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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My design won an MIT merch contest I don't know why

  

  that they resonated with? To be fair, I wasn’t entirely lying in the submission form. I’ve tried writing a senior year post that would wrap up my ... the story-book college experience that I hoped for. But this is one of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 23, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus visit, revisited In which I dissect the campus tour/ info session and forget to clean up afterward

  

  to be important.” *Helena Lam is a girl I knew in high school who liked ... never sent me a postcard. Notice that even in my formative years, I ... learn that there is a life-sized plastic cow in the Stata center. The tour

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  I saw a turkey the other day… hello, world!

  

  everyone! My name is Alina. According to MIT, I’m a senior in Course 20 ... birds. That’s kind of a problem for my teammate Katy ‘11, who is deathly ... ...which may not be a big deal to most of you, but since I was on a

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 14, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “…being a geek works out…” A UROP at the Center for Sports Innovation.

  

  about a UROP that appeared in yesterday's Boston Globe, New England ... advances in aerodynamic cycling gear. Not bad, considering that Cote, 21, is ... helmet, Cote told them. ''In a 40 km time trial, that's two and half

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Story of Tim Tebow My friend Steve '11 wrote a blog for the not admitted.

  

  's note:" so for the people that don't know, a vermonster is essentially a ... played the game. That is a fact, not an opinion. He was the first sophomore ... I thought it was really a good story, and maybe some of you would

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday A Boston institution.

  

  (a holiday celebrated almost exclusively in Massachusetts and Maine). The third day in a four-day weekend, it also marks what has been a ... is a nice place to watch the marathon because there’s so much space and

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 19, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to make a glass pumpkin In celebration of the 2023 Great Glass Pumpkin Patch

  

  to fund ourselves. The revenue from these pumpkins is a big reason why ... . Thanks, generative AI![/caption] Thankfully, we do not need a pumpkin ... a pumpkin crew yet, but this is my impression."]about two dozen

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / Community Projects

  Phew! BUSY BUSY BUSY BUSY!

  

  adventure that ended up with a lot of people very covered in whipped cream and ... done, Chris Mills and I realized that we had a Livescribe demo table to ... say that I'm taking 60 units, which is 5 12 unit classes. 60 units is

  • by Snively '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sneak peek at the new admissions and SFS sites what we've been working on all summer

  

  those things that do require further elucidation. There's also a glossary ... . Most of that will happen post-launch, but I think this website will be a ... Financial Services (SFS) SFS is the office at MIT that combines the function

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 16, 2018
• Blog / Events

  APPLE BAKE channeling midterm stress into baking, sculpting, and completely destroying apples for decades

  

  traditional ingredient used in your recipe for a healthier choice (you will have ... - a dish that captures the community on your floor  Apple Additive - a ... in each category. There were also prizes for the entries that won Best

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wake Up Calls because The Big Picture needs you

  

  every single student is a massive super genius. (Proof that I am not is ... they’re paying attention when in reality all they’re doing is scribbling ... night before. It's a well-kept secret. But I have proof. Behold the two

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Fight against Gender Discrimination in STEM an excerpt from a fall class paper

  

  can definitely say that I learned a lot and improved in both reading ... , that was not exactly the case in practice). I wanted to learn more on the ... teaching positions (a number that had not changed in ten years) and zero

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Putting The Pieces Together: Hacking at MakeMIT in which four biological engineers spend 16 straight hours making something

  

  direction. The next step is to design a setup that will move an object in a ... allotted. At MIT, there is a proud culture of making things (i.e. robotics ... , sometimes as a biological engineer, I get a niggling feeling that I’m missing

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 12, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  2 AM Destiny An early evening snapshot of an MIT kitchen

  

  understand. Erons ’12, also Course 2 (“I major in Awesome.”), is taking a break ... in Zimbabwe and Hungary. Devin is Course 18 (Math). Cory ’13, a Course ... Fluids Engineering II) problem set. 2.006 is the second in a two

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 12, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Don’t Eat the Hot Glass Five things you can’t eat in the MIT Glass Lab for “health and safety” reasons…

  

  ? In any case, when I heard that there would be a demonstration involving ... course in the MIT Glass Lab, where I spent eight weeks learning about the ... ” (as if I’d ever need that when working with molten liquids). Here are

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferred Students Update Some Q&A for deferred students.

  

  .] Should I send in extra materials? The only thing we ask that you send in is ... before that) What should I do now? I recommend spending the next few weeks ... optimist, I know that things always turn out well in the end.

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  8.021 and my favorite moments the class that taught me to love physics

  

  One of my most favorite classes I've ever taken this semester is 8.021, Physics E&M. I failed the regular version of 8.02 in the spring, so I ... .021 because the class is rather small (only really consisting of 11? people if I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 17, 2020
• Blog / Events

  So You Want to Make a BrassRat? A very very very long year in review.

  

  Stark is a very, very, very long process. So in the first week of June ... for people that don't know, I am a Figma lover. So, of course, I decided ... 't begin to explain the fear in my soul that day) Make a scrapbook at our

  • by Richard O. '28
  • May 31, 2026
• Blog / Athletics

  A Week in the Life of a Student-Athlete feat. women's soccer & meche

  

  because of my fractured and sprained foot, which is such a bummer because I ... . The season is flying by, and we’ve played a whopping total of 18 games ... journey of that week, and what it's like to have both a mix of soccer and

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Benzene Back Take it to the lab!

  

  ] Nitrate... Adding NO2 is so damn great I get a plus charge when I misbehave ... benzene back Make me a Grignard so I'll attack Epoxides turn me on in no ... that a word?) about the end of the year coming shortly. In the mean time

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 24, 2007