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• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  destined to do great things," a quote from Joe Paterno, sewn in white into a dark blue pillow in the store window, just below a tie-dyed Happy Valley ... , signed, framed, and displayed outside the store. A post-it note on one of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / Events

  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  with a small number to the right of them. ANYWAY, [annotation note ... [/annotation] happens once a year, and it is filled with up to 3 days of many very ... layer-on-layer big-games in the world. It is a very important bringing

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Really, I don’t feel like thinking of a title right now Now there's a title cop-out you can only use once. Good thing I saved it…

  

  the way, I probably have a dozen blog entries that I've planned and ... .) So, I'll sell my soul a little and turn this entry into a what is basically a Twitter feed. I hope you appreciate the enormity of this sacrifice

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 11, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So you think you want to be a doctor: Pre-med at MIT

  

  coolest show ever? Can you imagine yourself becoming a cardio ... world, I'm sure.) A lot of MIT students enter their senior year without a ... 's a list of the requirements: Biology: -Introductory Biology:7.012, 7

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [guest post] time passes from spirit island a board game that i picked up 3 years ago is now my life

  

  closely. of course, that was back when i was a prefrosh and didn't know him ... to learn that i had a lot of common interests with him, such as esp, puzzles, and board games, and even later i would discover that a couple

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Our nation’s greatest injustice I didn't exactly grow up in poverty, but socioeconomic inequalities have featured heavily in my…

  

  My hometown is a real-world manifestation of the phrase "the wrong ... hometown is a classist jerk, but more than once have I or a member of my ... 's a shame this area of town isn't as nice." Person 2: "Yeah, but at

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exodus from Cambridge in which MIT evicts us due to the COVID-19 pandemic

  

  This is a (long) post detailing the week in which both MIT and ... value in a detailed account of the exodus from MIT from the perspective of ... -19 policy briefs as part of a class assignment"]political science class

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 22, 2020
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Take Me *Home* to the Ballgame By Claire S. '25

  

  become the antidote to my homesickness. I’ve always been a fan of the St. Louis Cardinals—it was practically a requirement to live in the small town ... overnight camps during my summers for up to three weeks at a time. But

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  What is the value of college? Food for thought in your college search

  

  I spent the beginning of this week in the company of a select group ... that they provide a reminder that the vast majority of those who do this ... to the whims of a transactional public who view education solely as a

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 21, 2025
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  1. Why I didn’t think I would be a good fit for engineering. I came ... grade, everyone in my grade took a mandatory woodworking class. Even ... , erased and redrew, over and over again. I remember taking a ruler to add

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  moving on, as shown through free t-shirts some spring cleaning

  

  health disorder I've always hated physical stuff. Even when I was a kid, I ... only things in my room were a bed, bookshelf, and keyboard. I kept it that way for four years. This led to a bad habit of me pushing all the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Hydranting My Spring Semester 5 stages of courseroad grief

  

  feels a lot heavier :< All this to say, I've been browsing ... drafts for a bit :')"]post-finals[/annotation]and thought I'd share my very, very, very messy process for[annotation note="this is also a last ditch

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 5, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  happy LFDOC! my last semester of undergrad :)

  

  MIT. This semester feels particularly special for a number of reasons ... the school year is over! Blog once a week. This is a crazy goal, but I think it’s achievable because I have a lot more I still want to share with

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 3, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Snippets of Iceland some rhymes from spring break

  

  2024 has been quite a year for the Sun—in addition to the total solar eclipse, this year is also a [annotation note="when the Sun is at its most ... traveling with just friends (no Real Adults^TM?!?), and it was a lot of fun

  • by Allison E. '27
  • April 17, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  F=-kx spring break in nova scotia, nyc, and dc

  

  quarter, I felt like a spring. Specifically, like an undamped oscillator. My ... response force I'd feel on my energy levels. Calmness remained at a distance ... days became less packed. My graph dampened into a steady state. [image

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  learning about Things!! cool classes explained in easy words

  

  After three and a half years of being at this school, I've taken quite a few classes. What have I even learned from them? I'm bad at ... . I know it's easier to talk about liking a class when it's over, but

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 16, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  geographers — they are united by a shared standard of rigorous academics, high character, and a strong match with MIT's mission to use science, technology, and the useful arts to make the world a better place. We can't wait to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Bookends and every time / i leave this place / i'm terrified, terrified

  

  Five years ago I wore a barong and sablay. In my high school graduation rites, there was a defined moment when we graduated. It was when the ... school and college, I wrote a blog post quoting the chorus of At Least It

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 2, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  and blacksmiths — they are united by a shared standard of rigorous academics, high character, and a strong match with MIT's mission to use science, technology, and the useful arts to make the world a better place

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 17, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  My freshman year is almost over honest thoughts on it

  

  take a break. I shouldn’t have scared myself out of opportunities to meet ... 't like me. It only left me feeling lonelier. A small part of me still says ... try my best to be forgiving towards myself, but I still slip once in a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 16, 2022