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  [Joint Blog] What It’s Like Studying Design at MIT Recounted by two seniors

  

  . Because the program is so small, it can be hard to find information about ... Massachusetts Institute of Technology and beyond.” MAD is a bit hard to pin down ... a bunch of programs meant to foster design thinking and

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • February 4, 2026
• Blog / Residential Life

  1.1 miles as the crow flies and it takes me forever to run there

  

  them know how to cook, and day by day we’re finding a schedule. I ... history, with a supplemental education in how to pay bills, how to split ... ’s a college thing but part of me feels like I’ve gotten away with

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the scenes of Glamour: Part 2 A recap of three incredible days

  

  people are surprised to find out that Glamour has chosen a group of girls ... support your big ideas can become reality. On a side note, thanks to ... you still need some more convincing, I'll give you a chance to browse

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 20, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  New York A break from Cambridge.

  

  straightforwardness of New York. In a subway station en route to Ben's house in West ... 's mom had prepared a late lunch of fish and porridge. It's good to not ... . A few hours later, I managed to sleep. The next morning was a tribute

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tattoo ideas No, I'm not getting a tattoo. But I do need your tattoo advice.

  

  /funny/interesting/amusing/cool/awesome. Here are a few ideas to stir the imagination: What are ... No, I'm not getting a tattoo. But I do need your tattoo advice. As a ... be small -- say, 2 inches square. What I need are your ideas for a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Bryan is alive and in Rome Day One In Rome

  

  We got here safely, and we're having a blast. I'll write a longer entry when I find free wireless, but right now it's costing 3 euros an hour and I have a lot of emails to respond to. (Thanks for all the emails

  • by Bryan
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / Events

  How the World Cup Will Conclude Backed by Science

  

  I like to think of myself as a fortune teller. And since predicting a tournament's outcome is basically telling a fortune, I've decided to tell everyone how the World Cup will conclude. Please find the scientifically

  • by Richard O. '28
  • June 30, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  this over and trying to find a framework of definitions and priorities ... worked way too hard in high school, to a point where it was actively ... I can, and I need to accept that and find a way to make it work long-term.

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  [Guest Post] One Year Later Some things changed, some things didn’t

  

  out to his family. Here's his story.   A little over one year ago, I came out to my mom and my dad. Since then, things have settled into a new ... takes a long time for sediment to collect at the bottom of a liquid

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Daniel Guillen Our football coach gets a surprise in Daniel Guillen '10.

  

  experience what it's like to live in a place where it snows. "I know it's one ... best a student-athlete could ever hope to receive. Guillen, a four ... delighted to find out that Guillen had already been accepted to MIT after

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

  March Questions Omnibus 1

  

  and if it is, where we can find the adress to that website." We will ... know that becuase u will have a vast eastern culture to discover, and the eastern culture is awesome to discover." Well, I'm picking up a bit of Hindi

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Building a Robot in 3 Days FIRST X MIT Edition

  

  “kickoff day,” where a brand-new challenge is revealed and teams are given a limited amount of time to design, build, and program a robot to compete. The ... computer lab with a mission she refused to back down from. “It isn’t fair

  • by Hala K. '29
  • January 25, 2026
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prepared! Getting ready for IAP! (Find out how to join our mystery hunt team, too!)

  

  better? Come learn about databases to find answers to these questions, get ... -deprivation competition. Get together with friends to solve puzzles that will lead you to a ... So here I am (still) in sunny southern California where people are

  • by Bryan
  • January 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why I stayed up until 6am on Thursday More nerdy cake-baking.

  

  a mental list of all the things that had to be accomplished between 7 ... released, with a magnitude corresponding to 21cm radiation. Ta-da! This is ... a frenzy, wondering if I would get to sleep at all. What happened? 1

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Balancing Life, School, and… More Life? Gotta start by taking advantage of Veteran's Day to... work... and, more importantly, BLOG!

  

  chapter of my quest to find a balance at MIT. So maybe life will be ... 00t!) with my big Jessica (a girl from my sorority) at 10, get to the ... from 3-5 for my own physics test on Thursday, and then find my friends to

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  The idea of taking a gap year, like to most, initially terrified me. Instead of spending time in school, I’d have to find other things to do ... to unpack with a gap year, so I’ve broken it up into 2 parts. Three

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Feeling Energized Watching the sun rise signals that it's time for bed.

  

  design project for one of my classes, 2.005, where we had to design a floating buoy-like structure to support a 700,000 kilo tower and rotor combo ... revive my 733t programming skills to minimize a cost function of five

  • by Bryan
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Of MUN and Academia What is Course X in Chinese?

  

  Sometime in the last month, I was forwarded a request to blog about ... Intensive). A side note: you're actually required to take a CI class during ... exam and received either a 4 or a 5 (this is THE one instance where a 4

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Airplane boy strikes again Adam writes about his UROP.

  

  find a UROP," I was watching Cartoon Network and trying to score free ... have a test tomorrow?] So I, the gallant boyfriend, am stepping in to ... , and in that picture right next to the bed is a model rocket. My first

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Tchau! Labs vai para a praia! And the King of the Internet returns.

  

  schools. They want to find you. So if you have some antiquated notion that ... compared to a farm kid in North Dakota? They have nothing in common.  I think ... having a compelling reason to admit. Some fish made themselves compelling

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • June 26, 2013