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• Blog / Class Projects

  The Semester I Played With Chocolate and Ants for a Technical Class Inflatable Chocolate Balloons + Ants as Architects

  

  There is a class here at MIT called How to Design (Almost) Anything ... balloon when the chocolate is set, but I wanted to somehow constrain the ... syrup, which is way hotter than melted chocolate. The trick to keeping the

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Needles That was anticlimactic.

  

  ’t decide between studs and danglies in the morning and all I could say is yes, that is precisely why I paid money to have holes put in my body. And then ... up. “Is this going to hurt?” I said. “No,” he said, “it’s a marker.” He

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reference Frames Vision - of the present and for the future - is powerful

  

  than others. If your work is getting frustrating, sometimes all you have to do is shift your point of view, and things will feel much better ... stop drawing free body diagrams; this is an exercise in introspection. No

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 19, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Alaska, part I There...

  

  .mitadmissions.org/topics/life/student_life_culture/blogger_application_2010.shtml">Blogger Application 2010 is due to me by email by Monday ... 'll save you the story of my (entirely satisfactory, as always) visit to MIT ... have to say, though, a neck brace is THE way to travel. Know those

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Hello from Palo Alto My California not-so-vacation.

  

  program. It's gone/is going a little something like this. Saturday, Feb 25 ... a shuttle across the bay to Berkeley. Dinner is pizza and beer at the ... of campus (it's very woody). Brunch is at Berkeley, where several grad

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 1, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Home(sick) for the Holidays winter break was weird: time capsule 2

  

  small talk, which is something that I thought I’d gotten better at, and I ... why that is. Maybe it’s the environmental contrast. Maybe it’s force of ... note="Independent Activities Period, in which MIT students spend the

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 24, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  Beat It, Bump It, Spike It MIT + NCAA: Two acronyms people don't normally expect in the same sentence.

  

  hardcore sports universities, then I had the chance to get it at MIT. Last night, the MIT women's volleyball team defeated Bridgewater State College ... here at MIT, but I've never seen Rockwell Cage that packed. People with

  • by Bryan
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  I Hate Change but at least, I'm creating it

  

  change is so quick you can't even process what's happening. Flashback to ... high school, getting into MIT, moving to campus, etc. I haven't gotten ... walking back home. MIT has been teaching me how to say No. No to commitments

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 17, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  Don’t Stop Believing you can take the east camper out of east campus but...

  

  nearby. As "MIT's newest alumni" (a term I did not want to contemplate too ... 'll be pursuing a Master's at MIT, which means I need a place to stay in ... -- or maybe what I mean is, some part of EC will always be here with me

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All About Toys And how they rule my life!

  

  , engineering! While all of this contest stuff is happening, Electro ... MIT Museum. If you visit the MIT Museum, go to the top of the stairs ... we are now. ElectroPlushies are in the MIT Museum, I have a bunch of

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mocha Show ’22: Mo’Mixtape creating and performing a dance showcase, from start to finish

  

  and from 12-6 on the weekends. a dance is assigned to each hour slot, so ... dances that every team member is in: [annotation note="our World of Dance ... the choreography."]Classic.[/annotation] WOD is typically very clean

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 16, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Admitted Student Gathering Thank you MIT Club of Northern NJ for throwing a great one!

  

  prefrosh, current MIT students, and MIT Alumni. The one closest to me was hosted by the MIT Club of Northern New Jersey. As the only accepted MIT ... answer session. A New Jersey MIT freshman had come from her spring break to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  .nano pixels developing a love for pictures, reverb

  

  the section about the MIT.nano courses offered over IAP. At this point, I was already rather committed to taking Japanese 1 then, which is a full-time job. In the most literal sense, given that it is roughly 30

  • by Waly N. '24
  • July 2, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  CMS.621: Fans & Fan Culture the class that changed my career trajectory?

  

  version complete additional assignments. Limited to 20. CMS.621 is broken ... little nod to the MIT Admissions blogs. Unit 1: Oral History We started the ... who went to Stanford and MIT and Columbia. I learned about so many other

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 17, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A poem for every day of August or nearly; I wrote 25 in all

  

  ‘finished’ in Danish and is what fills the screen of the washing machine when ... fiction poetry is a thing! I found a few magazines that specifically publish spec poetry, which is lovely to find out. I wrote a few of these and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales From Turning Twenty They range from "a little peculiar" to "utterly bizarre."

  

  this reflects a general trend in my life, or is just a phase) so here ... Weinberg, ever the voice of reason, said that he is so confident that there is a multiverse that he would bet the lives of both Andrei Linde and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  bday burnout no more spiders please

  

  [annotation note="since first east is a cat hall, we have four cats living here ... them rolled out in my blanket, which is really weird because i swear i ... the way my room is set up is that I can't open my window because the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 18, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  real things on tangibility, mistakes, and community

  

  pacific northwest is cold and very misty and very foggy. as we stood there ... ="alignnone" width="768"] this is what it looked like in the rearview mirror as we were ... is doing it, so why can't we? by the cranberries, pisces iscariot by

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 5, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

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

  

  must know about Radio Society, is that we are perpetually messy. Hans has ... before. And just when the room is about to explode from the amount of ... listening to old guys talk about their health problems on HF is always fun

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 25, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on fitness, health, and food a couple of moments over the years

  

  . Filipino food is not really known for its healthiness -- we douse food in oil ... , something to poke at: c'mere and look at how weak Camille is. It wasn ... weak. But then came January 2020 where I had a check up with MIT Medical

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2022