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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  oh, the crash and the burn

  

  As evident from my last blogpost, I'm doing a lot and it's taken a ... responsibilities and just sit for a couple of days. This week has exploded in my ... attack, my finances are struggling, and I am just the definition of the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  making space in my schedule to go to the maker space and 100 other things I was bad at this semester

  

  -years could participate in, and I immediately did the online portion of the ... different. In digital fabrication, you learn about 3D printing and laser ... -on things. The modules went over safety procedures, like what you should and

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  creative lockdown: low points of a virtual fall Part 2 of a fall semester recap

  

  this post and moving on to the 5000 other topics on my to-do list, but I ... my most recent post and stop right there. There were good things that happened for sure. Yet, it was mixed with a variety of other complicated and

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 27, 2021
• Blog / Class Projects

  2.009 It's not a class, it's a way of life

  

  graduate). The premise of this class is to ideate, design, build, and present ... , and companies that have come out of 2.009. This class is as Real Life ... on-stage without a major catastrophe. And it's hardest of all to do

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things A collective end-of-the-semester brain dump

  

  thoughts and feelings that exist in the MIT bubble. It's a little long but I ... connected with, and the ones I hope you will connect with. Things that make ... it rains and I get to wear my rain boots When it rains and I get to

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • May 20, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break A week in Iceland.

  

  car on the asphalt roads of Route 1 but also behind a waterfall and atop a glacier and in a cabin on the black sand beaches of Vík.  Here's a ... route that loops from Reykjavík into central Iceland and back. It hits a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Electrophoresis Boogaloo What it sounds like, plus some brief things that came to mind

  

  this semester. 9.12, 24.900, and WGS.271 are all writing intensive classes. Two (9.12 and 24.900) are officially known to be communication-intensive, and thus require a set amount of writing. MIT makes taking four of these

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  A Three-part IAP sababa* in more than one way

  

  guess I’ll come out and say it: I skipped the first week of classes ... out to be so bad, and I had a good reason: I was in Israel. Going to ... means all the MIT crew teams ship out down to Cocoa Beach, FL, and spend

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Human After All Unlike customer service nowadays, MIT (and its admissions office) is 100% human. Give or take…

  

  If you had a rabid enough interest in MIT and resided in the ... people! From MIT! Talking to other people! With cameras! And chat rooms! It ... being hyperbole. So let me clear up a few misconceptions. And a totally

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Building the Yearbook [by Ken Haggerty '11] An inside look at Technique 2010 (shhh!!!)

  

  year's yearbook might not actually get done, I can confidently and quite ... ), it was my duty not only to come up with a concept, design the book, and ... task, etc.; and after our first deadline two months ago caught us by

  • by ARTalk
  • March 29, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happy Birthday to m—-suck. I turn 20 and cry tears of blood

  

  are at least two reasons behind this, one that's my choosing and the ... knowledge and experience is now a year outdated. Why listen to me every other day when, instead, you can listen to freshmen who are less jaded and

  • by Snively '11
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Tour/Hack/Math Three things that happen a lot at MIT

  

  prefrosh (Danny '12) is in town and I decided to go on a campus tour with him and Jordan '11. For many of you, a campus tour will be one of the first ... to be as tourist-y as possible and take a bunch of pictures of stuff

  • by Snively '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Bang! Update [3] Gotcha!

  

  It's 11:42 am Eastern time and I'm packing my bags. ¿Porque? The MIT ... competition! Yes, that's right, MIT has a pistol team, and a good one at that ... , beating out Army, Navy, Coast Guard, and a slew of other teams. Geeks with

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soy Bomb Doo d-d-doo d-d-doo d-do d-do. Ice tea!

  

  with a problem, and solve it yourself. We'll be here if you need us!" It ... hydrogen, because that could explode and kill you while you're talking to your grandmother about apple pie recipes, and that would be fun for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Second Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  who score 6's and 7's on their A-levels are (respectively) 94 and 93 ... !!! :-) Yes, the folks who read and evaluate international applications are very ... showing you that I made it onto this list so... can I photocopy the page and

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 28, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  how to be a microcelebrity or micro-microcelebrity, or micro-micro-microcelebrity, or...

  

  spent [annotation note="to be fair, most of it went into sorting and ... in my cave for the winter. see y’all later … and proceeded to fall into ... wrote maybe like 10% of the blog and everything else was from my lovely

  • by Janet G. '27
  • July 18, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mocha Show ’22: Mo’Mixtape creating and performing a dance showcase, from start to finish

  

  a show that's composed of dances choreographed and performed solely by ... between the end of the semester and the start of IAP. we use the entire ... and from 12-6 on the weekends. a dance is assigned to each hour slot, so

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 16, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  How to build a Tamagotchi and the power of curiosity

  

  , jumping, and looking oh-so-adorable. [caption id="attachment_115256" align ... electronics to the point of designing them, and that had been something I ... design a circuit board. And that's where 2.679: Electromechanical Systems

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

  Food, glorious food In which I learn that Simmons Dining is not, in fact, the best that Boston's…

  

  note="Simmons Dining's quality really fell off a cliff this semester, and ... do! So when Aiden posted his tier list of MIT's dining halls and rated ... out and eat at some actual restaurants near MIT. Plus, Simmons Dining

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10,000 Ways That Won’t Work

  

  just sat there and shook my head in silence. “No? What about a ... semesterly UROP evaluation form. And so, with the same regret I’ve felt the previous semester, I checked the “Other” box and moved on to the rest of the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 27, 2023