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• Blog / Challenges

  The Sophomore Slump some notes on (and from) my classes this semester

  

  , it gets thrown around in a lot of different contexts—from music and ... spaces. Just over a month in to my sophomore year, I'm starting to ... recruitment events for students interested in joining Greek life"]Rush week

  • by Nicholas R. '29
  • October 14, 2026
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I will graduate tomorrow how I feel about the past five years, and the years ahead of me

  

  chances of getting in by interacting with MIT-related content. I dunno. When ... into, and what I liked to write about that energized me, in front of a ... that I wanted to get into back in high school. Learning to code made me a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 27, 2026
• Blog / Life after MIT

  You always have been hi everybody!

  

  Dear Reader, I'm writing this in the Wordpress portal and this is an ... allowed? One time, in my sophomore year, there was a blogger meeting where I ... those of you who do not know me, my name is Cami and I graduated MIT in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] 10 Reasons I Joined Rocket Team

  

  I’m still learning in college is how to spend my limited time and energy. In the beginning of freshman year, I was having a lot of trouble ... pugh charts comparing all the things I was involved in at MIT and Rocket

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 11, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  , ranging from 1994 all the way back to 1934! In this post, I've embedded the five videos (in reverse chronological order) and written some notes and ... striking old-timey scenes I found. In total there's around 2.5 hours of

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Final Presentation Recap Flashing lights, a live horse, social robots, great music, clouds of steam and lots of…

  

  could aid the transport of vaccines in remote areas. KoolPool, an ... Mechanical Engineering undergrads in a class known as 2.009: Product ... Presentation in which student-designed products were presented. -- I was in the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  process. Dozens of you wrote in with wonderful, funny, and sometimes ... best universities in my country. However, I want to study aerospace engineering. In Costa Rica, we hardly have a decent airport for receiving

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  [annotation note="Essentially, I am starting my MEng in EECS while completing a ... undergrad degree with the rest of my class in Spring 2026 then with my MEng in ... friends really knew I painted in the past, mostly due to the occasional

  • by Allison E. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.2050 – Field Programmable Gate Awesomeness Featuring my “aggressive and weird” cat robot

  

  intense – in addition to simulating our designs in software, almost everything in 6.2050 is built into physical hardware. Plus, my advisor ... , but it has also been one of the most rewarding. In just a few short

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  BREAK MY BODY, LIBERATE MY SOUL a student-made installation in the Stata Center R&D pub

  

  in the heart of the Frank Gehry-designed Stata Center, the icon of architecture of MIT's campus, lies a pub. it opened in 2004 and was used for at ... stumble across. in my time, I've heard it being used for parties, scavenger

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  A Part of Me or apart of me?

  

  also clearly note where spoilers begin and where they end.) 1. Voices In ... with my posts until I deem it cringe"] Song:[/annotation] Voices in my ... , imposter syndrome just sort of, exists. It’s a voice in the back of my head

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 22, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  soulsearching / coding in which i ramble about careers

  

  've been here for more than a month, I wanted to check in and find out how ... … Xian: I used to worry about being the oldest intern in our cohort, since ... , it's not like you're the oldest person in the company by any stretch

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 26, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  the happy ending is you thoughts related to relationships

  

  of your life) i. people who haven’t been in relationships tend to think the hardest part is initiation. as in, everything would work out if ... everyone who has been in a relationship agrees that maintenance is orders of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 21, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  perception but who *are* you?

  

  Over the summer, I’ve centered on a fear that I have in graduate ... happen. I’ll write some paper, it (hopefully) gets published in some ... some point in my grad school life, I’ll have to come up with ideas and be

  • by Phi A. '21
  • September 18, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  experiences, or the lack thereof flailing around in a sea of adjectives trying to find the noun

  

  Part I August 2020: I read a stray comment in the blogger slack that sets off a chain of thoughts in my head. Pulled by some force I can ... ="Am I black in America? Well, that's one of the things I'm thinking about

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 13, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  mediocre furniture Part I After I built my loft in sophomore fall, I was ... just leave them in the hallways to be taken. And we students do so, very ... all the additional wood I would need in February. Then it was March, and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  in advance, here's considerations on picking classes and schedules ... in the first semester is good. First, you're in P/NR; second, you get a ... out of the way. Pick an intro subject in a major you're interested in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Senior Fall Classes Better late than never

  

  of the big reasons we decided to take course 6 classes in the first ... it resulted in some sort of 3D art! Here are some of the things we ... in the scene are reflective) and keeping track of where they intersect

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 25, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m doing this IAP i guess i need to be more specific

  

  May. In between the two semesters, during January, is Independent ... .6721 Negotiation Analysis, which meets for 8.30-4.30 for three days in a row towards ... dollars in prizes, and an opportunity to work on software-related projects

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  My First Semester at MIT a thicc recap and a look into our conversation

  

  percentages. But for the time being.. This Semester, I... ...participated in an ... , watched Bachelor in Paradise, and just had a really good time goofing around ... and explore topics you might be interested in in a fun and unique way

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 18, 2019