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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Blockchain and the Niger Delta Creating a system for accountability

  

  laughed. The last I had heard from him, Hassan had been in New York, so I ... join Sela in the fall as CTO. That was how he got to New York, where Sela ... , Hassan (who is from the Ivory Coast) was always highly active in the Muslim

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 1) two trains, twelve states, 540 pictures, one Speaker of the House election, and more!

  

  ’re off! The Lake Shore Limited starts off in Boston and New York and joins ... , spotting the train from New York pulling in on the neighboring track as I ... wooden bench in South Station, just across from the Au Bon Pain. I am about

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  In mid-December a friend of mine, Jared '10, asked if I'd be interested in being on a team with him for a LEGO robot competition during IAP ... $50 registration fee later I was enrolled in 6.270 for IAP. The

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  How to Overcommit Responsibly sidequesting like a pro

  

  keep your HP and MP up, you’ll be unlocking new skills and leveling up in ... . Many of you new frosh just finished character customization this fall ... a new skill, doing research, or building an awesome project. HP and

  • by Anika H. '26
  • October 6, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Homecoming some musings on memory

  

  ’ll start knowing where things are. There are only so many intersections in ... leads you. One. Don't look: what's the color of the floor in the room you're in? Coming back to Valenzuela, my hometown, feels especially painful

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 13, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The coolest spring break ever? Visit a College Campus!

  of campus, and weather in New England isn’t always the most reliable ... -campus visitors, reading your applications, and duking it out with my colleagues in ... with our check-in process, I get to see many of you who come to Cambridge

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 26, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Massachusetts to Michigan guest post by Liz O.'21

  

  summer, back during Fall Career Fair in late September. I was feeling confident and professional in a button down shirt and grey blazer, handing out ... summer. For real, though, taking my first internships in Michigan had some

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing is useful for science. Surprise!

  

  ; *         *         *   The days of partyboy/astronomer Tycho Brahe reclining in the ... you were doing, you could in theory get observation time on the VLA. I say "in theory," because as you can probably imagine, getting time on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are you going with this? The ponderings of an ex-frosh.

  

  grade like back in high school? for example, were you a straight a student in high school and getting straight b's here at mit? Well now you did ... . Next year I'll be taking smaller, specialized classes in the major I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  i wish we’d grown up on the same advice alternate paths

  

  questions me: what would you say is the primary source of joy in your life ... sense of meaning in different ways - social things help me feel a sense of ... obligations make me feel like i have weight in the world, like i’m not

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Class Projects

  I DON’T NEED YOU ANYMORE. the making of my final video project

  

  I've mentioned in the past that I'm taking CMS.335 Short Attention Span Documentary. Abby '20 has blogged about this class in the past, but ... methods of making things sit in the digital world, mainly in the form of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  every muscle in my body already sore, regardless of how much physical activity I’ve done in the past day. This unshakable exhaustion is not new to ... junior fall. Its extent, however, is new. How did this happen? The key, as

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Some questions that I've received from prospectives.

  

  MIT? 2. What does a day in the life of a physicist look like? 3. I ... pursue in math/science. 4. I'm worried that I'm never going to find a ... 't get in, because I'm not a genius. 5. Can I have some life advice? 6

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  ’m currently a junior at MIT majoring in course VI-III. Melis has graciously ... in its infancy but quickly gaining momentum and recognition as a ... interested in, and, now after working for one, I am convinced that it is the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Dorms: Burton Conner House Why is BC awesome? Because three bloggers live there. Plus, lots of other stuff too.…

  

  So I suck at life and haven't blogged in FOREVER. =( But! I'm making ... checks in and out. The front desk is also where you can get your mail, find ... dorm collection, or borrow the pool cues/ping pong paddles/etc to use in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  stories and decision paralysis

  

  ’m graduating in a few weeks, i haven’t stopped meeting new students here and ... few dozen extras in the background, so they made a big group chat and ... friend-making perspective, but i really enjoy hearing new kinds of stories

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 8, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Out I attempt to top Emo Walt Whitman, even though I'm only taking a brief reprieve…

  

  installation of ski lifts in hell, or the release of a successful Blink 182 side ... -nighter I pulled finishing a problem set I could have easily done in two hours ... tiptoes in my friend's bathroom, cutting somebody else's hair for the first

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 27, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Difference Written at 36,781 feet over Des Moines.

  

  think about all the new people you're going to meet in the next five hours ... with the crazy hair in 7D. (At least you HAVE hair for them to set on ... in the window seat next to you. So what do you do? You sit and write

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  making solar cells lessons from my nanotech class

  

  new to the field, how to use the same tools they use in a digestible ... like magic to me - in the sense that the material was so far beyond my ... that can be stacked in a way which increases power generation without

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

  Knitting and Playing Tetris Through the End of the World guest post by Salma Islam

  

  healed me. Looping together yarn in that simple way, hands guided by forces unknown in the ether of my mind, has somehow always soothed me. As if, as ... pixelated designs on my laptop to recreate in fabric. I couldn't stop. I

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • April 17, 2021