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• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  the space to be vulnerable, and we need people we can safely open up to ... be off the meal plan and experience cooking for myself. Simmons has a dining hall in it, so if you live there, you have to be on the meal plan

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  pebble. The place you want to be is farther than this, right? That’s why it’s ok…you can get up and immediately continue on…” - Guts (actually ... be a difficult time for you, but we ask that you converse in the

  • by Decisions
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / Community Projects

  Coming up with entry titles is harder than it seems Reasons 9001 and 9002 to get "absolutely pumped about CPW," as Cam would say.

  

  drafted this post on Tuesday and I acknowledge that today is actually ... Hello beautiful folks of the interwebz, It's been a while! Much has happened since my last post - I stopped being a teenager, I went to San Diego

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 6, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The (New) Bloggers! I promised myself I wouldn't cry...

  

  ;   She can move her ears independently of the other and she ... upperclassmen as well. Over the last week and a half the blogger committee - comprised of the communications team and our Class of 2012 senior bloggers

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  one weekend in March a play-by-play

  

  shallows, where our feet can still touch the ground, and get out after a few ... and discover that painting is really fun and relaxing. I work on the ... and toilet cleaner and scrub down the bathroom on my floor. 3:10 p

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] GetSimmons! Writing is hard, so here's a video game instead

  

  is not intended to be a ranking (boo), but is instead based on how many ... to Threes by Asher Vollmer. You can also play the game at the original ... Combine other dorms to reach the almighty Simmons Hall

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  at least it’s not covid sick day

  

  opened the project and tried working on it, my mental energy evaporated ... i started feeling the night before. i reported the symptoms on covid ... , from 11 am to noon. the other class i usually went to on thursdays, 6

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tunnel66 bringing the borderline tunnels online for CP*

  

  collaborative work of art where students can express themselves and share with the ... and animations, and since then, we have been part of the exec team as co ... of projects, and is now a community of people interested in the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  It happens to Helen Life is just a series of awkward moments sometimes.

  

  , endless categories, and I want to fill them all with my insights on The MIT Campus and General Institute Requirements and MIT's Influence on the World ... inorganic chemistry and think you have a remarkable gift for conveying the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of My Junior Fall stream of consciousness

  

  semester has officially ended and I can happily say I've wrapped up the most ... of the day, I would just be clocking in my 8 hours for money and that ... initially really hesitant and afraid to live in the house, it ended up being a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 31, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  The last few days of summer I think I spent them well.

  

  clown threw up on it." You get the idea. There are classes and clubs and ... , and as I ziplined across, I unravelled.  The last zipline course on ... the full details on how to jumpstart a car, since Caitlin and I returned

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Total immersion An MIT-Italy student finds her way around Rome

  

  work, and the main reason I found myself on said bus was because there ... bus heading in the same direction and tried my luck. I must admit, I ... after getting on and continued waiting for my bus. But it started me

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  We open in Venice We next play Firenze, then on to Pisa (lots of laughs in Pisa), our next…

  

  Friday in Venice, we woke up and got on the first available train to ... has a picture of my second cousin's dog on it and the other one cost 2 ... "something white," which ended up being the reflection of the sun on a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Taylor Pons from the First-Gen Program #FirstGenPride

  lot of time outside of the Office of Admissions (or currently, on Zoom ... crowd. At MIT, the First Gen Program is a tight community, and it always ... @mitfgp on Instagram to stay up to date with all the fun things we’re doing

  • by DJ Rock
  • April 14, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  A Place happy thoughts on East Campus

  

  ’m [annotation note='and giving them free advertising on the blogs now ... The last week and some are a blur, a long, joyous drink of EC. When I ... , everyone sporting Rush T-shirts from years past; on the back of each shirt is

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  it’s ok that it’s not ok sometimes things will happen, and you have to just let yourself be.

  

  few days after my father and said Ruth was crying on some of the worst ... Asede on the one side, and Surafiel inevitably ending up somewhere on the ... the comforter, yet be very scared and dismissive when it comes to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 4, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Forget These I forgot to bring them when I first came to MIT.

  

  to be. I have one next to my bed where I can charge my electronics and ... the outlets, as they can draw too much power and overload the circuits ... suit. And my toothbrush. Ugh. Well today I spend the second night in my

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  how to spend a summer Spending a summer in Boston a la Bryan

  

  as I wanted. And the big plus, on Sundays I could bring a friend for ... Boston can be a lot of fun. Rock On. ... like the professionals do on how to spend a summer in Boston. Now first

  • by Bryan
  • August 27, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Your credit history is too short and other adult things

  

  limit, and that you should pay it off when you can. This kind of all goes ... they might be in a few days, or weeks, or months. I can delay apartment ... the first time you really felt like a grown up? and now that I think

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  The long view days, months, years

  

  . You take a class, and it ends. The research project you're working on ... when the breaks will come, when finals will come, when you can relax and ... And then I asked him, "What's the most unexpected thing about

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 27, 2022