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• Blog / Announcements

  welcoming our new bloggers! baby bloggers? baby bloggers!!

  

  ocean this summer Allison E. ’27 of Hawaii, who once got 3,000 people to ... meaning in the need to commit when bouldering, and spent four days stuck in ... gone,[/annotation] and MIT is coming back to life. Students are back on

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Same as it ever was The more things change...

  

  much describes February 3, 2006, as much as it does February 3, 2005. In ... After struggling to figure out what to blog about today, I decided to ... Admissions lately. In addition to the requisite 4-5 reading days each week, we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yellow, Blue, Green, and Red Free art and how to borrow it at MIT

  

  Program exhibition.   Yes, that does seem to be a photograph of a ... by the door in our room. Despite this, it still adds a much needed pop ... hallways. In an effort to spice up the recurring blandness of Maseeh’s white

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 29, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  Bright IAP a post in two, kind of unrelated, parts

  

  name stuff once I got to MIT. Questions like "Would I be allowed to live ... part though, I've just been able to exist at MIT without needing to worry about this part of my identity. -- part 1c: what does this have to do with

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / Events

  What If… I Met Randall Munroe? ... Something would have to blow up

  

  event called Splash, in which pretty much anyone can volunteer to teach a short class on pretty much anything to over 2000 high school students who ... If you haven’t heard of xkcd, stop reading. Instead, go over to xkcd

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  The Grandest of Road Trips Reflections on a cross-country road trip, on an international plane flight, on a full bladder.

  

  me, who have not gone to the restroom once yet in the first three hours ... need to reintroduce myself: I'm Jess, and I need to go to the bathroom. I ... I'm on a 13-hour flight from San Francisco to Tokyo, connecting

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 1, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Senior Survey (Says?) (For the record, I think that being on Family Feud would be totally awesome)

  

  from juniors on up tend to blog more when they need money than when they ... much time is left on my conversion to a movie in Final Cut Pro. (Two ... . It seems like almost nothing at all, but it's all meant so much to me

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 3, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  they want to see you fail managing others' envy

  

  . It’s a story I’ve heard from plenty of people. I needed to be careful ... , to be clear, is a vanity metric and not indicative of much, but it ... might be nice to my face, but I know they were secretly upset. They didn

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Questions about Blogging Some friendly advice.

  

  classes and your tests and your p-sets, how much time everything is going to take, and generally how to balance work and play. As I said once before ... need to have a life worth blogging. Ultimately, blogging is part of my

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Short Answers to Big Questions Stolen from the MIT Housing Panel.

  

  admissions office, and they needed to be brought up to speed about student life ... incredible to-die-for self-discipline. She exercises all the time, does her ... incentive - the need, really - to distinguish myself in healthier, more

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 18, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  lessons on burnout 2020 made me realize things

  

  I’m being honest. To understand what I mean, you need context. For the ... , and classes don’t matter all that much anymore because I’m going to MIT ... be too much. I’m doing a [annotation note="through MIT’s program to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 12, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  :) Week 1: Introduction There wasn't much in this section, to be honest. The ... metrics to heart that much, but it is evident that I feel more productive ... ="general 'tute requirements"]GIR's[/annotation] that I needed to get out of the way

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  focus on three technicals at once. I want to commit to never again taking ... I'm interested in would be unsustainable. I need to choose something ... winter break and IAP knowing I needed to make a decision about which major

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  agreeing to too much. I realized that what I needed was some kind of line in ... needing to move on to the next thing, and the next thing, and only in that ... ! you need to do less, you dumbass. the cognitive dissonance is strong

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who needs Black Friday anyway? a slightly different take.

  

  Sierras, or favorite climbs in Yosemite. Gear becomes attached to specific ... Friday frenzy and buying new stuff, I decided to take a different approach. I first went with my friend Emily Y. '15 to a Worn Wear gear swap

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Course 2A is Cooler than You I'm back from the dead, to tell you all about my major and its ridiculously…

  

  I have this wonderful thing called free time, I'm ready to start blogging again. Maybe I'll even try to match how prolific I was as a freshman ... order, which often happens on surveys we're asked to fill out. It

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Student’s Crusade to Stop Genocide I confess to regarding the phrase “never again” with cynicism. It offers a rhetorical smokescreen…

  

  documents that would come to be known as the Pentagon Papers (Ellsberg was a ... ; activism has largely been confined to a few small groups, many of which have ... February 2003 passed without much discussion at MIT. After the attacks were

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • November 26, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Halfway Through MIT Where I’ve been, and where I’m going

  

  to Alewife. We hadn’t seen much of Boston, and it was an enthralling ... that I need to say “no” to more things. Especially when this means ... the joy in listening to my needs and treating myself, and I’m excited to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 25, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  dancing at MIT (and beyond) continuity vs. fulfillment and the perils of stagnation

  

  recruited weren't able to train or grow much as dancers since, well, they ... to how much I value dancing and want to use my limited time at MIT appropriately to do it as much as possible. it's been stressful, at times perhaps

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Chancellor? What’s a Chancellor? What does the Chancellor do and how does that affect student life?

  

  not easy to give up a great job, but for me the chance to be Chancellor was impossible to decline. Some of my colleagues are puzzled by this ... ? Perhaps this sounds great to you, but perhaps you are wondering – “so what

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • August 16, 2011