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• Blog / Classes

  Me and the Firehose on balancing classes, and choosing next year’s schedule

  

  . My mom once told me about an experiment where lemmings learned to swim ... complex, convoluted routes to the center. Every time they were returned to ... to take six classes, bitch about it, have no time…  [caption id

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  teaching web.lab aka what i spent all of january on

  

  carry 40-pound boxes of food from mass ave to building 13 every day. every ... that classes are no longer allowed to serve food. you feel the strain in ... and care involved in delivering every bite of food to your doorstep

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 1, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  girls just wanna have fun when u gonna live ur life right?

  

  less than 48 hours to my next 6.006 midterm, I sit here contemplating the future and what is to come. This past four day weekend I treated myself ... .006 instructors to move our midterm (which they did), I was able to relax from

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 24, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why I Love Taylor Swift I finally explain the reason...or at least try to...

  

  Mass Ave, from Random Hall to wherever the exam will be held. A lot of ... pressure building in my head that goes something like this: You’ll have to ... things, playing out worst-case scenarios. At some point, I learned to just

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 6, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Black Lives Matter until they don't.

  

  only way I could bring words to my feelings.  ** I moved to the United ... invariably leads to them finding out I’m from Nigeria, they ask variations of ... to pop up with surprising regularity. A lot of my newly made African

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you give a girl an assignment… ...she's going to ask if she can blog about it.

  

  doodles that I drew during class today. Nay – today… we get down to BUSINESS ... people refer to it – “The-one-with-the-guns-instead-of-swords” or “The-one ... “important” (actually, we’re going to cover Eliot and Milton would have to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 2, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! Do yourself a favor and watch this! Make sure you're not doing anything for the…

  

  On Monday, I got to see a pacemaker insertion surgery, eat lunch in ... , Course VII '76, who went to MIT when West Campus went only as far as Mac ... unofficial Course XIX still lives on to the present day). I met Dr. Lee last

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Valentine’s Day Special Featuring calculus, people who hate me, and a picture puzzle

  

  students would rather do calculus than succumb to the byproducts of rampant ... . 3. People who go to MIT lose their ability to count. Also, they forget to talk about things that they write at the bottom of lists. In

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  the threek post! my lovely lovely year on maseeh three

  

  students to explore MIT dorms and find their future home on campus. REX ... seemed to be every dorm but the one I was slated to live in for the next ... to campus and quick access to a dining hall made up for it. As long as

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 27, 2025
• Blog / Class Projects

  in which i blog again four-ish blogs in one

  

  longer lists of the books I want to read and the places I want to go, and things I want to build. I have more ideas than I have time to execute and I hate picking so I try to do everything and finish some things and not

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 29, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  30 questions with my roommates! I had writer's block so I forced my roommates to make content for me

  

  separate drafts before I decided to make my roommates Fatima and Nora do the ... " and "Wilson's Friend"), draw faces on them, and then duct tape them to ... Vincent Van Growgh, and then eat a sandwich in front of Sandwich to instill

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • January 16, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  a conversation with my mom at 1 am about cacti, writing, meche, and chess

  

  mountainsides like trees. I got the tattoo to remember the desert. I’ve been ... stomping ground. There is a beauty to the desert that you cannot see unless you grew up here, a hardness and a hardiness to everything that lives

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fuji: Not Your Grandma’s Mountain I guess if we're being honest here there were actually a lot of grandmas climbing…

  

  Mt. Fuji. I have to preface this story with a couple facts: 1) I am not ... shoes and vowed "never again." 2) For some reason, I have been wanting to ... halfway up the mountain, legs and throat on fire, clothes soaked through to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 6, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Paradiso A selection of dishes that define my MIT dining experience, part 4

  

  , and one that I often ask myself. Usually, I default to my “origin story” of coming to the US for college, getting disappointed by MIT dining ... to replicate my favorite cuisines from around the world. That, however

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 28, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maseeh Hall: Pros and Cons this is a pros and cons list re: maseeh hall

  

  to decide which dorm I wanted to live in for my first year at MIT. I ... it looks clean and it’s close to everything. 3) I can’t even remember ... reading this because you might be looking to move here in the future, or

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 15, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Walk Across Rhode Island 12 hours, 33 miles, a million aches and pains

  

  they swore to never do it again. This time they rounded up some 40 people from MIT and Brown University to walk the Walk again. I was super ... came down to crash at Brown. The students at Brown found us all nice

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  长大 on family, thanksgiving, and growing up

  

  graduate students from the local university to our house for a Thanksgiving ... of their relatives in China, a way to share the holiday with other ... on our refrigerator, listing all the dishes that had to be made. It

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 28, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  hot chocolate as a panacea navigating through a chaotic first week

  

  has been A Week™. Freshmen aren't invited back to campus this semester ... —shoutout to Selena and Sarah—mostly so I can spend some time away from my parents and get to know other people within a pandemic pod. It’s really

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Media That Makes Me Feel Okay School's out! Time to get distracted :D

  

  confusing if I didn’t tell you that I made the last-minute decision to move back to my hometown for the summer. For those who’ve been following my blogs, I actually moved to Maine with some friends when we first got

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

  MIT Experience FAQs from high school counselors

  

  Last week, high school counselors from across the country came to a conference at MIT. One of the events was a student panel, and I got to ... , Ukraine, and moved to Central Ohio during my freshman year of high school. I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2017