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• Blog / MIT Life

  Pommes et manus Turkeys into oil, apples into beavers... it's all good.

  

  Entries are judged by the Floor Faculty Fellows, MIT Staff, MIT Housemasters ... of the awesome things about this implement is that it gives you one ... not win apple sculpture, hard as it is to believe, because it was up

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

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

  

  lately. for a lot of reasons. one is that, well, being[annotation note ... . another reason is, you know.... *vaguely waves hands* everything. the ... , the police brutality. another reason is much more tangential: just a

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

  FIRST Robotics and Alumna-hood I miss my team.

  

  The FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) is an annual Robotics challenge ... eighth grade science teacher - who I honestly believe is the reason I am now at MIT - encouraged me to. From what I remember, there were about

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / People & Identities

  first time in cdmx and first time out of the US, but not the first time having an ethnicity…

  

  vibrant city life that is missing in the increasingly desolate and dying ... México, which is only like a 5 minute walk from where my cousin lives. It ... (which is apparently the only castle in North America to ever hold royalty

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 15, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the FIRST DAY of CLASSES!!!!! A summary of the first half of the day/how I'm feeling, with many exclamation points!!!

  

  tumblr, which is ramble about my thoughts and feelings until I’m done ... is a lot better now, and I went out into the city just on my own a lot ... Alchemist sculpture that sits in front of the student center on MIT's campus

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  can’t stop smiling a time capsule for freshman fall

  

  now it’s February... But this one is pretty close to my heart, and I ... way to that conclusion. And it is. But I think it feels so unintuitive ... state of mind—my average mood is more positive, the fluctuations have felt

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  clay crash course one month of wheelthrowing later…

  

  . (One of the many luxuries of IAP is to be able to spend hours just ... day, what had succeeded and what had failed. This blog is an abridged ... -session wheelthrowing class with MIT Arts Studios. So I knew enough to know that throwing

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  every day it gets a little easier but you gotta do it every day, that’s the hard part

  

  thing and don’t believe the distinction is important, but pick whichever ... experience is that most problems are not so simple to resolve and most ... -fashioned planning and scheduling, a lot of b2b software is painful to use and requires

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  taking care in all forms

  

  want to see my dad, which might be difficult given the average mit ... shoulder the responsibility of taking care of myself is just another marker ... and face masks and indulging in a bit of luxury. "self-care is buying

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Remember? A Blast from the Past

  

  Second semester is just two weeks old, and I've already decided that ... me any significant pain. 8.02 (Physics) is essentially a review of high ... .00 (Psych) is filled with cool videos, neat facts, and references to one of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soy Bomb Doo d-d-doo d-d-doo d-do d-do. Ice tea!

  

  is hard enough), a fuel cell that could theoretically be used to power ... nobody. Instead we're using 22 M formic acid, which is, needless to say ... like that. Anyway, the formic acid is pressurized, so it goes through a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  one hour of musings we're so back

  

  Hey, it's been awhile since I've written here. Activation energy is ... journal. Being in the public is a vulnerable act. My situations made me ... subsided, at least for a wee bit, and I'm excited to be back. — Is this

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 10, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fangirl Moment kinda silly, kinda wholesome

  

  A bit ago, the larger group my UROP lab is a part of had a free lunch ... too tired to cook and just went anyway. The allure of free food is ... wonderful and supportive he is would warrant another blog post"]we loved our

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / How to School

  Today Was A Long Day and it's not over yet.

  

  yet, here I am. My roommate is asleep. The lights are turned off.  I ... analyzed. My laptop is at 2%. My phone is at 1%. Pretty sure my internal battery is at 0

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 25, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  4 Jack Bauer, eat your heart out.

  

  ANTS. What is even edible in a DVD box? Do I even want to know? Mike just ... ' foodstuffs. This composition assignment is less-than-cool. 10:37 -- Random ... relation, or at least only very marginal, to 10.302. Here is the finished

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Don’t Eat the Hot Glass Five things you can’t eat in the MIT Glass Lab for “health and safety” reasons…

  

  Using Glass Pumpkins MIT is famous for its so-called “great glass pumpkin ... course in the MIT Glass Lab, where I spent eight weeks learning about the ... “vanilla” and “orange”! But alas, glass frit is nothing more than eye candy

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  like? >:( The backstory explaining this is relatively simple. A ... . Thankfully, MIT never sleeps. So while I was up last morning at seven a ... appreciated. Then Kevin suggested that we go to Killian Court—which is an eight

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Events

  AND THERE WAS A PILLOW FIGHT!!! Didja catch the reference?

  

  you're at MIT. And so, with that, I say goodbye. It is approaching bed ... On March 1st, this was posted on the MIT '12 Facebook discussion ... blog is the only reason to even wake up in the morning ;) ), go to the

  • by Snively '11
  • March 24, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 4) notes from the last day

  

  This is the fourth and last part of a series, consisting of a lightly ... (nothing) Good morning! The inevitable has occurred; our train is now running two hours behind, although if the Amtrak schedule is to be believed

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024 looking backwards and looking forward

  

  's Day. New Years is in my[annotation note="only beaten by Chinese New ... start next month during[annotation note="Independent Activities Period is ... is relatively new and not super defined right now. So, instead of

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 1, 2024