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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Welcome To Guild Camp [by Susan Shepherd '11] "Boot, Not Summer."

  

  with each other until about 7:40, when we all headed off for bed to catch ... flu virus or cold gets passed around. Every now and then a game has to ... although our amazing zampolit Kendra Beckler '09 had come to our rescue by

  • by ARTalk
  • October 1, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Caring for the body health, am i right?

  

  from time-to-time—sometimes I get buildup that lasts for days and affects ... can take long walks, but I don't even have to walk much to get around ... 've never found that a convincing reason to get more exercise, because I keep

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  How Albatross Fly Without Flapping Their Wings, And other Lore™️ I learned this semester.

  

  office for the long trek back to Simmons Hall. I walked and talked with ... [HEY! NOTE: If you are looking for the real, scientific reason of how albatross fly, this is probably not the place to look. I give an explanation

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 10, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday vacation An atypical (but more entertaining than average) day in the life

  

  means that I get to wander around and run errands and do fun stuff (like ... curl my hair before class, but today I had to bust my rump to get into lab by 9 AM -- I needed to run some gels and generally be a productive

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  emails to self & the long goodbye

  

  beginning to get the hang of how to be at MIT, how to make the most of the ... parting, coming up with new words and stories to tell. there is such ... prepare myself for the abrupt goodbye, where one day, we will all get up and

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 27, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Attention local high school students interested science and engineering! Have you heard about BeaverDash?

  

  to invite new friends from all over the world onto our campus. But in ... set for Saturday, May 5, 2012 from 9:30 am to 4:30 pm. The topic of the ... competition to compete later in the day for great prizes. Free t-shirts and

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Art variation on a poem of Elizabeth Bishop

  

  The art of being hosed isn’t hard to master; the tasks (you hope) will teach you something new. To be busy, then, is hardly a disaster ... get back to less busy, but it's hardly a disaster. —And in the end if

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  From East to West: An American’s Cross-Atlantic Voyage The start of my MISTI UK experience

  

  [annotation note="There are two ways to get from Heathrow Airport to Paddington ... (London) to Bristol. When I reached Paddington, I was greeted by a massive ... me for a few seconds longer than before. Walking over to me, he asked

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 10, 2025
• Blog / CPW

  I’m nervous to meet you A letter to the prefrosh at the dawn of CP*

  

  for the MIT community when I say this: I really hope we do right by all ... the Bloggers” event for months. The blogs meant everything to me as an ... communicating virtually. As a little kid, calling a friend’s house to ask for a

  • by Powers '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  A man’s reach should exceed his grasp My roommate and I built a lofty heaven!

  

  that for another time.) One of the reasons I was drawn to MIT was for its ... ) are able to take some of the wood and reuse it for their own ends. When ... , I decided that I would just try to get through it one step at a time

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 23, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  self-assessment, re: playwriting notes on taking playwrights' workshop this semester

  

  : for a fresh perspective, for a new angle, for a different mental dexterity, for getting out of a rut. I have a new confidence and a better ... inspiring and horrifying to hear my characters brought to life by my

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  infinite corridors can’t believe there are no posts with this title yet

  

  corridor” has taken on new meanings for me. at mit it refers to a long ... brutal. i was reeling from moving to a new city and living in a house with ... ’s a notion that as language models get larger they appear to suddenly

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Take Me Back to Tech (Guest Entry) So hurrah for technology, 'ology, 'ology oh.

  

  ). In any case, for a trip to my new favorite place, the beginning was ... afford the people who go for it great opportunities to jump-start the ... place else, both new. For those of you who are adventurous, its definitely

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  processing in which I visit home and take time to think

  

  Ave to get groceries from Target and H-Mart helps clear my mind a little ... ="all that introspecting when writing college essays has to count for something ... remember thinking that I'm just waiting for college to be able to reinvent

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  what happened yesterday? "what's the name of the mushroom shop?"

  

  recount what happened yesterday again.  I had actually moved to New York City to stay for the summer about a week prior. Most of my stuff was ... , it felt great to just take all the time in the world to get out of bed

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  New York City like a normal college student. For those of you who ... many new abilities our hero Link gains in his quest to defeat Ganondorf ... vehicles for traversing Hyrule to full-on attack drones that mow down hordes

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick hello from Albuquerque I'm in New Mexico for ISEF.

  

  Musical kids yet, either) Tomorrow, I will get to have breakfast with the ISEF finalists who are members of the MIT Class of 2011, then I'll get to ... A quick shout out from Albuquerque, New Mexico, where I am attending

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Supposedly Fun Thing That I’ll Probably Do Again On July 4th, I reenacted The Old Man and the Sea, minus the old man…

  

  succumbed to a four-hour soak in liquid described by writer Bernard DeVoto as ... oil, unlikely to be mistaken for water." Might I provide an ... legs to be amputated by radioactive flesh-eating eels in the Charles

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 7, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline: Your Questions [Updated] With the Early Action deadline fast approaching, I'll try to answer some last minute questions.

  

  really look for the answer here on the site -- there's no need to ask basic ... have chosen to only have one admissions round for international students ... are for internationals, we want to give out these limited spaces at the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  But What Are They Really Looking For? My thoughts (advice) on navigating (surviving) the college application process.

  

  well share my advice here for those who won’t get to hear it in the ... also don’t get to randomly see students I know in the hall. I also miss ... for me when I was a freshman and when I came to work at MIT it became a

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 11, 2014