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• Blog / Admissions

  print “Hello, World!\n”; Everything you ever needed to know about me

  

  War II and deepened by the collapse of the Soviet Union. Russia’s ... dad’s night job as a taxi driver, combined with my parents’ negligible ... first time. Here’s me with a bucket:          We finally moved

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / People & Identities

  BLÅHAJ: the Internet meme, the trans icon, the world’s favorite plush media analysis on the Swedish shark’s rise to prominence

  

  the cuddly plush that many of us know and love. Blahaj’s wide pink smile is lined with white triangles of felt teeth. Blahaj’s brown eyes are embroidered on, as Blahaj’s retailer Ikea noticed that beaded eyes pose a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  my family has migrated every winter for more than a decade. It’s ... , inspired by Cory’s amazing NaNoWriMo progress (he wrote a novel). The city ... Swift’s new album, and start digging myself out of my inbox. 11:11 am: I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what makes fear worth it musical theater and anxiety

  

  musical theater. So what is it? Maybe it’s the writing, this undercurrent ... medium is predicated on the idea that a character’s (or group of characters ... the character’s direct, internal experience of the world to an even

  • by Kai V. '25
  • February 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  was themed around cats, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s ... bring back 6.08"]Joe Steinmeyer[/annotation] teaches it, and he’s a great ... and building a robot that could learn to recognize people’s voices. And

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2023
• Blog / Events

  The Making of a Mystery A James Grimmelmann Guest Blog

  

  economy. Each year’s Hunt is a gift given by the previous year’s winner to ... Friday morning until late on Sunday. Codex’s leaders easily spent thousands ... recipient of that year’s gift. This creates a social debt, one that can be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s the middle of November. Do YOU know where your Early Action application components are? How to tell if they are missing, and what to do about it

  

  since then as quickly as possible. To see what’s missing, log in to your ... documents arrived within the last week, it’s probably still being processed ... the ApplyWithUs system. If your recommendation(s) still haven’t been

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  can be tough because it feels like there’s nothing that you can do, but ... have complicated feelings; that’s okay too, and this is an open forum to

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life in the Fast Lane why do i walk so fast?

  

  People at MIT walk fast. Maybe this is an east coast thing, maybe it’s a college student thing, maybe it’s just an “I grew up in laid ... hallway towards us.  And maybe that’s because it feels like it is. The

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 29, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  cute date ideas or like. hang out ideas

  

  It’s Veteran’s Day, which means it's been one year since my For Real Official Actual First Date here at MIT. Because I’m sentimental, here’s a ... , with cake, cookies, apple cider donuts, s’mores, and more. This is a

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 11, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  6.5 Years Post-Graduation, I’m a Beading Artist a twisty path

  

  from Northwestern University’s science and health journalism program, I ... ’m going to explain and sprinkle some of my artworks throughout—here’s piece ... "] Katsushika Hokusai’s "The Great Wave" - Beaded Reproduction[/caption] A quick

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  Last Saturday was MIT’s annual Great Glass Pumpkin Patch! [caption ... ? Is it someone’s full-time job to churn out pumpkin after pumpkin non ... glass. And let’s make the pumpkin colourful! Roll the new layer of glass

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Folding with Flair Adding a third dimension to boring old paper

  

  entire book (mostly because the instructions were rather vague), but it’s ... favourite examples of modular origami because it’s both fun to assemble and ... Icosahedron Designer: Unknown Here’s another piece of modular origami I made

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • August 4, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  just do it don’t say you’re gonna do it!

  

  Let’s meet the CNC mill. This one is called HAAS. He’s proven useful ... this stands for because I don’t remember and it’s kind of silly. It’s a ... and forth for a while. Eventually I pulled up Wade’s step-by-step CAM

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 23, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving yet another senior writing about their last semester

  

  there at that hour. when you’re a kid and it’s nighttime you’re basically ... phds and professorships. that’s not a path i’m considering right now ... “college is the best four years of your life” and i think that’s an extremely

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fangirl Moment kinda silly, kinda wholesome

  

  that’s not quite the fangirl moment.  One of the other UROP introduced himself and said that his mentor was Prof. Phillip Isola. That’s pretty rad ... him before, and his name pops up in my lab’s Slack channels and the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  on the atlanta shootings from an asian american woman

  

  feelings as an Asian American who exists right now. it’s been a long year ... grocery store parking lot, a woman forced open my friend’s car door to ask ... of someone’s grandparent being shoved, beaten, or slashed goes viral

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 26, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  another year around the sun I guess I'm 19 now

  

  It’s my [annotation note="yes, this is inspired by Amber’s lovely ... resolutions for this semester is to blog more so I figure it’s as good an ... especially when – it’s cold outside. The [annotation note="or is it one of

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  fake it ’til you make it what is a healthy way to be happy?

  

  right now -- because zoom is, ah, revolting. It’s no one’s fault perhaps ... stressed, for equally obvious reasons.] It’s not as if I’m sad most of the ... that would decrease one’s happiness (think living in a pandemic, taking

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 7, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  i walk through campus and say stuff i cannot vlog to save my life

  

  why it’s separated from the rest. Anyway, here it is. It’s over 40 ... comments appear after the break: https://youtu.be/0Hj5mS2kdkI 00:45 The ... three points it hit the ground, but now it’s also supported by the walls

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 23, 2020