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• Blog / Admissions

  My “Normal” High School What it was like going to an ordinary high school

  

  Now, I can be pretty sure that most everyone applying to MIT has a ... like I could have found a cure to cancer, ignorance, AIDS, made an ... . However, even though these were all factors, they were all things I felt

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Events

  MIT Can Talk! Bon appétit!

  

  I've talked about how humor, networking, and great ideas are all ... 's time to blog about something I feel particularly passionate about: public-speaking. Whenever I tell people I'm a theater minor at MIT, there are the occasional

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Marathon If Mollie's boyfriend can complain, so can I.

  

  So you guys. MIT is hard. No, seriously. I figure you've probably heard this once or twice before, but I think it's worth mentioning again. Plus, there's a lot of work. Take last week, for example. I was up until

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Conversations with graders And other ramblings of a frosh...

  

  night I completed the machine tools class, which means I finished making my corny little flashlight: Now I can use a milling machine and a lathe, which I think makes me pretty cool, thank you very much. I got to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [guest post] on undergrad by laura c. '23

  

  to say, I’d like to write more now that I’m transitioning from college to the next phase of my life. I’m excited to say that I’ll probably be pursuing a Ph.D. in quantum information next year! probably because I haven

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Summer Reading List The exciting hobby that I never have time for during the school year...

  

  do things other than science, technology, or engineering. I personally find summertime a particularly good season for the things I used to do ... huge one of those things is reading. I love books. I used to be one of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 5, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In which I “get a life” again reclaiming my childhood hobbies

  

  Over this past summer, I spent a lot of time filling out all of those ... beginning!! We were going to college!! I obsessed over my answers to every question, as if I’d never snapped out of the trance of college apps, and one

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 12, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Video games I’ve played this semester trimps, mother 3, hades, and vampire survivors

  

  Slay the Spire Bundle for Palestinian Aid I'm the kind of person who likes playing games that I can play over and over. When I made the Slay the Spire post two years ago, I had 67 hours in the game. Now I have 300

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sweet summer song

  

  Hey folks, it's been a while. I've been very focused and not in a writing mood for the last couple months, but I'm back and I'm excited to ... summer has been full of new colors. Last semester was not the best, and I

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 19, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  how to adult spoiler alert: no one knows

  

  i recently reread sandra cisneros' short story "eleven". “what they ... phases of my life. a while back, i was waiting in atlas to get my ID card fixed and i overheard some current undergrads talking about their classes

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  A Year away from home An intro video rant to my time in China

  

  Lunar New Year!!! I finally made it around to making this video about my time in China. If you can’t tell, I decided to do this video in Chinese so please forgive me for the countless mistakes I make… I still have so

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 5, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  November summary: books, playlist, gratitude

  

  I'm on the train home to Philadelphia. Currently: four women run my ... it's Thanksgiving break. Next week will be absurdly busy, and I am not looking forward to it. A few things that happened in November: I spent a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 25, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  I was fifteen and intensely naïve when I graduated from high school and took a gap year. The story of how I decided to take a gap year is probably best saved for another blog post; the important thing is that I did

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best of Times summer at the NYTimes

  

  I'm back on campus! I just finished my 10-week internship at the New York Times, which at one point made me use so much Rails I had dreams about it. I also did good amount of UI/UX and product design for an intern

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 14, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  1 of the 101 Quincy Market, Mike's Pastries, Giacomo's, yummm

  

  In my last entry, I mentioned that I had a bunch of things I wanted to do before I graduate and one was to get through this list. Last weekend, I made a little more headway on this goal by tackling Item #51: Eat

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  An MIT Adventure Life at the 'Tute

  

  I have been at MIT for the past year, and it has been nothing short of an adventure. For instance, I came here straight from the country ... from so many different places. Upon my arrival at MIT, I was almost

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • August 20, 2012
• Blog / Community Projects

  A Field Trip Every day brings something new.

  

  After two and a half years here, you’d think I’d know most or all of what there is to know about MIT. But I don’t think I even come close. Every day, I discover something new about MIT; I’m so amazed by everything

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Decide my major! Because putting your future up for a democratic vote is clearly the way to go.

  

  Alright, you and I both have some big decisions to make in the next ... (COUGHMITCOUGH), which, I mean, is a kind of a big deal and will in fact influence the rest of your life. No pressure or anything. I will weigh in with how

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s bigger than you, and you are not me. Consider this entry the hint of the century.

  

  , claims to have the largest selection of cold drinks on the East Coast. I was perusing The Tech yesterday evening when I happened upon an article by sometime MITblogs commentator Ruth '07, wherein I found this most

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP 2006

  

  restored at my house -- I hope everyone who is still without power (and ... know they have no power. Uh oh. I fly back to Boston this weekend, where I will promptly get on a bus and go to New York City. The MIT Alumni

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 3, 2006