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• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  read here. When he was in high school, he wanted to spend 24 hours at the ... equipment we have, so if it breaks it needs to be repairable with Home Depot ... interesting is that while everyone has a room to put their stuff in, almost no

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

  Doesn’t Feel Real getting from one place to another

  

  soon to be Ph.D advisor, and the third was with Marah Gubar-- an amazing ... for the course is to pick a spot in nature relatively near to Boston, go ... bunch of nature writing from Thoreau to Walt Whitman, as well as more

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 24, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  an outlook on emails a week of my inbox’s pain and suffering, compartmentalized

  

  hours perfecting my email’s filters, labels, and everything in between. I signed up for forwarding all my MIT emails to my Gmail, made [annotation ... was interesting to see directly the amount of outreach that’s been done

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 21, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  breathing in and out

  

  eruptions bring to mind the old tales passed down from our elders. i’m from ... talk about volcanoes, and my teachers have been old enough to remember ... enough to have been through the worst, but it was near enough that they

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 12, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  SCIENCE ALERT: “smoking gun” evidence for Alan Guth’s theory of inflation! Good thing I already have Alan Guth's signature on all of my class registration forms.

  

  course, live in the Milky Way, although it's hopeless to try and see that ... , there's Big Science News: we're a huge leap closer to understanding ... section by accident I marched up to him and said "Hello, my section did not

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 17, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  here’s everything i thought about in 25 minutes an uncurated and somewhat meta discussion on anything and everything

  

  whole entire school year), so i’m going to set a timer for 25 minutes because that’s when my laundry is supposed to be done and just continuously ... !!!"]assuming no fatigue or pausing to think[/annotation] i would end up with 3750

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • July 16, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Splash. Was. Awesome. I taught: 3 classes, 5 sections, 246 kids.

  

  my one-hour Introduction to Pulsars class. I ask who thinks he ... finishing touches on my PowerPoint slides. I love walking back to campus, and ... latter are a little stressed out. They are all wide-eyed as they try to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Potpourri Blog Post food... etc.

  

  You know what’s the best part about going to 3.091 [Chem.] at 11 in the morning? Going to Steam Cafe© at noon. OK – Maybe that’s not exactly the ... obviously, I was desperately trying to pack in as many food groups as I can

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 21, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEGGGGGAAAAAAA! [by Danbee Kim '09] Music from Sonic, Donkey Kong, Final Fantasy, and more!

  

  , Metal Gear Solid, and Final Fantasy, just to name a few. Last Thursday ... and dads with small children to local college students to dred ... composers in order to arrange and perform these songs with a live orchestra

  • by ARTalk
  • March 17, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Three cheers for the MIT Marching Band Is the band ready? You bet they are.

  

  school it used to take us two weeks of seven-hour band camp days just to ... . Here are 10 things I remember: 1. Taking a good two minutse to cram four ... consisted of running onto the field, catching our breath to humorous effect

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  to me never completing this one. Take a 48-hour social media cleanse ... thought it would be interesting to look back at how many of these items I ... the course and building numbers ✅ This one I was able to accomplish

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  my MIT admissions essays a retrospective

  

  I applied to MIT three years ago (shudders). I was originally ... find it difficult to put myself in that person's shoes, especially since ... . (We'll circle back to this thread eventually...) Anyhow, here are (most

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 14, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint liveblog] finding the BALANCE with 2.009 watching the 2.009 annual showcase (with Kayode D. '27)

  

  audience POV. In some lucky turn of events, Kayode D. '27 and I managed to ... completely sleeping through ticket launch, I'm here to liveblog our reaction to ... excited. (watch the livecast here if you want to join us for the ride

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 9, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Notes From Atlanta I heart Exploding Bacon

  

  applying to MIT were even born. The goal of FIRST, broadly speaking, is to inspire students towards a lifelong devotion to science, technology, and ... -studded team of engineers on the Game Design Committee unveil that year's game to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s in My Bag? My everyday carry!

  

  that description was actually a love story. They somehow manage to blend ... Vacuums 2017″ or sales around the internet. I read this just to read this ... relevant to my life/things I would actually buy or not!) So I thought today

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  same room, to untimed, open-book, take in a 24-hour period, and ... archetypes, if you will: [annotation note="Because of how I chose to divide the ... of any class, but it helps demonstrate the differences I want to show

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Letterboxd for movies i watched on the plane Do I... lack media literacy?

  

  collective 15 hours, from Boston to Washington DC Layover before arriving in ... . Here’s a link to the project!! : https ... happen because it’ll be super cool to see in action!! [also I need money

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 17, 2026
• Blog / People & Identities

  an anime fan’s dilemma am I a weeb? please GOD say yes

  

  "]Haikyuu!!.[/annotation] Hell, I'm listening to anime openings as I write this... Anime is such a ... with quarantine prompting my former weeb tendencies to resurface, I've started to think about how my relationship to it has changed. Guys, I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 15, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] A circle of shared breaths rediscovering synchronized skating at MIT, by Eleanor L. '27

  

  week leading up to the show was jam-packed: one hour of on-ice practice ... remember getting asked this question a lot since coming to college. If you ... other skating discipline (singles, pairs, and ice dance) to create a

  • by Janet G. '27
  • April 14, 2026
• Blog / How to Human

  Womanhood

  

  to my identity as a woman. There’s a common theme here, though; it ... don’t have anything coherent to say on the topic as a whole. This is a ... as I attempt to navigate the world. I wish I had some hope to impart

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 28, 2022