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• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Reflections from the STARS@MIT Fly-In a 15-author guest blog, featuring the small town/rural students that visited us this october!

  

  getting a glimpse of life at MIT. Learn more about the program, and the nationwide STARS College Network, here. At the conclusion of the program, we ... knit. For example, on the day of my return, they had a hotdog eating

  • by Sara N. '28
  • November 11, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Circle Professor Anna

  

  I’m sitting on the floor of my living room in Ithaca, New York. It’s snowing outside and the windows are cloudy with condensation. A couple of ... . After my PhD defense, I mailed the author a hard copy of my dissertation

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  A Summer in DC what i've been up to this summer!

  

  Happy[annotation note="now end of lol"]middle of[/annotation]July! I ... of the school year that I still need to revisit. As Kano mentioned in ... part of MIT-Washington's orientation. [carousel image1="101766" image2

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • July 30, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Home(sick) for the Holidays winter break was weird: time capsule 2

  

  Here’s part two of my “I wrote this but procrastinated on editing and ... On Wednesday, December 20th, I took my last final of the semester. I ... of my friends live!"]Next[/annotation] to hang out for a while. Around

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 24, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  djent is not a djenre or is it?

  

  meeting. I asked everyone, “what kind of music do you listen to?”  Someone ... is for everyone! it’s not that deep lol. at the end of the day i think of music as fun sounds to tickle my brain. sometimes screamy metal best

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 22, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  how to adult spoiler alert: no one knows

  

  overheard snippets of conversation between students that remind me of past phases of my life. a while back, i was waiting in atlas to get my ID card ... and futures. to hear one of them talk about 15.873 (system dynamics

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  sunset/sunrise swiftly flow the days

  

  I've been very busy this semester; this is entirely of my own accord ... might be after the end of the semester']managing everything ... and learning psychology, but this feels a little like the zone of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stitch n Bitch: Quarantine Edition a tight-knit community scattered across the globe

  

  into embroidery, (2) a magnificent social discovery, and (3) a gallery of ... sunny day in the fall of our sophomore year. She approached me in the atrium of [annotation note="the Brain and Cognitive Sciences building

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  food diaries pt. 1 ...adulting?

  

  Note: Posting a lighthearted blog in the midst of everything that ... circumstances, I can't help but feel that the tone of this blog is strange and ... feel like I'm taking charge of my health. Discovering new recipes and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 2, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  mit bingo! as done by the bloggers

  

  If you are under the age of 25 (and maybe also if you are over it ... meme, if you don't know."]drawings of fruit.[/annotation] So, I hereby ... finish one of my 6.009 labs, so I submitted a confession in mostly cap lock

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  leaving home, coming home I jump from the train, I ride off alone // help me hold onto you

  

  " over and over. If necessary to lighten the mood, finish with one play of ... mind of the speaker and the listener, and miscommunication arises when some part of that context is not shared etc. etc.… But what I'd rather

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 25, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  November was … read until the end to find out

  

  A lot of very stressful things have been happening this month (and ... as we would have liked). But, there were also a lot of really good and fun things that happened. So we decided to write lists of each

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 29, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  to do lists and have done lists so busy that all I can do is just stare at the wall

  

  My November is a looming list of tasks that must be accomplished. The ... exception of the past couple of days. I've been through this seasonal dip ... the bright side, I have been doing a lot of sleep... maybe even too much

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Flu shots optimizing literally everything

  

  the past. A bunch of people in our hall told me to get the shot. It ... shot clinic was one of the coolest things I’ve seen since I got here, and ... . One of my friends on the floor I live in stuck his sticker on his door

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Holding pattern undergrad | me | graduation

  

  I never thought I'd say this, but I'm kind of bored. A combination of ... separate by terms, shall we? I'm officially retired from the sport of basketball, as of late March. Our season ended in the first round of the NCAA

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 6, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  A Texan’s Guide to Surviving a Boston Winter it's possible

  

  It’s IAP and I've slowly but surely gotten into the rhythm of things ... ’d imagine that is exactly what Antarctica looks like. With the wet residue of ... no more than an inch or two of snow at a time, figuring out how to stay

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 9, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Unremarkable things are you "jaded" yet?

  

  after experiencing two or three years of it. It means losing your ... you tend to notice and find significant in life are partly reflective of ... situations this theme of realizing that a past self had been naïvely idealistic

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 25, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Classes (or, Gettin’ Classy) I made a series of Biology videos about blood and learned about digital education!

  

  This summer, I was enrolled in one of the five summer@future classes being offered for MIT students (with the snazzy bonus of summer housing ... best medium (or one of the best) for translating that lesson plan into a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  “There is No Place Like Home” ...especially when you are a long way from home

  

  This is the time of year where goodbye posts are pretty common on ... admitting our students. I had at times been a bit jealous of my friends and ... are nearly one-third of our undergraduate female population at MIT now

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • July 12, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Nate Silver visits MIT (or, do witches exist in real life?) No, he can't predict the outcome of your admissions decision. Probably.

  

  unemployed college freshman."  And the best part of being a prufesssional riter ... famed statistician Nate Silver is one of them. Nate Silver needs no introduction, unless of course you've never heard of him before, in which case I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 1, 2013