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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  BREAK MY BODY, LIBERATE MY SOUL a student-made installation in the Stata Center R&D pub

  

  least a decade, but has since been abandoned for wayfaring students to ... hunts, and the like, which is why I was fascinated to hear that one of my ... installation. a complex installation that would take several months to build, no

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  's very easy to get caught up in the daily metronome of life, especially when you're on a set schedule. Every day, I wake up, I work out, I go to class, I talk to my friends, I do work, I head home, I sleep. Next day

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  the pnr mindset vs. the grindset mindset pnr shall be missed

  

  I had expected to adopt MIT terminology into my own vocabulary ... going to my [annotation note="it was a bit of a shock going home for ... extent to which I ended up adopting my friend’s terminology into my own

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • January 15, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  was awkward, always too busy reading to pay attention to others, and ... middle school. By high school, I had grown used to being treated differently, and I no longer hated it as much, because, to be frank— Imagine a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  The View is Worth It but you have to make the climb yourself to find out

  

  My boyfriend and I made an impromptu trip to Montana over the weekend ... who loves hiking, I was stoked. I coerced my boyfriend to wake up at 3 AM so we could get to the parking lot by 6:45 to ensure a spot because

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 7, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  *Independent* Activities Period an IAP apart!

  

  happened: Sometime in November, we got an email sent to the Art Scholars ... , but it said it will involve AI and art! That was enough to sell us, so we both applied! We both got to the phone interview stage. A couple

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Little Rectangles Thoughts from Junior spring

  

  mostly like to talk about MIT as a physical entity. “Look at this cool ... the back of my mind. It started as snippits and sentences that came to me when I was walking to class or sorting books in the library. Then I

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  flyer I’d taken at the door, wanting to remember every sentence I heard ... asked him what he’d like to say to students in his situation, undocumented students thinking of applying to MIT, his response was quick. “Do it,” he

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Embarrassing Mistakes I Have Made…So Far Me: 0 MIT: 1 morbillion

  

  ."]all the GIRS apparently have to have their midterms at the same time ... ’re pretty much bound to make mistakes. But that’s ok, because mistakes are how ... learned from them, ranging from slightly embarrassing to “I wanted to lock

  • by Leya E. '30
  • October 4, 2026
• Blog / Challenges

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  will be some light spoilers, so if you want to read the series, now ... MIT. People told me that it was going to be hard, that there would be too many things to do and that I had to live with not doing them all

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  I: Exposition. To be able to tell this story in full, we must start ... teaching abroad"]IAP,[/annotation]when an email is sent to our dorm mailing ... ="Campus Preview Weekend, during which we welcome prefrosh to MIT

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating the PM Interview the crash course i wish someone gave to me

  

  I took this internship to figure out whether or not I wanted to pursue ... ultimately came to the conclusion that I really liked product management and wanted to work on it in the future. I'm writing this post because I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 10, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008: So I think I’ll go to Boston (Guest Entry) More pictures than your body has room for!

  

  to take a physics league test before zooming off to Metropark station to catch my 10 AM train. A couple days before, I had arranged to travel ... station, and to our surprise and delight, there were 4 other MIT ‘12s there

  • by Snively '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  A Recipe for Staying Whimsical and dealing with stress in the upcoming months

  

  With the "-ber" months right around the corner, it's very easy to get ... , and other stressful activities that make it hard for you to make time for yourself. But in order to make sure you don't burn yourself out, it

  • by Richard O. '28
  • August 31, 2026
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  riven i don't like moving ;-;

  

  riven im excited to move back to east campus and cambridge and be at mit   but i'm also really stressed and tired and upset thinking about leaving and having to pack and unpack all my stuff and

  • by Victor D. '27
  • August 19, 2026
• Blog / Blog Projects

  another day of spring when canvas went down and i fell prey to overcommitment (again)

  

  immediately had to get ready for a meeting) and was running on 5 hours of sleep ... skies and shimmering waters. Unfortunately for me, I had no time to enjoy the view and instead had to lock in on my final projects. However, in a

  • by Janet G. '27
  • May 14, 2026
• Blog / About Decisions

  the life I could’ve lived it’s like one of those “what if” episodes

  

  For most of high school, I knew exactly which college I wanted to go to. I planned out my major, looked through course offerings, and ... school Hala, she would’ve confidently told you she was going to go to the

  • by Hala K. '29
  • April 12, 2026
• Blog / Advice

  everyone* knows each other sin limite/ebony affair/cpw psa; class of 2030 discord plug

  

  , and similar circles. These circles tend to intersect and so even if not ... high schoolers such as MITES (MIT Introduction to Technology, Engineering ... to MIT, I hadn't interacted with these circles[annotation note

  • by Victor D. '27
  • April 9, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life But make it four

  

  little montage where you get to see the live comparison of how each person spends their day. My roommates and I wanted to do the same thing but in ... our best to snap a picture every hour of what we were doing at the

  • by Gloria Z. '26 MEng '27
  • February 10, 2026
• Blog / Challenges

  cookies life lessons through six scrumptious sayings

  

  mission to bake as many cookies as possible and hand them out to people I ... school backpack, slipping them under the desk to friends during class. So ... ="The icing on the cake, the cake is a lie, to take the cake, and cakewalk

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 13, 2025