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• Blog / MIT Life

  Ruth says update your blog! FIRST is cool. So are rebuses.

  

  , for whatever reason, I had a ton of energy when I got back, so Javier ... . Woodie Flowers is a national advisor of the FIRST Robotics competition ... discovery a few days later. I was on my way to the MechE computer lab to work

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 3) Thailand and Israel and Columbia, oh my!

  

  the instructors for this "Year One" experience. Despite being a Biology ... (up in the Himalayas). I'll be there for a month, working to fight the ... there is for science and engineering, but many of the humanities

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i am taking in spring 26 because i'm stuck at the airport right now. NOT ranked in terms of edibility (sorry)

  

  have[annotation note='sorry for the <a href="https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/mathisms/">mathism...</a ... the predominant major at MIT...), but I think it's a great example for ... the worst one being 19 hours straight"]a lot. [/annotation] I also had

  • by Janet G. '27
  • February 8, 2026
• Blog / How to MIT

  loftblogging 3: liberation via customization i <3 process

  

  ] friend Hanu for help. At first, I had an ambitious plan to build a king ... —it's liberating! I was free to decide on the dimensions of my loft, opting for ... to make modifications to the structure, such as installing a railing

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 26, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  Yet Another Blog Entry My expenses for the semester in pie form, topped with a scoop of IAP.

  

  Grandma used to make (where Grandma is a spontaneous euphemism for Microsoft ... . Since food happens to be one of the protagonists in this blog, here's a ... : Notice the conspicuous absence of a “Ramen” category. Interestingly, when I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  We’re So Back a collage of preseason

  

  is a span of two weeks in the summer before the semester starts, where ... for the fall season. This period of time is when the hyphenated word of ... ="aligncenter" width="442"] We had a team meeting to kickoff the start of preseason. Here

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take Deep Breaths :) Deep breaths.

  

  if I sit around and wait for the news, the world around me isn't going ... , and I'm going to spend it having a blast with the people I love in a ... game. It's not a good way to spend your time. Go have some fun. Enjoy the

  • by Bryan
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  -tripping to Vermont for a [annotation note="The Great North American Eclipse on ... the screen. My CS internship already involved me staring at a screen for ... , organizing logistics for MIT Science Olympiad, sailing on the Charles, and even

  • by Allison E. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  happy singles awareness day

  

  was he hoping for something more? While Mike was a nice dude, I wasn ... and children, but that’s for a different post …) “Once you’re a mother ... searching for a partner. And I’m not dissing my exes, as they are really cool

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Skill Issues (spoiler alert: i've got them)

  

  realized that. The hate for card games stuck around, though. A friend and I ... older brother didn’t have the patience to play chess with me (I had a tendency to just sort of... not follow the rules), and as a result I never

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • June 29, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Founder’s Letter A historical perspective.

  

  giving a lecture in the Dowse Institute in Cambridge, and shall have time for only a short letter. Much occupation before the Committee of the ... importuned for a word, which was characteristic, as usual. I was urged to speak

  • by William Barton Rogers
  • March 11, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Spending the F.A.T. with Arthur Ganson A missed opportunity to build kinetic sculptures with artist Arthur Ganson.

  

  ’ contraption for the MIT Museum sponsored Friday After Thanksgiving (F.A ... I scanned the front page of The Tech, MIT’s major newspaper, and saw a ... by the MIT Museum. Here’s the photo and caption: “A graduate from

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mad scientist? “Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to…

  

  write a paper based on the research I’ve been doing for the past year and ... my response. I am taking the following: 7.02- Biology Lab- A notorious ... , proceeded to forget her name, and then called her “Lauren” for the next hour

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January in the Studio 4.11A: Architecture and Environmental Design Intensive

  

  amphitheater, a little blinded by the brightness of sun and snow. In searching for a place to sit, I named the following constraints: that I must sit ... . The Department is committed to a concern for human values and for

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our Room (formerly, THE Sal Khan’s Room) is Being Converted into WiFi! we made this post just for the title

  

  email got sent out to the both of us and to two others who live in a ... Next House helped us a lot during the Housing Lottery process this year ... this situation amusing and are making this post "just for the title

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 29, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology (fatima's version)

  

  browns" iafischer's city game, opened to a link for the script that Alan ... , without his mom "A flight attendant shows the view of Taylor Swift's Eras ... to hang in my room for the fall! how-to-dormspam. probably for

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  All the Feels introduction to me and my thoughts

  

  share with you a sliver of some of the amazing people I’ve met and the ... honor of listening to a professor who was involved in the discovery of ... reading about them online or watching them on the news. I am excited for the

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 14, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  's New Groove for the first time with a bunch of people I barely knew, all ... nothing made sense, except for maybe the classes, and even then only because ... Thanksgiving break. I helped out with Thanksgiving at my dorm for the first time

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of Embrace the backstory to a gender-bending concept dance video, written by Ayomide F. '18

  

  wear a bright green corset that I’d worn as the Joker for Halloween. He ... for a “nightclub bathroom” (aka the huge bathroom in the basement of ... . These were people who wanted the best for us but wouldn’t understand why a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 11, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hydrate Happy Sent by the magic of mobile technology

  

  minutes for me to have the misfortune of using a Bevi machine. (The reason ... that. I want the MIT Admissions Blogs to remain a platform for positivity ... glasses when I try pouring myself a drink using it.) I could go on for

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • July 3, 2023