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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Senior Bucket List, Pt. I Do ALL the things!

  

  't realize how important of a role they play in your life until you back at the ... varying degrees of notice (1 day-5 minutes). Left: Well, these guys kept ... . This is Professor Junot Diaz. This is a book that wrote, one of my all

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 18, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Rediscovering en Plein Air Painting by Elisa X. '26, MEng '26

  

  undergrad degree with the rest of my class in Spring 2026 then with my MEng in ... at MIT, I chased all sorts of side adventures, determined to make the ... I enjoy painting & drawing. As the semesters passed at MIT, this

  • by Allison E. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Day at Stanford University wait, what?

  

  . The buildings are built out of tasteful sandstone and, as a bonus, rectangular. Instead of drowning in camera-armed Chinese tourists you should ... of people do, in fact, look like people, and were created by famous

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Night at Random Beautiful people at a beautiful hour.

  

  fifth of my life so far, I have lived in Random Hall, MIT’s smallest and ... around the building to document what everyone was up to. One of my favorite ... so far.     By the time I took the pictures, that evening’s denizens of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Science! at the BAH!Fest The science is a lie. The exclamation points are not.

  

  at the beauty of the message boards on campus? Honestly. There’s just ... world of vectors, DNA translation, and the ideal gas law. I’m staring at ... one of many things. I’m thinking maybe an alligator with rollerblades

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 8, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  checked off 101 things to do before you graduate...

  

  I am graduating (at the time of this being posted, graduated), I thought it would be interesting to look back at how many of these items I ... two ✅ I’ve done two UROPs so far at MIT. Both of these were during my

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The good advice The many different flavors of advising at MIT.

  

  weenie. So since some of the categories don't have many entries at the ... across campus, especially at 2 AM. All types of freshman advising, I ought ... So in case anybody's unaware, I finished my project at the lab at the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Rules and who sets them

  

  comes to the rules of society (or subsets thereof), I am often (at best) a ... pursuit of some discoveries. At the end of the book (spoiler alert), Victor ... than engage in his own academic pursuit. At the end of my sophomore year

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  vienna & prague, in 194 photos iap '26 #1

  

  Schonbrunn, I headed back into the thick of town and ate at a very famous ... around some streets before arriving at Hofburg Palace in the middle of ... ="121865" /] At the base of the river again, I saw a bunch of people walking up and

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 6, 2026
• Blog / How to Human

  Anxiety Level: High A play-by-play of emotional diffusion

  

  at the end of every day to see if I can find any patterns. I take a ... sheer delusion of your dreams. Release an album? Get a degree? Get a UROP ... sit at the same metaphorical decision-making table in the mind of the

  • by Powers '23
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  motivation musings as i look back on the year

  

  put your hand in front of it, it’d churn out a piece of paper at about a ... nagging at me as I start turning hiking into a hobby. First is a feeling of ... messiness that is the real world. At the end of almost every semester at

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  Not in Kansas Anymore oh, wait...we actually are. Day 1 with the MIT Design/Build/Fly team.

  

  sounds like--a team of students designs, builds, and flies a remote-control aircraft to fulfill a number of mission requirements, and do it better and ... engineering gets, from the initial design brainstorming to the hours of mixing

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Winter Sports at MIT a sneak peek of: swim and dive, squash, and men's basketball

  

  has your experience been as a student-athlete at MIT so far? Swimming student-athlete: “Being a student athlete at MIT has been an incredible ... part of the team here. Some of my closest friends are on the swim team

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  i wish we’d grown up on the same advice alternate paths

  

  probably turn out alright one of the mentors at hacklodge, let’s call him c ... with the privilege of a) having gotten a math/cs degree from mit b) being ... i look back at the last few years i can trace out a long line of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Night at da Opera A Jolly Splendid Time!!

  

  Goddess” at Jordan Hall in Boston. Luckily, it wasn't four hours straight of ... ! At the end of the play, in true Deus Ex Machina fashion, the gods ... class looks at moral and social questions concerning the human experience

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 1, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  my MIT admissions essays a retrospective

  

  think I wanted to have at least one of my main essays relate to urban ... it fit well here. At the time, this was my favorite of the MIT essays I ... experiencing them. I mildly detested my last couple years of high school during

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 14, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  CPW: ASA Midway, B1 B1athalon, and Cutting Crafts with Contour not to mention meet the bloggers

  

  after a few years at MIT! I've become one of two co-leads on Contour, and ... ="aligncenter" width="300"] look at him. he's so beautiful[/caption] The day of the last ... communities at MIT, during the covid year, and they were one of my strongest

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 25, 2024
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Choosing a Major there are so many

  

  bowling, and one of my podmates, a math major, looked at our final score and ... “What will you major in?” asked one of my senior year teachers. “I don’t think majors matter,” I responded, with the overconfidence of any

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 20, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! While the science gets done, you can build a neat fort with the Settlers drinking…

  

  Hall has a step at the entrance. Don’t trip over it. Tomorrow you should ... recognized me and asked for a sticker because of something I said a year ago ... , if you’d like. What follows are this CPW’s super-exciting events at

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Bernanke to speak at Commencement!

  

  by President Bush to succeed Alan Greenspan as Chairman of the Federal ... history of the MIT Department of Economics and its graduates. MIT

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 14, 2005