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• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Failing” at MIT for the record, this isn't

  

  For a lot of incoming MIT students, the story is the same. Four relatively easy years of high school seem to fly by; SAT’s, ACT’s, TGIF’s, BYOB’s, and a whole slew of other acronyms leave you with a warm, tingly feeling

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 2, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The Google RISE Global Summit and some thoughts on STEM outreach.

  

  public outreach a gajillion notches - $11,906 worth of notches, to be precise - by receiving a very selective award from Google (of equal monetary ... , which as you can imagine costs a heck of a lot. Having a local regional

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second Home You're in your room doing a pset. I'm in my lab making science happen.

  

  yeah, I haven't written a blog in too long anyways, so I owe all of you ... kidding. My research deals with the characterization of a novel gene in the aging pathway of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans (a roundworm that is

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 30, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  what’s in the box? why is spring cleaning a common phrase but not fall cleaning hmm

  

  of the tenses in this paragraph so just bear with me a little"]thanksgiving was a few days ago, and in the world of this post it is still ... to occupy myself with.  my friend Espen S. ‘27 invents a lot of games

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 1, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  My Favorite (Kitchen) Things cue julie andrews singing

  

  As I’ve sort of mentioned in previous blogs, I am a big fan of cooking. I was once on a meal plan for about two weeks at the start of my ... myself,[/annotation] watching a lot of cooking shows or YouTube videos as

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 7, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  17,707 words writing at night like you're running out of time

  

  some essay advice from the bloggers of yore and a few words from me. But now that that’s out of the way, hi hi hi! Last week, I finished up the first of my grad school app deadlines: an application to the NSF

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Liveblog] MARC 2025 A sciencey science conference, feature Anika '26 and me

  

  Day 1, 6 PM Today is the first day of MARC 2025 (the Microsystems ... 's (MTL) annual conference, featuring two days of MIT students presenting ... underestimated the difficulty of snowboarding, which I quickly realized as I fell

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Aiden Wrapped a year in review

  

  top-ten everything of the year completely unsolicited. TierMaker is my ... , and everything in my mind exists in a battle-to-the-death style list of what's better (kind of like the Challenge Towers from Mortal Kombat). Now

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 3, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Haunters what it takes to scare MIT students

  

  Man, but also the producer of this year's Next Haunt! There is a lot ... arranging the build and actually running the thing. Because of that, I wanted to talk about some of the processes that went into making sure

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Social Engineering no no wait not like that–

  

  group of friends, I swear! Alternatively, mansplain manipulate man ... campus to help with this, luxuriating in the joys of free Starlink wifi ... is fun, and REX is exciting, but REX can also be a bit of a stressful

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 24, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Black Lives Matter until they don't.

  

  States of America three years ago. Packed all my belongings into four ... . Suddenly I was on the other side of the line, separated from my family by a ... then, I’d only seen America through the lens of blockbuster Hollywood

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48, Part 2 Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do…

  

  of classes I gave in my last post, we're left with the question ... screen, stifles a yawn* What I'm actually doing is a wild variety of projects and whatnot. This is a new phenomenon for me: I had a bit of an

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Airplane boy strikes again Adam writes about his UROP.

  

  currently I'm working at the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory. As many of you ... /c) airplanes, both of my UROPs center around the development of unmanned aerial ... picture of me taken on the day my parents brought me home from the hospital

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

  必须好 – pt. 1 just keep swimming

  

  , I stared blankly at a wall whenever I was hit with a wave of sadness. But when I felt a bubbling feeling of frustration build in my chest, I knew that a rush of tears would soon follow.  I went through a rush of

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 23, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  greta gerwig’s barbie and insecurity aka moving to college

  

  As of this weekend, I have watched Greta Gerwig’s 2023 blockbuster ... rekindled my love of the movie and feel inclined to revisit it. Now I know I ... . Still, like any piece of art, I find it impossible not to pull out my own

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Hate Superman. (I Love Superman.)

  

  the Great Depression, he was born out of a need for a hero. But I can ... is this behemoth titan hanging over all the weaker, new heroes of today ... flourish because of Superman’s control of comic and superhero media? What

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 16, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  food consumed this week, mostly free or: how to get away with rarely cooking

  

  lot of things,” to “Uhh… I mean… I certainly did. I actually have no ... what I eat. This is partly out of curiosity toward my own collegiate ... the best. Beast (2E) has food on the free food table nearly every day of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  and they’re going to better places lessons learned from a hard summer

  

  , "What is the place you've worked at that you're most proud of?" My heart swelled as I talked about MIT, and MIT Admissions, and Petey, and all of the ... naively, well, of course, yes, I do cherish my time at MIT. But it wasn

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  starting over and over again

  

  guilty about it. I think I wrote a grand total of two blogs this past semester, maybe three, which for me is probably an all-time low. Of course ... -up of the firehose. But still. Back when I [annotation note="almost two

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  major uncertainty switch 2 A 6-2?

  

  was a solid period of time where I felt pretty set on my major. I ... concentration. Think of it as a flexible version of MechE. I was hoping to do 2A ... was super excited to take 2.007, which is one of the robotics classes at

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 2, 2022