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• Blog / Admissions

  The Importance of Wasting Time lessons learned over Thanksgiving break

  

  rolling out the MIT bubble and into an alien world. For the few on hall, the ... a capella group and promptly proceeded preparing material for our ... has a flair for the mysterious and thus has already been mentioned under

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Rise and Grind and Build *dolly parton voice* workin' 9 to 5

  

  and banana slices for breakfast every day, packed myself lunch every day for work, and made dinner with my roommates almost daily. I burnt the ... 've had a lot of experiences with fabrication. For those of you unfamiliar

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  busy semesters and how to manage them it's organizational structures all the way down

  

  have enjoyed it thoroughly, so I'll reserve judgement for later. So far ... woefully undercovered in most US curricula, and the first book we read ... theory for people who know some amount of basic music theory." We're slowly

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 10, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  *witty title here* (Guest Entry) You want awesome? I'll show you awesome!

  

  played for Susan Hockfield! All this marching made us hungry, so ... landing at Logan. The guy sitting next to us asked me what I was doing ... looking for summer work. Wow, I'm beginning to like this place! My mom and I

  • by Snively '11
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions & Answers a daily blog prompt compilation

  

  a significant amount of sitting in coffee shops (rip) and studying for ... them. In the meantime, I did an Instagram Live for MIT Admissions with ... ....answer some questions posed by the Daily Blog Prompt bot. Tell us about your

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 14, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  at a distance staying in contact with friends from home

  

  increasingly nostalgic for my experiences back then. Our table in honors math ... some of my thoughts from back then, for the person's eyes who saw the ... we want them to stop and wait with us just a bit longer. In the rush of

  • by Victor D. '27
  • November 20, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  dress your wounds and stay in bed self care!

  

  conditions, such as after a grocery shopping trip, a concert, or a Friday. One ... seven classes, got sick for a month, and pulled too many all-nighters to string together enough coherent sentences for much blogging.  Now it

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Secret Lives of Machines 🤖 In which the machines in my life get the spotlight they deserve.

  

  Impact on them, and when I used their Apple Pencil to draw the Among Us ... my psets and my tendency to use their Apple Pencil for goofy doodles ... for me. Marla is the phone I got before freshman year of high school

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 22, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding spiels metal hot glue gun go brrr

  

  appreciate the commitment Metropolis (and its sister shop The Deep) have put ... do the same for others last year. Within the blogger team, Kano, Anika, and Gloria also mentor for Metropolis! It's a pretty good gig. We

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 9, 2024
• Blog / Community Projects

  [joint post] A Map of MIT Makerspaces ft MechE grad student and mapmaker Rima Das

  

  machine shops for meche classes, little makerspaces with laser cutters or ... makerspaces, if you know where to look. The issue is, it’s difficult for any one ... crowdsourced online map where members of the community can add pins for different

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 1, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

  

  computer program ever. GAMIT How to Get Around MIT, the one stop shop for ... ? Let's go on a tour! High School Yearbook For those nostalgic moments. Sketch Book Nondescript black sketch book for Toy Design. Understanding

  • by Snively '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time passes Someone left the cake out in the rain.

  

  . My entire lab flew all-expenses-paid down to Colorado for the week to ... 't get to go. While anxiously waiting for their return, I've been pursuing the following activities. 1. Playing Jewel Master for the Sega Genesis

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  selected us for a big two-minute (and fairly sleepy) final presentation, and ... mailing lists asking for people to join us, and by the next week we ... time-to-pee. What is time-to-pee? It's a metric I made up for gauging

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  And now, for a brief interlude from our regularly scheduled finals whining. I should be studying E&M right now, but this is much more fun.

  

  us. We haven’t seen you all week. me: I mean… okay. I am not a hard sell on the let’s-do-something-besides-work front. Anyways, the problem ... that you totally sound ready for 7.013. and I do have your jeans. And

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  A Run through Boston Having an adventure was easy. Carrying the camera around was the hard part.

  

  the graders and probably (hopefully) ended up getting LOL points for my ... MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department. They gave me this bag for ... , except for Cambridge. That's a compliment. After ten minutes of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 4, 2009
• Blog / Personal Projects

  A Recycled-Material Selfie Stick Engineering and problem solving in developing nations (the most important problems only, of course....)

  

  sell just broken, beat-up electronics that people buy for parts. You can ... ’d be a perfect fit for MIT and lots of other build-y culture nerd schools ... people’s electronics around Addis Ababa. Here’s a speaker he made for

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2016
• Blog / Advice

  letter to my 2023 self from: 2024 janet

  

  photo of us being shopping-carted to our 5.111 final. [caption id ... was worth me being stuck immobile for 2 weeks, but i digress ... and fast-paced-ness and wild stories we’ll tell for years to come. What

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 2, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  oh, the places you’ll go

  

  a textbook we're all forced to read for class, were in fact monumentous and grand and large. All it took for us to understand that was a ... of us a custom version of Dr. Seuss's Oh, The Places You'll Go! Every

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  My IAP Mugs, polymers, cats, and pineapples.

  

  for IAP: Mighty Mugs Cocktails 101 FormLabs Bad Ideas Getting ... love mugs!! One mug for me, one for my mom, one for my mom's best friend Joan - ALL THE MUGS! IT IS SO EXCITING! We signed up for the class right

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Kick . . . start

  

  instructor for 2.00b (toy design). We also sometimes use the 5 Wits shop to ... build interactive exhibits for museums AND design/build interactive walkthrough adventures.  The company I work for is called 5 Wits and the CEO is

  • by Snively '11
  • June 8, 2012