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• Blog / Community Projects

  [Guest Post] Designing the 2025 East Campus Rollercoaster by Zack I. ‘27

  

  wheels, and other similar rides & attractions. All of our projects ... licensed City of Cambridge structural engineer to ensure they are safe enough to build. This process takes the better part of the year (or a full

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • June 18, 2026
• Blog / Uncategorized

  “Hala’s Escape from Groundhog Day” season 18 episode 98

  

  like I’ve fallen straight into that movie - the newest victim of its endless loop. Welcome to season 18 episode 98 of my life: “Hala’s Escape from Groundhog Day”  After a week of orientation, I - embarrassingly

  • by Hala K. '29
  • October 13, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  concord market is finally here!!!!! feasting at MIT's on-campus grocery store

  

  -campus grocery store.[annotation note="The earliest mention of LaVerde's I could ... . Maybe it's existed since the beginning of time."][/annotation] Sadly, in the winter of my sophomore year, LaVerde's permanently closed its doors

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 21, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t forget to check in with yourself On living with intention

  

  ’ll delight in for the rest of my life, probably in part because many of my ... there are just a whole lot of stories to reminisce about and tell over and ... challenge of growing as a person, but I’ve since learned that it’s a false

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final projects from the fall three coding projects and an alien in disguise

  

  the last several weeks of the semester, I was so relieved that I didn ... ratings were high, but it ended up being one of my favorite classes that I ... autostitching, or automatically stitching together separate images of the same

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Classes

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

  

  It was the morning of the second or third day of classes and I had ... listening in on breakfast conversations. “The curse of this degree is that now ... of forty people at dinner. But mornings feel cold and quiet and serene

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to make a glass pumpkin In celebration of the 2023 Great Glass Pumpkin Patch

  

  " align="alignright" width="300"] Concept art of a glassblowing gremlin ... teams of glassblowers who gather for a few hours a day to make batches of ... out the blob of glass with a tool called a “block” and blow a small

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  thank you notes before i go

  

  , especially this last semester, memorable and good. Here are just a few of them ... reiteration of my Peace Corps rec letter for you, but let this be a public display of my affections. I am incredibly grateful that I happened to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Your credit history is too short and other adult things

  

  , for the longest time, I thought the idea of "building credit" was ridiculous. The going advice is that you shouldn't go over 30% of your credit limit, and that you should pay it off when you can. This kind of all goes

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  “the worst they can say is no” the costs of trying

  

  fun of by everyone in the grade. You'd exposed your own vulnerability and hadn't even gotten any benefit out of it. And middle school students were vicious. Pretty much everyone has passed through this phase of life

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 10, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  beauty is overrated

  

  adjacent to beauty, but beauty does not give others the feeling of an elastic ... about the kind of beauty that arose from symmetry, from clear skin or a ... ’s overused, I think, to the point of meaninglessness. I don’t want my

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Best and Worst Places to 💩 on Campus

  

  's one of my favorite classes I've ever taken at MIT (even though I had to drop it 3/4ths of the way through the semester). One of the assignments ... tool, or a visualization of some dataset.  We had the choice to make

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my last first day every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end

  

  ’ll be living in Central Square with three roommates - one of us a teacher ... of did them for the last time, and this time it’s different. As a ... into and out of East Campus for the last time. I still need to take

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what i drew this summer i took an art class

  

  much else to learn. But in the last year or so, the old dream of doing a ... prickling in the back of my mind again. When I was in middle school, I wanted ... Explorations of Drawing (Advanced), even though I wasn't sure how (Advanced) I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Intertwined Relationships — for me — have always been about choices.

  

  My sophomore year of high school I ate too many donuts. When I woke ... fact of my life now; I’ve made it a joke.  I feel like throwing up, I say ... complaining about being nauseous. One of my friends said to me, Oh no, I hope

  • by ana~
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  a small moment in time on failing...*very long sigh*

  

  still remember walking away and feeling like my blood had drained out of ... to walk through. In my head was a mix of regret, anger, sadness ... moment of failure and that I continued to exist after it, because the world

  • by kellen manning
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  from me to you burn it all down

  

  of things to write about—there’s always something going on in my life ... keep slipping through my fingers like wisps of smoke. Every week, I feel ... keeping track of how many fire alarms each dorm has has since 2021. to our

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  just vibing tough times out here

  

  One of the things that MIT teaches you really well (among many others) is the value of time. In high school I thought I was learning this ... , many too many things. By several orders of magnitude,[annotation note

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  lessons on burnout 2020 made me realize things

  

  last couple of years in high school, I was in a near-constant state of ... too much, having too many interests, putting too much of myself into my ... takeaway is that starting in around fall of 11th grade, I was constantly just

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 12, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  “I’m vegetarian now!” Two months, twenty-four days, and goin’ strong

  

  , maybe more -- but apart from a few bites of poke, the last time I ate meat ... ."]September first.[/annotation] I’m kind of surprised that this has worked for me. I ... can make up for it by eating a lot of beans and eggs (and sometimes fake

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 25, 2020