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• Blog / MIT Life

  *THE* double a room tour from an (only slightly) obnoxious duo

  

  sometime around 3 am, sharing food on the sofa of our freshman year suite and ... ."    And thus, The Double was born. The inception of this idea sent us ... of me that I'd thought I'd outgrown or discarded— I'd close my eyes and

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Pics from the WMBRBQ! Do You Like College Radio??

  

  clubs, but didn't drop any clubs from last year, so now I'm kind of overbooked, but this is entirely of my own doing. I have a ton of blog posts ... much, and being part of this station is one of my favorite things about

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2024!

  

  Petey had a mighty nine-year run of writing this post, but a king [of ... 's my turn to take up the mantle of "person who announces the admissions ... Center, most of my summer is spent in Framingham, where: I go on my

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 1, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what I did this semester in broad strokes!

  

  Compared to the previous, this semester was less tumultuous, more of a steady rush of things-to-do rather than a series of breathless waves ... up at the end of every semester: learning more from my classes

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music for Pre-decisions De-stressing manifesting calm and cozy vibes to get you through it

  

  Waiting for college decisions is difficult. Trust me, I've been there before. This is a collection of songs that helps calm me down before going into something stressful. Many of these were songs I listened to while I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 8, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Better ways to get around campus as in "better" i mean "objectively worse"

  

  time. We as a society have settled for suboptimal modes of transportation, and this is a problem. Alternative evolutions of the bicycle ... of the images for a better view!][/caption]Why settle on a bicycle? Why

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  every day it gets a little easier but you gotta do it every day, that’s the hard part

  

  the title and subtitle come from my favorite scene of bojack horseman some of my friends prefer the alternate saying “it never gets easier, you ... phrasing you like more i suppose during the summer, fall, and winter of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Monologuing a mock-up for the MITMonologues

  

  The MIT Monologues (MITMo) is a spinoff of the play The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler, talking about the intersections of sex, gender ... number of reasons, I really like how this turned out. In this piece, I talk

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 13, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  What’s in an MIT Student’s Bag A sneak peek into what we carry

  

  a sample of laptop stickers of MIT. These types of blogs are less ... thousands of other people at the institute who experience MIT just as deeply ... : Unfortunately, I am not immune to the allure of selection bias, so the MIT that is

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  A New Year, A New President Introducing Dr. Sally Kornbluth, the 18th President of MIT

  

  , now you know why."]in the auditorium of the new Welcome Center ... . Kornbluth, the current provost of Duke University, as MIT's 18th President ... press passes to attend the announcement, on account of the blogs.']In her

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  how i handle canker sores not professional medical advice

  

  inside of my bottom lip. If you've been lucky enough to never experience them, canker sores are circular ulcers that appear on the soft tissue of ... layer of skin dissolves, exposing the nerve endings, so whenever the sore

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Student holiday! lots going on!

  

  Regulations of the Faculty 2.11: Classes shall be suspended during the following ... the Registrar in consultation with the Chair of the Faculty[…] — Day ... , or 7th)[…] Not only was there no class today, but lots of things were

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  unfortunately means that we had to turn down some great students. For those of you ... time for you, but we ask that you converse civilly and with the best of intentions, as that is the spirit of our process.

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  nothing really matters or does everything? a tale of epiphanies and a crisis

  

  : 1) people are afraid of new things, 2) you can always find ... other metric of engagement that exists are completely meaningless. It was ... portion of their time on Earth? Then, at the pit of my despair, I had

  • by kellen manning
  • May 6, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  unfortunately means that we had to turn down some great students. For those of you ... converse in the comments below civilly and with the best of intentions, as that is the spirit of our process.

  • by Decisions
  • December 19, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  a novel excerpt in honor of the friendly toast

  

  ’ve forged plenty of fantastic memories of the Friendly Toast. It was my go ... of a coffee machine somewhere. Quirky knick-knacks dot the lime ... seem too long for the rest of his body. He folds and unfolds his arms

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 3, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  unfortunately means that we had to turn down some great students. For those of you ... converse in the comments below civilly and with the best of intentions, as that is the spirit of our process.

  • by Decisions
  • December 14, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  a gcal september never really used it until now

  

  block of time (more on retroaction in a bit). red are physical things ... adding more of these... i use gcal constantly, in stark contrast to the ... events to gcal as soon as i become aware of them, and i'll also make action

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / Residential Life

  What’s Happening at McCormick? Guest Post by MC^2's REX Chairs

  

  Hi!  We are the REX chairs of Mccormick (Adina G. ‘22, Camellia H ... first 6 letters of the alphabet, we made sure that REX this year at Mccormick represents the culture, sense of community, and overall fun you

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 27, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  5 / The final countdown A month of stress and relief

  

  few weeks of every semester is chaotic, nerve-wracking, and stressful. As I took my last midterms, handed in my last rounds of psets, and demoed my final project before the last day of classes, with my two final

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 3, 2019