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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Choosing between a career and motherhood A reflection on the ideas expressed in the 9/20/05 NY Times article, "Many Women at…

  

  employer would take on by spending a lot of time and money to training you ... , University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, and Princeton. Ironically, every girl that ... , making them more interesting and adaptable. Can't the same be true of life

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Diffusion Summer time!

  

  Alley," but to make matters confusing all of the dorm addresses are on ... , pickup trucks, parents, boxes, and luggage. All of these are for the people ... done and it was a wild ride. Like any wild ride it had its ups and downs

  • by Snively '11
  • May 23, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  clay crash course one month of wheelthrowing later…

  

  , and one-time workshops, I threw on the wheel for an average of eight ... beginning. I found that using a wet sponge on the outside of the wall and ... and wrought-iron gates, with a high square window on the facade. Then it

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Story of the 5 Wits A look back on my externship at 5 Wits

  

  't remember what the 5 wits were. Fantasy, who loved to dream of castles and ... the walls of the conference room, which slowly became their home away ... box! Common Sense and Estimation spent lots of time painting stained

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • February 4, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  on friends / minsan in which i ramble about friendship

  

  entertainment on my laptop, but my battery was going to die and I realized I didn ... card game"]play Fish[/annotation] on the bus. We talked about lots of ... dinner, and take a train to Princeton. As we arrive at Princeton, one of my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2019
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Are the Arts active on campus?

  the arts, and more than half of all MIT undergrads enroll in arts courses each year—with nearly half of students participating in music and ... . Arts on the MIT campus are rooted in experimentation, risk taking, and
• Blog / MIT Life

  Grocery Store Run Run, Geza, run!

  

  've been eating well, and the schoolwork hasn't affected any of my habits ... , and of course Oreos—to fill my empty fridge. A week of eating nothing ... hours straight, and there were no signs of the downpour letting up. I put

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  #tbt: MIT Cribs Digging up some old freshman-year blog posts

  

  hear a story behind any of the other things on my bulletin board (all of ... plenty of times) and I don't do so well on the meeting-new-people front ... reason to move any of my stuff. I've stayed on campus for two consecutive

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 5, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come in, we’re open

  

  -retentiveness, c) dislike of hard labor, and d) all of the above. If I could wave my ... , Adam '07, and I moved to D-Entry of MacGregor today. We had been living ... playing Gamecube and/or discussing the political leanings of Jesus at 4 AM

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Gap Year, Week 1 my plans for a year away from MIT during COVID-19

  

  home came without any warning. One moment, everything felt normal, and ... independence from living away from home and the companionship of living with ... 't wait to try working on some of them on the weekends and nights when I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Pythagorean Triple of Awesome Otherwise known as the weekend of the 4th of July. Just another long weekend in…

  

  on her front porch catching up and eating a whole tub of honey ... the Sox had a home game based on if lights were on in Fenway. Even then ... experience Boston. And it is awesome. Real life example: my 4th of July

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • July 18, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving yet another senior writing about their last semester

  

  want on campus at any time, and i did not realize how unusual this was ... transition from being at one of the greatest intellectual hubs on the planet to ... leaving school, to stay in the world of academia with masters degrees and

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 20, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Lots of questions today! Lots of answers, too.

  

  at each other, and both of us were like "You know, I really don't like ... ! I eat about 10 meals a week on campus -- that is, breakfast and lunch ... usually either get dinner on campus (that is, bring dinner home on their way

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  four semesters in music and food just some lists and reminisces

  

  more parts of campus and made more friends as time went on.   ... 'm a 6.031 LA now, and someone put on Ecstasy of Gold during a grading ... lot of these were on my packing playlist, and I know I'll never forget

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 28, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  proof of life hmm :thinking-face:

  

  timer on a carton of milk and a slab of chicken waiting to be thawed. An ... myself blink out and in of existence as I crossed the threshold of the office each morning and evening. The meat of each day was some combination

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • August 16, 2025
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  A Year away from home An intro video rant to my time in China

  

  figure out what was the best way to make this video, and settled on doing ... , some will be videos and some more standard posts depending on the subject ... turn subtitles on, so just click the CC and just click English.

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 5, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  I’m leavin’ on a jet plane… and another plane...and another plane...

  

  flight, so it's one of those that has one seat per row on one side, and two seats per row on the other, and tiny overhead bins on only one side of the ... actually on the marquis too! Exciting! 2:30pm. The doors open, and people

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  processing in which I visit home and take time to think

  

  -encompassing. Any individual aspect of MIT is, on its own, manageable, but put it all ... feeling more and more distant with each trip home. On one hand, it ... back and forth on what I want to do after college. But all of that will

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  of any class, but it helps demonstrate the differences I want to show ... likely than not that several of your friends are in science GIRs. And ... consequence of classes starting and ending at the same time. The consequences

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Journey back Home from PE Class photodocumenting the trek across campus

  

  facility and my PE destination. The Z Center also home to major on ... under the Green Building, the tallest building on campus and all of ... -shirt weather spurts in February and March, it seems like this streak of sunshine

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 26, 2018