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• Blog / Advice

  No Snow, and on singing badly me? singing? and posting it online?!

  

  first mentioned this song in a blog post two years ago, and it's always ... that you're doing for fun. It sounds really silly, but… it's pretty easy to forget. It feels all the more easy in places like MIT, where

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  stepping back on keeping your priorities straight

  

  saltines for a meal, hoping to recreate Chicken in a Biskit to slowly ... for "when I have more time" -- sleep, for one, but mostly art. Two hours of bliss in Photoshop, above. Shameless plug: I'll be selling prints

  • by Connie H. '15
  • November 30, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Where WAS I? Honestly? I still don't know.

  

  reason for why I haven't posted in over twelve decades ("I was sick", "I ... for why in the time it has taken me to write this new blog entry I have ... I am starting to run out of excuses for when I disappear for long

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack Study Break MIT is home to some very dedicated gamers.

  

  that happen? Most of campus is already cracking down in preparation for ... , but it's all in good fun. For the living groups, the different pieces ... friends seem to be coping pretty well. In fact, a few students apparently

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 11, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Attack of the Acronyms and the space between the letters

  

  second, and walked for another few. Then there was a crosswalk in our way ... I can’t wait for what the next four years has in store :D ... spelling. Luckily for the sake of our collective sanity, however the

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 3, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008: So I think I’ll go to Boston (Guest Entry) More pictures than your body has room for!

  

  around in Cambridge: Watch out for trains. As my group was walking down a ... environmental biology and chemistry class. I sat in an empty classroom for about ... MIT, maybe I’ll see you next fall? IN CONCLUSION: CPW was great for me

  • by Snively '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  Yet Another Blog Entry My expenses for the semester in pie form, topped with a scoop of IAP.

  

  spending lots more on food in the coming months. Also, here's one for the ... 80% more blog for the same price by throwing in an IAP update. Also, I ... Back in the sepia-toned pages of my high school years, Personal

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT, Medicine, and Success from Any School thirteen years in a thousand words

  

  career to the Air Force in exchange for tuition. As for med school itself ... In 2012 everything about life at MIT felt important: [annotation note ... famous HM case, which is what spurred my interest in neuroscience in the

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  home

  

  -apartment buildings. The proportion of streets in my town with watering ponds for ... interested in writing about what happened in my day (life was very boring for a ... a little that this was such a through line in my consciousness for so

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • November 4, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living the MEng life same, different, same

  

  tuition but also award you a pretty hefty stipend! So in exchange for ... unhelpful in the way I always hated: "Sorry for the delay, the next pset ... else I know from the class of 2022 are still here in Cambridge and on

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 27, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Advices, advices Notes from Associate Advising...

  

  homesickness is merely this: don't stay in your dorm room. At least for me, I ... Trivia: In Mandarin blogs, being first to comment is to get the "tou ... place a stick of incense in the incense pot at a temple festival. Now

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you want to be when you grow up? Worst. Question. Ever.

  

  informed Zach '08 and myself that she was voting for Obama in the primaries ... Now that I'm a junior in college, I'm supposed to be almost an adult ... apparently, this means I'm going to have to go find a job- also in the real

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 2, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  Bad Ideas events I went to (another late IAP post) i can’t believe ellie beat me to the punch

  

  fighting for my life in between gulps of milk. I gave up on finding cups and ... begging for mercy. When I decided to take a break from tiramisu, I was in ... some of the dumb shit I participated in. [caption id="attachment_112772

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 8, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m more than twice as old as when I started my blog Rumors of my relevance are greatly exaggerated

  

  nicely for it.  I also met my wife thanks to MIT, when we both lived in DC ... leave for college, almost all the days in your life that you’ll spend with ... In 2004, I applied to MIT.  It was a paper form, the first part, and

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  19 Summers AHH I'm getting old :(

  

  (in order): Archaeology (which I signed up for in order to study ... those in high school, since there's an entire section on the MIT admissions site about it) so here's a breakdown. If you aren't interested in my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Part 3 Helping the Class of 2010 with their decisions.

  

  for almost ten years and I've participated in national competitions and ... upperclassmen in my dorm. I really appreciated that MIT had dorms for all four ... for the group. I also participated in the Asian Christian Fellowship for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three patterns from the pattern language of my life

  

  newborn.  In the 3,000 days, I moved to Washington, D.C. (for a fellowship ... ) for picnicking or sunbathing. In exceptionally good weather, the kinds ... just so you can own your stuff (for some meaning of “ownership,” in a

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Take Me *Home* to the Ballgame By Claire S. '25

  

  . Louis Cardinals—it was practically a requirement to live in the small town I grew up in. But it actually wasn’t until I left Missouri for college ... Of all the things to happen in college, I never expected baseball to

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  That rings a bell Made of brass?

  

  continued to travel frequently, even working in South Korea for a year and ... ’t find it. (That was a long lonely month when I thought I lost it for good, only for it to ultimately reappear under the couch.) I don’t know how

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / CPW

  Backstage at the CPW Closing Show “Other duties as assigned”

  

  costumes. For legal reasons, their costumes were officially in the style of ... in more than 700 events over ~3.14 days—everything from How to Build an ... . The same staff that is responsible for admitting students is responsible

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 19, 2024