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• Blog / IAP

  made some art about the iberian peninsula featuring a long winded unedited rundown of the month of january +/- a week

  

  Madrid airport (beautiful delicious architecture) trying to figure out what to do, and eventually we got to our hotel. It was Christmas Eve, and we ... on farmer mode, btw. Not to brag. Turns out everything is closed on

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 22, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  doctor worm not a real doctor but i am a real worm

  

  the 17th to saturday the 29th i went into lab every single day. i justified it with the fact that i didn't have any classes to take my time away ... them look all shy, and i had to learn how to perform transplant surgeries

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 8, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Romance of Learning rainy days, language tests, and a book called Babel

  

  morning to study for it, scrubbing the sleep from my half-conscious brain ... swimming in the back of my mind as I scootered across the bridge to my test ... pronunciations to hordes of kanji characters – the slightest deviation of curve

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 23, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  to your living community"]GRA[/annotation], a PhD student in Course 4 ... chemistry and the recitations they had to attend or TA. pika gets much louder at night, and since our mealplan is open to anyone we can have upwards

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  just do it don’t say you’re gonna do it!

  

  in 2.008, a meche class known for its final project: to manufacture 50 ... as a noun and a verb (CNC: to cut out a part on the CNC mill ... , essentially telling the computer what toolpaths to take."]CAM[/annotation] model

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 23, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  gesturing around MIT drawing sights and sites around MIT

  

  make sense to say what I have been doing and what exactly has been keeping me away from the blogs. The thing is, I don't know quite how to phrase it, especially to a public audience, most of whom I probably don

  • by Waly N. '24
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  549,033 words how do you measure, measure a year?

  

  reflect on the past year, and look forwards to what's coming next. Where are you going, where have you been? These questions are hard to answer ... ability to push through difficult semesters, that I feel more comfortable

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 7, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  what i’m doing this iap 2021 a busy busy house

  

  backlogged right now and I'm trying to rush through them. Here's what my house ... side project where they want to create an auto turret with a nerf gun ... printer to print out all the parts. [carousel image1="60227" image2

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 10, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  Wandering through the Infinite 3.5ish years of wandering MIT, squeezed into like one month

  

  At some point during the semester, when walking to quarantine lunch ... walls of the Infinite that I hadn't actually bothered to stop and read. In a regular semester, I was always in such a rush to get to wherever I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 22, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nisha’s Restaurant Review: February this is extra but i'm doing it anyways

  

  blog post, but I've been trying to see more of Boston and Cambridge this semester. My method of doing this has been going out to [annotation note ... are the only restaurants I used to go to before

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Remembering Woodie Flowers they say don't meet your heroes, but some exceed your expectations

  

  to science education and best known for its eponymous robotics ... introduction: to the tens of thousands of FIRST participants around the world, and to the decades of MIT students he taught in Mechanical Engineering

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining, Dig-Ins and Dives Lady Afeefah travels across campus in search of the best eateries

  

  Disclaimer: This post was supposed to be written a whole 6 months ago ... down my to-do list. But here it finally is! Hey everybody! I'm Lady ... Dives! This trip, we're trekking to all corners of campus, trying the all

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  36 Units of Class To make room for 12 units of Life

  

  just finished sophomore year, confused about What We Want To Do With Our Lives, and eager to figure things out. For those that haven’t read it yet and don’t have time to (since it’s kind of long), the gist is we were

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 13, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  , we always say to be true: Turning away so many kind, generous, super ... few years trying to make wherever you are as amazing as you can (as you ... application process. After we denied her, I emailed her to tell her that I was

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting Through a Difficult Month Study, Study, Study

  

  never going to end. It seemed like all my midterms were clustering on the ... belief. Now, as Spring Break comes to close, and the month of April has ... Analysis class. Both of them are extremely interesting to me, but they are my

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 1, 2018
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2017 Graduates from MIT

  

  ; Of particular interest to our office are the Class of 2017 ... years, we, as MIT staff, have come to know and work with so many of them ... chance to see them strive and struggle, and to become the people we knew

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Sailing Spring Break a trip to Charleston and why the sailing team is awesome

  

  , the sailing team goes to the College of Charleston in South Carolina for ... greatness. We reported to the sailing pavilion at 5:30 am on Saturday ... airport we quickly stopped at a grocery store for food and the hotel to drop

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • April 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduled time my classes this semester, and how engineering and sociology go hand in hand

  

  Is this what it's like to be an upperclassman and only take classes ... ", or as I like to call it, "How To Write Good Code That Won't Kill People ... this class teaches you specifically how to write safe, well-verified, and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 14, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cooking for Myself I haven't set off the fire alarms yet!

  

  ’t know about you, but I like to eat. I grew up in a family where food is ... over the grill. From weekly family dinners, to Pancake Sunday with my brothers, to just hanging out making lunch with my mom, meals have always

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music, Photography, and Two.js i am proficient at two (2) of these things.

  

  than those I just mentioned. I have, however, been able to do some pretty ... to play with), I realized how much I missed my synths from back home. Luckily, I live close enough to home so that when my parents came up to

  • by Joe B. '18
  • November 15, 2014