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• Blog / MIT Life

  So let’s build a snowman. In the moat. One of the better ideas I’ve had in a while.

  

  this is that when it’s cold, it snows, which is pretty much the best. So ... probably one of the more epic things we’d done in a while, and proceed to ... yourself one of the most impressive things I’ve done in a while

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  "]MITHIC[/annotation], which is a platform for collaboration between the SHASS and departments in ... is one of the greatest issues of our day has led her to pioneer the Climate Project at MIT. The goal of this project is to figure out how to get

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  the Conner side much more than I did in my freshman year. It's funny to ... living spaces. In dorms where this is not the case (which is most of them ... There is so much to say about residential life at MIT.  On campus

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / CPW

  I’m nervous to meet you A letter to the prefrosh at the dawn of CP*

  

  mostly at ease talking to strangers in-person. But now we have “Meet the ... in person. I’ve been looking forward to being a Blogger at the “Meet ... virtual stuff that makes me nervous in order to function in the real world

  • by Powers '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Travelogue: Part Une Trip to Bath and meeting an MIT professor thousands of miles away from MIT

  

  from London to Bath around 8am. The most adventurous part of it is ... and walking to the Cambridge train station in sub-zero temperature, say ... really fast in the most graceful manner possible. And yes, I did stumble

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  trying to figure it out an attempt at a goodbye

  

  . This post is hard to write. Not in the emotional “I’m not ready to say ... . But trying to rush that process thirty-thousand feet in the air just isn ... graduate school to understand exactly what mattered most to me in undergrad

  • by Phi A. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  To our prospective students and their families on taking care of ourselves and the people we love

  

  worry about how things will look to us.   In the last few weeks, I have ... developed a dedicated COVID-19 FAQ topic to provide the most up-to ... it serves as a reminder to us all that what is most important during

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being an Upperclassman Less than two years left

  

  It’s hard to believe that I am now in the latter half of my college ... feeling to realize that you know things that most people don’t; on the flip ... that I think I want to work in—transportation planning. It is nice to

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A catchup I answer questions, now that I'm no longer drugged...

  

  landed in the jail cell with Mercer to beat the you-know-what out of him is ... classes. Keep in mind that this is only current for the Class of '10, so the ... . Are you required to take 2 or 4? Is the CI-M required (for, say

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  " kinds of solutions in the village, and how the final hand-dug well is much ... closest to the clean water). But in addressing other issues, we hope access ... much larger in diameter than the shared, shallow wells people just make

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Julia’s Day Out Almost 10 things I've learned since living in Boston

  

  this is the best time to tell you about some of  the things I first ... just do not like (hint: deflategate) it is just much safer to lie. My ... . The “T” is the shorthand for the MBTA subway system in Boston. Since the

  • by Julia Potts
  • April 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  sticker stories adorned on my water bottles

  

  still in the luggage area, submitted item retrieval paperwork to the ... did manage to find the bottle in the corners of old photos! Pardon the ... had my bottle out. So, here is me adding to the blogger bottle lore

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  suggestions for MIT merch but they're bad

  

  of year again for my favorite seasonal meme: The holiday season is a time for gift-giving. A couple of weeks back, I visited the MIT Coop to ... /c^2)*sqrt(-1)*(PV/nR).” As much as the items sold there are decent, I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 10, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  truck stop town. a city in the central valley that used to have a bean ... want to go to the east coast, where culture is!” and throws a fit when the only uc she gets into is davis — “i don’t want to go to a fucking

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a major road to trouble exploring interests as a baby beaver

  

  eventually felt that engineering was what I would want to major in the most. It ... can be attributed to how course selection in college is a double ... ."]physics?[/annotation]These seemed like the most likely trajectories. But over time, these seemed to

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  With Apologies to Dr. Seuss why MIT is amazing, a la buzzfeed

  

  you're in a Slump, you're not in for much fun. Un-slumping yourself is ... ! Do you dare to stay out? Do you dare to go in? How much can you lose ... . Everyone is just waiting. Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 4, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  most of my belongings in too many cardboard boxes. The dust on my walls ... 'll meet up again in whichever city we happen to be in at the same time and ... each others' arms, screamed profanities in the courtyard, maxed out the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  answer, because MIT is the community you will spend most of your time in ... a few anecdotes to give you a picture of what the city is like. And, in the comments please let us know if you have other anecdotes to add

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Black Panther 2 Plot (Totally Real) (Not Clickbait) (Please Click Anyway Though) Not a fanfiction about Black Panther (because I am not a fan)

  

  on the Harvard bridge. T’Challa won’t feature much in this film ... operations cause the king of the oceans to attack Wakanda in a desperate bid to ... first architecture college in the US? At MIT, she chooses to live in

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  positive and negative energy revisiting midnight gospel

  

  interviews. in the third episode, darryl, the interviewee, is an ex-convict who ... says things like: “The reason that meditation is so important in magic ... our energy is going to flow in, so when you're doing magic, you want to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 5, 2023