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• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  side for the argument that you can always layer up more to warm up in the ... few things that make the fall season such a significant time of year for ... , and orange of the leaves, for me, always adds a new type of warmth to

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 31, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  I felt. Igniting civic engagement on campus and advocating for peer to ... only a gentle 10 mile skate. I look away, embarrassed for her and think ... everything I need for months of travel in just one backpack with my skates

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Student holiday! lots going on!

  

  . Along the walkway across the Small Dome was a thrift pop-up for used women ... going on around MIT. For example, today the MIT Museum had an MIT ... Museum open again after being closed for so long brought so much joy to my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  bored in iap maybe i should've signed up for something

  

  certain we got some looks from people for bringing a cart around ... for organizations to last a lifetime. but i get bored of making websites ... number of virtual meetings for esp. as one of the new publicity directors

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 13, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Guest Post: Being Trans at MIT

  

  trans community-searching easier, we've started up a Facebook group for ... others like us. Hopefully you learn something! (For anyone who doesn ... 's Rainbow Lounge is great for that. There are a lot of events at the Rainbow

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 16, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life slows down a bit – if you let it Fire and hacking has been replaced by housework and skydiving

  

  something fun for the 10-year blog birthday!" so, of course, I say yes.  It ... . 1)  Yup, still skydiving :) This picture got me famous on Reddit for ... and fling them.  I'm the one filming. 2)  Solar panels went up on the

  • by Snively '11
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  #funhogging the best thing I did over IAP. also: INFINITE ICE CLIMBING GIF

  

  your browser to be the first to sign up for a trip (2) your facebook ... - it was all very alluring and exotic to me. Growing up in sunny Los ... topic.  People have many ways of dealing with the stress.  For me, winter

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Apple Juice Liberation! Something very important happened to me when I came to MIT a few weeks ago.…

  

  ended up building a 3-D twister game, some huge speakers, a hammock for ... juice. I’ve been waiting most of my teenage years for the freedom to drink ... -constructed roller coaster going up outside my new home. I wandered around in awe

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Not a Real Entry I wrote it in the imaginary plane.

  

  and Counterpoint II) and signed up for an X-tra Special musicianship ... as early as 2 AM (!). And then I woke up and it was 7:13 AM on Tuesday ... for 30 minutes and went to a lab meeting and started an e & m

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer & the Coming Commencement stuff and things.

  

  I'm happy to be here again for the summer. So I did this once my ... I'm living at Bexley for the summer and working just a short distance away in the Kavli Center for Astrophysics (Bldg 37) on Vassar Street. I

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sunny day – Sweepin’ the clouds away On my way to where the air is sweet.Can you tell me how to get,…

  

  , Noah '09, and Chris '09 all showed up for breakfast and joined our table ... awesome as it is to wake up 10 minutes before a class and not get to eat ... and plan their meals. I know, right? I mean, who has time for that? Ever

  • by Snively '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  An Atypical Saturday That followed an atypical week.

  

  . We all met up and walked over to Fenway for a late lunch. Nothing like ... place one week at a time. For me, each week is like a round in a boxing ... get up and keep fighting, because you will make it. And when the match

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 30, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  I know my calculus… and U2. Bono takes on global poverty, fashion, and Course 18.

  

  mullets. Remember, good things always come in threes. Any other bloggers up for providing their take on the Bono article? And now, your regularly ... catch up on current events through the vast library of Newsweek, Time, and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On sleep There's nothing certain in this world but sleep and taxes.

  

  you crazy kids ever get any sleep? Of course we do. I mean, for one ... kept detailed track of my sleep patterns for almost three years now. I ... for thirty years, and how helpful it had been to science, and then I was

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  string up 120 miles of wire and cable and set up over 1000 posts: they ... drive up close, you have to use a car that runs on diesel. There are some old school machines out there. Fortunately for the scientific community

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to change majors in just five easy steps!

  

  ; thursday I was up working until 10:30 pm, which is very late for me but very ... break you down and slowly build you back up again. MIT is not the military ... some point. For many, it comes first semester. This is why MIT provides

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Nerd Camp tales from TDI

  

  wake-up bugle call that serves as an alarm clock for campers everywhere ... glasses cleaner and wax for my braces. While other kids did their fifth ... to enter the 6th grade, my mom got a flier for something called the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Playing Doctor… Are people REALLY impressed by big words? You be the judge.

  

  files at the moment and I'm too lazy to really search for them, so I ... Thursday for all of IAP in a classroom. As long as I pass all of the tests and everything, I'll be able to join MIT's EMS squad for the spring

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  eating everything at eastern edge a rave review of a new food hall!

  

  map for some spatial reference: It functions as a bunch of little pop-up ... heart of Kendall Square, and named for being on the very East side of MIT ... specific"]latte[/annotation] from the cafe at the far end. For those who know

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 28, 2026
• Blog / Advice

  Welcome to CPW! 'twas the night before cpw...

  

  many people you meet for the first time that you end up seeing again (and ... free food—that reminded me how much I enjoyed exploring MIT for the first ... floor's events! For example, my floor is holding[annotation note

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • April 10, 2024