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• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2017! highlight reels from the new year

  

  one timeline. I present to you, my 2017 Highlights Reel! What do your ... , because of course I do. Panic overwhelms me and I start to compose a second ... crisis. I’m 21 years old. Like, where do I go from here? September 18

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  2021 Applicants: Answers to Your Emails Inspiration, Process, Components, Stress Mgmt, and More

  

  I don’t have to do work yet (although this is work; also ... ’t yet (you can do this even before senior year). Set up your interview and ... , you will get this message. Also, admissions officers do look at trends

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• 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?

  

  really do feel so much better prepared for this year and beyond ... ’t really scared of doing anything! That said, I also think a good lesson from ... can do anything, but you can’t do everything. If my previous year was

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

  Food for Thought [guest post] On food and our culinary club, Mince

  

  ’ve chosen to pursue that awe. Some of these include MINCE, others do not ... day on the twenty or so students that sat in his classroom. Doing that ... torrential firehose of life on campus, when do people have the chance to sit

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 4, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  things i’ve made and/or consumed art, movies, shows, and more

  

  ’ve been doing during the quarantine.   ART I’m most comfortable with ... what stirred me to just start doing and creating and making ~something ... than I planned. So then I thought that I could do three different

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 28, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  destined to do great things," a quote from Joe Paterno, sewn in white into a ... understood football, though I do feel connected to the town. I watched a ... feelings, experiences and requests the upmost weight in what we say and do

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  How to build a Tamagotchi and the power of curiosity

  

  . "Until then, the best thing you can do for yourself is to take a walk ... process/ store the images. TLDR: no images on screen unless I wanted to do ... to do so, and through some magical mixture of curiosity and drive

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 25, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Food, glorious food In which I learn that Simmons Dining is not, in fact, the best that Boston's…

  

  do! So when Aiden posted his tier list of MIT's dining halls and rated Simmons Dining a measly B, I knew what I had to do over spring break – go ... food, and they do it well. (Though admittedly, I was also not super

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 6, 2025
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Small-Town and Rural Students take on MIT and Boston By Vaneeza R. 25'

  

  process (it’s hard to do!) and how to showcase strengths such as resilience ... , and the thought of doing the wrong thing or getting on the wrong train ... home. One way I got to do this was by hosting a student in my dorm

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • March 20, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  real things on tangibility, mistakes, and community

  

  . "can we do anything for you? like buy you a coffee or something?" he ... is doing it, so why can't we? by the cranberries, pisces iscariot by ... people do for work, only knowing the current project they're working on

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 5, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  [live blogging] astronomy field camp sky stalking in tenerife

  

  the machine learns more than i do" the science. today on the IAC-80 ... , there was conversation about things one could do over a gap year. it seems reasonable to do something related to one's field or just go out into the woods

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  I walk a lonely road and it takes a lot of time

  

  of time” is far too vague. When do I need to leave my room if I want to make it to class (mostly) on time? What routes do I walk on a regular basis? Which do I walk on a whim? To answer such burning questions, I

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 20, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Hate Superman. (I Love Superman.)

  

  phone didn't do it justice. I can't compress everything that was to a 1080 ... and I didn’t feel pain or weakness. I wish I could do what he does and

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 16, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  the world is blooming! and so am i?

  

  , fall, and winter, I feel like these depictions do a pretty good job ... (speckled against a backdrop of green), and most do little more than sprout ... everything grow with my deluge of photos, there was only one way I could do it

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

  How Albatross Fly Without Flapping Their Wings, And other Lore™️ I learned this semester.

  

  thing I came to MIT to learn about! This has to do with Albatross, a ... same way! So how did they do it?  [carousel image1="96223" image2 ... your food wouldn’t do it’s job if you made the microwave bigger

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 10, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  home

  

  to do it.  While digging through my closet in search of a suitable ... what I care about, but I do not know where I belong. I often feel as ... bean we had drawn from the bag based on its color. I still do this

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • November 4, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  ★★★★☆ Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2023

  

  clothes, and these “velvet” hangers do a great job of conserving space. They ... (everyone in my room stays up pretty late, and almost everything I do is ... to school for lunch most days, and I figured I’d try doing that in

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Fall Sports at MIT Roll Tech!

  

  coaches when you reach out. I would recommend doing your homework to ... iPad to do some work on the bus, and then the bus left at 4 pm for our ... eat dinner at my fraternity. At night I do homework that’s due the next

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 15, 2023
• Blog / Events

  dtyd weekend all party, no planning (for once)

  

  months to do so. something as simple as a "hallway party," aka a bunch of ... non-senior a funny award for something they're known for doing. for ... doing so, so there's a clear sense of finality. the realization that I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  miserable and magical oh, to feel moved

  

  and think, do i really need to list out everything going wrong to feel ... . there will always be something new to do. if the ‘everything is okay ... configure our camera, but in the end, all we do is we look at the sky. it is a

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 3, 2023