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• Blog / People & Identities

  what is and isn’t me (rush, part 1) and the somewhat methodical unraveling of self

  

  for me.” At this point in the blog, I would be stopping myself, because ... different times in my life and especially throughout my MIT journey. And, to ... [annotation note="Caleb here from after finishing this one... we go into it in

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • October 7, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  hold me (but not too close) on writing the full-length play

  

  would lay there in bed, words and thoughts spinning around my head without ... , where I suddenly had an infinite amount of time to respond in a way that was not awkward, and everything worked out fine in the end. Every once

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 7, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  old east campus working through feelings caused by news

  

  four months ago i made a post about being back in east campus saying ... . someone lived in this room five decades ago, and i don’t know anything about ... burton-conner was set to be renovated. it was taken offline in summer 2020

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  As some of you may know, I am majoring in math and economics ... has differed from my experience doing math in high school. Basics ... math majors learn how to talk and write (in LaTeX) about their work. I

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ILGs at MIT They're independent! (Guest post by Sondy '07/G/awesome.)

  

  term will just have to wait. It's not like I'm leaving you out in the ... the current or former bloggers have lived in ILGs, they haven't really been discussed in much detail. Sondy's post changes that, though. Read

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 5, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The root of all evil Money, money, money, money... money!

  

  for it... if this is what you really want." My mom was glaring at me in ... State on my full scholarship, she was planning to get a pool in the ... time have a pool in our backyard. My parents haven't totally gone into

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 29, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Musings of My High School Senior Self bring your best cringe face

  

  first time. Everything was so new and there was this sense of wonder in ... I felt in myself when I had to drop and retake courses. I remember nights when I didn't know a single face in the dining hall. I remember

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 16, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A The ones that passed the "lmgtfy" test

  

  whatever reason, asking questions in the comments section of a blog post ... in Economics, and I'd love to attend a school that is strongly ... your situation in Quantum II class. I hope that things even out for you

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  updates cook or get cooked - summer boston edition

  

  personal topics and reflections in my life, which maybe I'll unpack in other ... you learn a few things in this class, but mainly: what is the formal ... hacking stuff in highschool, notably capture the flag competitions where you

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 30, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  miserable and magical oh, to feel moved

  

  sorrow.    my last words stifle in the knots of my throat, so i ... shouldn’t) care about. it helps me ground myself in the truth that if i zoom ... have to nullify any part of any experience. just because i am calm in a

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 3, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  pole dancing and punching things trying out new classes in Copenhagen

  

  I've been taking the time to explore some classes and activities in Copenhagen that I haven't tried in a while. I took a pole class, a week of krav ... pole on Florey a couple times, but despite living in East Campus for a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 16, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  culture within culture i moved to east campus

  

  as a former Burton Conner resident, i had a two options in dealing ... wanted to meet new people; i was deprived of doing so in a pandemic and ... more convenient in pretty much every way, i prioritize having a "campus

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 15, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  and i’ve come to terms d to the phi! phi to the e! d! phi! e!

  

  embarrassment that I haven't blogged in a while, BUT in my defense there has been ... being able to sit in a lecture hall again and walk from class to class instead of being cooped up in my room. But really the whole point of this

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 7, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our Independent Studies the making of a (very) short film

  

  Computer Graphics, but it is unfortunately only offered in the fall. So, we shopped around for a few different course 6 classes in the first week of the ... learn things more closely aligned to our interests in our last semester

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 18, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes, we care about your stories Reflections from the road

  obstacle that has affected my educational journey?” However, it was asked in ... we started a Black Student Union in our school to build community, but ... in school? That last question came from a student at a high school

  • by DJ Rock
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On the Scattering of Senior House or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Acknowledge the Bomb

  

  There’s been a decent amount of turbulence in the past couple of ... “dorm culture” was a thing. I wasn’t (and still am not) in any MIT 2020 ... which dorm they think they’d best fit in. I'll admit that a few of the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Being an Intern (And being an adult)

  

  This summer is the first summer I am participating in an internship ... personal lives. It’s hard to express in words, but there is also a certain ... who have helped me in countless ways, one of whom even took the time to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  Physics demos at MIT are pretty high on the list of awesome things in life. Last semester's demos in 8.022 (Electricity and Magnetism, with ... cool enough to make me continue in the physics track, so I showed up for

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Sean ‘13 The third in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class. Plus, a related…

  

  Institute of Technology next year. In addition, he will play baseball ... cards in Las Vegas. Although such an unorthodox use of mathematical ... university in Cambridge. "They do things there that haven't been done before

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Stomp the Yard, MIT style The Divine 9 and NALFO organizations on campus

  

  community. In fact, the first sorority ever founded at MIT was the historically black organization, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. (AKA) in 1977. The second sorority ever founded at the Institute in 1980 was the

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • January 26, 2009