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• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Joint Post] DesignPlus A super cool and awesome first-year learning community ft. Gloria and Teresa (we're not biased)

  

  You can now read this blog on the Morningside Academy of Design (MAD ... given the choice of several types of faculty advising. There’s traditional ... community events, students learn about all types of design and related fields

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 26, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  MIT-ish on being MIT enough

  

  who get excited at the prospect of a challenging math problem or physics conundrum, has thrown me into some sort of spiral of "not being MIT enough ... 'm reminded of why I'm at this school in the first place. Being an MIT student

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slowing Climate Change, One Steak at a Time final project for 24.03 (The Ethics and Politics of Food)

  

  Ethics and Politics of Food. The assignment was to engage with the topics of the class further by "introducing a moral question concerning food ... some form of activism around food justice, but writing a blog post seemed

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 11, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Self Help I

  

  I raised my young self on a steady diet of self-help literature. I ... of a Skinned Knee--and marked the pages I thought my parents should read. I read guidebooks for each stage of development the stage before I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Thoughts from the Other Side MIT through a different lens

  

  have had good reasons! As some of you may know, I've been studying abroad ... months. Here at Cambridge, instead of having finals at the end of each ... the end of the year (Easter term). Since each student generally takes 5

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 30, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  8 Hypotheses Like Schubert, I never finished the Eighth.

  

  % of your friends are within 2 feet of you at any time while you're awake ... to have less friends. (Especially if your friends come in multiples of ... capital of whichever Dakota or Carolina you find to be more mneumonically

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 7, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  how dorm structure shapes social life in more ways than i can count, actually

  

  traditions that motivate a significant population of students to stay in their dorm for all four years of undergrad. At this school, students can have ... Random Hall also allow cats to wander the halls of floors designated as cat

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  A lot of students applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately, we just couldn’t accept them all. We have placed a small number of students ... —if you look beyond the thing you're waiting for—it can also be full of

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  % pure silk” scarves as gifts. However, I was skeptical of these scarves as ... they want. I was convinced that these scarves were made of some synthetic textile like polyester, while my mom was convinced that “of course

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  Today, some of our applicants learned conclusively that we will not be able to offer them admission to the Class of 2029. The comments on this post are an open forum for those of you who want to talk with us

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  am i doing this all wrong? thinking thoughts and feeling feelings

  

  bouts out of the blah. On one of my days of the blah, I sent an email out ... nice way to still connect with those close to me outside the world of ... being able to tell longer-form stories and play around with the media of

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 4, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  winning embracing positive-sum

  

  for most of my life i was very prone to envy. part of that was because of the academic environment i was raised in - other people doing ... instance, i remember feeling little pangs of resentment whenever one of my

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  [Guest Post] The Alleyway by Isabella Y. '24

  

  During the storms of May, the Charles rages toward the ocean while ... as they laugh at the sheer amount of water pouring from the sky. I’d observe them from [annotation note="room on the second floor of tEp, the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 11, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  Don’t Stop Believing you can take the east camper out of east campus but...

  

  Last Sunday, one week ago, I moved out of East Campus. The hours ... in my key and walking out the door. I knew it was coming, of course ... the moment of checking out still felt unexpected, and surprising: these

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 6, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  9.00 with no context are you a cool rat?

  

  of the most interesting and fun lectures I've ever had at MIT. As a result, some students compiled a list of of his weirdest, strangest, and best quotes from lecture. Shout out the 9.00 group chat for all of these

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  how to become a morning person a matter of willpower

  

  . For the past couple of years, I've used an app called Sleep Cycle to ... night, which sounds kind of creepy on the surface and definitely raises ... . Besides, it gives me a lot of insight into my personal data: when I fall

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 12, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Parks and Relocation a finale and a premiere

  

  York, occasionally rewatching my favorite episodes of Parks and ... could start a new season of my life. I packed up about half of my worldly ... dear friend on a Christmas tree farm. The other half of my possessions

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  New York Trips that we went on with Arts Scholars!

  

  One of the groups we are a part of is Arts Scholars. This is a group ... sort of art. The group hosts various art-related speakers, outings, and events and is a great way to join an artistic community at MIT!  One of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 5, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  A lively Dead Week what i've been up to

  

  a luxurious full week off between the end of classes and the start of ... full week's worth of life into it. This semester, I only had one final, on the first day of the week. (Yes, I am extremely lucky.) So as I sit

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Green Building Challenge hex wins third place!

  

  I competed in the Green Building Challenge as part of this year's Bad Ideas Weekend. From 9 PM to 1 AM, a total of 86 students representing 11 ... greatest number of times. [caption id="attachment_41597" align

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 31, 2019