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• Blog / MIT Life

  the children yearn for the snow quarry 120 bricks, 80 man hours, 3 tons of snow, 2 forts, and a partridge in…

  

  rolling in soon, this unfortunately means 12 am on a Monday morning... Step ... generally three useful roles in large-brick-snow-fort-construction: First ... deep in the snow--you might end up with large amounts of goose poop mixed

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Rediscovering en Plein Air Painting by Elisa X. '26, MEng '26

  

  [annotation note="Essentially, I am starting my MEng in EECS while completing a ... undergrad degree with the rest of my class in Spring 2026 then with my MEng in ... friends really knew I painted in the past, mostly due to the occasional

  • by Allison E. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.2050 – Field Programmable Gate Awesomeness Featuring my “aggressive and weird” cat robot

  

  intense – in addition to simulating our designs in software, almost everything in 6.2050 is built into physical hardware. Plus, my advisor ... , but it has also been one of the most rewarding. In just a few short

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  BREAK MY BODY, LIBERATE MY SOUL a student-made installation in the Stata Center R&D pub

  

  in the heart of the Frank Gehry-designed Stata Center, the icon of architecture of MIT's campus, lies a pub. it opened in 2004 and was used for at ... stumble across. in my time, I've heard it being used for parties, scavenger

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  A Part of Me or apart of me?

  

  also clearly note where spoilers begin and where they end.) 1. Voices In ... with my posts until I deem it cringe"] Song:[/annotation] Voices in my ... , imposter syndrome just sort of, exists. It’s a voice in the back of my head

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 22, 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 ... , it's not like you're the oldest person in the company by any stretch

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

  the happy ending is you thoughts related to relationships

  

  of your life) i. people who haven’t been in relationships tend to think the hardest part is initiation. as in, everything would work out if ... everyone who has been in a relationship agrees that maintenance is orders of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 21, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  perception but who *are* you?

  

  Over the summer, I’ve centered on a fear that I have in graduate ... happen. I’ll write some paper, it (hopefully) gets published in some ... some point in my grad school life, I’ll have to come up with ideas and be

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 18, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Senior Fall Classes Better late than never

  

  of the big reasons we decided to take course 6 classes in the first ... it resulted in some sort of 3D art! Here are some of the things we ... in the scene are reflective) and keeping track of where they intersect

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 25, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m doing this IAP i guess i need to be more specific

  

  May. In between the two semesters, during January, is Independent ... .6721 Negotiation Analysis, which meets for 8.30-4.30 for three days in a row towards ... dollars in prizes, and an opportunity to work on software-related projects

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  My First Semester at MIT a thicc recap and a look into our conversation

  

  percentages. But for the time being.. This Semester, I... ...participated in an ... , watched Bachelor in Paradise, and just had a really good time goofing around ... and explore topics you might be interested in in a fun and unique way

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  The Art of Scheduling breaking and forming habits

  

  For the past year and a half I lived in Cambridge, worked full ... .[/annotation] I'll write about that experience more in depth in another blog, but ... -time employee is time. As a student, depending on what you're involved in, you can

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  ramen this is a ramen post.

  

  've been sitting in, the [annotation note="in japanese, menma"]bamboo shoots ... person would consider young: safe to say they’re in their twenties and thirties. the people in front of me are conversing quizzically about their

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Logistics and Planning packing, housing, strategy, and events

  

  . And if I miss something, feel free to ask additional questions in the ... sleeping bag. Space in the room might be limited, especially if your host ... you absolutely have to. Space in the bag. Ok, not really something you

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s trending?: My Computer Vision final project Where trendy styles = adding styling to trend lines

  

  developing algorithms resulting in the high-level understanding of images by a ... from a line graph: the overarching trend. Given a line graph in pixel ... , decreasing, or neither? The challenge: identify the trend portrayed in a line

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to miss deadlines at MIT Policies for late assignments, and ways to keep your grades afloat when life inevitably happens

  

  anything attention-demanding the next day and can can crash sometime early in ... pset - I found myself lying in bed awake at 4 a.m. And then 5 a.m., 6, 7, until literally I had been lying awake in bed for 6 and a half hours

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • October 12, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Summer Reading List The exciting hobby that I never have time for during the school year...

  

  or if I was just ignoring them. I would get so engrossed in books that ... finish) in lieu of Purple Hibiscus and Unbearable Lightness, because last summer I was back home in Colorado, and also traveled a bit, which meant I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 5, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  That wasn’t skiing, that was falling with style! Guest post by Katy Kem '16

  

  prefer to spend the duration of IAP with the MIT Alpine Ski team, living in a cabin in New Hampshire, and skiing all day every day. Yeah, I ... , though I’d never competed or formally trained in any way. As Winter Break

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48, Part 2 Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do…

  

  of classes I gave in my last post, we're left with the question ... with friends or with activities I enjoy. In spring of 2013, the questions ... . At this point, I've probably gone far too far in the opposite

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wooo Summer The goal as usual is to do ALL the things

  

  ended, but I'd like to sum things up in one post and just get it all out ... hours in the forges of MIT creating metal alloys and casting them.  During ... in the future.  I am now considering doing a concentration in either

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 15, 2013