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  Every square is a rectangle A brief look at every student activity at MIT.

  

  Okay, first off, I have to tell you that Erica '07 is a superhero ... like she's going to cough up a kidney or something every time I see her ... readjusted properly after in-house rush. Battle on, Erica. Anyway, tonight I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What pretty hair… This entry is about my dorm, hair dye, pork dumplings, and, of course, Alain Boublil.

  

  relationship between three floors--Conner 2, Conner 3, and Conner 5. I think of ... coloring Levi's hair behind desk. So, when I walked into the dorm, the first thing I saw was this: Now, really, this isn't that unusual for Conner 3

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 7, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint liveblog] finding the BALANCE with 2.009 watching the 2.009 annual showcase (with Kayode D. '27)

  

  audience POV. In some lucky turn of events, Kayode D. '27 and I managed to ... completely sleeping through ticket launch, I'm here to liveblog our reaction to the event. It's my first time, the vibes are immaculate, and I'm SO

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 9, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  Hey there!  Haven't seen you in a while.  And by "seen" I mean "you ... me to do a Reddit-style AMA (Ask Me Anything) post.  I wasn't able to do one at the time, since I was dangling off a cliff in Utah and had

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Leaf in Face I got hit in the face the other day. By a leaf.

  

  The other day I was walking back to Next House when a leaf literally ... 't just a leaf.) It was something out there trying to tell me that I need to wake up, buckle down, and work. Which means I need to stop fooling

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 15, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Is this the real life? Guest writer for Sam's Blog, Ruth '07 goes home to Georgia, gets ditched by most…

  

  usual author is at home in H-burg, I get to tell you about my recent adventure down memory lane. And for those of you who I haven't told a billion times already, I'm almost an international student. I'm from Hazzard

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a semester in glass! i made a lot of things :D

  

  As I mentioned in[annotation note="which was uhhh a while ago oops ... learning with the MIT Glass Lab, and I had an absolutely amazing time. Here's a walkthrough of all the different things I made this semester and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 28, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  On keeping on keeping on It's pretty much the only option.

  

  now? Does anyone pretend to know? One of the few things that I know ... will commemorate that 19 years have passed since September 11, 2001. I have been thinking about 9/11 a lot lately, because unlike most of you, I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Preview of Things to Come too fast, too furious

  

  Yo MIT Admission Blog Readers, Like I assured you in the last entry, I am still alive. Exhausted (like always), but still hanging in there ... actually a pretty traumatizing experience. A few weeks ago, I realized at

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 26, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Unity

  

  consistently interesting times. At the same time I was in school, Boko Haram, a ... Nigeria, most of us I’d like to think, were insulated from this kind of thinking. For six years I attended a school where the nature of interactions

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Feeling Good And mostly musing

  

  I’m in my room, clacking away on my laptop, my fingers slowly ... weather) slowly melting, and I feel pretty good. It’s been a while I typed ... -set I turned in one Ed Sheeran song before the deadline. Needless to say

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  gently down the stream whitewater rafting might be easier than driving on mass ave

  

  was an excerpt from chemist Primo Levi’s memoir, The Periodic Table. I ... who do things in order to talk about them (like me)” I, too, belong to that species now because I’m a blogger, so I’ll tell you about what I did

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • October 16, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  the world is blooming! and so am i?

  

  detail LOL[/caption] The last time I lived somewhere with four seasons (as ... , fall, and winter, I feel like these depictions do a pretty good job ... , and I am disappointed in my time management 😅😭

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  updates cook or get cooked - summer boston edition

  

  Hey! Here are some personal/academic updates. I haven't been blogging enough as you can tell, but I want to be prolific this summer. This semester I spent a larger than usual amount of time thinking about more

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 30, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  21M.712: Choreography — Making Dances theater arts classes >>>

  

  I'm taking a choreography class this semester! I heard about it in my ... schedule around; it's 1-3 every Tuesday/Thursday and spring-only. I'm glad I committed to taking it since it's just as great as I expected, and I'm super

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 22, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Friends, Part 1 a cross-registration love story

  

  MIT and Harvard. I say this both because it beautifully expands the ... 't for cross registration, I might never have met some of my best friends. I wrote this blog to capture the memories I made last summer with my

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 28, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  ; During my time at MIT so far, I've learned some valuable lessons about ... .  But sooner or later, everyone hits a wall. One of the hardest things I ... , even the most excruciating failure can become a valuable asset.  I know

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Guys, Six Degrees almost better than a five guys burger...almost.

  

  QUOTE: “I think MIT is the closest thing to Hogwarts on this planet ... wonder what I'm still doing here. It's true, what am I doing here?. I can't believe it's been one year already. In this intervening year, I evolved into

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 1, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re stressed. So are we; here's how we deal with it.

  

  the second category, so you may wonder why I'm posting and not studying. I wasn't going to blog tonight, actually; earlier this week, I ... from studying that I can't help but share with all of you - the first

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Some comments on topics of interest

  

  So, usually I stay away from College Confidential, as it has a way of making me despair of the state of humanity on the rare occasions that I do read it. Every so often, though, I follow Ben's link to his CC comments

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 7, 2006