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• Blog / About Decisions

  swatches of MIT collected like paint chips

  

  ’d crave.    You do read, actually. Articles. You are assigned, on ... could be. There are weeks when you tally up your work, the hours in a day ... this place feels fraught, all of us one or two days from a deadline

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finals Week, Minus Finals all the non-academic shenanigans

  

  It's finals week. However, there's a lot going on besides final exams ... took a study break and went for a walk! nice weather, viewed from the Harvard Bridge A few dorms (especially the cook-for-yourself ones

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 20, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Senior Spring ... I'm almost done?

  

  The month of January felt like a whirlwind this year – it was filled ... activities rather than taking the month to rest. But it was a good busy, a ... to take advantage of the fact that New York is a cheap bus ride away

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  College The path to self-discovery is lined with my blog entries.

  

  could take a plane to 77 Massachusetts Avenue in August and call myself a ... year of high school stood between myself and a diploma. I wasn't accepted ... a formality, a trivial remnant of the antiquated American Dream that

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What’s new? Life in Radiohead's hometown

  

  with a degree in Mechanical Engineering with Biomedical Engineering (Course 2A). After spending a summer traveling with friends and working at ... University in England. I am reading for a Masters degree in Integrated

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  2.009: the product engineering process the best class at mit

  

  model to show that this solution was feasible, by doing a power ... out in the field. And if they do, it’s usually just a bandana soaked in ... welcome the Queen of England, including a DJ, acapella groups, dance teams

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Little things that remind me im not home

  

  cards. And even of the places that do, often, getting a card to work takes ... just something that a lot of people don’t do, and often just isn’t an ... shows I’ve watched since birth, and that media consumption played a big

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 15, 2019
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Declared My Major :D aw yeah i'm a College Student™ now

  

  during the spring term of their freshman year. I'm a fairly decisive person when it come to what I want to do, so I was dead confident that nothing ... a deeper understanding of how the brain produces intelligent behavior

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 21, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  sourdough start & restart & starter this is and is not a metaphor

  

  I have a sourdough starter! His name is[annotation note="a Roman ... 's what I name everything important." 🥺) I realize it's not exactly a novel hobby, in certain circles, to have begun a sourdough starter during

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 19, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  i walk through campus and say stuff i cannot vlog to save my life

  

  around MIT and take a video of myself staying stuff I guess. I’m surprised ... thought there’d be more. So one of my jobs is being a tour guide for the ... , shadowing two people give tours, and giving a practice tour of our own. And

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 23, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  Remembering Gisel and honoring twenty years of service and friendship

  

  appreciate your patience while we do so.  If you have a fond memory of Gisel ... I am heartbroken to tell you that this morning we learned Gisel, a ... school teacher who wrote asking for a poster of MIT to hang in your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 28, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday on learning to balance growth and recovery

  

  , marathon in the world. The race begins at 10AM in Hopkinton, a suburb of ... , as a described in that post, that it's possible to overtrain both body ... my doctor, taking the year off from running, doing different things

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s Pi Day, Pi Day the infinite is alive with the buzz of drones, and the 2020s bake pies

  

  It's Pi Day. I woke up at 5:38AM (a nod to Nate Silver) and walked to work. It was dark, and a bit chilly, but it's a big day, and we have a lot of work to do. So, when I arrived on campus, I was pleased to see

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Meant to Be What I've found at MIT

  

  an MIT student to go do something? A: Free food! Almost every one of ... These first 3 weeks at MIT can best described as a whirlwind of new ... , travelled to all parts of Boston in a mere 4 hours, had fun at REX events

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Answer is Yes Tips for navigating your first month here with a Greek life emphasis

  

  This post is for incoming freshmen (with a slight bias toward ... can't do it all here at MIT. So take advantage of opportunities that ... of the Charles River versus a trip to New Hampshire to try indoor

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Going Social Thinking about MIT Admissions and social media.

  

  and Circumstance bellowed off the bricks nearby. Over the din, a friend ... "everyone was in it." His brother was a meaty metalhead (and consequently a ... Rolled - and it was a very different website then. There were no photos, no

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Twins Chandler ‘13 and Taylor ‘13 The fifth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  Continuing our series Introducing the Class of 2013, today we have a pair of stories about a terrific pair of young women... Chandler '13 and ... COLLIER COUNTY: A set of twin girls in Collier County have a lot more in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 7, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Epilogue An open letter about blogging, growing up, and the end of my first year at…

  

  -wrenching facts of the blogging profession. (Pardon me, did I just call it a ... running lemonade stands. I'll get a real job someday.) Moments of pain are mercifully scarce in a job that regularly involves glorifying the trivialities

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Graduation Some commencement pictures.

  

  ominous dark skies today and what was forecasted to be a partly cloudy to overcast day began with a light drizzle. Though simple rain is never enough ... the landscaping, man), it does put a little more pressure on the staff

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  GRE, Boston love, and loose ends from last time Wandering around Boston lost is one of my favorite things to do.

  

  , since I hadn't had to do a lot of the stuff on the test since 10th grade... the good part is that it's like riding a bike and you can pick it up ... around the city for a while. Wandering around Boston is one of my favorite

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2005