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• Blog / Challenges

  I can’t feel my face Snowmageddon 2018

  

  you don’t like MIT… I think you’re on the wrong page. Maybe you ... become my standard outdoor attire: I realize I look a bit like I’m about ... from freezing my face off, which is nice. I’ve been back at MIT since

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • January 5, 2018
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2025 i3 videos megapost

  

  includes the Interactive Introduction to the Institute (I3) videos, which are ... traditions of their residence halls. In the '90s and early '00s, these I3 ... (alongside tours!) I’ve embedded all the 2025 i3 videos below in case you

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 2, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2024 i3 videos megapost

  

  Institute (I3) videos, which are produced by students to show off their life ...  (alongside tours!). I’ve embedded all the 2024 i3 videos below in case you would ... ://youtu.be/XRH7mEQzFtA?feature=shared https://youtu.be/pt35x6I8R7M

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 12, 2024
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2020 i3 videos megapost your annual Interactive Introduction to the Institute

  

  Institute (I3) videos, which are produced by students to show off their life ... fall. However, the residences put a lot of effort into i3 videos, and ... physically-distanced community representation as you will see. I've embedded

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how i feel about ai-generated art from an artist's perspective

  

  is ai so bad at making hands?[/caption] Recently, I read something by ... their own! I’ve spent so much time learning how to write well and then ... learning about the craft of writing, I certainly understand the frustration

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 11, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I Know to Be True Introductions and peanut butter Oreos

  

  A few years back, I began keeping a tab of life's certainties ... uncertain when you hold them too close. Still, I add to the list. Markers of ... and uncontrollable, I return to the list. I remind myself of what I know

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • September 29, 2021
• Blog / Events

  I’m only happy when it rains. You can't take pictures in Boston. Don't even try.

  

  shining, birds were chirping, the Red Sox were winning, so, I figured, sure ... give you directions on consuming their food, which we all ignored, but I still appreciate the idea. I got a veggie burrito with mango salsa, which

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  “the worst they can say is no” the costs of trying

  

  , which is why I have always found the advice "the worst thing that can ... , so the costs are different. If I were to ask someone out now, maybe it is true that I'm exposing myself to much less risk these days. But

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 10, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  Don’t Stop Believing you can take the east camper out of east campus but...

  

  Last Sunday, one week ago, I moved out of East Campus. The hours ... , a nap, more goodbyes, more packing -- and then suddenly I was turning in my key and walking out the door. I knew it was coming, of course

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  decisions, decisions why are there so many of them

  

  I like to think that people are defined by two things — the values that they hold and the choices that they make. So I figured that a half ... the bajillion things I'm busy with these days) is to share some

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 9, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Subtle Art of Being Unhosed what i've learned and what i'm still working on

  

  Hi world, it’s me!!! I haven’t been writing on the blogs much because I’ve been spending most of my writing ability and brain power working on a bunch of applications for something that I’m not ready to announce

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting Through a Difficult Month Study, Study, Study

  

  same week, and in some cases the same day, and I felt overwhelmed beyond ... arrived, I feel ready for the next two months of school before the summer break. So, with second semester in full swing, I had about 5 midterms in

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Fifty-Seven Back and Busy for Semester 2

  

  weight of 4 Psets are setting in. All that being said, I am glad to be back and with a full schedule. Here is a look at how I am keeping busy for ... first day back started. I got up way too early, ate way too much

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • February 9, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  weather and stuff a Californian’s first experience of fall and also other things on my mind

  

  I do not own any fall clothes. It seems that this is going to be a problem for me. I Iive in a triple. One of my roommates, Claire, is from Wisconsin, and the other, Abby, is from San Diego. Last week I get home from

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • October 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What an “OX” means on a transcript and why I currently have two of them

  

  are pretty straightforward, I think, but then sometimes you’re me ( / a ... with your actual grade.”)) I should probably clarify up front that ... finals.. I mean I guess if I’m being dramatic I could probably define it as

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • January 25, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jon and me how I came to see the world

  

  definitely was the case for me. I was 12 when Jon Stewart began hosting TDS, but the first episode I really remember watching was the night of September 11th, 2001. I was a freshman at a new school in a new town in a new

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bit About Me Growing up on a healthy diet of prime time television and MMORPGs

  

  I'm what you'd call a product of prime time television. In my household my sister and I planned out our days based on television shows. I ... Cailou (a show my young sister was adamant to watch) I'd saunter off to the

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roombaaaa The longest trip I've ever taken in my life

  

  My story begins a couple weeks ago at Career Fair.... As I attempted ... in the Z-Center... I tried to orient myself to the layout of the ... difficult to navigate where all the booths were. But eventually, I stumbled

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Days in the Life In which I overuse Instagram.

  

  Yo homez, I'm back! And guess what? I'm a senior. I. AM. A. SENIOR. I walk down the halls of Simmons and see freshman frantically p-setting even through they're on Pass/No-Record, and I think to myself, "hahahaha

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Needles That was anticlimactic.

  

  I got my first piercing in eighth grade, at Walmart. I had done horribly in a Mathcounts competition, so my mom and I decided that I should ... strips and loops of metal through my ears? And I said that sounded kind of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 24, 2012