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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to Life, Back to Reality Did you know that you can make an equation out of anything?

  

  " Needless to say with all those tests and psets, I'm having a math overload ... 'm sure to have a lot to blog about, but until then, I leave you with this ... Name the song I stole the lyrics from and win a cookie. So this week

  • by Bryan
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  it’s ok that it’s not ok sometimes things will happen, and you have to just let yourself be.

  

  feeling where a person loses the ability to even understand what happiness ... probably not considered “enough” to be clinical) in which a person feels ... have felt that way at times, like there is a horror trying to claw its

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 4, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art things #1 illustration, graphic design, ceramics, and photography

  

  might make it a series). One of my biggest goals this semester was to ... [/caption] I used to sketch a lot, almost every day! My first art teacher, an ... a pencil to sketch the design directly on the piece for reference

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  a hackathon, a marathon I went to MIT EnergyHack!

  

  A few weekends back, I went to EnergyHack, ran a half-marathon, and ... hours? We listened to the keynotes — one by a startup making smart ... was to craft an advertising schema for a company which was in the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Trip to Princeton U Taking advantage of the three-day weekend by taking a trip to Princeton!

  

  refreshing alternative to corporate Starbucks. A little later, we went rock ... mtvU. He deferred for a year to be in Andrew Lippas' Broadway-bound A Little Princess. Afterwards, we went to a hilarious improv show and hung

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  how to get to Boston the VERY HARD way

  

  is easy these days. Fact 1: my internship switched to being a Canadian ... 't believe it's happening, sometimes, now. When we returned to East Campus in a ... There are some things that only make sense to you once you're living

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Deadline-time Questions Omnibus Answering all of your questions. See you in 2007!

  

  questions as I can. It's a long entry! Before we get to that, though, I have ... essay has to be something to do with engineering or could I send in a ... just forgo the optional essay since I plan to send in a CD containing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Admitted Early

  

  YOU! GOT! IN! Come hang out with us in the comments, you all star! And—more importantly—celebrate with your community and loved ones. It won't be long now until we get to meet you in the Class of 2030 Discord

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back to high school except now I don't know what I'm doing

  

  Charter School, signing in to get a "VISITOR" sticker, and slipping into a ... a decade. I feel like I have been sent to Mars. For one, people at my ... policies that expect students to conform to a certain mold of normalcy. ii

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Curseroad MIT class roadmaps that shouldn’t exist but theoretically could

  

  ] alone, it can be a bit overwhelming trying to construct a roadmap of ... . That’s why we have CourseRoad – a website for planning what classes to ... explicitly designed as such, I like to use CourseRoad as a quasi-MIT simulator

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  ode to grocery stores the loneliest sweet potato

  

  of breaking recipes down into simpler steps to make it seem a little ... I'm cooking works a lot better than trying to do things from a ... how to become a kitchen god. [caption id="attachment_74200" align

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To D or not to D? MIT's Design Lab is tempting me.

  

  related to MIT. Going to Honduras was a sort of Grand Finale to a class I ... plastic bags to do this? 2) A Bicycle Trailer -- A previous D-Lab student ... market or bricks to a building site? 3) Bamboo Matchsticks -- Bamboo

  • by Kim D. '09
  • February 17, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Talking to Strangers

  

  soldiers, barroom regulars—to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening ... is often misconstrued as a desire to seduce them, or as an invitation ... I spent the morning in a café, working. I planned to get things done

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to college, Kid. My first week at MIT.

  

  , bureaucracy, and litigation. A trip to the department of medical records proved ... forth some serious thought, and decided to give it a genuine try. The ... live in the dorm assigned to you, a permanent room will be assigned once

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  Blown Back to Oz the close of the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition: day 4.

  

  had one more mission to fly and we wanted to re-fly a mission as well in order to score a little higher. We were on the clock--the weather ... assignment was to carry a two-pound payload (distributed between four blocks

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  How to Make a Flashlight MIT-style that is.

  

  youself to some of the machines I mentioned, you should take a look at the ... Shop training, they actually teach you how to make a neat little flash ... machine that you can use to make some precise cuts into a piece by using xyz

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • August 2, 2012
• Blog / Events

  A Trip to AfroTech My Recap of the AfroTech Conference in Houston

  

  About a month ago, I left campus to take a little trip to Houston for ... the first time as we were driving was actually a shock to me. Once we got to the hotel we actually had to wait a bit into the afternoon to

  • by Richard O. '28
  • November 30, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Love Letter to Tetazoo a valentine's day post

  

  adventures. We wait for the skies to darken and watch supernovas explode to a ... I sit upon this couch in stasis, with many better things to do, beholding the warmth that surrounds me. Your voices would sound like a

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • February 15, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a major road to trouble exploring interests as a baby beaver

  

  ’t think of a good way to write this blog about all the stuff that comes to ... major. I had a pretty clear idea of how I wanted to approach this, but couldn’t pinpoint a simple way or the right medium to use. A way that would

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A love letter to psets Masochists In Training

  

  force me to have a much deeper understanding of the material. Yes, you ... starting to get a little idea of what being a scientist feels like.  You can ... whatever). Because I don't want college to be just a natural extension of

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 16, 2012