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• 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
• Blog / MIT Life

  You Got The Gig So excited about ALL the Things!

  

  dressed up super pretty for the final awards ceremony!  It was so much fun ... materials are made and how they work and I love blending plastics for hours ... got to go to Washington D.C. for a week and I met the most intelligent

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ten Things I Hate About Europe Well, not really. More like, Ten Things I Like About MIT. You've got to accentuate…

  

  cleaner than the Charles, I really miss the 17 miles of running paths set up ... Harvard to small highway to Watertown. MIT is in a prime location for you to ... world in my UROP, where I take ground-up turkey carcasses and put them in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The interview life Recruiting for MIT on the west coast, plus answering questions.

  

  for my email address. It's up there in the blog banner, and anyone is ... history. Since there are so many people applying for so few undergrad spots ... for grad programs. Everybody applies to basically the same set of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class size A response to a comment brought up on Ben's blog.

  

  Concerned Parent brought up an issue in Ben's blog (about halfway ... "Where there is a will....there is a way" for a reason. All the wonderful ... . I don't understand why colleges don't offer up more triples. Yes, it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving season blue blue blue

  

  tunes from this song take me back. huddled up in our coats, the last day ... see each other again, and for the most part, we didn't. we still wish ... started. the about-hundred of us gathered in Walker Memorial for some events

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 21, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  My Life Is In Shambles… … and that’s ok

  

  floor of Barker, where I went when I needed to work for eight hours ... ‘ur mom’ jokes, painting an apt metaphor for the psyche of the average ... murals and the home of a trio of beaten-up, well-loved chairs. The bench

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 26, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  frosh thingies i couldn’t decide what to write so i’m writing about everything

  

  for the career fair. A couple days after that, we stayed up until late ... things I used to suck at (ie. waking up early, keeping my room organized ... ="alignnone" width="1536"] as i walk into the giant 10-250 lecture hall for 3.091, i

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  when the world gets too heavy put it on my back

  

  that's why i'm revisiting this. i like doing media check-ups every now ... sympathy for him, despite him being..arguably one of the worst book ... relate with him on some fucked up level. this would then repeat again when

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  This is a blog post for those of you who are struggling with the ... that it isn't that easy for everyone, and even for me, it still kinda ... implications people seemed to give them whenever they came up in the context of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019