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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Welcome to the Woodshop Don't forget close-toed shoes and please WEAR GOGGLES.

  

  against hippies, really.Every Architecture student at MIT gets introduced to ... ... ;) Where architecture comes to life with wood and more.Two afternoons each week, I work as a monitor at the N51 Woodshop. In Building N51, next to

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 5, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Alive and Kicking I kick, therefore I am ~taekwondo~

  

  to be. I just learned it right now while googling to see if I spelled ... [/annotation] parts of Taekwondo to me. However, at the same time, they are hard to get ... across part of the turning kick pretty hard to get. You have to pivot the

  • by Waly N. '24
  • August 3, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  The Courage to Change Even Through the [Tough] Mud[der]

  

  get back into running. I’ve been on break for too long, and it’s time to ... yet.  So now I know I need to make a change. But how? How do I get out ... strong enough to get things done on my own, and I shouldn't need help. In

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 11, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Was Great in the 1800s (and it's still awesome today)

  

  Previously on the blogs, I’ve written about MIT’s commitment to ... other institutions to do the same (more here). I’ve also blogged about the ... international students at MIT. The first part displays MIT’s commitment to gender

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2017
• Blog / Blog Projects

  a time capsule of east campus multi-media, community-built

  

  packing my bags, begrudgingly all-nightered to get all my items stored away ... and didn’t find written words to be the best medium to get them out, so ... “feelzbox,” which basically means “write whatever you want to get your

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 12, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Off to Southeast Asia Even Admissions Officers get to take a vacation sometimes.

  

  't get to do a Questions Omnibus before I left, but I promise to do one ... . Nominally, the purpose of the trip is to be in Malaysia for a (Malay) friend ... -written. Two of the forthcoming entries will introduce you to two new additions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come to MIT Get a free haircut!

  

  break I'm going to get to know my new camera better! I've started using it ... It’s spring break! Time for students to stop frantically trying to finish psets and start less-frantically trying to take care of all the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 20, 2009
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What’s the campus life and culture like?

  It would be impossible to tell you about campus life and culture at MIT in just a few words, so we're going to have to send you to another page on our site—hopefully, you'll get a feel for the vibrancy of our
• Blog / How to Human

  how to adult spoiler alert: no one knows

  

  phases of my life. a while back, i was waiting in atlas to get my ID card ... , writing. it took me a bunch of bad drafts to get here (nobody wants to see ... future you want. i’m still getting used to that quite frankly. i have to

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Welcome To Guild Camp [by Susan Shepherd '11] "Boot, Not Summer."

  

  flu virus or cold gets passed around. Every now and then a game has to ... —players started running around trying to get their plots done—and then game ... plot and now I'm supposed to get this neat item!" Me: "Oh, that's right

  • by ARTalk
  • October 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To D or not to D? MIT's Design Lab is tempting me.

  

  of chlorine to personal containers as people get their water from a ... related to MIT. Going to Honduras was a sort of Grand Finale to a class I ... . Right now, I have the chance to take D-Lab II. This class focuses less on

  • by Kim D. '09
  • February 17, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  In Memory of Sean Collier a memorial, to a member of our family

  

  Today, MIT dedicated a memorial to Officer Sean Collier, who was ... , and part of the MIT family. It is not the first memorial dedicated to ... Hampshire quarries near which he loved to climb, this memorial to Sean will

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT HSSP and Stanford Splash! Seven fundamental questions, and a field trip to the west coast

  

  (Spring 2012): Introduction to Cosmology Splash (Fall 2012): Introduction to Radio Astronomy, Introduction to Pulsars Spark (Spring 2013): Introduction to Radio Astronomy, Introduction to Pulsars HSSP (Spring 2013

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk

  

  Chinese music from his phone and get our other friends to almost drag me out ... opportunities for getting to know people, which increases the likelihood of ... effort to spend time with them and help them get through whatever it is

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 30, 2016
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Paradiso A selection of dishes that define my MIT dining experience, part 4

  

  , and one that I often ask myself. Usually, I default to my “origin story” of coming to the US for college, getting disappointed by MIT dining ... cooking as a method to anchor myself to reality, as an attempt to rebuild

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 28, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Monday Actually, I think I just made it to Tuesday.

  

  his homework in a leather briefcase and can run from Random Hall to ... named Sylvester and pretends to be Stephen Hawking on weekends ... , Erons. Erons has to carry a wheelchair up the stairs when he pretends to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes—Fall 05

  

  It's always awkward to post an entry about my classes for the semester, because later when classmates google the class number, they end up at my blog. If that applies to you, um, Hi. 14.41 Public Finance and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  choosing where to go for my younger brother

  

  a woman gets to experience many of the other universes that might ... T being Boston’s subway system, which he used to get from MIT to ... teachers, had tried to reinforce over and over to no avail: that we only get

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 1, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Preview Weekend

  

  'll try to get back to you ASAP! In the meantime...get pumped. ... CPW IS ABOUT TO BEGIN and it's going to be AWESOME. It snowed today...but the snow is now safely out of the way and hopefully the MIT weather

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  puzzled again? a little puzzle for the class of '09

  

  So this week, each day of Orientation, the students have been getting a group of scavenger hunt questions to solve, and today they get to solve mine. This blog is supposed to have a question on it, so I'll make

  • by Bryan
  • September 2, 2005