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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Summer Reading Challenge Read with me!

  

  , and had to get back to school) (through this cool library network we ... to get through all 10 this time. So far, I have... Nonfiction: The ... found that your busy lifestyle leaves little time for reading for pleasure

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback 1.0 What was I like as freshman? Wouldn't you like to know.

  

  ? When I do get to MIT, I'm planning to declare Course 2 (Mechanical ... be the poster child for "people who get headaches listening to ... Athena lockers. All MIT students get Athena accounts, which allow you to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  tick tick tick and the euphoria of it stopping

  

  get in? tick I’m just going to shut up, put my nose to the grindstone ... students to get through it.  … They made me feel like everything was going to ... , temperate weather of Boston? How's family? Your brother still asking you to

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 16, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  We can do this! To high school seniors: we’re in the struggle bus with you

  

  school, we stressed about not being qualified enough to get into the ... qualified enough to get a job, and tried registering for extra classes only to ... [annotation note="feel free to vent about your application

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  I failed the Swim Test! And now you can too!!

  

  blogger to learn to swim (you’re welcome).  The day after I got to campus ... get to skip the line of people attempting the test to sign up for a ... ever fall into the Charles River that borders MIT campus, you can swim to

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 26, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Skill Issues (spoiler alert: i've got them)

  

  interminable, since in order to successfully win a game you have to get through ... don’t really care whether you remembered to place down your queen of ... with your skills is important - you don’t have to be the best at anything

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • June 29, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  coronavirus, one year later recounting the craziest ten days of my life

  

  since getting kicked off, I’ve tried to turn it from the jumbled mess of ... are much longer than the others.) Of course, things continue to get ... of preparation and hard work. Not getting to see the smiling faces of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 6, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time in a bottle. A Newbery-medal-winning collection of short stories.

  

  to go home and get my instrument, so I had to take it to class with me ... basically talk about me and my research. Well, then. I started to get THE ... looks like this: ...and is where you should mail your application to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  notes on hope despite despite despite

  

  have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred ... matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to ... easily to the strangers i pass on my way home. it's finally warm enough

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 25, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  IAP and Igloos This is an entry about IAP. IAP is the month of January. It's...February. I know.

  

  during the school year that you didn't quite get to because you were ... to walk across the Harvard bridge, wear rainboots up to your elbows ... . IAP is another name of the month of January. Some people may be quick to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 25, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  American culture at its finest: Thanksgiving How my family celebrates the holiday. Plus a crash course in U.S. culture for internationals.

  

  to explain why. Thanksgiving is when Americans gather together with their families to take part in a few time-honored traditions: huge, home ... actually played with your feet), and preparation for the holiday season. I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Global Poverty Initiative Because you’re reading this while 1/6 of the world is illiterate.

  

  wanted to get into it, too, but honestly wasn’t sure how much time I’d have ... feeling it will start to get more detailed as the week gets closer. Some ... to get local restaurants to either donate food or give us discounts

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Take 1.618: Film at MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] There are very few things for which I would get up…

  

  - should I go to art school, or should I do the "safe" thing and get a "real ... ? Somewhat consoled and way too hyped about getting into MIT to be feeling too ... training really forces you to get to know the world of film-making. For the

  • by ARTalk
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-Thanksgiving Post-stuff and Foodstuffs In which I'm reminded I have a life, and am thus eligible to give a…

  

  'm sorry, but you're wrong. At other times, it's quite a lot to handle, and I almost don't know how to get started with things. That same ... wallet to get myself a decent lunch, like Chipotle or something frozen that

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivery 2021 meet me halfway

  

  Delivery typically happens in your sophomore spring, to mark not only the arrival of your [annotation note="The MIT undergraduate class ring ... freaking cool, we were able to get it rescheduled for this fall. It's been

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Keg of worms and phytoplankton

  

  encourage you to tell us about the things that really float your boat, whether ... I'm at home now in Hampton Bays getting ready for the first of my ... was this: people prefer to tell us about the things they think we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 7, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  WMBR: College Radio at MIT will anyone watch the entire 36 minute video? probably not

  

  collecting clean audio. If you've gotten to the point where you're getting ... orientation and are usually able to get their own show within a few weeks of ... . It was kind of shocking to me just how easy it was to get on air. My

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Balancing Life, School, and… More Life? Gotta start by taking advantage of Veteran's Day to... work... and, more importantly, BLOG!

  

  00t!) with my big Jessica (a girl from my sorority) at 10, get to the ... ... So now it's 3:30 and I'm trying to get down and finish this annoying ... - this is where we get paired to our "big" as in "big sister" (sophomore or

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  socializing over zoom it's been rough

  

  ’ve been texting someone, and you’re getting along well. There’s still no way ... that seek you out to spend time with you – be it to get lunch, or to sit ... Last week, non-seniors who want to live on campus in the [annotation

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Sensations On Having Feelings

  

  the surface of your skin, just enough to numb the tips of your fingers ... sort of yellow that makes you think of your childhood and white kitchen appliances. This poem is impossible to divorce from its color. I genuinely don

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 9, 2022