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• Blog / Residential Life

  meet the simmons elevators! aka me thinking wayyy too much about elevators

  

  Things always seem to come in threes. The Three Musketeers. The Holy ... I’m in one, I have no choice but to ponder the machine surrounding me ... hear her whir to life and go straight to you like a personal chauffeur. I

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 12, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Memories I know this feelin', yes I know it very well (Thutmose)

  

  Hi everyone! I am excited to be back celebrating this milestone with ... college counselor to give the same advice I loved to give on the blogs. Each ... they will bring to any college they choose to attend. However, the more I

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  glassblowing & me a series of memories

  

  The other day, I had a little epiphany that came to me in the shape ... thought that was funny, and kind of cool, and I wanted to share it with you ... is going online and we have a week to leave. It feels like

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  spring! semester! so apparently i'm doing a lot of random shit

  

  approaching, so to procrastinate for them, I’m going to talk about my spring ... in high school, so I sent Professor Strang fanmail, and he responded to me recommending that I take this class! I’ve been waiting to take it

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tetazoo is not a Hivemind Haha... just kidding... unless?

  

  soon), but right now I’m coming to you LIVE from from Tetazoo’s freshman ... ’m inclined to participate in a three-hour challenge that the upperclassmen set up for the freshmen and other hall newcomers. We have tasks to complete

  • by Powers '23
  • November 24, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Redesigning a hall logo: 4.500 part 1 4.500 part 1

  

  4.500, Intro to Design Computing, my favorite class this semester, is ... involved using CAD software to design 2d and 3d objects, and then laser ... had to use CAD to trace an existing symbol or logo, analyze the pros and

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 27, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Smile Worth 1,550 Words guest post by Mariam D. '20

  

  ’s a myriad of expressions on their different faces that I’m trying to ... emptiness to be emanating from such a small human being. We had just stepped ... group began to use the translator to address them. He had been coming to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  that time of year… ...when every day feels like 48 hours instead of 24. When's summer?

  

  the strength to capitalize properly no more (nor the energy to invest in ... things that have kept me going. And a big one is listening to this video ... fill in where you're used to hearing cars, or horns, or construction. It

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes from the Road: NorCal, Netherlands, Nick Cannon, and Nerd Camp where I've been, what I've been doing

  

  applications to read in the summer, we must not have much to do. It's probably ... summer is a key time for us to travel, work on dormant projects, and take ... few days back in Boston, I flew to San Francisco to present about maker

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: I’ll be at Maker Faire Bay Area this weekend and so will other people from MIT

  

  I arrive somewhere to give a talk. Someone emailed to suggest this might be more useful, so I'm going to try to do it when I can. So: right now, I'm en route BOS -> SFO, on my way to Maker Faire Bay Area 2016

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A suite surprise My suitemates find out I'm a blogger

  

  Yesterday afternoon, I walked back to my suite in Burton-Conner after ... taped to my door.   OK? I opened the door, stepped into my room ... , “Wait, it gets even better!” and pointed to my bed. So I walked over and

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 19, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  I Suppose It Was Inevitable That We Have An Office Instagram a list of some other places you can find the blogs (and the bloggers)

  

  Nearly five years ago I added a Facebook share button to the blogs. It's strange to think that was so long ago, and also strange to think that it was once not obvious that people would come to the blogs any

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Day 1: Going North Leaving the light pollution bubble to go to class?

  

  , though I could write an entire post in Japanese if I wanted to. Maybe I will later, but today’s not that day. I just wanted to share this ... than intended before coming back to campus, I forget that there’s a world

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 31, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Documents Deadline check your MyMIT account now

  

  Hi all- I’m taking a break from reading applications to give ... have applied to us Regular Action, please log into MyMIT and confirm your ... have missing components, don’t panic. We have not yet begun to

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 18, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Open Sesame…Ring. RFID magic + a ring = wearable CharlieCards

  

  The future of, well, pretty much everything seems to be coming to us ... visited prior to this summer -- received a huge boost from 3D printing. As evidence, witness the burritob0t, one man's attempt to use technology and

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Let There Be Prefrosh! And let them build ALL the things!

  

  Just one year ago, I had arrived at MIT as a prefrosh, ready to start my new life in Massachusetts.  I came here early to do a pre-orientation program (FPOP) known as FUP, where I got to do all sorts of cool community

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 22, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  More info for Admitted Students just a few more things to do

  

  Congratulations to all of the admitted students! I hope you are still celebrating, but I also want to remind you of a few things to do now as you make your final decision over the coming weeks. Tune in to the

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 15, 2013
• Blog / Community Projects

  are you stressed/anxious/ [emotion] about finals/decisions/[noun]?  here are some adorable dogs. also, me as james bond.

  

  Are you looking for true love at MIT?  Are you not willing to leave your dorm room or talk to anyone in real life?  Then this latest MIT ... other enough to submit anonymous displays of affection, but not enough to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 13, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nerdin’ Out algorithms are too cool

  

  class is so incredibly relevant to daily life. (warning: i'm about to nerd out hard core, so feel free to go back to homepage and click on a ... . And it links it directly to the item that basically controls my life

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  I came, I saw, I stirfried Foray into non-ramen cooking

  

  School has already started, but I have one last part of summer to share, and that is how I managed to feed myself for three months. You see, this immediately ties into how I'm going to feed myself for the next

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 7, 2012