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• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales From Turning Twenty They range from "a little peculiar" to "utterly bizarre."

  

  insurance company asking me for my retirement date. ^ Um...that was pretty

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Story How I came to be at MIT

  

  wha--!? "Um," I replied, "Well, I don't know anything about college

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  straight, um, never. Our dark/light photo transistor failed. Our caster

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  September Equinox Appreciation A Cambridge Autumn

  

  Two years ago in freshman year (:O so long ago), I wrote this poem. I had just moved to Cambridge not even 3 months before, and was adjusting to a place radically different from home. In these first few months, I

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 22, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  Thinking Outside of Absolutes A short thought piece on thinking about thinking

  

  For a while now, I’ve had this realization that I tend to overthink a lot. And I think this is something a lot of people can relate to. There are…

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025
• Blog / CPW

  From First Visit to First Week A Reflection on Independence and Making Decisions

  

  Last week I started classes at MIT. A simple 7-part sentence that would’ve meant the world to freshman me back in high school. But as I prepare for my 4-year…

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / Events

  life, with the brass rat we're halfway there????????????

  

  . '25, caitlin o. '25, isaac l. '25, me, daina n. '25, asal v. '25, and

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 26, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Stories That Made Me My identity in books

  

  references Eliot makes "Gentile or Jew. O you who turn the wheel and look to

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 19, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updating my blogger bio because its no longer accurate

  

  me :o) And sure, this is accurate, too, but I think a lot of the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  forbidden gatorade cell media looks tasty...

  

  media] Ingredients: glucose, heavy water (D2O), phenol red, salt, vitamins

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Listing It All Out you get a list and you get list and you get a list

  

  Jefe’s Taqueria - located in Harvard Square, high quality tacos Man O

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 29, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  on the atlanta shootings from an asian american woman

  

  this after reading Ben O. ‘19’s fantastic blog post “Hope”. I thank him

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 26, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  present tense “you've got to let go of the fear”

  

  o'clock to hit before stepping into the pool area and heading to the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Prof. Catherine D’Ignazio on Urban Science for Public Good

  

  Feminism. Other great starting points are Cathy O'Neil's Weapons of Math

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 1, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Regular-ing Or: Over-justifying how much I eat out

  

  I had a breakthrough the other day. I was sitting in my favorite Kendall Square restaurant, Clover. When I say favorite, I mean F.A.V.O.R.I.T.E. In a busy week, I’m there at least once a day: The prices are

  • by Powers '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Chasing Success idk what that means anymore.

  

  Heads up: I'm not sure if any of this makes actual sense. This is really just me trying to work through my t h o u g h t s --------------- I vividly remember the day I received my SAT scores. The sky was a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 5, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Somewhere in between Trying to find out where I belong at MIT

  

  This semester has been weird for me. On one side I am for all intents and purposes I am a junior, a 2020. I will not be graduating until 2020,…

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 13, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Quantifying Angst the most course 6 thing we've ever done

  

  -I’m-so-excited hand gesture. Then Charlotte’s friend, Katie O. ‘19, commented on our

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes 2.0 what i am/am i doing with my life

  

  same group as Anelise N. :o). Here’s the rig I get paid to play with

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 27, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language What Learning Chinese at MIT has meant to me

  

  As an African American I have always felt left out when it comes to language, and to a larger extent culture. For many of my friends, language is the key…

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 26, 2017