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• Blog / Academics & Research

  This title is irrelevant In which I discuss two important aspects of undergraduate life: scientific research and climbing stairs.

  

  finally settling to a maybe-this-isn't-so-bad idea by the time you get to floor 18, just in time for you to reach the top, stumble onto the elevator ... revealed my inner wuss by leaving halfway into the competition in order to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 28, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Infinite Magazine [joint post with Kidist A.]

  

  desire to meet cool new people in a virtual semester, led me to apply for a ... in the issue were then chosen by a process similar to what we used for ... new issue would be accompanied by some sort of public event. Due to the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 27, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  The Summer Before College (what not to do)

  

  . Swimming pools and ice cream sundaes.  Long road trips to new places ... around. Yay for knee dislocations! To give you a little context, I ... therapy. I had survived. Untouched. Now it’s impossible for someone to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 12, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  The Public’s Biggest Fear ...is no longer one of mine.

  

  who I could get in touch with to make this happen. He had no information ... when I was seized by the sudden urge to sacrifice a chunk of my dignity ... astronomy professor for permission to deliver a 20-minute public talk on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: What do those ROTC kids do during summer…? guest post by Karen C. '20

  

  clumsy) and horseback riding, to meeting new friends and swimming in ... science and engineering in elementary and middle schools in an effort to get ... new people all there to learn about Japanese language and culture. Now

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 23, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Dance at MIT!!! [Collab with Ben O. ’19] hip-hop? contemp? bhangra? lion dance? MIT's got it all

  

  Cinderella Story as a seven-year-old and busting it down to All Star by Smash ... YouTube for me to learn, so I started mirroring and slowing videos so I ... answer I have for you guys is… the first time I heard a song I started to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  to grad school after getting some work experience aka job...for say 1 ... undergrad for several reasons (to make money, to avoid burnout, to get more ... instruction about assays to use to discern these facts for yourself. A large

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Days in NYC

  

  West to get there. GAHHH). We all got off from work pretty late, but decided to celebrate our first day on our jobs by going out to a restaurant ... am capped at this amount of information, I'll try to get some other MIT

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Events, Food, and Awesomeness: CPW A story about how CPW is more awesome than lobsters

  

  getting me to where I am today. At the very least, it was the source of ... memory. This spring break, I went to Chicago with my family for a weekend ... miscellaneous shrubbery and nondescript store fronts whizzed by. We were in a new

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  it’s thanksgiving or something and other things happening in my life

  

  to get out of my room other than just getting lunch and getting tested for covid, and i appreciate instructor conti going out of his way to ... on a post about the class for three weeks now, and i'm really hoping to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 26, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint post] Welcoming you to “Here at MIT” student art in the new welcome center

  

  September. You may have already seen Petey’s post Welcoming you to the new MIT Welcome Center. The new center is going to be the starting point for ... 's walls. However, when I came to MIT, I felt overwhelmed by the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 3, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  me from getting too hurt when I leave, or to prepare me for starting a ... changed. CJ lives in New York, where they work for Stainless, a company that ... for Windows. I travel more than I used to, mostly to visit friends who

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Who You Vote for May Not Matter that you vote most certainly does!

  

  politicians as. I asked him to come by my house some time for dinner and meet 30 ... by Cody C. '14 When it comes to politics, there is one argument that ... process by which projects come to fruition, and how very political those

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  My First Visit I... got lost on the tour, actually...

  

  very lucky to find out that my high school sponsors college trips for ... undecided in which colleges I wanted to apply to. All I wanted to do was get ... 11PM, so just for fun we went back to MIT! At the Student Center we

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Bang! Update [3] Gotcha!

  

  pistol team is on its way to West Point in New York for a shooting ... evening against West Point, but first we had to get there. What we ... you miss the black center and hit the white part you get to stare at

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Circle Professor Anna

  

  the external examiner (“extern”) for a PhD Viva, and now I’m trying to ... , a flame to protect from burning out. I get to study the cosmos with ... , and went off to get her PhD; I stuck the program from her commencement

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  baby steps something tender and new

  

  , texting people if they want to get lunch or go grocery shopping once they ... made. i asked my therapist if we could switch to weekly sessions for the ... taking me to the new mccormick basement gym and i showed them my dorm and

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2018 Diaries what the weekend was like for me

  

  to 2 prefrosh, so I’d get at least 1. But then I got 2… I also realized ... prefrosh, so I had to come up with some clever options for “prefrosh tetris ... probably help host. It would be extremely awkward for the prefrosh to sleep

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 17, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Admitted Students Welcome Events Your first MIT experience is closer than you think

  

  I hope you’re all getting excited for Campus Preview Weekend ... ’re excited to meet other new MIT admits so we want to let you know about some ... the world will host parties in their hometowns for students admitted to

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 17, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Past, present, and future

  

  TFUEC has been working for two and a half years to redesign MIT's GIRs ... part of MIT culture, that they believe in, that they wish to uphold for ... , here. There's currently a new undergraduate dorm being designed for the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 16, 2006