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• Blog / MIT Life

  I wrote a whole post on Halloween and forgot to publish it So here's 2 months of blogging in one post

  

  night I wrote this post and forgot to click publish so I'm going to add a ...   ITS HALLOWEEN. I'd slept an hour in the past 30 hours but it was Halloween so I guess I had to make cookies. My favorite halloween cookies are

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • December 26, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  time travel is overrated conversing with my past self

  

  on the last day of freshman orientation, just a few days before i ... last year, i was too busy studying and organizing and last-minute packing and flying back home and visiting my old friends that i never had the

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • November 2, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my hottest STEM takes actively starting internet wars

  

  I famously have perfect taste, and with little to do over the summer, I'm left to just sit around and ponder endlessly, refining my taste and opinions indefinitely. I offer you the following takes with limited

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • July 28, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Saturday Night in Simmons it's so busy here tonight [i really need to study or go to sleep]

  

  Y'all. Simmons is bustling tonight. I realized while going to get ... post! So I went to snatch my friend, Caleb M. '27 's camera, and here are the pics I took over like and hour or something, running around Simmons

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 15, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of UROPing in few words

  

  . Without classes this month to focus on, I started working under some teachers and students on Course 2 work. I talked about this in my last ... interests. Back in high school, I was really interested in the art of turning

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  recently read words absorbed by my brain

  

  I’ve been doing more reading recently, so wanted to share! “Detail ... . They were completely blown away—I think their exact words were something like “I didn’t know poetry could do that”. It isn’t quite the same

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 3, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  False Precision ...and the advent of the cherry pie scale

  

  Very early on in my Admissions career I happened to take a slice from ... might expect, I was inevitably asked about my assessment of said pie. I ... response because I was subsequently asked to rate the pie on a scale of 1 to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 7, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  5 / The final countdown A month of stress and relief

  

  . As I took my last midterms, handed in my last rounds of psets, and ... exams looming the following week, I did have something to look forward to: I was to spend Christmas at home for the first time since I left for

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Independent Activities Period Yultide Day 1

  

  This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover ... s are full of excitement and hope. As a senior blogger, I’ve gotten

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Five Years of Admitted Student Gatherings MIT community is getting bigger

  

  *Scene opens* I'm standing in front of a house with my family. MIT ... about her MIT experience. I don't remember exactly what was said, but I remember I was excited. I was excited to be there. I was excited that CPW was

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 29, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a hell week do not try at home

  

  let me take a second to talk about the week i've had: last thursday, i went to not one but two P.E. classes because it was the last day of the quarter, and i also read three stories for CMS.307 workshop. the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 27, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cows, Cheese, and Myristic Acid, Oh My! (Almost) everything I learned about fat (and educational videos), I learned from 7.S390.

  

  Last summer, when I lived in East Campus and these were my backyard    , my hallway looked like this    , this was my bathroom ceiling, and I ate a lot of these       (notice a pattern?), I also took an

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 19, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  My IAP Mugs, polymers, cats, and pineapples.

  

  roofs. I like lists. Here's my happy list of things to look forward to ... Better Next Semester Cats So let's take this one by one. Mighty Mugs I'M GOING TO MAKE MUGS!! I was having my favorite caramel hot cider at

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

  Career Fair Round 2 less shirts and more interviews.

  

  quickly MIT is zipping on by.   During last year's Career Fair, I ... was either thrown away or became junk clutter, so I consciously didn ... to me. 2) I was serious about getting an internship.   See

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 29, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eric Lander, spring rolls, and the New York Times two of those three are related

  

  Luckily, thanks to our friendly Senior Haus GRTs I was able to acquire number 1, and thanks to the obscene amount of tuition I'm paying MIT I was able to attend number 2 (and am also missing number 3), which is why I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Current State of Mind ewoufbwu iyfh[things I must do]w39478ry3927rhiwf83tr

  

  Yesterday, (or was it a few days ago?) I reached into a pocket in my ... , if you want to look at it that way.) I was in line at La ... that I NEEDED to basically inhale at that point in time when I dropped my

  • by Ana V. '15
  • May 6, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy New Year! how i celebrated the coming apocalypse

  

  Hello Internet! It's been a while. I last blogged on EA Decision Day, 12/17/2011. But I actually wrote that post on the 16th, because on the morning of the 17th, when it went live, I was on a plane to Denver with my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  They say you learn more by living abroad than by going to school

  

  Well, there’s certainly truth to that. I arrived in China almost two ... , touring, eating lots. There in Chengdu, capital of the Sichuan Province, I ... kindergarten! I tried to go in, but got kicked out after 2 seconds. Qin

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Linkdump: Smart Leaves, Burritos, and Shaq cool things on the Internet

  

  I think I get my need for notes from my mom. Every day of my childhood was a festival of notes. I'd wake up to a note on my bedside ... even now, as a grown man, when I go home I'm liable to wake up buried

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Camp Kesem! It's magical.

  

  Exactly three weeks from today, I'll be done with my freshman year of ... day, when I shelve my textbooks and notes and give it up for three wonderful summer-y months. I have a few things lined up for the summer, and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2010