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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Simulating Catastrophe and learning to speak up

  

  I don’t know if your school does this, but MIT asks its students at ... make adjustments based on student evaluations, but sometimes I wonder if I’m giving feedback or just sending my opinions into a black box. We

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  hours a week, I never lost that boyish charm when it comes to the two and ... years I didn't have a book to read, a paper to write or a set of problems to get started. But for the first time in three years I genuinely

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

  Human After All Unlike customer service nowadays, MIT (and its admissions office) is 100% human. Give or take…

  

  . I know, I know, you're probably going crazy right now - real live ... 's almost like we're not crippled by our social awkwardness! I may be being a ... make things explode using only sheer power of will, I need to set the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Oh, the Places You’ll Go(ogle) The path to enlightenment is paved with Google searches.

  

  Late last night, I cut the brakes on the Sleep-8-Hours ... wanderlust, I metaphorically sprained my ankle over the fact that brilliant ... -esque contortions, I will sell more bottles of highlighter-colored water than anyone

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  A Snively CPW By: Snively' 11

  

  energy drink 1 energy drink water thing 5 cups of coffee I slept 5 hours ... a funny story that I'll share shortly). So, from the beginning: I ... night of sleep for a long time. The next morning I met Sara '11 at South

  • by Bryan
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: MacGregor House Because really, sometimes you just need your own space.

  

  are planning to cover their own dorms within the next z days!), I am ... TechCash. By which I mean your parents can pay for it. MacGregor also ... by letter -- A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, and J -- and there's no I Entry

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So many problem sets

  

  of homework, usually in the form of a problem set. I thought the ... actually like, so I've posted a few of the problems from my own problem sets (don't give me the answers! I haven't solved all of these yet!). 9.22 has

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Doctor Who?

  

  Doctor Russ. Lieutenant Colonel Russ Lachance, a grad student I ... became, uh... Doctor Lieutenant Colonel Russ Lachance. I guess that's what ... what do with. I just hope he doesn't complicate things any further by

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  senior house / pilot 2021 / senior house facts, and a thought

  

  I'm definitely not going to be the only person to talk about this on ... many others for the past month. I'm not going to, nor would I like to, give one-sided, pathos-inspired opinions or rants about what I think and

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 11, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  AARRRGHHHHH!!!!🏴‍☠️ (Pirate Post) A Review of 21M.299 - Pirate Songs and Whaling Chanteys

  

  I mentioned it in a previous blog, but this semester I took a class called 21M.299: World Music Studies - Pirate Songs and Whaling Chanteys. I ... wikipedia-rabbit-hole-inducing one being offered, so of course I took it. It

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 2, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [Live Writing] MARC 2024 A big meeting about small things

  

  Meeting about Amazingly-small Rocks and Computers), and I get to be there ... lives. And then there's me! I don't have any of those kinds of ideas, but the good people running the meeting let me come along anyway. So now I

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  The Blogs Turn 10: Looking Back, Looking Ahead data and narrative, past and present

  

  by Melis A. '08 I Remember... by Anthony R. '09 Reflecting on 10 ... Becca H. '12 Imbibing the Nostalgia Punch by Rachel F. '12 Do I have a ... MITAdmissions. If I could assign reading to prospective students like I can assign

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Events

  “Freshman Musical Dorms” A question inspires an entire entry about housing. But I threw in some other stuff…

  

  people, but happy for me, because I'll actually be attending FEWER hours of ... means I finally finished my EMT training! Yay! Of course, I still have to ... . In other news, April and I got a futon, and now our room is supercool

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] Your Guide to Boston Cafes a letter from chomps

  

  Jess: This is a guest post by my friend Grace Z. '25! I met her ... , good food, and all MIT assorted things. I invited her to write a post, and this is that! I loved reading it, and I know you will too <3

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unsolicited review of the whitney biennial (not really a review just stuff I liked)

  

  Last weekend, I took a short solo trip up to New York to see the Whitney Biennial! I’ve wanted to go to the Whitney Museum of American Art for years, ever since I learned that they’re host to (almost) all of the

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 25, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  eat food to live cook food because why not!?

  

  It is Thursday, November 23rd. Or well, it is as I’m writing this ... students at MIT, I’m not at home for this Thanksgiving. I won’t be eating my aunty’s pumpkin crunch desserts or my grandpa’s kalua turkey, I won’t be

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 24, 2023
• Blog / Events

  [joint post] we can’t hear you, you’re on mute another mystery hunt post

  

  [annotation note="literally, I got about eight hours of sleep total that weekend ... was my first hunt! I was dragged into the hunt by Shuli, and so I hunted ... [annotation note='such as my favorite: PART I NON-CONTRADICTION CHAPTER I THE

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  fun facts about random stuff sometimes i just like learning new things

  

  I’ve potatoed so much over the past few weeks of break — lounging in ... -quite-potato thing that I’ve been doing is trying to learn a lot of trivia — time on Protobowl, going down Wikipedia rabbit holes, and playing Sporcle quizzes. I

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 5, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  meet the baby bloggers! (some of whom are older than me)

  

  to be so good, so so good, and I am very excited for you to get to read ... ! I know I am :D (I also want to thank, very much so, everyone who sent in an application this year. I'm very grateful that you shared your

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 6, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  what’s on my desk: messy person edition not sponsored

  

  Katie Zhao’s new novel, [annotation note = "Katie and I have the same agent, and I actually got to see her at Boston Book Festival last month ... containing a draft of [annotation note = "I meant to revise this throughout the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 19, 2019