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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Campus is quiet summer thoughts and happenings

  

  . ~ The other day I woke up at 10 to say goodbye to my mom and sisters. My ... could reasonably classify as the middle of nowhere, way at the end of the ... what he yelled at me. He was the only other person in the vicinity and we

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wooo Summer The goal as usual is to do ALL the things

  

  . I really have learned a lot during my freshman year at MIT.  I learned ... these classes. So all in all, even though it was terrible at times, I ... touch with.  In fact, just last week a bunch of us got together at my dorm

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 15, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Nerdy adventures on the West Coast Q: What changes when you transplant a few MIT students 3,000 miles? A: Not much.

  

  we did on our trip was find out all about them at the Cable Car Museum ... actually located at the central location through which all of the cables are ... , or a nickel at the time) and there are some figures that move around or

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Curseroad MIT class roadmaps that shouldn’t exist but theoretically could

  

  Choosing classes at MIT is like filling up a skill tree in a video ... take at MIT! CourseRoad is an invaluable tool for MIT students – it has ... course load at MIT"]48-unit schedule[/annotation] that averages over 100

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  here i go again i have watched Mamma Mia! seven times this year

  

  absurdity of opera. i will not be taking further questions at this time ... , the wing had caught a bit of a Mamma Mia! fever—or, at least, some of us ... Mamma Mia!, I ended up talking about how great the movie was at a blogger

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 9, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 2) 12 hours of coastal biking and other Spanish adventures

  

  rounded app square on my iPhone. At the corners of each square, there was ... ="97070" image2="97069" /] By this point, we were a bit hungry. At the cozy ... crown jewel of our trip was biking the Spanish coast, starting at La Cara

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 11, 2024
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Am I rural or small-town? Read on to learn about what a taco bell index is

  

  common questions I get at college fairs and webinars: "Does MIT ... : because at the end of the day, it’s about your lived experience, not just ... ). Here at MIT, we don't refer to rural as "everything else that is left

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • May 19, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  reviewing my classes this semester but unthoroughly

  

  normal to us now like motion graphics were completely new and magical at ... delivered on that front. I’ve never stared at VSCode so much in my life. 6 ... honestly a lot of fun – frustrating at times, but (at least for me) nowhere

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 17, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

  

  dishes, I’d be head chef of a Michelin-starred restaurant (or at least I’d like to think so). Unfortunately, at MIT, most of my computational power ... [/annotation].   Three Days Before Bad Ideas At this point, things are dire for my

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MARC 2025 (not a live blog) Featuring Andi '25!

  

  , and a stay at a luxury hotel that looks like the one from The Shining ... turns, but managed to get back in time within the last hour. At the end ... ="109023" /] At dinner, our table name for trivia was “The Kids Table (+Hans

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  the world is blooming! and so am i?

  

  –a single, static image is enough to capture at least the heart of those ... flowers bloom all at once and all in one place. It’s truly one of the most ... at the sun with dark pink veins reaching up towards the white tips

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 17, 2024
• Blog / MISTI

  go alone or you may never go at all

  

  spill over. I look out into the distance and squint at where the sky meets ... for the ride, whether it be to try a new cafe or jam at a concert. Those ... are being noticed more than they really are']people don't look at you as

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • January 6, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  in this coming year we run and rest and make and keep up the relentless pace

  

  this at all, but this fall I was in 2.009 [link]. We sent that project ... deeply. I’ve been wanting to have this group project experience at MIT for ... of [annotation note="not the final presentation, though. That had at

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  branches was it easy to let go?

  

  everything everywhere all at once, the rock scene was apparently inspired by ... things will be okay even if the listener has left. but this feels at odds ... frontend developer for the same place i worked at last summer, for they

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / Events

  hero’s journey with a splash teaching for ESP

  

  at the crack of 7:45 and trudged the long cold route to the Bush room ... take is that the abyss = the climax, which comes at the end rather than ... glanced at the clock. I was near the end of my slide deck, and half an hour

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  . That’s been something eating away at me lately whenever I think about my ... mediocre at most. [annotation note="Student Support Services"]S^3[/annotation ... change myself at a fundamental level because of the crushing vulnerability

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 16, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  pole dancing and punching things trying out new classes in Copenhagen

  

  yourself up far easier. I thought the issue at hand was my grip strength ... something and now your arm is twisting backwards at a concerning angle. I was ... against it. You and your partner take turns practicing on each other. At the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 16, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  breaching discomfort

  

  note="Which still feels crazy to say."]a junior at MIT[/annotation] I ... amount of time at the pool table in Simmons, the pool table in Random, as ... not fault them for this. Overall, everything felt bad. And so at the end

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 16, 2021
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Leavetaking and homecoming

  

  liked the house we already lived in, an old adobe building at the edge of ... most of the day, at home only to change, shower, eat, sleep.  # I didn ... man at the covid testing station said, ‘Wow, aren’t you lucky!’, surely

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 28, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  Campus and Memories low-quality pictures and some memories

  

  samosas from cafe spice at least twice a week. After a certain point, I ... these halls since the pandemic felt both new and deeply familiar at the ... was so basic and common to me at one point in time. It made me realize

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 24, 2021