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• Blog / Events

  In pursuit of freedom MIT might not be free, but plenty of things are.

  

  FASAP, an advising seminar for MIT freshmen that has not one, not one-and-a ... say that my participation in this program about which I've told you a ... a time when I would otherwise have been studying or not doing laundry

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Curiosity Instinct Every MIT applicant should ask a question - but not necessarily just "How can I…

  

  's already going long on the overall process. Early one morning, I saw a ... School of Mathematics, which looks to be a rigorous afterschool program ... past students of RSM are now studying. I've never been in a program

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  i made a dress out of target bags i also edited a video about it

  

  Hey yall. It's been a while. On Sunday June 21st I texted Ceri that ... on my Google Calendar has been blocked out to finish my Target blog and ... -do list. Life finds a way, I guess. Anyways here's the vlog <3 https

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21M.285: The Beatles the most enjoyable class i've taken at MIT

  

  Before college, I was by no means a hardcore Beatles fan. When I was a kid, my dad would play me a few of the classics—Golden Slumbers, Let ... -finals, when I had absolutely nothing to do, I started reading a lot about this

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 3, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Big Questions and Small Scientists The kids I volunteer with are magical.

  

  . I was taking a bath (not really sure why this detail sticks in mind ... head in. Lisa: Anna, does being born on Halloween mean that you're a ... accused me of witchcraft, I was a sophomore in High School, tutoring a seven

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 27, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Woman and Her Lute An epic tale across three centuries. (includes poor fanfic-style prose)

  

  a foldable easel and a bag of paintbrushes slung over his shoulder ... up!" An attractive young woman clad in a white cotton dress nudged the ... 't remember making a --" At this point, he was abruptly interrupted by a sharp

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After: A Collage living the MIT dream

  

  graduation entry, I work at Bluefin Labs, a startup of roughly 20 engineers and ... Square, just a few blocks from MIT. I’m the youngest employee and the only ... , are you even old enough to go to a bar?” (“Of course! barely.”) My

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 3, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pie No, not pi.

  

  always enjoy a good laugh, March 15th was definitely not a laughing day for ... Tanmay. I gasped when I found out that De Petagma Saru and Sh1fty hadn't gotten in and spent quite a while fairly upset. Thousands of applicants

  • by Snively '11
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Complementary Post Canvas, balance, lanterns.

  

  some psets, did yoga in my P.E. class, worked on a blog post, attended ... , and sat by the Charles River with a group of forty-odd students for a memorial event organized by Caroline M. '18. Afterwards, I spent a few hours

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  happy lunar new year the year of the tiger

  

  why birth years are unlucky. I do not know why, although according to a Google search, those in their ben ming nian (birth year) may encounter ... , Gossip Girl was on television, I went to a nerd school where people were

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Steve and Me remembering steve jobs

  

  I remember the first time I ever saw a computer. I was four, and my family's basement, which contained my father's office, flooded during a terrible rain storm. My father, an electrical engineer who had swapped a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Debunked I clear things up.

  

  anything to say, so I'm going to do a google search, find some misconception ... wading through it* OMG guys! You made a CollegeConfidential thread about ... here, I've only been officially blogging for a couple of months, and I

  • by Snively '11
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Super Adventure Club In a little while, I'll be gone.

  

  is in Atlanta, Georgia? Hey, if you came here from Google looking for ... recklessly complaining, but here goes: Today I had a to-do list of 23 things to ... there for a cheese croissant and a large tea before my 6:40 AM train to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lunch with Madam President Guess who I got to eat lunch with today?

  

  Well, apparently I touched a nerve with my last entry -- sounds like ... 're googling themselves -- hi professors, I really do like you!) So my big news ... before she came here). I think it's a very positive thing for our community

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 18, 2005
• 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 / Academics & Research

  Monteverdi to Mozart: 1600-1800 An organ, three harpsichords, and lots of learning

  

  , grew up with a classical music-loving mother, and now live with a ... go listen to concerts in Boston for free. In other words: I've had a ... Handel and Haydn. But I've never studied it. I am completely aware (and a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything I Miss and Don’t Miss About MIT Frolicking in nostalgia

  

  Waking up to a Cinco de Mayo band playing on Memorial Drive after getting ... If you know anything about MIT, you know that there's a lot of ... attend a reunion named after Pi (that is a class reunion 3.14-ish years

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Row, row, row your boat aka varsity sports at MIT

  

  part of a team, and getting out on the water every morning helps me de ... alarm go off at 6am. A lot of people seem to think I’m crazy for waking up ... think of the boathouse as kind of a second home. It’s where half my

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 27, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Student’s Crusade to Stop Genocide I confess to regarding the phrase “never again” with cynicism. It offers a rhetorical smokescreen…

  

  MIT isn’t a political campus. Sure, it had its moments during the 1960s. In 1968, a coalition that included 48 MIT faculty members ... die for Pool and Pye” (Ithiel de Sola Pool and Lucian Pye were two

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • November 26, 2007