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• Blog / MIT Life

  The Small Things I Like About Autumn A short reflection on a colorful season

  

  in Cambridge. As someone who loves scenic views to take pictures, the ... that I've come to fall in love with.  And recently, I've been trying to take more time to acknowledge all the small things around me that I enjoy

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 31, 2025
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  I have never been trick-or-treating, (until now) and how trick-or-treating relates to geography...???

  

  people that, they look at me shocked, jaw to the floor like a scream mask ... door-to-door didn’t make much sense when “the next door” was half a mile ... pretend to be all surprised for trick-or-treaters and she’d hand each of us

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • November 4, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  My Blogger App, five years later i've finally dyed my hair blue

  

  note="i like to think of myself as a Real Adult"]Real Real Adults ... year to year, though the format has changed slightly since my day. Two ... managed to get my hands on it once again. And, because my favorite thing to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 16, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  since it seemed low-commitment and beneficial, so I decided to join. I used Coursera a lot in high school to take various Data Science ... "rewirements," or wellness activities designed to help you build more healthy

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Books I did read this semester I am literate if not literary

  

  Previous me wrote in a blogpost that I "did not want to write about ... but even more so now. Sometimes we have to dip into other worlds to make our way through this one. I used to be that kid who read during lunch

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 21, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Boston, through the lens of my children Visiting Boston at 37 years of age was ...

  

  . For those counting at home, that means I was admitted to MIT nearly 20 ... I was when I was admitted to MIT. Ok, we're going to stop this now ... , I cannot believe I chose to backstitch numbers that are only 1 stitch

  • by Snively '11
  • October 19, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  my MIT admissions essays a retrospective

  

  I applied to MIT three years ago (shudders). I was originally ... find it difficult to put myself in that person's shoes, especially since ... . (We'll circle back to this thread eventually...) Anyhow, here are (most

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 14, 2025
• Blog / Travel

  [liveblog] morbing at the airport the flight is delayed for several hours because of toilet issues

  

  airport to fly out. I have been stuck in purgatory (aka. boston logan ... :35pm) i get to the airport with jebby. we're planning on rooming ... ) the flight was supposed to takeoff. we get an announcement from the

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 1, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  CPW: ASA Midway, B1 B1athalon, and Cutting Crafts with Contour not to mention meet the bloggers

  

  CPW was so much fun! I meant to get this blog up and running ... with! Here's how they went. Contour My team and I held several events to ... out how much of our name to capitalize. We’re digging into market

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 25, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Unity

  

  simplicity of daily routine, implicit enough to be anything but noteworthy. Grades seven to twelve of my education in Nigeria were spent in a boarding ... . Early morning wakeups led to grumbling sounds and shuffling feet; a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 30, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some virtuosos play $4 million violins, and some Trojan heros wear brass rats $4 million violins, not 4 million violins. Joshua Bell isn't *that* intense.

  

  the great fortune to be an MIT Arts Scholar I attended four EXCELLENT ... I cry. When my kids perform in the 2030s/40s they're going to hear ... walked to Killian Hall and was totally astonished when the ticket collector

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore accumulations because i miss show and tell

  

  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 ... myself working harder than I ever have to keep up. But there's much more

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • May 6, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Night at da Opera A Jolly Splendid Time!!

  

  trip options, we agreed to go to all three [an opera, a concert, and a ... how long this was supposed to be, and they told me FOUR HOURS. I signed ... ="111897" image5="111896" /] We went to see the opera “Lysistrata, or The Nude

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 1, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  Jill Biden waved at me D.C. during inauguration

  

  surreal moments that have happened while I've been here. *** Cut to the ... shops and randomly decided to eat at a fancy restaurant (Brasserie Liberte ... , "Just books?" As much as I wanted to impulsively blurt something sarcastic

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Collections Simple

  

  've reached this strange turning point in my life where I want to do things more than I want to talk about them, which was not how I thought about things ... the self, in an autonomic sense, and how we might begin to attempt to

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Chalk of the Week chalk art at the welcome center

  

  This summer, I got a side gig to put up chalk art in the Welcome ... wheels on them so you can roll them out into the lobby for visitors to see ... wondering how large of a range of places people are coming from to visit the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 27, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making my Ring Delivery Dress and some reflections

  

  about how I was going to make my dress for senior prom. I had never used a ... desire to be quirky with a nonstandard prom dress. Unfortunately, my senior ... neither did my DIY dress.  I finally had the chance to dust off my

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 21, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  10 Fun (and REAL) Facts About MIT! Incredibly Correct Facts about MIT!

  

  its contributions to the fields of science and technology. But do you ... alumni club living in the Charles River in an effort to convert MIT students to the "Way of the Beaver," a doctrine created by MIT students in

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 1, 2022
• Blog / Public Statements

  Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic) tl;dr: mostly the same as during normal times, but clarifying some points of anxiety

  

  /disrupted], and my 11th grade teachers barely got to know me. I feel like my ... have known me for a few weeks]. Who should I ask to write letters on my ... of regular and advanced classes, but..." — but they all boil down to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  sunset/sunrise swiftly flow the days

  

  [/annotation]at[annotation note='the actual result from psychology is much more specific to pedagogy ... .[/annotation]In contrast to Mel's remarkable recovery of her sleep schedule, however, my ... this is not very impressive to most high school students but it is very

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 18, 2020