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• Blog / Events

  Re-halloween Reuse, reduce, recycle, remember not to leave junk outside your door.

  

  hawking upcoming events on campus. No way could I have done it justice, at least without growing several extra limbs. Although, the Infinite at the ... taken these photos at a later hour without being mistaken for a tourist

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Recap (Guest Entry) "a perfect introduction to MIT"

  

  Rhode Island), I practically squealed at every tree (I'm not used to ... . :)So, I officially arrived at MIT on Thursday, only to be greeted by my uber-awesome host Christina, who happened to be working at the

  • by Bryan
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Take Me *Home* to the Ballgame By Claire S. '25

  

  being away from home and my family at that point, since I’d gone to overnight camps during my summers for up to three weeks at a time. But ... ="alignnone" width="1000"] My brother and I at a baseball game as kids

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Birds Are Real, and So Is Quantum Physics Monkey see, monkey believe

  

  the way I look at the world. Experiment after experiment has confirmed ... easily span an entire semester at other universities without the ... that these effects are real at all was mindblowing. (If you've ever seen

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  notes from a week of new classes the prettiest peril of higher education

  

  possible at the beginning of each lecture so "we know what's coming", instead ... videos at home replacing lectures, and "lectures" being practice problems/review with a professor and TAs. Most of my "notes" are coming from the at

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 15, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Setbacks head hurty

  

  I’ve gotten a little better at planning. I use a Notion now like all ... left last week's assignments here so you'll look at this and think, "wow ... favorite libraries at MIT are closed on the weekends anyway. I'll tell you

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Changes that I’m making this semester wow it's already March isn't that crazy or what

  

  first 1.5 years at college because nothing seemed that interesting to me ... really hard not to show how angry I was at 6.009 and myself. A week after I ... than my peers, so I decided to make up for less experience with more time—at

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  What’s in an MIT Student’s Bag A sneak peek into what we carry

  

  A few months ago, I stumbled across this blog, which takes a look at ... thousands of other people at the institute who experience MIT just as deeply ... I could tell someone's personality just by looking at their shoes. At

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  best places to sleep on campus for when your bed is far far away

  

  because classrooms are never this full at 9 am, or indeed any other hour of ... classroom after recitation quiet and empty typically takes place at godly ... when your alarm buzzes. everybody stares at you. [caption id="" align

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is why we can’t have nice things harmless things that irritate me

  

  then same thing — a number of those will pull back to the garage at the ... finishes a run as an 86 at Sullivan Station, but then needs to start its next run as a 99 at Wellington Station. "We may have that bus what we call

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 29, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivered celebrating halfway at the finish line

  

  students traditionally receive Brass Rats in the spring of sophomore year at ... , which was held last weekend at the Boston Park Plaza. Table of Contents ... where Ring Delivery was going to be held: April 19, 2020 at the Boston

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 22, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  There’s a Story in Which My Eyes Shut Am I changed enough?

  

  . I watched professors walk by, canvas messenger bags at their hips ... river was blinding. At this moment, you could've told me I was anywhere in ... looked up at the dome. The inscriptions at its base. The ten pillars. The

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 25, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  What do you want? the story of college fit and how i stole from jeremy

  

  spending at least four years at a place, you might as well [annotation note="at least at first?"]like it.[/annotation] So, what matters to you? Is it ... should be about. Like I said at the beginning, MIT isn’t perfect. And

  • by kellen manning
  • August 19, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  nothing really matters or does everything? a tale of epiphanies and a crisis

  

  A while back I gave a presentation at MIT called Three Epiphanies and ... portion of their time on Earth? Then, at the pit of my despair, I had another thought. What if I’m looking at things the wrong way? What if the

  • by kellen manning
  • May 6, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  i’m catching up a blog about all the things i wanted to blog about but couldn't find the…

  

  And just like that my junior year at MIT comes to an end. Not with ... been so exhausted from staring at screens all day that when I did have ... couldn’t get myself to blog about because staring at screens hurts. So here

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 20, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  What’s happening to your apps right now? Views from the Inside

  reading? In the living room on the couch or in the kitchen at the dining ... (see video). Kitchen can be a bit chilly but I have better posture at the ... /drinking? A Dunkin' coffee I make at home in my favorite mug is all I need. My

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 2, 2020
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Boston’s Climate Strike youthful activism

  

  around to call for climate justice. At MIT, and other schools in the area, students gathered to strike. In Boston, people gathered at City Hall Plaza ... community events in the morning, where people made signs and other art at City

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 20, 2019
• Blog / Hacks

  some things my eyes saw recently (this is exactly what it says on the tin)

  

  really warmed my heart at a time when I was quite nervous about my next ... read at a bookstore, got vegan thai food and bubble tea, and had a ... Wednesday, I finished my last final at 3.30 pm. From 3.30 to 12.30 am, I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 24, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 / Keep Calm and Carry On Getting some much-needed vitamin D on the other coast

  

  by, that we're somehow seniors now. He's working at a startup this semester, and we talked about the MEng. At one point, he mentioned how I ... . Spooky how fast time is flying by. I'm at this point where I don't want it

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fig. 4: Study with me! A semi-productive Sunday afternoon vlog (feat. an hour trying to find a printer)

  

  last week of lectures here at ETH Zürich. But, the semester technically ... ? Ich auch. There are two main exam periods at ETH: the End ... get at MIT. However, that means that students at ETH don't necessarily

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 30, 2018