Random things I love about MIT #1

  

  -Set for the day is: how much transparent concrete would I need to safely ... ) but it still reminded me about how much innovation there is in an essentially millennia-old technology. MIT is in on the concrete re

  • by Dave McOwen
  • September 13, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  CPW, making a decision, and saying yes/no The clock to May 1 is ticking.

  

  Now that CPW has come to a close, the Class of 2013 is starting to come together quickly. The national reply date of May 1 is rapidly ... enjoyed CPW as much as I did. It was great to meet many of you at the "Meet

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  My Rejection Resume working up the courage to look failure in the eye

  

  school. That's totally okay. In fact, the point of this post is mostly to ... interview was on 6.004 material, and I happened to be in the Intro to Caches ... "]really lucky[/annotation] to get into the only company I applied to seriously in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Freezing My @$$ off at CPW By: Andrea '11

  

  . Although I didn't make the most of the free food (I was having so much fun I ... As promised, I offered the chance to write a guest blog to prefrosh during CPW. This is just the first installment. There are many more coming

  • by Bryan
  • April 16, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  Doesn’t Feel Real getting from one place to another

  

  for the course is to pick a spot in nature relatively near to Boston, go ... using accommodations to take breaks in the middle of the school day is not ... , or the buzzing returns to my brain. Even if it is in the middle of the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 24, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  in a funk and salvaging hope

  

  , but it is a lot to put into words at the moment—so I have chosen to ... .   4   I have a quote and poem to share. quote "In the ... . “Hope” is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2025