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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a lesson in the feminine arts aka mfa boston and a rant on enjoying art

  

  and actually go explore the city I live in. One of my first ~outings ... while MIT fit the criteria of being a) on a coast and [annotation note ... body of water[/annotation], the only things I knew about Boston before

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 30, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer to Remember – Interphase or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Institvte!

  

  of integration? Think again. Chris Dodd was the first person to give me ... half month periods that defined my childhood. For the first time in three ... to get started. But for the first time in three years I genuinely

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  the fear and delight of fire spinning do not this at home! I am a trained (semi?)professional.

  

  was the boldest decision I made in my life, but also one of the best. I’ll spare you the whole “the real fire was the friends I made along the way ... spend hours practicing it off fire before we try it on fire for the first

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions & Answers a daily blog prompt compilation

  

  ) This is my first semester with no finals, so Dead Week marks the start of ... happened since; I'm sure I could write pages of excuses about why I haven ... writing would be to ride the high of my question-answering experience and

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 14, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode I: Hey Joe The one with the game of ultimate frisbee in the rain.

  

  First of all, friends don't let friends do 5.12 on video. Especially ... check the blog server two or three times a day instead of their usual six ... appreciate the harmonious blend of cityscapes and seascapes in the metropolitan

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Are YOU Up To This Summer?! (2010 Edition) Happy summer!

  

  AUGUST 10 Update! I'm bumping this to the top of the page (shameless ... have received a lot of entries from y'all (during the time when I visited ... out there! Don't let go of your chance to fame and glory on the MIT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  On Greek history, and this strange end-of-semester sprint  tl;dr nerding out over a final essay

  

  fogged in the cold. I thought of my bookshelf at home, with this five-hundred-page ... I’ve just taken the luxury of lavishing two full days on an essay ... aware of the world. Ancient Greece is the fodder for many a modern

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a spectacle-r weekend exploring the Boston Harbor Islands

  

  check out the smaller, right side of the island first so we could leave ... the [annotation note="FOP: first-year outdoors program, essentially a ... is only a bit of an overstatement. The ferry ride is indeed beautiful

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 5, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  did you miss the EA deadline? why i applied and admissions anxiety

  

  For all of you that missed the Early Action deadline (November 1st ... ="i probably had already heard of it but this is my first recollection of MIT ... STEMlords. Luckily, there are a lot of people here that study the humanities

  • by Victor D. '27
  • November 5, 2025
• Blog / Events

  101 Things to Do Before You Graduate from MIT What every MIT graduate should have experienced.

  

  , won tickets and took my camera along for the trip. On the night of Ring Delivery, we went to the Top of the Hub for some cookies and a good ... 'aime and Oceans 13 for $3 each. The films are shown in one of the large

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2007
• Blog / Events

  HT@MIT: Department Lectures and Final Presentations MIT's Best Kept Secret

  

  is a whole room of professors to talk to about the subject. This is ... paragraphs of text are incomprehensible and there's a severe lack of the word ... undergrads that you can't find in most classes. The first opportunity is an

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • December 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will, I will set this schedule on fire This has been a long time coming. Text- and picture-heavy! Link- and acronym-happy! Take it…

  

  of 18.01 in the first six weeks of fall term and covers 18.02 straight ... biology first term, though: Eric Lander, one of the leaders of the Human ... of your first year. I took a theater class in the fall that wasn't a CI

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 10, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Happier Than Ever on quitting and long-ish distance biking

  

  [/annotation] workday.  The thought of quitting first crosses my mind when I’m loitering ... Starbucks in Canton, the first suburb outside of Boston city limits for some ... them, I am running on the delightful concoction of sleeplessness, instant

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Big Questions and Small Scientists The kids I volunteer with are magical.

  

  I was five years old the first time someone accused me of witchcraft ... my towering intellect and spirit, and not the combination of bushy ... looked like a witch! Me: ..... The fourth time was a couple of weeks ago

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 27, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts from Science Bowl 🥣 a story about now-nostalgic times

  

  the palm of your hand.” “Really? I always thought it was faster. It ... high school, blissfully unaware of the cutthroat competition of the South ... same routine as all the others. First, an ice breaker. It was meant to

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 30, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT’s Tribute to Boston Lights from the Green Building.

  

  a lovely gesture and wanted to immortalize it on the blogs. Much love to everyone affected by today's bombings. Photo credit to the MIT Admissions Facebook page and Michael C.

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 15, 2013
• Blog / How to Food

  kitchen nightmares bugs and toasters and explosions, oh my!

  

  . The insect was properly disposed of and I thought that was it. NOPE. A ... of us know how to use can openers, apparently. The little twisty ... there was a whole toaster sitting next to the microwave, and when we did

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 / Field trip Art, science, and agriculture in Palestine

  

  signed up for this class out of the blue, not really knowing what I was ... something totally out of the ordinary, something beyond the confines of computer science or even STEM. The course description read: The history of

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 29, 2019
• Blog / Residential Life

  The River Freezes Over and other nifty things about being on campus

  

  . This entertains me because in the first month of quarantine, I went ... gestured at it through the window of our Uber, wondering aloud if water ... , melting just a patch of ice. I could see the water rush and tumble from my

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rush, rush Why you should live on my floor, with special guest star Paula Abdul.

  

  first week of orientation, you get to go around and visit all the dorms ... One of the coolest things about MIT is Residence Exploration (REX ... area of the dorm you'd like to live in. After that, certain floors, like

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2005