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• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales From Turning Twenty They range from "a little peculiar" to "utterly bizarre."

  

  feet into high heels, put on a backpack, walked down one flight of stairs ... 's one of the nicest human beings on the planet. He gave me some pointers ... has happened every day of my 20-year-old life so far (not sure whether

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / Events

  A Burton Jew Thanksgiving Because I'm game for any excuse to eat stuffing.

  

  live on Burton 2, known primarily for being right below the Burton Third Bombers and for having the largest concentration of Kosher keeping Jews on one floor anywhere, or just the highest concentration of Jews in general

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dorm Companion #1: Art MIT loans out 400 pieces of famous art each year from its collections to its…

  

  Want a Warhol in your dorm room? This is exhibition week of the ... for the entire academic year one of more than 400 noted pieces of ... choices into a lottery. Over 4 years, 80% of students should "win" at least

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  To tell the truth

  

  everything about MIT. So I hit on the central themes of MIT's culture, the ... On Tuesday night, I told the audience at my Central Meeting in Hackensack, NJ something that wasn't true. In this neck of the woods, people

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2004
• Blog / People & Identities

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

  

  being a brother of a frat or felt like maybe I was missing out on ... close to my chest and stand on very squarely. And one of these beliefs was ... -collegiate experience I look back on fondly, there are also parts of it that I cannot help

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • October 7, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blagoblagz*: Why I’m a History Major at MIT (Guest Blog!) By Dora '11, who is a Physics and History double major and is super awesome.…

  

  world poises on the brink of possible war. Since the very early ... of my remaining credits on history classes, why not make them count for ... we’ve learned together for hours on end (the various debaucheries of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Eating Disorder Awareness Week – The Secret I Kept by julia p. '24

  

  help, and makes a lot of doctors who aren’t educated on eating disorders ... and I am a physics major in the class of 2024. This week is eating ... chance to share my personal experiences. Trigger warning: discussion of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 23, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Choosing Classes: Choice Paralysis [skye from valorant voice] help a girl out would ya!

  

  , humanities, and industry. Assignments focus on game analysis in the context of ... experimental design and data analysis, with an emphasis on the acquisition of ... meets f o u r times a week.   If you have any ~feelings~ on any of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 3, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Washlava! A Sentiment Analysis quantifying laundry feels, based on MIT Confessions

  

  check on the status of machines I was using. Plus, no more lugging my ... used it mainly to get a second machine opinion on the sentiment of each ... In 2019, MIT swapped out all of their coin-operated laundry machines

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  miserable and magical oh, to feel moved

  

  jump out of your nightmare to dawn’s peace, resting on wounds like dew on ... then what to feel  with every shard of grief,  and every speck of ... right now    a lot of the times, i am my first invalidator. it is

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 3, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling old and coming home

  

  "]GTL,[/annotation] like so many of my friends had, but my desire to spend time working on my ... had already been a couple of hours since landing. I said I was on my way ... become a lounge of sorts, a gathering place for people on [annotation note

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  scootin’ and zoomin’ a transportation saga

  

  remaining on display.” i have never heard this explanation in four years of ... hundreds of miles on it over several months. Towards the end of sophomore ... bag hanging on each side of the handle, and me scooting (very slowly

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 18, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Why We Blacked Out The Blogs and joined the SOPA strike

  

  a comment by me, or the admissions office, or MIT on the politics of these policies, nor on the proper configuration of copyright law. These ... world who rely on the Internet as an avenue of activism. According to the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  take care of the boy from story who was put in water as a baby i am back to talk about moving the body again

  

  , there should be very little heavy stuff on the back of the foot. you ... heavy stuff on the back of the foot you may need to make each step smaller ... to think about something important: the type and form of the foot. now

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Together. thoughts on today's tragedy.

  

  This was supposed to be a happy post. It was supposed to be one of those after-CPW posts, celebrating three straight days of liquid nitrogen ice cream, Tetris hacks, and a campus-wide show of unity to welcome

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 16, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Underneath All That Polish… ...lies a few things you wouldn't want to miss

  

  After three CPWs and nearly two years of study here at MIT, I've gotten used to a lot of things about the Institute. And sometimes, when I have a lot of work to do (as has been the case for, quite honestly, the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 7, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Global warming? ...or just a weather anomaly?

  

  read my book (Giving, by Bill Clinton) on the roof of Baker, take ... : - Euphoria, associated with a lack of problem sets - Excitement, over having ... - Dread…knowing that January is the coldest month of the year, with an

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Our thoughts go out to Virginia Tech.

  

  All of us here are quite saddened by the shooting at Virginia Tech. I ... [email protected] To Members of the MIT Community: Yesterday's tragic events at Virginia Tech have shocked and saddened all of us. We offer MIT's condolences to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Issel Lim: IBD Research Issel Lim has been trying to create an effective mouse model for ulcerative colitis, a…

  

  About one million Americans have a form of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), which causes inflammation of the digestion tract and leads to ... weren't bad enough, IBD increases the risk of developing colon cancer and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Events

  How about an eπ Reunion?

  

  may not have heard, the Class of 1997 is throwing a "e^2" Reunion to commemorate the 7.4-year mark of our graduation, and we're doing it in grand style by throwing a "get out of the cold" party in South Beach the weekend

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2004