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• Blog / Academics & Research

  a major road to trouble exploring interests as a baby beaver

  

  overview of interests before I wound up at the Institute. Fetus Era For the ... compensation, newfound freedom in class selection For many weeks, I couldn ... nutshell, my thought process could be summed up like this: This probably

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology a non-comprehensive analysis of the 95 tabs I have open on my phone

  

  of these tabs have been open for nearly a year, with no hope of ever ... back to. Mostly, I just scroll back up to them and read them whenever I ... /Harris Program for Private Study" - MIT provides a program for instrumentalists and

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 27, 2023
• Blog / Community Projects

  MINECRAFT MIT!!! our most remarkable feat of engineering since...mit

  

  own computer is quite the feat, and I'm so proud of my peers for what ... from campus. After Jeffery Yu '22 set up a small server on his home computer and someone made a base plot for the map, the project took off with

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You should consider studying economics if… for those who aren't totally set on what to major in

  

  So if you've been reading these blogs for a while now, you might ... came into MIT not knowing what I would study, ended up going with ... for those who aren't quite sure of what to do, I would suspect that the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 8, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  ’t worry so much! You’ll be happy wherever you end up!”, and so on. Okay ... to convince an admissions committee that you are a good fit for their ... mind. But there is no checklist for an essay. An essay should not serve

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life Tokens the currency of joy

  

  importantly, though, when you land on these squares, you also get to pick up a ... WRONG NAME for the last YEAR. apparently it’s actually called a life TILE ... cash out at the end of the game in exchange for money–$10,000, $20

  • by Allison E. '27
  • July 6, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Repainting the Smoots A Wacky MIT Tradition

  

  inside joke turned into a source of pride for not only the fraternity and MIT, but for all of Boston, and it was soon commemorated as a public ... , fast forward all the way from 1958 to 2023. How did I end up here on this

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 27, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Every song I’ve referenced in my admissions blog posts

  

  motivation for that post was so I could up my count of "songs I've mentioned in ... as I wrote a blog post named fun., with 6 distinct songs. The runners-up ... Lansangan songs, but it's suitable for a lot of holiday season happenings. 4

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 15, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  SnowDays while you're waiting for decisions

  

  . Even if you don't close up the cut, SnowDays will close it for you. If you have a closed curve, you can find the winding number for each point ... it does that. For example, try making these sequences of cuts and see

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meeting our new president! my very brief foray into professional journalism

  

  presidency? I was extremely excited to find out. I showed up at the Welcome Center this morning at 9.45 am sharp, the arrival time for "press planning ... my hand shot up first. I asked about students, of course (I almost felt

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  in wonderland hello from the number side

  

  opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, “I—I hardly know, Sir, just at present—at least I know who I was when I got up this ... makes my tendency for already-nebulous statements even more nebulous to

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 16, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  back in east campus, the sequel jiggity jig (again)

  

  just to be an extra pair of hands. i kinda initially regretted signing up to be a build lead for a project, and honestly i didn't contribute much ... appreciation for mit's collective coolness has grown deeper.) i recently beat

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 18, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Parks and Relocation a finale and a premiere

  

  could start a new season of my life. I packed up about half of my worldly ... studying topics that weren't offered in school were perfect catalysts for ... the soundtrack for the ending scenes. These songs have come to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  Remembering Gisel and honoring twenty years of service and friendship

  

  stationed at the front desk in room 3-108 for the last 20 years. If you called the office, she probably picked up the phone and connected you to the ... school teacher who wrote asking for a poster of MIT to hang in your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 28, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Centimeters to Inches A Guest Post by the talented Antonella Masini '21

  

  but got used to the imperial inches and screwed up a recipe or two ... now you are the invisible daughter for your mom.   Distance is to ... App, The one million “I miss you” through texts, And the longing for that

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 4, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  One Month of Baby Steps my feet hurt

  

  to visit improv shows and eat hot pot. For our second to last day, we took long walks between campus, the Museum of Science (free for MIT ... campus, but it’s perfect for me. No other dorm gives every resident their

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 26, 2018
• Blog / People & Identities

  Fortin’ with Mimi Let’s. Talk. About. Queer stuff.

  

  rare for me since I am an EXTREMELY shy person. He also pushed me to be ... thankful for all my friends. They've made my time here all the better and ... clinic hosts a gender support group every week where we just meet up and

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • September 18, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  We Saw a Sea Turtle !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  

  This summer, we saw (and observed for two hours!) a real live SEA ... ’d walk along the beach for a stroll, hoping to find one. We did this for ... her shell lift up and down. During this time, we tried to walk around

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Young Guru & the Metropolitan Opera The Arts at MIT

  

  Arts Center, and read the sign for an upcoming exhibition, and vow to one ... to make time. The rest I'm hoping I can store away for future use and ... Growth: Tactical Urbanisms for Expanding Megacities, and the Urban Studies

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 15, 2015
• Blog / Events

  What if You Didn’t Like CPW? is MIT still the place for you?

  

  kiddie kid stuff for little kids. He went to the informative events, but ... kiddie things for fun but he didn't share those interests. Even though I ... to know people from so many backgrounds, all with different ideas for

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2014