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• Blog / Challenges

  head above the water (intro post) an inner dialogue about my first month of classes

  

  longer to figure out on my own, i don’t know if i’ll be able to survive the ... When I tried practicing for the swim test, I realized how long it had actually been since I swam. This pool wasn’t like the neighborhood pool where

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  you ain’t gonna need it overthinking

  

  over Y will make the people advocating for Y sad or disappointed in me ... this summer. i fall in the same traps when i think about what i want to do after graduating, like: going through the same evidence over and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hello, Layover I'm stuck in an airport. Ask me things.

  

  /Douglas International Airport has a scale model of the Wright Brothers plane hanging from the ceiling of its main terminal. At least, I think that's what it is ... the last six hours, and have another eight to go. But this isn't about

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 25, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2011 arrives… Orientation programs are beginning, and the campus is really starting to come alive.

  

  the Class of 2012 (!), so don't be offended if we're not around when you ... Today, the Class of 2011 started to arrive! With International Orientation as well as the Freshman Pre-Orientation Programs (FPOPs) beginning

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  recently read words absorbed by my brain

  

  of the Rice Chest” by Monica Youn My friend Alec attended the L ... like “I didn’t know poetry could do that”. It isn’t quite the same ... portrait of Asian Americanness. “At the Clinic” by Sally Rooney I love

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 3, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  how i handle canker sores not professional medical advice

  

  cauterizes the sore and creates a seal, so nerve endings cannot be stimulated ... For the last several years, I've been getting canker sores around the ... them, canker sores are circular ulcers that appear on the soft tissue of

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Valentine’s Day Eve Day. What? Also. BEN FOLDS.

  

  population, no big deal. Today being the day before Valentine's Day meant that ... IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR THE LAZY: You, email me, picture of you ... COMING TO MIT. So every year we have this thing called Spring Weekend (the

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Energy Forum Come drink from the solar-paneled firehose. ("Enjoy that metaphor, by the way, because your grandchildren…

  

  today's Energy Research Forum, they will present their findings. The ... President Hockfield formed the Energy Research Council to "assess the ... global needs and produce a plan for a cohesive initiative to tackle the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week Robot and sports and owls, oh my

  

  our robot on Monday night to be ready for the Tuesday night competition ... /lab partners, and they have to be scouted and prepared for.  Fortunately, the ... everything that went down since last Monday.  Finals are still looming on the

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 9, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Questions from Beyond one last blog

  

  up one day and realized that I’m going to be the authority. I know I ... . So, again, why am I here? Well, there’s really only two reasons. The ... ="someone decided i should be a director. what?!"]new job[/annotation] and I was just

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  friday afternoon in the town of beans i'm freeeeeeeeeeeee

  

  — Forget that. There'll be time for that later. It's the first day after the ... table. After all, it's too nice out to be "in the classroom," literally ... we sit down for the concert, which is being held in a small recording

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 11, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Blogs Featured in NY Times "[N]one of the [other colleges'] blogs match the interactivity and creativity of M.I.T.'s, where they…

  

  From The New York Times (check out the awesome photo of Paul, Jess ... Chris Mills write blogs for its admissions site. Mark Wilson for The New ... confession in her blog on the college Web site. "There've been several times

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  tim’s wardrobe legend has it, TIM changes clothes annually

  

  , for the most part, a good time, but sometimes it can be a bit tiring ... another blog, so for now, let us get on with the content. Each class year ... merch, and does general stuff for the class. I, for some reason, ran my

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / Summer

  turning back time now your clock can follow the right hand rule!

  

  confidence of an improv artist pretending to be a surgeon. Turns out, the ... I spent this past [annotation note="and also the summer before that ... Mathcamp actually beats Disney as the most magical place on Earth. With a

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Chalk of the Week chalk art at the welcome center

  

  slapped a π on the deck because I figured it would be on-brand for MIT. And ... different colors), so people would be encouraged to fill the board with ... This summer, I got a side gig to put up chalk art in the Welcome

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

  Four Years Through A Laptop Case a walk down memory lane

  

  couldn't be looking so far ahead. All I had in front of me was the present ... year and graduation and "the end" all felt so far out of reach. I wasn ... moment to the moment. Now, I have just about two weeks of classes left. In

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 10, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  21M.712: Choreography — Making Dances theater arts classes >>>

  

  , and we'd be dancing in complete silence. the inspiration for this ... excited to have the opportunity to create choreography in an academic setting. every studio session feels like a blissful respite from the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 22, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

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

  

  magnification. It’s cool because we can change the magnification continuously, which is impossible with glass. At Open Sauce, the maker expo in San ... broke my leg. (don’t worry, I’ll walk again in a few months and be fully

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

  Nothing is perfect… and it doesn’t matter a guest post by Tommy A. '21

  

  knowing that it was our first concert, but... it'd be hard to list all the ... myself and the people around me. Nothing was perfect, nothing can ever be ... .[annotation note="Pappalardo is a gigantic course 2 lab/workshop that fills the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 6, 2019
• Blog / Residential Life

  Siblings, Scrabble, and Boredom we're bored in the house, and we're in the house bored

  

  'll be given a spot in the dorms"]never see again.[/annotation] I've mostly ... 's been pretty bored too. Being home for the spring semester of senior year ... of that, the summer after senior year tends to be a bit of a slow one

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 20, 2020