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• Blog / How to Human

  re-orienting REX et al.

  

  circumstances']move in.[/annotation] I was one of the first people to move in and ... first few days at MIT in the sea of faces and blur of names, hoping to ... events for first-years to get an idea of their cultures. at the end of REX

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 19, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Embracing Change How I came to be a cook in a professional kitchen this summer

  

  out of my way to do, see and experience things that I’ve never done ... from, and how I used to be. I used to be afraid of change. Complacency ... of my way to put myself in situations out of my comfort zone though

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 20, 2015
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Fig. 5: Zimmer- und Wohnungsvermittlung Universität/ETH Zürich aka ETH Zürich dorm tour!

  

  attending either ETH or the University of Zurich, from undergrads to Ph ... a trip to Barcelona with a bunch of my dormmates to watch my suitemate ... Hoi zäme! I'm finally back in the US of A after 6 continuous months

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 18, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Over Spring Break A flattering video of MIT Women's Tennis derping around California

  

  of tennis, friends, and bad tanlines: We travel to California every ... ). This year, we rented out a huge house for all 16 of us to share, complete with a nice swimming pool, and even though we had to inflate a couple of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 11, 2015
• Blog / Events

  This…Is…BLODGEBALL! Everything and anything you ever wanted to know about us.

  

  together thanks to this one, unifying love of MIT, that no matter how ... Note: I'll be doing a Q&A video with our very own Dean of ... everything you've been dying to ask our head honcho to elizabizzle at mit dot

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  A “World Record Attempt” We can do it!

  

  It's Thursday. On Monday I'm heading back to campus, along with bazillions of froshies, eager and excited to start the MIT experience. Going ... generally going out of our minds trying to get things done. This is ok though

  • by Snively '11
  • August 20, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Antici A long time ago in a suburb far away...

  

  four mute Japanese girls, who I pay to model my own line of designer ... DID YOU KNOW? The name of the "avocado" comes from the Spanish "abogado," or "lawyer." This is because the Spaniards who came to the New

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  the runaround a star-studded event twenty years in the making.

  

  Symphony Hall, so if you were to use your free College Card courtesy of Arts ... dinner, some of us went to JP Licks for some ice cream. (This summer I have ... from the runaround: Many thanks to the Godzillas for one of

  • by Bryan
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reg Day collisions People should transfer to other colleges once they dump you.

  

  'd just like the thousands of prefrosh who read this to know about the ... wanted to poke my head into Alicia's office (she's the director of MIT ... scheduled, waving an awkward hello to the first of the ex-boyfriends as we

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  a semester i’m excited for to the tune of "a girl worth fighting for"

  

  semester is comprised of classes I actually really want to take. Here are ... fraction of classes per semester that I actually wanted to take and the ... waiting to take this class since freshman fall, and it's honestly one of the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  New York A break from Cambridge.

  

  to Not Choke” sign in the faces of boba-slurping patrons. I love the straightforwardness of New York. In a subway station en route to Ben's house in West ... strains of old showtunes mercilessly adapted to chainsaw and violin bow

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  a house tour of mit sororities! meet aphi, axo, and theta

  

  Welcome to a tour of three MIT sorority houses! Believe it or not, sorority life is a thriving community here at MIT, with about ⅓ of undergraduate women being affiliated to one of the [annotation note="the six

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 21, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

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

  

  became a brother of Theta Chi. I'd talked a lot to Noah about the whole concept of rushing, and he'd felt similar to me when first coming to MIT ... qualified our experiences prior to college. That is, of course, until Noah

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • October 7, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  alone in cologne homesickness, better late than never

  

  her?”   “Of course I’m going to miss her, but why would I be sad ... enough skepticism to do the math) If I had to guess, there are a number of ... young, too out of my comfort zone, he would use his story to convince me

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  This is what happens when we don’t do work Here is the infinite rollercoaster of fun I promised not to take you on.

  

  I'm long overdue for a blog update. To dispel your mental image of me ... to blog. Here's a quick summary of my last two-and-a-bit weeks to prove it. CPW I spent most of CPW punting psets in order to gorge myself on

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 24, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  , which includes our literal hunger, to survive. But precisely because of ... from blogger alumni. So I decided to use one of my tactics against writer ... find:  When I was interviewed as part of my application to MIT, my

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  We Stan Matt Parker i'll try not to mention the parker square

  

  dimensions. For example, to picture two dimensions, simply imagine a piece of ... ...) 4D: ?????? It's kinda unclear! But, if we wanted to find the volume of ... of trying to give a sense of what four (or more) dimensions kinda means

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Poetry and Physics You don’t have to get theoretical physics to get Frank Wilczek.

  

  of "tickets" to be able to do the thing you want to do, you have to ... "how is it possible to construct heavy objects out of things that don ... can do anything" or the world is open to you, and then be told that

  • by Laurie Everett
  • January 24, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Year; New Me! (Two Months Late Oops) I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to do in my last semester…

  

  of the struggles I’ve had related to sexual assault and how the same ... original list: Lessen the amount of decisions I had to make. Spend time ... about what our exec would have looked like had one of them gone to

  • by ana~
  • March 5, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions Blogs A quick note on admissions blogging.

  

  This evening, as I sit reviewing some of the first early action applications of the year, I note that I'm getting a lot of new traffic to the ... props to the only other admissions blogs I know of: first, the mawrmawr

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2005