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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Spring break in Canada Snowboarding ramps, waterfalls, poutine, butterflies, and lots of noodles.

  

  Montreal. Montreal is pretty easy to reach from Boston and as such is a ... because we had to fly through Newark airport. We got a hotel room in the center of Quebec’s old town, but really it was more like a small apartment

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 4, 2018
• Blog / Events

  “Where art thou, O Higgs?” *insert shimmering transition into the past here*

  

  Hey, there, it's been a while. Sorry about that; it turns out that blogging momentum is really hard to start up again after a certain point. I'll be trying to atone throughout April. In the meanwhile, here's a story

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 7, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s been 3 weeks the firehose is still alive and kicking

  

  , three expectedly busy weeks. I’ve gotten sick for a brief period, seen ... meaning of midterm is fatally lost on MIT). There’s a lot that happens, and I think I sunk a bit too deeply into the Institute these past few

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing is useful for science. Surprise!

  

  Sometime last year, a prospective student e-mailed me asking about ... absolutely essential skill for a scientist.   ... . What a guy.   Professional astronomy rarely involves sticking

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  +/- 1 years old and decided to make a space-themed board game. Here's a ... rediscovered a diary that I kept in first grade. My favorite entry reads (unfortunately I don't have a picture): "One day I went to Nasa! It was fun, very

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art is Everywhere! [by Emma Frank '15] Public Art at MIT

  

  as a sterile place. Labs stacked on top of classrooms and everything having its place and assigned number. It didn’t seem like a place ... . But it is! And after a tour of MIT’s public art through my

  • by ARTalk
  • October 17, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Thoughts on coming home With guest appearances by MIT's Dean for Student Life, the communist dracula, Roman lasagna, and…

  

  Thanksgiving morning was a groggy smear of coffee, subway, and airport, a rhapsody in grey shattered once by an outburst of sunrise over ... eyelids. 2.5 hours later, while on a plane streaming through this clear

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 29, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  proof of life hmm :thinking-face:

  

  , very loosely stitched together because I gave up on trying to have a ... took a lighter academic load, two classes, so that I could work an ... vestiges of 1900s industrial Cambridge. The image is vivid: a placid fall

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • August 16, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  what I’m doing this IAP mostly physics and musical theater

  

  the month of January: some people treat it as a four-week extension on ... colder and hungrier) and a whole host of possibilities are available that ... ="The MIT Outing Club runs a winter school every IAP where people go on lots

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Announcing new blogger avatars! all-new, all quality

  

  The bloggers' old avatars were drawn by a talented professional in a recognizable and well-liked style. But some of us thought, what if we could do a ... a new, anti-cohesive style for the MIT Admissions blogs. We

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 1, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Visiting the Museum of Science science is cool

  

  My roommates and I haven’t had an outing for a while, so we went to ... since the last time I went to a science museum was in eighth grade, it was a fresh experience that I really needed. I remember seeing the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  nice moments on campus things are okay, actually

  

  out the [annotation note="curse my room for having such a good view ... definitely feeling the exhaustion creep into my bones in a way that sleep doesn ... do a little shopping, I got some good food from Trader Joe's, we walked

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 10, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Back to back to back maybe i am doing too much

  

  The last post I made was kind of a lot. Even beginning to write this ... through my mess of overcommitment so far. February has just been a blur for me, and I feel that, until last weekend, I didn’t really have a day

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  November was … read until the end to find out

  

  A lot of very stressful things have been happening this month (and ... as we would have liked). But, there were also a lot of really good and ... was probably 70-80 percent of the whole course), it felt a lot like a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 29, 2019
• Blog / Residential Life

  water wars, lovecrafting, and 361 other REX events your annotated guide to everything currently unfolding on campus

  

  . According to MIT's Dormitory Council: REX (Residence Exploration) is a fun ... decided where you're going to live, REX is a great opportunity to find out ... for you [ed: in case you want to move via FYRE]. Most of all, REX is a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 27, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Labor Day, literally Moving back into my dorm room

  

  cramming all of your things into a bunch of tiny boxes). Me driving my stuff back to my dorm in a giant U-Haul truck I always dread having to move my ... take much longer than it does (usually I split a storage unit with a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 3, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6-3 not a definitive guide

  

  2017 term. That's roughly a fifth of the undergrad population (that declared a major)! So it's not just a meme when people say that if you had to ... -3 often has a fair bit of stigma as a "sellout" major, since it's a

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Dating Is Hard anon has some feelings to share

  

  A friend of mine (whose honesty, even under cover of anonymity, is ... what's in here and what has been strategically left out could fill a few ... in a few hours than I have in a few months (I'll blame writer's block

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 7, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  Haley C. ‘18 is a sophomore living in East Campus and studying Course ... Haley’s experience teaching Splash, a weekend for high school students to come to campus and learn a variety of topics from MIT students. Hope you

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Second Semester Senior What you should do after submitting your application to colleges

  

  being as frequent as I normally am. I think last year, I set a goal of blogging once a week. Sophomore year, this has become decidedly more ... -related activities. Academically speaking, sophomore year is definitely a step up from

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 22, 2015