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• Blog / MIT Life

  making meaning exit right in 0.1 miles

  

  to adjust to life at MIT, I achieved an all-A semester this spring ... April, I presented a poster at the MIT Microbiome Symposium on my work

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 30, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  felt. I really couldn't understand why I was at MIT. The hardest fact to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  they want to see you fail managing others' envy

  

  Recently, one of my friends relayed that she grew up in an environment filled with vicious, competitive peers. When I got into MIT, they might be nice to my face, but I know they were secretly upset. They didn

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  17 Ridiculously Useful Tips Every Blogger Should Know i am the entire circus

  

  MIT history If you've already made strained metaphors to a technical ... talk about MIT history. Wait. What's that? You're not interested in the history of FIXIT? You're not interested in MIT history in general?! Too bad

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  the npc life office hours with lupe fiasco

  

  MIT this spring, I had to take his class. My friend Wenjun H. '25 had ... explore Roman ruins, his MIT Kerberos was flavius, he was writing a novel

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21M.285: The Beatles the most enjoyable class i've taken at MIT

  

  discography whatsoever. When I got to MIT, my music taste evolved to include ... MIT: Regressions, where I saw footage of Timothy Leary, the father of ... engrossed in reading the seven (!!) books I checked out from the MIT Libraries

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 3, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  excelling at math. I'm mad at MIT: I'm taking 102 units in an attempt to start ... withdraw from MIT entirely and become a hermit in the woods -- surely I can

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  sunscreen physical health and stuff

  

  at the ripe age of twenty-one i am beginning to feel my body weaken and crumble in ways that were not previously noticeable. for instance: i notice myself feeling cold…

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 4, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  bay area parties well, two of them

  

  advertised as an "mit bay area meetup". it was a pool party near san mateo. and ... case even without the mit context. maybe i'm getting old. or maybe

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 15, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I went to a motorcycle festival don’t worry, parents, I didn't see other MIT kids there

  

  addressed me, both of us engineers at MIT. It caught me by surprise when some ... . “Oh, no,” I said. “Like, I’m a mechanical engineer at MIT.” That phrase

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 23, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  oh, the crash and the burn

  

  test saying 'hey...you're infected' we duly reported our symptoms to MIT ... of MIT in them. Aside from all that though, I really really like ... . Which honestly probably says a lot about MIT more than it does me. But I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  trust how do you decide who to trust when there are lots of untrustworthy people?

  

  predatory behavior are very real problems in the world, even in mit

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Friendly Body Pillows body pillows are my love language

  

  , about a mile from MIT. It was a convenient 8-10 minute walk to get

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 1, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  romanticize a quiet life i want to be okay

  

  devoid of people, because everyone's on break but you're still at MIT ... meeting with s^3, you call the mit mental health hotline. you've been ... of experiences with mit medical and they haven't always been positive

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  school projects aka why i havent been writing in the last few weeks

  

  theory classes at mit. it assumes the ability to read knowledge as well as ... classes i’ve taken at mit - at the beginning of the semester i wrote code on ... -designed grading scheme of any assignment i’ve seen at mit, in the sense that the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  this is the real life I love in-person MIT eom

  

  MIT is. There's people everywhere, there's always something going on. I ... MIT in its full glory, with all its highest highs and lowest lows, and I

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Public Statements

  Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic) tl;dr: mostly the same as during normal times, but clarifying some points of anxiety

  

  as a student and/or community member." At MIT, we do have strong ... /teacher relationship is profoundly personal and path-dependent. I didn't apply to MIT ... look for at MIT either, it's just what I know was, in hindsight, these

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  making space in my schedule to go to the maker space and 100 other things I was bad at this semester

  

  experiences I had had so far in my MIT campus experience. 2 weeks later, I came ... for: The Makerlodge at MIT is really great because it can serve as an

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  I Miss You, Random Hall my love letter to the dorm i got kicked out of too soon

  

  everything MIT. I miss Evelyn, an incredibly hardworking soul that put up with ... this pandemic and the workload MIT has thrown at us, that none of us have

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 9, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  things that went well reflections on my first semester

  

  , you know, starting at MIT). But time just keeps going, and I’ve more or ... do feel as though I’m at MIT. And it’s been fun, and been better than I

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 25, 2020