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• Blog / Academics & Research

  on knowing what I’m doing in which I decide to go to grad school

  

  ways to feel lost:" I feel lost on a much deeper level than ever before ... , like I’m in the middle of a field and there used to be a road I was ... winter break and boiled down to a couple of basic, but essential, facts: 1

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 3, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Room, A Short Story This story is somewhat weird and slightly dark. Reader's discretion is advised.

  

  push them open. When he turned, the sight took a while to make sense to ... ,” she said, leading him gently to the couch facing a television that could ... making a huge deal out of this, but he simply was. Perhaps it was the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 2, 2014
• Blog / CPW

  the two sides of CPW CPW as told by a prefrosh and an upperclassman

  

  2023 this year. She also happens to be quite a good writer, so we decided to do a dual blog post about our CPW experiences - hers as an excited ... ] I committed to MIT a couple of weeks ago, so my main goal at CPW was

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 24, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to Senior Haus, version 2.0 More pictures!

  

  it's guaranteed to be a good night. Until then, I'll just sit around ... fourth floor: This is the door to GRT Vikash's room - The 4th HNC ... stairwell opening into the third floor, there's a mural of our banner with our

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A HASS[le-free] Semester Stay for the videos!

  

  were: Introduction to Art History, Rhetoric (a different version from the ... at length about each class, although I do want to write about a few ... , speeches to give, and presentations to make. In Japanese classes, there are

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Gendered language y/n?

  

  encouraged to use in official communications. The title is a little misleading ... news. To be clear, this idea is different from the push to integrate a ... to people should be gendered at all, instead advocating the use of a

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 30, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class of 2009 Ring Delivery The '09s get our brass rats. We think this makes us like, so cool.

  

  sophisticated. Or something. Rick makes a cheesy pose with his ring at my request ... As a lot of you probably know, the MIT class ring is a little more than a simple piece of jewlery. First of all, it's huge. Like, as rings

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 24, 2007
• Blog / Travel

  spring break! so much happened, but also so much didn't happen

  

  -filled time, a time to relax, hang out with your friends, and have the ... travel very far then); so this year, I knew I wanted to make the most of my ... "]Miami.[/annotation] Instead, we came up with a somewhat unorthodox plan: we'd fly to New Orleans

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 16, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy New Year! how i celebrated the coming apocalypse

  

  precisely control the pressure to make sure it stayed within a safe range and ... morning of the 17th, when it went live, I was on a plane to Denver with my ... cannon, but with a firing range. In order to do that, though, we needed a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  My freshman year is almost over honest thoughts on it

  

  , but I turned it into a source of motivation to make tenth grade better ... take a break. I shouldn’t have scared myself out of opportunities to meet ... try my best to be forgiving towards myself, but I still slip once in a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 16, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  What is the value of college? Food for thought in your college search

  

  to the whims of a transactional public who view education solely as a ... stimulation of a diverse campus community. We seek to develop in each member of ... difficult to come away from a visit with a member of our staff without having

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 21, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Chapter Closes To open another

  

  you have to study for a final exam makes no sense, talking it out with ... outside, a cup held to his chest. In response to my jumping in fright and ... —so to speak—came simply enough. I sat down somewhere to write a 3-hour

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Mirrors Because reflection is not just that image you see of yourself in the morning, or…

  

  curling up with a cup of tea, I sometimes like to just sit around and ... like GEL, you’ll do reflections a lot, and it might take a while to ... burned the midnight oil already, you’ll get to hear a couple of my thoughts

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 8, 2013
• 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 ... have made me think a lot about what it means to be and do good in spite ... . the foreword by ross gay was enough to dissolve me into tears. i did a

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

  hero’s journey with a splash teaching for ESP

  

  pressure, I began to ideate. I considered teaching “how to make ... to Structure a Novel.”   resistance of the call Bilbo doesn ... ,[/annotation] or ‘monomyth’, characterized by a call to action, descent to another

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam sells out The most valuable blog entry of all time.

  

  hope my floor uses the opportunity to buy a $1000 wide-screen television ... enlisting him to help design a new banner for Turkey vs. Spam--what do you ... a million dollars. But instead I'm posting it here because I wanted to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wrote a whole post on Halloween and forgot to publish it So here's 2 months of blogging in one post

  

  night I wrote this post and forgot to click publish so I'm going to add a ... Halloween so I guess I had to make cookies. My favorite halloween cookies are ... making 2 cakes, cupcakes, and a giant cookie. Everything is vegan and he

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • December 26, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Love Is Hard (A Sequel) wherein anon feels different from how he felt seven months ago

  

  used to have. Or when a picture makes you want to climb into that moment ... am I looking for? What/who would make me happy? What do I want in a ... many things. It's when seeing each other on campus brings a smile to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 3, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  soulsearching / naubos na in which i ramble about purpose

  

  ’m making a difference in other people’s lives, right? Now that I stop to ... that how much money I’m making isn’t my top priority is a testament to how privileged I am. It would make me feel guilty, in a sense, to be

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 22, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Take Off Gate '21 Calling for Departure

  

  behind my home in Texas to make a new one here. In these past fourteen days I’ve already been on three flights. And as I attempt to make sense of ... (or if you choose to run, 10 mph). At this time make sure your luggage

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 6, 2017