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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  beauty is overrated

  

  beautiful. There were moments I wished to be desirable, and I suppose that is ... all or even most humanities scholarship is fluff; it’s just easy to be misled by fluff masquerading as insight. A lot of truth is ugly, a lot of

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Answer is Yes Tips for navigating your first month here with a Greek life emphasis

  

  This post is for incoming freshmen (with a slight bias toward ... . Rush events are fake. But rush is meant to introduce you to every greek ... decide which dorm to live in for the year) is fake too! McGregor, to my

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where is my mind? In Northern California, Munich, a tent in New Hampshire, and an oreo-flavored soft serve machine.

  

  paradise of Stanford. But it's hard--grad school is different because you don ... late to find an internship in another country right now, which is cool because my one requirement for a job this summer is NOT TECHNICAL. So she

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Colin Jackson is awesome So is my life, but not to such a great extent.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The pretzel, invented during the 8th century AD, is ... 's rugby game. Our eventual goal is to play at least once at every sporting ... , rugby is really violent, okay? You know what is not violent? Jon Stewart

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  My mom is here! ...and she's critiquing my cheerleading skills.

  

  Well, Parents Weekend was last weekend, but my mom is unconventional ... switched at birth.) Tomorrow, Mom is going to come to 5.60 (chemical ... was that the variable used to represent the third dimension is z

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Majors & Minors

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

  

  says anything, of course physics is amazing, and many people can do great ... the physics of the world and of our brains is the most important thing ... first thing she said was: “Well, a pros and cons list is a very

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Campus is quiet summer thoughts and happenings

  

  ’s a Friday night, but campus is quiet in the summer. My door is open ... doorway. Brenda is bubbly and sweet and used to live on this floor and is ... she wants, and that I think her dress is cute. Nick is on the other

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This title is irrelevant In which I discuss two important aspects of undergraduate life: scientific research and climbing stairs.

  

  the sentence you've all been waiting for: life is full of ... . Innocuously titled The Green Building Challenge, this annual tradition is part ... 42 runs in 4 hours, which is probably like 10 miles of stair

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 28, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything is different now That's ok, I have a cat now

  

  The student blogger named Mimi is a much different person than I am ... Mimi is quite literally just me from a few years ago, but there are so ... there. My life from one year ago is vastly different than it is now. My

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Is Here! Welcome to MIT.

  

  So, today is the day! CPW has finally arrived! As many of you make ... twenty people that there is no wrong way to do CPW. My host at the time ... yourself if this is the place you can see yourself for the next four years

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Events

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

  

  edu. Not going to lie, folks. Being an admissions blogger is the bomb

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  This Entry is About (A) Lady Gaga (B) my MIT ID card (C) all of the above

  

  . The takeaway message here is that I finished the mango, checked my email ... this is legal?” (If you look closely at her sunglasses in the picture

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 1, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of a Second Semester MIT Student first week impressions

  

  if EECS is something I'd genuinely like to pursue. I wanted to ... into annoyance and dread. This is basically what happened with 18.01A and ... people enrolled in the class. This is where some of the anxiety starts to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  dear past me stay kind

  

  ="because this is our first time actually being on campus"]second round of ... website through an old high school classmate's finsta post where their ... so far. I have absolutely no idea when the third one is going to arrive

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  intention via YearCompass

  

  year. This is usually done in the form of setting New Year's resolutions ... -18 World cup finals - Dec. 18 This is what my last year was about We live ... I think the top of my list here is Raymond. He helped me a lot through

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  On Trauma, and MIT I’m imagining my high school self, and what I would tell her before coming to…

  

  Estrada’s “Si Me Matan” for the majority of writing this post, which is a ... given me a lot of validation. Representation is important; I often felt ... , trauma, etc. can look like in their friends. This is a much more personal

  • by ana~
  • May 4, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a rose is a rose is a rose ...is a rose

  

  . All I know is, no pain no gain. The work has been painful. But yeah, so ... semester has reminded me again and again that a rose is a rose is a rose

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 12, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My Disappointment Is Immeasurable And My Day Is Ruined A story about cream soda

  

  travesty that is… American cream soda. [caption id="attachment_79235" align ... fateful night during a Phineas and Ferb marathon. What exactly is cream soda anyway? Cream soda (sometimes spelt “creme soda”) is traditionally an ice

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Home is where the heart (of Texas) is Going away to school isn't such a bad thing.

  

  IS more expensive than where I come from. Unlike home where my car sits ... subway station. Moral of the story: Life is different when you go to college. But is that such a bad thing? I mean, college in general is going

  • by Bryan
  • December 30, 2006
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Is MIT a diverse community?

  At MIT diversity isn’t simply a word, it is an integral part of the MIT experience. MIT Admissions is committed to reaching students from ... reality. The mission of the MIT Institute Community & Equity Office is