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• Blog / Challenges

  Maiden Voyages First years, welcome to MIT

  

  student watched me awkwardly shove a swab up my nose for the first time. I ... questionably soggy apples from the Target trip, and waking up early for my FPOP ... the last group to board the plane. When my group was called, I stood up

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  experiences, or the lack thereof flailing around in a sea of adjectives trying to find the noun

  

  't name, I open up a blank Wordpress file and start typing. It barely feels ... tab and don't reopen it for a year. i've been thinking a lot about race lately. for a lot of reasons. one is that, well, being[annotation note

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 13, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  I initially wrote this to my little brother. I debated for a while ... ?" was exactly what Dad had tried to teach me growing up. Acknowledge those ... entire language for a regional accent. The language we learned didn

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  you & i will always be back then time is an illusion that helps things make sense

  

  ; [warning: contains spoilers for the cartoon show adventure time] lessons ... it. I didn't watch Adventure Time growing up because I thought it out to be too childish for my tastes, as the show is riddled with moments

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of ... graduation. For decades, almost every student to graduate from Deerfield had ... to do something else for a while. You know, take a break from homework

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Laptop Stickers of MIT and their stories~

  

  works -- pulled up. I talked to them for a bit, listened to their music ... represent my friends, home, and love for nature. Everyone who knows me knows ... for hours if you let me. The "fly the W" sticker also relates to the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 2, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  it’s ok that it’s not ok sometimes things will happen, and you have to just let yourself be.

  

  giving up, I read articles and messaged people subletting for the summer ... never actually tried suicide, but has willed for unconsciousness for a ... patch of 3-in-1 oil that he used for model trains, hitting his head, and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 4, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  Express, I'm in short sleeves. A few minutes ago, I got up to stretch my ... most other places. In fact, I'm wearing the 2014 Rush shirt for my dorm, East Campus. (The dorm goes by EC for short, or East Campus Alumni

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  telling the tale some thoughts on acting, change, and meaning

  

  ride to allston for dinner, and sometimes just wander up and down the ... to be done for comedy, or to emphasize the sad; rather, there is an ... spring, briefly joined Next Act, a show performed in Next House for CPW

  • by Phi A. '21
  • August 3, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Brahms & Tomorrowland (2015)

  

  library for the day, I'd kneel beside the box, a little hunched over from ... the piano when I was five years old. Whenever this comes up, I think ... the staff, but for some reason, that never translated into fluid

  • by Sara N. '28
  • April 30, 2026
• Blog / Events

  picture the world my phone's storage space hates me

  

  center’s first-floor lobby. we lined up for hot chocolate and peppermint ... moments spread over months at a time. thankfully for us, google photos not ... try to make it to each lab session every friday afternoon. for a class

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • September 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  sk8 jebby on a skateboard

  

  could use for riding without worrying about it getting scuffed up by ... getting on a skateboard again for the next six years. It wasn’t until a ... going to pick up a new hobby. I haven't started that goal, and I was

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 29, 2022
• Blog / Events

  East Campus REX Events! welcome to the wild wild west

  

  up the courage to do it, the EC courtyard is the place for you! We have ... showing up for a lovely home cooked meal. Make your own fire spinning prop ... excited for the REX events we’re hosting for y’all this year. This year, our

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 20, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Trashion Show from rubbish to runway

  

  , and opportunities for entrepreneurs that have art-related start-ups like ... donated clothes that audience members brought to donate for charity and for ... Sustainability Minor for the Class of 2017 and younger. He also suggested

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  1st Year at MIT Everything there is to know about my first year here

  

  Hey guys, I first want to start off by apologizing for not being around recently. However, I will make it up to you guys over this summer ... 't feel like you were just retaking AP chem. For me I feel like there were a

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 28, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The most beautiful class schedule yes. good

  

  predict that those late nights you’ll be up doing work till 4 a.m. will ... ? Last semester it was “no” for me, but this semester it’s “yes, I am totally positive.” When I registered for classes in the fall (last) semester

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • February 3, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Re-Froshening A Story of Cynicism and Optimism

  

  that MIT is a place run by people, and people aren't perfect. For health ... time off from MIT. I ended up attending classes at a local university in ... mode - did a little work, chilled out a lot, ended up on the Dean's List

  • by Piper '13
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Imbibing the Nostalgia Punch More akin to jumping on the bandwagon than drinking the kool-aid in that it is…

  

  four hours of sleep tonight I'd be out of it for days), her idealism ... washing machine up stairs? why doesn't my apartment have a pot rack?), her ... my home for four years. But that's just a hallway covered in sharpie

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two Truths and a Lie Because we all definitely love playing icebreakers

  

  perfect. Go ahead, take your pick and then read below for the answers ... be.  You could be too.  Or you could be something else.  It's up to you ... shoot an email to be less unknown!).  You probably have a passion for

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Electrophoresis Boogaloo What it sounds like, plus some brief things that came to mind

  

  -of-sort-of know how to run a gel, shorthand in this case for gel electrophoresis. To ... for some context. One of the major breakthroughs in biology came when ... restriction enzyme will allow you to cut up DNA and paste different combinations

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 16, 2012