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• 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…

  

  for how to handle it, which is why they come to you for help. Emotional ... , which means I am responsible for what I like to call “the soul of the car ... time on the team, requiring us to learn how to build a custom gearbox

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Making The Switch Making the transition from high school to college, Chapter 1

  

  yourself to new ideas. For me, personally, in the summer leading up to the ... preparing for the world that I would be presented once I left the comforts of ... hardest transitions for me were when I came to MIT, it would be the

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art things #1 illustration, graphic design, ceramics, and photography

  

  , and I always forget just how joyful it is to make art. It adds hue and ... sad to me now that for the past year, I’ve been making very slow ... again just how fun it is to draw; there’s something so straightforward and

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Culture, not the bacterial kind Some questions you should be asking about all the schools to which you're applying.

  

  shuttle to take me to SFO for my red-eye flight to Boston.) I'm really kind ... into a department once they've declared it? How easy is it to go about changing majors? Are there programs available for studying abroad? How will

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  10 Lessons #IAP #Italy #LearningByTeaching #wow #Pi(e)DayCountdown

  

  . I'd like to present my experience as 10 lessons-- not the ones I ... cancelled and rescheduled for a full 2 days later. Arriving late to my job ... it took for my plane to arrive, board, depart, and probably get to

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a freshman Getting a P+ isn't just for frosh anymore.

  

  shuffled my way over to the student services center, picked up an add ... DID YOU KNOW? Prussian Monarch Frederick William used to kidnap ... royal guard. Like a freshman? Haha, no, you aren't allowed to do that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 6, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  synthesis on changing my mind

  

  looking for was much simpler - he just wanted to talk about the relationship ... mind a second time. for example, people at mit sometimes decide to switch ... -startups. or, for an example not related to career decisions, people often exit a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 12, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  this blogger does not exist join me in the uncanny valley

  

  how to render shoulders, which it gradually learned to compensate for by ... forwarded to me:  i remember your posts (college apps, haiku) about robo ... IAP. For context, CycleGAN is a conditional image-to-image translation

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 28, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ingredients for a black hole: 1. Hydrogen 2. Soda 3. Bottle Irish pub-lic outreach

  

  thanked Carl for his company. I'm not sure how to think about my day. It ... cluster in the dome, waiting for their turn to climb up the wooden steps and ... they've been struggling to find an "Algebra for Kids!" book. I said that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  head above the water (intro post) an inner dialogue about my first month of classes

  

  When I tried practicing for the swim test, I realized how long it had ... assignments, have to keep moving and doing things. Relax for a day, and you ... ’m struggling at the intro level. And you have to take care of yourself now??? Add

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Undercover Admissions Officer ...or how I saw the campus through "fresh eyes".

  

  saw Alina when she came to pick up students for tours after sessions ... Alina for two years now, but I never knew how she got her first UROP, just ... I have confession to make...it's somewhat embarrassing but I think it

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 5, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Night at Random Beautiful people at a beautiful hour.

  

  machine for 6.01 next to a disassembled puzzle.      One floor down is ... brave. (Eli hoped to go from “Not knowing how a computer works at all to ... For the past almost four and a half years, which is just under a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The Admissions Staff It's my pleasure to introduce you to our current team.

  

  , and set new goals for this cycle. I'm very excited to embark on my ... I've been trying to think of a good way to kick off the new admissions cycle (class of 2010 - woot!) and it's finally come to me. We had

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 19, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  My IAP Mugs, polymers, cats, and pineapples.

  

  students/affiliates/alumni how to create fancy cocktails the correct way, and I am treating myself to this class as a present for my recent 21st birthday! FormLabs I'M GOING TO BE WORKING FOR A REALLY COOL 3D PRINTING

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 3, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  how to move carts not an athletics post

  

  movement in that direction. you tell yourself, if i plan for the cart to move ... decisions. for instance: many people agree that it’s not a great idea to ... towards, we forget to consider how we will change throughout the process of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 23, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Home is where the heart (of Texas) is Going away to school isn't such a bad thing.

  

  things. Coming back to Texas allows me to think about how my MIT ... ,000 resident city-within-a-city, so we rarely had to leave. For my sophomore ... , most people from my high school decided to stay in Texas for college for

  • by Bryan
  • December 30, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  the fear and delight of fire spinning do not this at home! I am a trained (semi?)professional.

  

  . The handling end is for the spinner to control the fire, and can be any ... . I get to show off how much I’ve improved, and I get to watch my ... we were asked to do it four days before the event, so we had three days

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A reading list for a week at MIT All my classes have required reading this semester!?

  

  mainly about two things: how to make interfaces that are intuitive and easy to use, and how to develop technology that makes that possible. Before ... question of how to evaluate and troubleshoot user interfaces. The one that

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 27, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW, via Video Experience (or relive) Campus Preview Weekend through online videos.

  

  For those of you who couldn't make it to campus for CPW, here is a video recap of much that occurred! I hope this is helpful =) And for those ... panelist Melis '08!) Click To Play Marching Band performs for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pursuing multiple fields

  

  's a question) if you could tell me how easy it is to double major in two ... are different options you can follow to study multiple fields. For two ... convenient to double-major than for two unrelated fields, but that doesn't mean

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2005