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• Blog / How to MIT

  How to Overcommit Responsibly sidequesting like a pro

  

  skill points in this category, but as much as I hate to admit it, I have more points than I would like here. [caption id="attachment_118743 ... others. In my playthrough, I have optimized for skills and exp and

  • by Anika H. '26
  • October 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another Toy Story Turns out toy design isn't all play, but that doesn't mean it's not fun!

  

  again, I would in a heartbeat. [Photo credit to Sherry '15!] 2.00b ... I know it's been a long time since I've posted a blog... but I'm back with some exciting stories! As you may or may not recall, I mentioned

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 25, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Boston Marathon ‘08 I'm back!

  

  while, and I would look down at their page over my absurdly high nose and think, "PSHHH." "Pshhhhh," I would think. "If I had the honor of being an MIT blogger, I would not post as sparsely as a Donald Trump's hair. I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 14, 2008
• Blog / Summer

  SSP aka summer science program aka summer sleep program aka silly science people aka summer solstice…

  

  meet people outside of the bubble I was in.  Any fears I might have had ... commiserate over the hardest parts. In the evenings, once I was done with my ... my imagination. It was easy, in those late nights, when I was wrapped

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wearing the apron This was written on an empty stomach

  

  ’t think I’m into it anymore”. I’ve been fortunate in that I sort of ... .007 final competition intact. Rip. It hit me that I never in a million years ... back then, I had no idea what I wanted to major in, but I knew that the

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  6.0001 is Done I learned a bit (or should I say 8-bit)

  

  feel like I grew a lot in a few weeks. I came into MIT with a basic ... existing in this spot. Sometimes, I got to help others. Sometimes, I got help. Both helped me grow. I also got to hone in on some stylistic choices that

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Rate My Setup a guide to my room in Simmons

  

  Since the end of August, I've been living on-campus in Simmons in a ... on its stand (in the yellow box), the half-soldered PCB I was working ... [/annotation] for this semester before I realized I would have two desks, which has

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 17, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  unquantifiable growth progress that can't be measured

  

  , money earned and spent (mostly spent). In fact, I often conflate progress ... is fine, but in the last few months, I've been trying to step away from ... . . . Don't get me wrong. Quantifying can be useful. (How else would I keep

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 5, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Pimp my sukkah. I really can't think of a better blog entry title than that.

  

  with "M.I.T" written on it in Hebrew. I think I ended up giving that one ... much about it. Then one fine afternoon I was in the middle of Mastering ... defeated again by that same method. I wonder if anyone in Hillel will ever

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2006
• 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 ... to thousands of degrees in the furnace. Talk about defective! I tried

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Course 2A is Cooler than You I'm back from the dead, to tell you all about my major and its ridiculously…

  

  in Roman numerals, as far as I know....oh, the intricacies of MIT ... of that, thank you. I'm 2A-CIR. Now, what in the hell does that mean ... mechanical engineering. Second of all, it means I chose to concentrate in "CIR

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  The American Astronomical Society’s Winter Conference: 2013 Edition THIS IS SO EXCITING I THINK I'M GOING TO CRY

  

  of Mountains In The Continental United States, so I stopped a random ... . I had another project, though, which I didn't talk much about in ... playing with physics. I had the opportunity to present those results in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 15, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Dark Side of the Moon Mi vida. Nada m√°s.

  

  , in all seriousness: Wow - in just one more day, I will not have ... 've been MEANING to, but I just simply never got around to it! Actually, in ... MIT would decrease like pigeons in the park. We talked a lot about

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 24, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  3 Simple Steps for Making New Friends Guide to Meeting People

  

  . Paradoxically, I was desperate to be and not to be noticed: maybe somebody would ... people.   “Take a left where you ordinarily would take a right.” I ... identify a Slovenian person. Sometimes, I would take the [annotation note

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Rediscovering en Plein Air Painting by Elisa X. '26, MEng '26

  

  crafting art pieces in the studio. For these artworks, I would thoroughly ... [annotation note="Essentially, I am starting my MEng in EECS while completing a ... friends really knew I painted in the past, mostly due to the occasional

  • by Allison E. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Kickstart My Art highest form of expression

  

  point (though I hope it will be, and am backing it, because I would like a ... There was a great article in the Tech earlier this week about startup ... . Now, Mark could do a lot of things in a lot of organizations, and all of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Airplane boy strikes again Adam writes about his UROP.

  

  have a test tomorrow?] So I, the gallant boyfriend, am stepping in to ... sophomore year I worked in the Aerospace Controls Labratory (ACL) and ... /c planes when I was 7, and I attended and competed in various r/c events

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

  Video games I’ve played this semester trimps, mother 3, hades, and vampire survivors

  

  the Spire post two years ago, I had 67 hours in the game. Now I have 300 ... in my Steam library that I'm working through. The trouble is that I ... Hades, that I haven't seen in the other roguelikes I've played, is its

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Ridiculous things I’ve been up to in which i wear an exoskeleton

  

  instead, let me talk about some of the things I've been doing in the past ... switching to Linux in fear for becoming a "tech person", but to be honest, I'm too far gone in that direction to turn back. Of course, then I had to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Hey VMars fans Wallace is Course 2!

  

  as I can tell. In your MyMIT account, if you go to Section 8 of Part ... Maina asked:: I sat for SAT 1 and I messed up in one section in Critical ... question in the space of the question I had left and I went ahead that way. I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2006