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• Blog / Challenges

  new information about my life just dropped [ from the archive ] roses, thorns, and buds

  

  . Shoutout to the Burton Conner desk workers for sorting my umbrella-containing ... , 2024, hoping to post it for Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving slipped away, and I thought, hey, it might be fitting to post it for Valentine's day

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • February 21, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: The Plano Four Colin Taylor '10, Timur Sahin '10, Joanne Shih '10 and Albert Chang '10.

  

  're going to do great things, and I'm happy I get to be there for the first ... biology teacher Barbara Pittenger for inspiring him to pursue a major in ... place with the resources to help you change the world -- hopefully for the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Days Without a Laptop… i need laptop-rehab

  

  side-effect from being here for so long - you become tethered to your ... Today is Day 5, after my laptop refused to boot after turning on ... 've experienced the five stages of grief (one of the few things I managed to retain

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  things im doing during break things im looking forward to doing

  

  the airport and we immediately went for some tacos before heading to my ... things I did while in California: Went to a ton of doctors appointments ... have been living in Guadalajara for about 4 years now. We went to

  • by Victor D. '27
  • December 28, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  seven questions with youtubers the mit side of youtube

  

  -sentence pitch for your channel. Sarah Chieng: My channel tries to capture the ... interaction for both of us! Sarah: Last IAP, I went to Hawaii with one of my ... implement a PID control for LEGO MINDSTORMS. Jocelyn: Ooh it’s so hard to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 14, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Good Advice On Advisors

  

  in that. Thankfully, you do have a wonderful resource available to you ... -or-less agreeing to let you do whatever it is you want, there's a style for every ... to ask how you're doing. I certainly can't speak for all of them since

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Embarrassing One Minute everything that can go wrong...will find a worse way to manifest itself

  

  problem they want to solve, the users for which that problem exists, and ... decided to meet a day earlier (a Thursday, the only day that worked out for ... ’d already figured out what we wanted to build, a web-app for letting kids draw

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 1 Yay, power tools! A look at places to find them around campus.

  

  used to create cylindrical parts, for example a pin that needs a groove ... department and caters to people doing cool stuff for fun rather than official ... In response to a request from a current applicant, I'm proud to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  Apply to WISE! It would be WISE of you to do so

  

  decided.  Asia’s reason for applying to WISE was simple: “it was free”. We ... to see for herself that there was always something going on at MIT ... could only say hi and chat for a bit. She thought to herself, ‘how busy

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 13, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Making the Switch: Chapter 2 Making new friends at MIT

  

  for me was something that I looked forward to and feared at the same ... my roommate for their preparation and protective measures. So I try to ... . What a bad idea.) Living in Baker availed me the opportunity to be in

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Dishwashers, parents, space: what do these things have in common?

  

  a bunk bed (to save space, #6 on this list), for the first time in my ... enough training for at least a Bronze medal in the Olympics. I'd like to ... cu. Ft.), I hope and pray that somehow, perhaps for Christmas, a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The (New) Bloggers! I promised myself I wouldn't cry...

  

  over 50 applications for just a few available spots. The vast majority ... his loathsome liking for cheese-curd fries, we're happy to have him ... - reviewed all of these applications, and tried to sort them out among us. The

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work VII The triumphant conclusion! Plus, the CIA is watching me.

  

  of his presidency. Well, for future reference, I think it's best to try ... about 15 hours painting and this is what we've got to show for it. Ruth ... 't have available at the time. Looking to the right in my room. This wall

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Four days of fun! I did so much last long weekend and very little of it was productive.

  

  monument has been on my bucket list for a while. It’s 294 stairs to the top ... decided to take Hubways back into downtown. For those of you who don’t know ... it to any other Hubway station. After searching around a little bit for

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  frosh thingies i couldn’t decide what to write so i’m writing about everything

  

  to MIT. Although I came here for tech and tinkering, between the rock ... college? what?? Like many I’ve talked to, I’m still stuck a couple ... that I graduated from grade school. Ironically, it’s really starting to

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  registration day! aka "registration day blues", but like, only in the good sense of blues

  

  were frantically scrambling, trying to figure out how to sign up for ... 're registered for classes, and the emails begin to pour in! It's all very exciting ... studying for quizbowl. I think it is good to have at least one area of your

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Tour of an MIT student’s notebook my brain is a mess so my pages have everything

  

  different projects, but because drawing is way faster for me, I like to sketch ... happened, but they’re good enough to be helpful for psets and test review ... . Scribbling stuff down is a part of how I process, and really useful to me for

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • July 8, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How MIT students are trying to change education by biking across America.

  

  Francisco for the summer. After talking to a number of groups working on ed ... will also be difficult, as it is for any teacher, to keep the whole class ... week (more on that soon) and am here to spotlight an incredible project a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 10, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  IAP thoughts two weeks late, but with an illustration!

  

  anyway. Also, read to the end for a really special surprise :) Things I ... information for various teams at the company, so I got to learn a lot about cool ... for that"]understand.[/annotation] What I’m trying to understand, I

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Want To Build a Robot? it doesn't have to be a robot (see: electric gokart section)

  

  have been accurate for my robots. Major credit goes to Josh B. '16, as ... lead to better robots for everyone. Plus, these are your peers, who you ... quickly. Here's what that means for me: I'm able to design, fabricate, and

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 9, 2014