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• Blog / Personal Projects

  I exploited the infinite worm glitch experiencing motherhood for (thankfully) the first time

  

  (I have to  creep along the sidewalk and keep a 10-ft radius around any ... , but hundreds of them, each of which I would have to raise, decapitate ... . So, I was determined to become the best worm mother out there.  Pre

  • by Leanne F. '30
  • September 22, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 A Questions Omnibus is a post where I answer your lingering questions left in the…

  

  For those of you new to the blog: a Questions Omnibus is a post where ... ... Anonymous asked, "are you definitely coming to South Miami, FL on Sept 11 then ... school doesn't have one) but am planning to take the exam?" Here are the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  quite fitting. I recommend, though, listening to Sorry-Grateful here ... application that I wanted to write blogs that I wish I had read when I was ... , but you’ll grow to. And you’re going to be very satisfied that Mrs. J is

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT part 2 our experience trying to prepare for the animation industry at MIT

  

  have done at MIT in an attempt to illustrate that, despite common belief ... ] figured out that our career goal is to work in the Animation Industry, we have been reflecting on what skills related to animation we’ve learned at

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 22, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Wisdom of Khan revealed the MIT secret

  

  little I can add to Khan's awesome address, so I will instead link you to ... honor to be here at MIT. Not only did I spend some of the best years of my life here, but it has proven to continue to define my life in countless

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  all the classes I didn’t take you seem pretty unsure for a girl so in love with her major

  

  -wide Drop Date, where we choose either to abandon ship from our most hopeless ... , it might also be worthwhile to tell you about what I didn’t take.  We ... typically how students decide which classes to take during registration. This

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • April 14, 2026
• Blog / Personal Projects

  10 things I learned in 10 projects a run-down of my making misadventures sophomore year

  

  quest my sophomore year to [annotation note="actually I think each ... the lightning bolts, I wanted to connect the earring ring to the back via solder wire. Solder doesn’t take to every type of metal the same way

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  soulsearching / coding in which i ramble about careers

  

  've been here for more than a month, I wanted to check in and find out how ... … Xian: I used to worry about being the oldest intern in our cohort, since ... . Xian: I realized that, after talking to the rest of my team. There

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 26, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Raskolnikov as an Odd Metaphor on angst and deferral

  

  supermarket and it is absolutely DIVINE with honey"]tea[/annotation] to ... advice people give is, “Don’t procrastinate.” To which basically no one ... Caltech, which I was also applying to EA. I was completely in love with MIT

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  everything is actually going okay and i think that's pretty cool

  

  lot i don't really have anything to complain about right now, because i ... -conscious about how often i make blog posts. my ideal is to make a post once a week ... backseat to the other things in my life. in my mind blogging is either one of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  lord, it is time for a blog post the huge semester has gone halfway by

  

  I disappeared into the battlefield of the semester, not to be heard ... to anything like it again. Yet, somehow, sophomore spring got even ... myself, going into junior fall, that I would have to make things better

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 13, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In Our Bedroom After the Pandemic a bedroom is something that can actually be so personal

  

  could get to black without my parents becoming upset with me, and an ... trying to develop a style. I’d had other bedrooms, before then, like when I ... too scared to sleep in alone in the Dominican Republic. They were mine

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Embarrassing One Minute everything that can go wrong...will find a worse way to manifest itself

  

  from conception to development to iterative improvement to final product ... fair chunk of the grade to participating in various forms – whether it ... Autobiography), or giving several presentations to a classroom full of your peers

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  documenting his work completely rebuilding Gus, which (he told us) he planned to drive to Cambridge if admitted.   I still have the first email I ... Atlantic to begin his studies as a Marshall Scholar. The Marshall

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  semicircular lecture hall as Professor David Darmofal, soon-to-be fluid/aerodynamics lecturer, welcomes us all to a year of Unified Engineering, a year-long, four ... building the first rocket to take astronauts to Mars. Some of my classmates

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  Head over to /r/confession and you'll find this post lurking near the top.  Since Reddit tends to cycle through content pretty routinely, I ... valedictorian. I like to think that I deserved to be valedictorian; that I am

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Fun in NYC Part 2 Hold on, this is a long one. Tons of pictures though!

  

  , and tie for me while Maddie just packed clothes to put on later. I brought nice shoes but there was no way I was going to wear them all day, so ... issues. It was hard to sleep on (bumpy) but we got some naps in. When the

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The good advice The many different flavors of advising at MIT.

  

  moment, I am dedicating myself to writing entries on a couple of under ... advising, the freshman is assigned to an MIT faculty member or staffperson, who holds meetings on or near registration day to discuss potential

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  b.i.r.t.h.f.d.a.y.c.a.k.e because i really think having friends determines awesomeness you cherish and keep enjoying

  

  they planned to host at Tina’s apartment. As two[annotation note="obligatory Mince mention"]Mince members,[/annotation] we wanted the cake to be yummy ... , almost everything.” And so we saunter off to the Whole Foods in Central

  • by Emily P. '28
  • October 13, 2026
• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  helps people who build web applications talk to each other in different ... for Windows. I travel more than I used to, mostly to visit friends who ... games,” [annotation note="CJ tried to explain but I refused to follow, on

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025