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• Blog / Blog Projects

  [joint post] blogston commons with Allison E. ‘27, Ellie F. ‘28, Jebby ‘25, and Sara N. ‘28

  

  about Bloggers, Boston, and the Great Beyond.  claim: mit students grind all day and do nothing but studying fact: we work hard, but we do a lot of other things too! eating, crying over problem sets, and idk like the

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 11, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  StartMIT: IAP for Entrepreneurs Like with anything else, it helps to learn from the best

  

  -educated engineering or business experts with advanced degrees and significant research ... hackathons like MakeMIT and programming competitions like Battlecode. Or they trade in courses in physics and math for wonky classes like "Science of

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 26, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Nationals! In which MIT XC goes to Iowa

  

  found myself, along with 15 groggy teammates and five coaches, at Logan ... Waverly, Iowa, home to Wartburg College and the NCAA Division III Cross ... trip we'd been preparing for all season. A plane ride and a time zone

  • by Alina G. '11
  • November 27, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

  “Hala’s Escape from Groundhog Day” season 18 episode 98

  

  is, life at MIT - and any university - will always be full of lectures ... in common - the Groundhog Day [annotation note="and maybe a painfully ... reliving the same day over and over again, trapped in a time loop with no

  • by Hala K. '29
  • October 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I should’ve started this earlier A statement exemplifying my first month as a Junior

  

  a lot of work all the sudden, and it's terrible. Ask my roommates, I ... going to sleep after them and waking up before them to get all my work ... and heat/mass systems. That all being said, I do really enjoy the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hit in the Face: A Snively GuestBlog Snively's point of view. Only this time it's actually his point of view, and not…

  

  you, and then they give you all sorts of free stuff as they prepare you ... world’s largest fire hose . . . ever . . . in the world . . . /universe. Hello, my name is Snively, and I’m about to get hit in the face with a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 14, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Lessons Learned from (Watching) D&D thank you brennan lee mulligan

  

  universes and, in his style of GMing, usually has big reveals and plot twists ... for 'binging copious amounts of Dungeons and Dragons content.' I ... and there. And I. Am. In. Love. I've always had a fascination with

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer on the West Coast A visit to the west coast to see what life is like on the other…

  

  country to visit the great state of California!  Growing up on Long Island, I didn't have much (any) exposure to the West Coast, and it was incredible traveling to Los Angeles and dipping my toes in the Pacific Ocean

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a few new things is it too late to talk about the spring semester?

  

  personal life, and I can't really do that for a whole host of reasons. So, I start the post, I write a few sentences, and then within a day or two, I decide to trash it and delete it permanently, and move on with my life

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  Samantha: The Automated Nerf Gun Turret a personal project by raymond t. '23

  

  ."]IAP[/annotation] period and decided he wanted to make an automated nerf turret. Here is how ... Raymond's website and you can find the original post here. Part 1 ... the left and right axis. Then, he quickly realized that he needed arms

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 3, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  new information about my life just dropped [ from the archive ] roses, thorns, and buds

  

  for my dad), spanning… idk, whatever states are between Missouri and ... , 2024, hoping to post it for Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving slipped away, and ... , and now two Valentine's days have passed. I've decided I'm just going

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • February 21, 2026
• Blog / IAP

  Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

  

  a Video Game Orchestra Tetris performance, and explored the Institute ... has been devoted to “psets” and “midterms” and not Silly Girl Time, but when the Bad Ideas Weekend email (and subsequent reminder email) hit my

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 3, 2025
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  living the dream: UROP edition! in which i run experiments on children (well, kinda)

  

  and it's terrible), and on a university campus I rarely get the ... 't relevant to the post as a whole and because I didn't know a lot of the details yet. Now, I'm two weeks into the semester and in the thick of being

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 22, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: The College Essay part 3 of the Dear Applicants series

  

  . You’re putting yourself on paper. Recognize the things you did and fell in love ... , 36. The Captain, President, Leader. The one dedicated to excellence and service. Decorated with medals and ribbons on graduation. You've heard of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Lectures I had two ideas for good blog posts, and both were stolen by other bloggers!

  

  have multiple courses. Well, the soup was yummy and the fish was good, and then they brought out dessert. And it was gorgeous. A beautiful ... sugar or something, but I never found out. It was too pretty and

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  MIT-ish on being MIT enough

  

  MIT, and whether or not I made the right decision in coming to this ... ." I've found solace in my writing classes and creative outlets: writing ... primarily a HASS major. When I look at the classes and the work being done by

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Blogger’s Block a hiatus from writing (but not memeing)

  

  "Confusion, by the Numbers" – I stated that finding balance between school and ... I took a long break from blogging. I [annotation note="and will be ... and Cognition, also known as Course 6-9. I feel accomplished

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Grace Hopper a celebration of women in computing

  

  in Computing -- which is basically an 8,000-attendee-and ... amazing people, and remember that I wasn't alone in this very male-dominated field. It was also a chance to get a selfie with CTO of the United States

  • by Piper '13
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  classes im taking! strictly

  

  about digital systems. So far we've covered basic circuit design and ... and rigorous proofs. 11.367:  Land Use Law and Politics: Race, Place, and Law After several semesters, I finally have a chance to take a

  • by Victor D. '27
  • February 16, 2026
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Last All-Nighter on mortarboards, machine shops, and graduating from MIT

  

  , cofounder of Lingt and inventor of the iDoor, which I lived behind one summer and used to let my cat in and out when I was away, tumbled all these ... realized I didn't have to reminisce just yet, and pranced off to a machine

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 13, 2012