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• Blog / MIT Life

  How I Won a Costume Contest some glue but no borax

  

  . In my junior year of high school I was the best Sanrio character of all ... like Cinnamoroll's ears, but this time I got the crazy idea in my head to ... costume. I took a little solo trip to the Goodwill in Central Square and

  • by Leya E. '30
  • November 1, 2026
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Guest Post] Because Racecar, Friendships, and Family By Monica C. '25: "What I’ve learned about being an engineer, friend, and teammate by…

  

  ://fsae.mit.edu/. Background and Introduction I’m Monica C., an M.Eng in Electrical Engineering ... from the design stage to two annual competitions in May and June, where we race against colleges across the nation in the Formula SAE

  • by Gloria Z. '26 MEng '27
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Liveblog] MARC 2025 A sciencey science conference, feature Anika '26 and me

  

  English words, I can describe things in a non-caveman-like way this year ... . Anyway, after all that excitement, we got to the hotel and checked in. I'm currently sitting in the lobby writing this post while I wait for the opening

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  it in JavaScript. Well, that ended up changing. Over the past two years, I've written things in JavaScript and TypeScript, to the point that ... the past two years, in order of when they happened. Of course, these are

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  some thoughts i have a few

  

  to go to semesterly lotteries and enter your name in and only about 10 ... are people who have already graduated still in this pool. There is ... glassblowing class in the future sometime. But, it's pretty unlikely. Greek Life

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

  Learning to Spend Better This not a budgeting post.

  

  lot of optimism. I have a lot of optimism.In my first attempt at ... the data right in front of me. I could no longer say to my mom, "No ... spent in the previous month. And despite doing this for 8 months now, I

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Random Hall REX! Residence Exploration events at Random Hall. Your orientation booklet is WRONG. :D

  

  if you fit in. Below is a list of events happening at Random this ... wrong. This list has many more events than the list in your puny booklet ... /26/2012 00:47-2:17 Adventures in Neverland Never grow up! Peter Pan fights

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 26, 2012
• Blog / Events

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  MIT homepage, in three or four different blog entries, all over the news ... , pressure washing everything in sight, replacing windows, emptying stores of ... , undergraduates, and graduate students had to share 200 tickets. In the end, 50 of

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP reveal!! it's like a gender reveal but important

  

  the worst times in American history to do so."]I've started doing ... -persona STEM-free and relatively non-nerdy in order to preserve the major amounts ... , I sent in a bunch of UROP applications on [annotation note

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 11, 2025
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  working on campus. or rather, I feel guilty whenever I work in my bed since ... given study space: other factors that they wrote in include: enough ... this in mind, let's dive into my definitely not comprehensive list of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Radio Nerd Shenanigans i wrote this in october and forgot to post it oops

  

  bit."]ARES[/annotation] for fun. When I was in high school, everyone I met in ham radio was either old, white, or a man, and often a ... . [annotation note="some people in Radio Society are probably immortal"]Back in ye olde

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • February 25, 2023
• Blog / Summer

  I am reading so many books! getting back to my bookworm roots

  

  (i.e., in class while my teachers were talking...) I started reading less around the time I started high school, when paying attention in ... with?) Part of my problem is that although in life, I'm generally a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  there is no time left musings on death and the future

  

  think one other reason that might not be as easy to discern is a change in ... acknowledge often enough in portrayals of addicts because it is extremely ... about this very hard for a few months, and then in january i read some

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 22, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  .nano pixels developing a love for pictures, reverb

  

  note="Definitely did not sit in front of a computer for hours, feeling ... . Wouldn’t it be cool to learn about the things in [EECS Opportunities List ... full-time job. In the most literal sense, given that it is roughly 30

  • by Waly N. '24
  • July 2, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Goal Setting a learning process

  

  ways in my life that I've used task management, especially for goal ... other than maybe keeping a list of to-dos in Google Keep, or my ... other things that make it in there as well. This summer, for example, I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 4, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Common Misconceptions and Un-Expectations a list of things i've noticed

  

  not, in fact, normal "What classes are you taking?" - Our Number System ... . In MIT speak, I'm a CMS/6-3 and this past semester I took 3.091, 21M.011, 18.01, and 8.01L. In non-MIT speak, I'm a double major in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 5, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths

  

  For most of the semester, I've lived and breathed in the ever ... again, I would spend hours locked away in a corner of the library staring ... living in a universe of Organic Chemistry. To the point where Orgo and real

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 7, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Recapping Trashion 2015 sustainable fashion == trashion

  

  reduction and sustainability. Student designers from MIT and other schools in ... , which are then modeled on our runway. Trashion was founded in 2011, is an ... teaches in STS.   Trashion Show 2015 Promo Video from MIT UA on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Year 2 at Hogwarts Holy Hell, I'm a sophomore

  

  since I started blogging. A year since robots in the FPOP and the free ... ’ve taken thus far. I spend four-and-half hours every week in the lab (7 ... you put a wall 0.6 meters in front of the robot, it will move 0.1 meter

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MOMENTOS IMPRESIONANTES Because this place is full of them.

  

  I remember the first time I went to a market in my hometown. It was ... I’ve ever had to, an effect self-evident in me staying up late on several nights to finish aggravating p-sets, and in me having to think more

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 5, 2013