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• Blog / Academics & Research

  PE classes are…great!? catch me at the 2028 summer olympics

  

  Upon admittance, I dedicated a fairly serious and borderline ... a syllabus just gets me going idk."]to itch the little part of my ... . These can be earned in various ways: Classes: A typical PE class

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  Out and about in the fog at the edge of the world

  

  standing at the edge a lot recently. Or maybe it always seems that way but ... started an exchange back in Paris. It's a moment of cultural reckoning, 3 ... to MIT 3 years ago, I made a choice. And then I kept making choices

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  I asked people at MIT what they were doing for Pi Day 2025 something is rising... 3/14/25 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  Pi Day is a big deal at MIT. Not only does it go hand-in-hand with ... digits of pi? Or maybe there's a mysterious tradition that even I don ... staff will be observing Pi Day 2025 — which, NASA tells me, is also a

  • by Jebby B. '25
  • March 7, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

  

  dishes, I’d be head chef of a Michelin-starred restaurant (or at least I ... nothing more of it for two months. One Month Before Bad Ideas I had a plan for IAP. A blissful period of rest, exploring Boston museums, baking

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 3, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  This year I read 20 books. Here they are in a tier list, ranked based ... or perceived quality, because: 1) I don’t trust myself to make a ... just scroll a Harvard Great Books class syllabus or something if you want

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  classes i’m taking this spring study abroad edition

  

  classes only. it was a little intimidating at first, i have never taken only ... difference is that there is more room for a self-guided pace. concretely, this ... for each class in the entire term. this is because a lot of your grade

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 22, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling old and coming home

  

  applying for [annotation note="global teaching labs, a MISTI program that ... UROP research ultimately won out. Still, I felt like I needed a break, a change of scenery, so I semi-spontaneously planned a trip to Europe with

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  My Life Is In Shambles… … and that’s ok

  

  Bangladesh, my childhood best friend’s favorite hiding spot from over a decade ... murals and the home of a trio of beaten-up, well-loved chairs. The bench ... can sit and watch the moisture in the air fluoresce on a foggy night

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 26, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on fitness, health, and food a couple of moments over the years

  

  if I can really pinpoint where it first started but I definitely have a ... ability. Though I wasn't particularly overweight, having a close family ... incredibly aware about my own. I could make a whole separate blogpost about

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Caring for the body health, am i right?

  

  Monologues, a yearly production run by campus group The F-Word. It's a series ... about life as not-a-cis-man. All pieces were written by members of the MIT ... laughed, a lot. Laughed so much, in fact, that my friends sitting nearby

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

  lifting heavy objects and the grungy basement gym

  

  muscles tremble at the end of a workout, when you’ve pushed to the edge of ... their MIT years.  Before MIT, I had a lot of false starts with strength ... while living in my car, to shower — but I never hit a solid routine. A guy

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Ask me anything about portfolios Go ahead—don’t be shy!

  

  frequently asked portfolio questions. A crumb of context The MIT application is designed to help the admissions committee get to know you as a full person—a ... application this way to help us deliver on our charge to enroll a vibrant

  • by Jeremy W.
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Celeste the best video game i've played in months

  

  convinced me to play it. I've had a copy for a while now from one of those game bundles and started playing two weeks ago or something. It's a great ... on it and maybe convince you to play it too. Celeste is a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 13, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  when apocalypse strikes… on being preemptively torn from my home, living group, and nearly everything i love at…

  

  feel like I’ve lived so much in such a short span of time, which makes ... ,[/annotation] got a spontaneous tattoo of a bomber plane on my arm, perfected the art of making last-minute plans with people, attended a ton of floor events

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 16, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Be Social awkward and anxious

  

  the idea of a conversation with a stranger or a big party event doesn ... high school, they wouldn't have even bat an eye at my existence. A common theme I've noticed is that a lot of this is self-imposed, that I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 / Field trip Art, science, and agriculture in Palestine

  

  embarked on a site visit to a small village next to Ramallah, Palestine, with ... art is also a history of agriculture, marking humanity ...  projects. After the first class, I was sold. I even passed up an offer to skate in a

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 29, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Contraception and Safe Sex at MIT! sexual!! health!! is!! important!!

  

  . tl;dr MIT has a surprising amount of options for taking care of your ... MIT - by the students, for the students MIT is a marvelously sex ... sexual health in a way that is honestly unheard of in a lot of places. We

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 2, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  Classes at MIT will have you looking at a subject from about three ... think the true definition of drinking from a firehose is to be learning calculus and seventeenth century history in equal measure all in a span of a

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018
• 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 ... importance in my life and at MIT. We all talk about a lot of stuff happening around campus, but for many students, family is still a huge part of their

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Mathematics of People Guest post on Economics

  

  from two very different ways-of-thinking. My dad is a nerdy engineer with a masters degree, who loves psychology, studies/practices Buddhist spirtuality, and lives in his head. My mom is a former bartender and studied at

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 28, 2018