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• Blog / Admissions

  How to not love CPW but love MIT (for the most part at least)

  

  mystical fog of technological magic and innovation. I still decided to come ... , upperclassmen I knew from high school, and of course the academic excellence and intensity. I wanted to address some of the fears and concerns I struggled

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  what happens when i don't. The week before my freshman year of college ... picture lying in my aunt's bed, listening to my favorite song of all time ... the same song and suddenly felt overwhelmed by awareness of all the ways

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breaking Normal From Freshman Spring Archives

  

  . The rest of the day promises no surprises. I’ll need to find food, wash off long hours of studying, check in with friends and fellow midterm ... of… ordinary. MIT is pretty great, don’t get me wrong. But now, when I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  The Tech profiled Lydia about resilience @ MIT "I’m building my vocabulary and I’m building my mind and I’m building myself as a…

  

  hundreds, maybe thousands, of people, not only across campus, but among ... purpose of the blogs is, and always has been, to give MIT students a place ... students access to the interior lives of current students; a sense of what it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in China through MIT’s China Development Initiative A week-long mentorship program in Xiamen, Fujian

  

  adventure. I broke my big toe into a bunch of pieces, then flew home to ... astronomy conference, then flew back to Boston (I got the results of my x ... of February and classes began, I wrote a summary about my adventures

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We were worried An insider's look at a February tradition

  

  one of my sisters (and friend I made before MIT through FRC), Erin B. '15 to write a blog about her experiences as part of the cast. This ... Vagina Monologues in my freshman year. An alum of my dorm was the producer

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  I’M BACK!!!!! (and MIT is hard)

  

  18th. Of course being that it was a long plane ride, I wrote some entries, read some books, watched some episodes of How I Met Your Mother (I ... long hold times on tech support, arguing, and TWO reformats of my

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 11, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Burton-Conner Floor Rush and Rooming How does it work?

  

  Burton-Conner is one of the dorms here at MIT. You can check out our ... lot of questions about how choosing dorms, floors, rooms, and roommates ... attend, your next mailing ("The Next Big Mailing") has all of the awesome

  • by Snively '11
  • August 30, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Adonde? Excuse me sir, I seem to have misplaced my pants.

  

  during lunch when a friend of mine ran over and said "You have to watch ... video of 80 people, all dressed in blue polo shirts and khakis, just ... there. "THAT'S AWESOME!" I told him "I know! And they do all sorts of

  • by Snively '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Once upon a time Who I was in high school.

  

  Last time, Jon asked, What kind of high school student were you? Did ... somewhat challenging, considering how much of my high school journal is ... 't about being boy-crazy. First of all, this was me in high school. I think

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to make a glass pumpkin In celebration of the 2023 Great Glass Pumpkin Patch

  

  " align="alignright" width="300"] Concept art of a glassblowing gremlin ... teams of glassblowers who gather for a few hours a day to make batches of ... out the blob of glass with a tool called a “block” and blow a small

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Your credit history is too short and other adult things

  

  , for the longest time, I thought the idea of "building credit" was ridiculous. The going advice is that you shouldn't go over 30% of your credit limit, and that you should pay it off when you can. This kind of all goes

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2023
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Best and Worst Places to 💩 on Campus

  

  's one of my favorite classes I've ever taken at MIT (even though I had to drop it 3/4ths of the way through the semester). One of the assignments ... tool, or a visualization of some dataset.  We had the choice to make

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Intertwined Relationships — for me — have always been about choices.

  

  My sophomore year of high school I ate too many donuts. When I woke ... fact of my life now; I’ve made it a joke.  I feel like throwing up, I say ... complaining about being nauseous. One of my friends said to me, Oh no, I hope

  • by ana~
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  a small moment in time on failing...*very long sigh*

  

  still remember walking away and feeling like my blood had drained out of ... to walk through. In my head was a mix of regret, anger, sadness ... moment of failure and that I continued to exist after it, because the world

  • by kellen manning
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  from me to you burn it all down

  

  of things to write about—there’s always something going on in my life ... keep slipping through my fingers like wisps of smoke. Every week, I feel ... keeping track of how many fire alarms each dorm has has since 2021. to our

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  just vibing tough times out here

  

  One of the things that MIT teaches you really well (among many others) is the value of time. In high school I thought I was learning this ... , many too many things. By several orders of magnitude,[annotation note

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  lessons on burnout 2020 made me realize things

  

  last couple of years in high school, I was in a near-constant state of ... too much, having too many interests, putting too much of myself into my ... takeaway is that starting in around fall of 11th grade, I was constantly just

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 12, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  self care define it or perish

  

  ...which makes me think of how much time i had this summer to do things!! i took advantage of it for sure, but wow, being in the middle of the semester and ... , if this were a normal semester, i'd be dancing upwards of six hours a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  setting up a house will it take an entire semester? stay tuned

  

  At the beginning of September, I moved into a new house! It's 10 ... downstairs with two sets of fridges, washing machines—sans [annotation note="the laundry app we used in dorms"]WashLava,[/annotation] the bane of my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 5, 2020