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• Blog / Summer

  The Courage to Change Even Through the [Tough] Mud[der]

  

  a lot! So much so that when my friend offered me her ticket for the ... ="although nothing is possible with the heart of the cards 😏 jk please don’t do this ... half marathon by the end of the summer.  But that didn’t end up

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 11, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  how to adult spoiler alert: no one knows

  

  him reevaluate his life reminded me of the times when i, too, had a ... an engineer or scientist like so many of my peers. i feel the years ... trunk, one inside the next - as cisneros describes it - than a stack of

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 2 Really, there are a lot of machine shops.

  

  efforts to document all of them, I split the entry into 2 parts. Unfortunately, I still don't have all of the photos I would like, but honestly, if ... you can use your imagination, and I'll just describe some of the other

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Questions and answers

  

  of science and engineering courses it offers, and the fact that most of ... sort of assumed it, and so did I. By the end of my freshman year, I ... sort of interdisciplinary field (neuroscience, for the record, is pretty

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What I’m Up To distractions

  

  draw and the rest of the people must guess what it is; fastest to get it ... !!] League of Legends - okay this is much more intense than the rest but I ... Codecademy Pro for the rest of the school year DuoLingo - now is a great time

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  I Hate Change but at least, I'm creating it

  

  , filling every square inch of this (albeit slightly smaller than the previous ... over the course of winter break. I am left thinking: I hate change. A ... closing of the door, the camera cuts away to a peaceful Next House Dining

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 17, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So I said to Einstein… ...think of a name for my new theory while I go talk to my relatives.

  

  for the highest work of advancing civilization. You have to find a way ... sounds out of gravity waves... and probably, like, solve the mysteries of ... magnetism are actually kind of the same thing, I started to get a little

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 19, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  what not to pack for the dorms pretty much everything, honestly

  

  from Boston. As much as I love a long drive, that’s not for the faint of ... and have a plan of how you’re going to get the rest once you’re here. It ... had one Croc fastened to the outside of my backpack. This is what I came

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • July 9, 2026
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk

  

  sit in the lounge and talk to people, ask one of your classmates if they ... repeated interaction. But the types of interaction you have are important. I study together with a lot of people a lot of the time, but the people I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 30, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  somewhat (including the offer that I have in front of me right now). Not ... easily because of the glare. And that’s why I’m out here, primarily: to ... of organizing my thoughts about the big issues that I'm worried about

  • by Phi A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Unwinding how i destress

  

  found my little niches in the realms of the vlogging world, enjoying the likes of Dan and Phil and other creators within the British Youtube sphere, alongside enjoying Minecraft YouTube. This was the first coming of Minecraft

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  mid semester check-in all about my classes

  

  of the four technical classes I had picked out or put one of them on ... the class I liked the least but mostly because I wanted to take all of ... note='Fundamentals of Programming']6.009(6.1010),[/annotation] the only

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s always day 1 a meticulous account of my last first day

  

  Yesterday was the first day of my senior spring, which is also the last first day of my undergraduate studies at MIT. It is the kind of milestone that keeps appearing, with an increasing sense of urgency. The last

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! Classes! Classes! Classes!

  

  yourself up in your room trying to get a 100% in every one of the 16 AP ... the application season a little, of which I was actually nearly completely unaware. So I kind of missed the deadline to wish you guys good luck

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  butterfly that chugs along the top of a giant golden cardboard stag head ... the world of “making” by signing up for MakeMIT, even though they had no ... for different categories at the end of the night. Hacking officially

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  51 Things I Want to Say to 2022s one senior's autumn thoughts

  

  Dear Members of the Class of 2022, It's been an absolute pleasure to ... around 4am, I sat down to finally write down all the thoughts and pieces of ... by the Class of 2021's struggles to adjust to the Institute. This post

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  , the creator of the show, who gave us permission and offered us some ... , for I was one of the gamemasters and have more content to share :D For much of the summer, I worked with Whitney Z. ‘21 designing, iterating

  • by Phi A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  step and dramatically improve the lives of all the people you encounter ... most of you are facing right now, the dragon that felt like the final ... didn’t make it. Holding hands on the way to class. Falling in and out of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  WTHBBQ! Chinese Buffet! Spring 2008 courses, with a really bad analogy, haha. (super long post o___o)

  

  working for 13 hours straight, from 11 pm to noon the next day. Part of the ... -you-can-eat, but instead of being able to leave after you're comfortably full, the ... to say that this is the bane of my existence this semester. I know this

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 11, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  This was meant to be written a week and a half ago

  

  ring around the barrel. Of course, it was not going to stay forever, and I'd heard rumors of Caltech coming to claim it. The Monday after CPW - I enjoyed seeing so very many of you, by the way :) - I was asleep

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 22, 2006