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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bedbugs (fiction) A short story. (It would make me happy if you moused over the bedbugs.) =)

  

  We begin our story in a cul-de-sac with neat green lawns in what was once one of the nicest towns in central Pennsylvania. It was morning; the dew had dried…

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 21, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  the earliest that classes start here at MIT - and I do NOT function at 9

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Watching Birdwatchers And getting into summer programs.

  

  <NEWSFLASH> I woke up Thursday morning, realized it was March 1, dove off my bed, and flung my laptop open. Gmail couldn’t load fast enough. There it was: The E-mail…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  If you go to MIT, the odds are good that you'll get a B at some point. Is that one of this year's end-of-the-world scenarios? Not exactly ... capabilities. If you're new to how MIT shows off your grades, then I should tell

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Steve and Me remembering steve jobs

  

  I remember the first time I ever saw a computer. I was four, and my family’s basement, which contained my father’s office, flooded during a terrible rain storm. My father,…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions…..*sigh* Is (Fill in the Blank) University the right school for me?

  

  reading this right now and are still deciding between MIT and some other Big ... you've been admitted to us, come to MIT! I'll buy you a fresh Mr. Q

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • April 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More thoughts on classes However, I did not find Matt's stuff (see blog post below this one).

  

  oscillating dipole, alright? As I always say, MIT admissions values tolerance ... mittens. If you want to understand the true heartstabbing pain of MIT, you

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Things that make you go hmmmm……. Obama’s transformative presidency………for geeks????

  

  looking to embody the MIT motto ‘mens et manus’. Nevertheless, we have been ... -Elect, Barack Obama, as a geek! Since MIT is the epicenter of Nerd Pride, I

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • December 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Island Paradise That's where I live. No, seriously.

  

  So, remember how back when I blogged about all of the many varied things I might want to be when I grow up? Well, I think “interior decorator” is going…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meow Yes, you can have cats in some dorms.

  

  I was reading one of Laura’s recent entries with a response to a commenter asking about cats. East Campus is one of the dorms with “cat floors” — floors which…

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Conversations with graders And other ramblings of a frosh...

  

  , my roommate's dad was in the entering class that was welcomed to MIT

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  One thing every woman’s missed in Massachusetts Bay Sam and Shana have gone to look for America, starting in Philadelphia.

  

  things as those at MIT. Ursinus students apparently slide down some of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 15, 2005
• 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…

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

  Rejection Therapy and my insatiable urge to collect trading cards

  

  applying to MIT. 'proto-' meaning 'earliest form of'. "]prefrosh

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 16, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life Tokens the currency of joy

  

  When I was younger, one of my favorite board games to play with my family was “The Game of Life.” It’s a bit like the mobile game BitLife, I suppose.…

  • by Allison E. '27
  • July 6, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  [Joint Post] THE WORLD’S gREATEsT CROSSOVER EPISODE Jebby '25 is my flatmate

  

  Note: Anika drew Anika and Jebby drew Jebby. If you can’t tell who’s who in the following series of pictures, you haven’t read enough blogs.   Everything is jarringly British…

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 4, 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 / Academics & Research

  doctor worm not a real doctor but i am a real worm

  

  officially became a member of WMBR, mit's college radio station (88.1 fm)!!! i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 8, 2025
• Blog / Events

  BLOOD MOON FEST IS REAL!! "the blood moon rises and the blood moon falls but the wave of whimsy it…

  

  Just over two weeks ago, we dropped our Pi Day announcement with Jebby’s Blood Moon Fest blog post. That night, my roommate Anoushka read the blog and immediately told me…

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three patterns from the pattern language of my life

  

  Hello! It’s about 3,000 days since I graduated from MIT, and three weeks since an even more significant phase change of life, involving a ... girl out of MIT, but you can’t take the admissions blogger out of the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 24, 2025