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• Blog / Academics & Research

  grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?

  

  socializing is much less spontaneous. Since I don’t live in a dorm, I can ... Real Job. This is a drastic social shift from my time in undergrad, where ... roommate is a close friend with amazing taste in decor and books, and I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 9, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life of a MIT Mechanical Engineering UROP Student I built an underwater robot :p

  

  interesting is that while everyone has a room to put their stuff in, almost no ... house, in a giant room with bunk beds like at a summer camp. It is kept ... One of the coolest things at MIT is how easily undergrads can join

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 14, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits i answer a bunch of random blogger prompts

  

  tell   us about how something in your life is like that scene. There’s a ... at a fencing practice last year: “This is MUCH less sexual if you ... 'm writing as I complain about how bad this movie is :P[/caption] Tell us a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 18, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  everything i cooked this summer it wasn't gourmet but it (mostly) tasted good

  

  too much effort. The solution, inevitably, is eggs. I'm a [annotation ... how to cook eggs before 2020. However, when covid first hit in the ... and would instead on myself and learning how to be a functional human

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  checked off 101 things to do before you graduate...

  

  ✅ Inviting myself into randos selfies is always a fun thing to do… Take free ... were in January 2021, but I still enjoyed the class a lot. My Japanese is ... dislike bowling unless I get a strike/a spare, not sure how much I would

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  love is stored in the yarn help i can't stop crocheting

  

  working in a wet lab after two attempts at computational UROPs that I ... drive anytime soon.) Fiber arts became a frequent topic in my ... association innovation committee! they do a lot of cool projects around campus

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21L.011 Are You [film] Experienced?

  

  about it isn't as much a chore as it is a reconfirmation of your bond with ... .02, Moral Problems and the Good Life, and 21H.001, How to Stage a Revolution ... pleasure. On the other hand, How to Stage a Revolution* has the coolest

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Tour of an MIT student’s notebook my brain is a mess so my pages have everything

  

  . Scribbling stuff down is a part of how I process, and really useful to me for ... Note: This is not a guide to keeping a notebook because everyone has ... second was a multipurpose notebook that I handcrafted and bound in 8th

  • by Anika H. '26
  • July 8, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Falling in Love with a Language at MIT interviews with two of my inspirations

  

  to sound more authentic was definitely a big factor. How much Chinese ... is a life-long process, and I'm confident in my ability to sustain my ... and Kristina display so much enthusiasm for a foreign language, I feel

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 10, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dorm Companion #1: Art MIT loans out 400 pieces of famous art each year from its collections to its…

  

  Want a Warhol in your dorm room? This is exhibition week of the ... Each piece in the collection is framed and signed by a leading ... distributed on a first-come, first-served basis to any student who lost out in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Antietam? I hardly knew him. A Fourth of July fable, while I'm stuck in Germany.

  

  with us, and greets me with a jolly "Hello! How are things in Harrisburg ... having a little bit of down time in your typical day. Especially if years ... appropriated by Argentinian dissidents in the 1980's). From there I found a list

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  this is the real life I love in-person MIT eom

  

  normal.   In a lot of ways, though, this is all very weird. The last ... a year isolated in one way or another, it feels incredible to just ... April, but in reality, last spring was just a very poor approximation of

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  Harvard it is societally easier to major in a humanities field. For example ... . That name is Harvard. Harvard has another feature, known as a wide ... -reg? Simply choose a class in the vast and expansive Harvard course catalog

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  the world is blooming! and so am i?

  

  -bordered (cut) and taped together–definitely a lesson in patience and attention to ... opposed to constant summer) was in elementary school, so this is more or ... over quality LOL"]a hundred photos[/annotation] in my camera roll of

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 17, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  hazy mid-semester days what i've been up to lately (mostly, psets...)

  

  of course, weeks are a Social Construct, and really every day is just ... much. No matter how I procrastinated or fooled around on Friday, I wake ... my friends also in the area, and/or a fun house event. By now, my

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  November was … read until the end to find out

  

  how much material it was, here are our allotted cheat sheets. There’s a ... as Avatar is in our books, it still has a lot of the same qualities ... honestly this whole semester, which is why we haven't been blogging as much

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 29, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  fun. the band, but also the form

  

  few days in contrast to how much free time I had over IAP. I feel like I ... This is a short appreciation post for fun., one of my favorite bands ... everything’s wrong It just gets so hard sometimes Be calm This is rather a mood

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 11, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  halfway there musings about currently being an MIT student

  

  hours in front of a crowd of 200 screaming people. The energy was wild and ... exploration"]REX[/annotation] was a week. A week. In just that time, I forged ... MIT student life in such a liberated and carefree way. Looking back, I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  My mom is here! ...and she's critiquing my cheerleading skills.

  

  OCW site, and how much fun it is to do MIT psets. Hey, I've got some ... we haven't had time to go grocery shopping in a while, and fresh ... cheerleading practice with me -- she was a cheerleader in high school, so coming

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  friends, and other things memories that come rushing back to me

  

  Here is a picture of Allan's room, snipped from here: He left this ... soon: much of it is technical, like strang, or sections of clrs - some ... ... i would i could show you how much my first year at mit has changed me

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 25, 2017