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• Blog / How to Human

  oh, the places you’ll go

  

  by simply saying that the response to "What's the bridge like?" is not ... would somehow tie back to this quote, as we learned more and more about ... ) and how things we considered to be brief or tiny, such as paragraphs in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  What Did I Learn at MIT? a surprisingly hard question to answer

  

  bowlers in high school, Protobowl is the website that trivia nerds use to ... A few weeks ago, in a true callback to our high school days, Paolo ... on this website apropos of nothing, we were in fact practicing for a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 28, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  In which Elizabeth tries something new. (My idea of thrills is changing the location of my bookshelf.)

  

  encounter with the wall earlier that week, HAD to bring up that by some FREAK ... , "Stop asking me if you're going to fall and break your neck, you're going ... -Things-That-Distract-Me. But on this day, Chris not only had to give me hard time for not knowing

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 8, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AROTC Day in the Life Notes from Cadet O'Brien, MIT '12 / Course III

  

  ’s time to step off. Your squad moves in its formation through the ... the door by yourself, sometimes with a combat load dangling around your ... here at MIT. AROTC allows you to be pretty flexible in how involved you

  • by ROTC
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Class Projects

  in which i blog again four-ish blogs in one

  

  this class is shaped entirely by your fellow classmates. I’m fortunate to ... get to the root of the lesson and build up. But with topics like ... ’d done more. But I’m learning to accept that what will need to get done or

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 29, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [liveblog] presenting at the Open Sauce maker expo! built a funky microscope with my friends

  

  Mateo, we’re at booth I22. If you’re around, feel free to stop by! It ... recovered in a year) More on this later, maybe. If you want to sign my cast

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 20, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

  your hardest year.” She told me this five years ago, back in 11th grade ... addict myself to new sources of caffeine).  When we stress-test welds in ... . “Objectively you have a limit,” I thought to myself. "Somewhere north of four

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2021 Reflections & 2022 Resolutions

  

  haven't been able to build up strength, but I feel I'll get it by mid next ... resolutions I couldn't accomplish due to the pandemic, but since the world has adapted since then, I was able to do them! I'll be including the 2020

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  coming off the path is anyone there?

  

  I try to think of how I'm feeling, all I get is static in response ... stand by my decision to exit the relationship. But if I'm the one that did ... school to get into a good high school and get good placements in classes. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 30, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore accumulations because i miss show and tell

  

  to your second year than the "sophomore slump", and certainly much more ... This week, as classes began to die down, I told a friend: "the only thing I gained this year was academic hardship." Sophomore year tends to

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • May 6, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Hospital State of Mind The things I hate about being stuck here

  

  I hate going to the hospital. Yes, hospitals help people. Most nurses and doctors are nice and have your best interest in mind. But hospitals ... Wednesday. It is driving me crazy. I started talking to my squishible monster

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January Book List Oaks & Poems & Baldwin & Biss

  

  with it and assented to its claims. 5. Notes of a Native Son by James ... wide in the sun; oaks in forests grow tall and thin to get what they can. It is eerie to see an open-grown oak surrounded and shadowed by firs

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / MISTI

  Out and about in the fog at the edge of the world

  

  suddenly the void is yours to cut through like a block of stone waiting to be ... you couldn't bring yourself to eat the egg in your hands while you could ... valley till my breath comes back. Feeling the world come to life. Seeing

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  A lively Dead Week what i've been up to

  

  I'm given to understand that at other colleges, students actually get ... year struggles, I feel like I'm starting to get the hang of this whole ... groups get together at the end of the semester to schedule next semester

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taylor swift songs as applicants emergency evermore post

  

  flush I don't like that anyone would die to feel your touch Everybody ... I wait by the door like I'm just a kid Use my best colors for your ... me? When it was calmer, skipping the prom just to piss off your mom

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  New year, new bloggers! introducing the new bloggers for fall 2019

  

  bloggers to you! On July 1, we posted the blogger application; by the end of ... penguin Kidist A. ’22 of Georgia (the state), who likes to cite tweets by ... ; it was a privilege and a joy to read your applications, and we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / Events

  We Eat At Food Trucks A few may even start their own

  

  much you need to spend before you sell anything on your truck: between ... Last Thursday, I went to “Food Truck 101: The Conference”, a 4-hour event coordinated by Clover Food Lab and MIT’s Department of Urban Studies

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 6, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  than to get into the local state school. Now I cannot stress this enough ... college’” “Lol no way, why work super hard to get in there when I could just ... potential to not only get into a good school but flourish there; however, due

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nano @ MIT Puppets! Research! Nanotechnology!

  

  movement is to get a UROP at one of the many laboratories conducting nanotech ... . Relatedly, I've been getting quite a few questions about nanotechnology at MIT, so I figured I might as well take this opportunity to clear up some of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 9, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Taylor Pons from the First-Gen Program #FirstGenPride

  One of the coolest parts of my job is that I actually get to spend a ... calls) getting to know staff members who work at MIT in different roles ... these topics. Check your CP* guide for the link! This year, to show off

  • by DJ Rock
  • April 14, 2020