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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  shrouded in distant adulthood to be beyond comparison? Did being a child make ... above the Museum. I got a message saying I would need to pick up a key ... showed up to office hours that week. *** High school was a magical time. I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  *john mulaney voice* Cause we’re delta airlines, and life is— My delta flight this IAP, a couple of weeks late oops

  

  preemptively, and he nodded. “Okay, I’m going to make a call.” On the phone, he ... of the “arrives late to the airport; makes it on the plane anyway ... change my flight to a direct flight that arrives at O'Hare instead of the

  • by ana~
  • January 18, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 3) notes from the third day

  

  more time to make it to Emeryville; I chatted a bit with some folks about ... expected to have. I am not yet sure what to make of it, but there are still a ... ="84400" /] Out of a mild fear of getting lost or left behind, I attached myself to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 13, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! Plus lots of awesome advice from MIT students!

  

  go to the fun ones instead. Try make it to a lot of the different ... campus for a 3-day Campus Preview Weekend.  Suffice it to say that those ... only covered a pinprick of what was in store for us. And to everyone who

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  the best thing i did for myself as a pre-frosh the one where i gush about burton one

  

  the warmth still feels like a tiny miracle. Campus is starting to ... whizzed by like a door violently swinging open on its hinges, revealing to ... kindergarten, in that "everyone is a potential friend and everything is a friend-making

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • April 7, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Somebody Else Seven undergrad blogs not enough for you? Now some of them have multiple authors.

  

  '07) to write a guest blog entry. It might not make for the best guest ... details on what it's like living next to Sam Maurer for a summer, as told by ... conditions" combination leads to a plesant work environment, high competition

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Journey back Home from PE Class photodocumenting the trek across campus

  

  to the West side of campus twice, even though it is only a 10-minute ... perfect 1/8 of a sphere, which allows it to be supported at only three ... , as it can take a while to light up. Travel to the right down Mass Ave

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 26, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Final Blogpost With a heavy heart, I say goodbye to the MIT blogosphere. The journey was all…

  

  shows that MIT is a series of nearly back-to-back all-nighters, except ... . It was a beautiful week. Now, I’m back to the usual battle with ... me to hasten and complete their worlds. Except that each snippet of a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give the girl what she wants Ruth '07 wants pictures, she can have them.

  

  , my last few days at MIT were a blur- I had 3 exams and lots of stuff to ... . Our room was like a maze for a few days. Responses to comments ... have the option to take a course or two in their major during the spring

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing is difficult みんな、がんばってね!

  

  stop talking with yourself and talk to the reader? Oh god there's a ... attention since as a Senior Blogger I get to read your blogger applications! And also according to a recent emaill, if I don't blog, I will get fired

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • July 31, 2015
• Blog / Residential Life

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

  

  may seem like a skill that is impossible to acquire in fact came from ... , I decided that I would just try to get through it one step at a time ... ). Then we had to cut the wood, which meant we had to plan a design. Here

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 23, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  the pnr mindset vs. the grindset mindset pnr shall be missed

  

  going to my [annotation note="it was a bit of a shock going home for ... less a list of phrases and more the collective tendency to excuse poor time management decisions on being a frosh that doesn’t need to worry

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • January 15, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Noise and time chaos and peace in a silver package

  

  On time and noise I've been meaning to write a post recently about ... wrote this post that I really enjoyed, and related to a lot. Notably: I ... sprinting from class to club to friend to event and just exist for a while

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 15, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  every day it gets a little easier but you gotta do it every day, that’s the hard part

  

  hygiene, and there was no way i was going to maintain such a long streak ... took a break from school that spring to do an internship, i told people ... how i would have to smash my foot into the ground a thousand times more

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bibliophiles assemble! When life gives you books...

  

  going to make me happy. Every semester or so, the MIT Press (located to ... A few weeks ago, I had the best weekend in recent history. Of course ... unexpected details go a long way in raising your spirits. For me, that little

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Season Some advice for the EA deadline. (Relax. Be patient. Don't stress. Don't procrastinate!)

  

  the office about the deadline, so let me take a moment to answer some of those questions, and to provide a bit of advice as well. Please be ... processed in plenty of time to make decisions. When we start reading, we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Halls are Alive with the sound of mischief :)

  

  . There are fifty some-odd organizers packed into a room, trying to make ... someone with a polaroid camera. They called out, offering to take a free ... , turned out to be a [annotation note="imagine sight reading it on the piano

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Get Home from the Airport for Free For prefrosh who are like me and terrified of entering dank underground tunnels they haven’t…

  

  to Boston from a family vacation in Toronto, I took the T back to MIT ... .)   Wait under the big cement Silver Line T posts. Bring a book.   To your ... racks to store your luggage and a scrolling neon sign announcing the next

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 18, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Blog: Humanitarian Work At MIT My name is Ali Wyne, and I'll be this year's host for the new Humanitarian…

  

  decided to take a year off to learn more about myself and figure out what my interests were. I deliberately decided not to come up with a plan for that ... to Pakistan for a month, and I interned at Amnesty International for a

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Moms We stand on the shoulders of giants....!!

  

  Today I wanted to thank a very special person in my life, someone who ... always been my strongest advocate, and pushed me to be a better version of ... helping out with a cultural show and tell in preschool. That's a smol me to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2018