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  Food for Thought [guest post] On food and our culinary club, Mince

  

  pursue accolades, he has an impressive body of research and awards. He ... why he chose teaching among his competing interests of research and ... have a reliable impact. Whereas working on, for example, a research

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 4, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  see Penn State, and still see Penn State, as a large research university ... from other places and possibly cut back on research—like the research PSU

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  rage, as explained by thermodynamics I had a bad day and soon a thermo exam

  

  that night so I could work on blogging and research Wednesday

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 25, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Joint Post] DesignPlus A super cool and awesome first-year learning community ft. Gloria and Teresa (we're not biased)

  

  You can now read this blog on the Morningside Academy of Design (MAD) website here: Designing a First Year at MIT First year MIT students are given the choice of several…

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 26, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  How to build a Tamagotchi and the power of curiosity

  

  This semester I built a Tamagotchi: a 2000s toy where the user takes care of a virtual pet! My Tamagotchi, fondly named Tamako, was like the fetus version of a…

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 25, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  reviewing my classes this semester but unthoroughly

  

  This semester, due to a careening series of events⁠02 decided I could finish both my design and cs majors + uncertainty about post-grad plans , I took an ill-advised courseload…

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 17, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Rats ! Foiled Again !

  

  , I’m better served by putting my extra time into research. I

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Little Pieces of Living january & february & march & now, april

  

  In January, I came back to campus for IAP and got to do a healthcare innovation internship at the Boston Veteran Affairs (VA) Medical Center through one of the MIT…

  • by Sara N. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Small-Town and Rural Students take on MIT and Boston By Vaneeza R. 25'

  

  everything from their research projects plans and internships opportunities, to

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • March 20, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  GELcamp project management… in the woods?

  

  A few days ago I got back from what I can only describe as a four-day fever dream. Here’s a diary of everything that went down during GELcamp… Day One…

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 6, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  I wanted a place where I hoped I could find academic and research

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  必须好 – pt. 1 just keep swimming

  

  or conducting professional research in laboratories.[/annotation] It

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 23, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Pirates and Pi and Rats and Pie and Rats (except there are no rats) 3.1415926535897932384626433832795… idk the rest.

  

  I [started] writing this blog on 3/17, and it’s the warmest day that there has been in a while. I was outside writing this blog in Killian Court, but the…

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 23, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  classes i’m taking this spring study abroad edition

  

  after long deliberations and email exchanges with the transfer credit examiners, i registered for what i hope will be the equivalent of 48 units at MIT. there are some key…

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 22, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  IAP Cooking a journey of uncooked pasta and cold pho

  

  , students can opt into different independent learning and research

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 10, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Why did I come to MIT? by River A. ‘26

  

  limited me because I have been rejected from research opportunities on

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  , to do research—rather than to do tasks on a fixed timeline, and I can

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  I failed the Swim Test! And now you can too!!

  

  Obligatory Swim Test Lore:  The MIT Swim Test was created in the 1940s after a high volume of drowning-related deaths at war. It’s been around since then, and despite many…

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 26, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Misconceptions initial thoughts from a first-gen college student

  

  I first stepped onto MIT’s campus in the summer of my junior year, and it was my first impression of what college life could truly look like. I didn’t visit…

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 30, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  walking into the MEng thoughts about a 63-mile trek

  

  down to specific, larger projects which have particular meaning—research

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 8, 2023