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• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: Really Random 19 pictures. Don't open on a dialup.

  

  of the year and then miss it? So, Mollie did that entry about life in ... band into making up this excellent photojournalistic piece about life in Random Hall. One thing she doesn't mention is that one of the floors in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 13, 2006
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Fixing a trapeze! then hanging upside-down on it

  

  sophomore year of high school, and my little sister got into it too ... concepts of damped harmonic motion and centripetal forces, which is to say we swung around and spun each other very fast. The tire swing reminded me of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 29, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  incremental game support group let's distract ourselves with games!

  

  watched Kipo and the Age of the Wonderbeasts and streamed random things until we got tired and slept. That night, people shared some of their favorite incremental games, and I think I'll share some of mine too. After

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  2014 Resolutions January 2nd and still going strong

  

  approach the rest of my goals throughout the year: Should any of my goals ... January that I can work on during IAP: 1. Simplify and keep track of my ... track of my finances In order to save money while at MIT, I pulled

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 2, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Collecting information about my friends im like if a corporation loved you

  

  : 1. who are you  This year, my form had 45 responses!!! Of them, three did not give their real name five gave a misspelling of their name ... their name. The impact of e e cummings 2. how are you  two people are

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 30, 2026
• Blog / How to Human

  looking at old journals gap year chronicles, ft thoughts on science, art, and moving through the world

  

  .  [...] And also I am happy with the sun burning brown into the back of my neck ... and carried on. I wrote a lot while I was living out of my car ... ’ve become illiterate, too hosed to read good books. For all of October I have

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 23, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo

  

  The end of the semester has come and gone, and although I meant to ... trip to India drained me of all motivation and I basically just sat around for two weeks swatting at mosquitoes and eating a lot of food

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  two years after my book auction in retrospect

  

  ’s family home in New Jersey. It was just the two of us. We’d been dating for ... apocalyptic event either of us had ever experienced. I knew the auction was ... any of those editors. They took my manuscript to acquisitions meetings

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  i’ve joined a sorority and what that means to me

  

  dorm life and all of that. TLDR: I did continuous open recruitment for ... forth between having joined a sorority. I get upset because of the archaic ... frats and srats, where frats have seemingly boatloads of money to spend on

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 21, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Starting Over it feels like this every time but this time it's different

  

  , everything was new, from the campus to the classes to the experience of living ... orientation, and I felt [annotation note="I was older than most of the other ... want one more year of Baker breakfasts with the boys and I want to start

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Leaving a Mark Painting a mural and turning my rat

  

  background for most of my junior year. I'd had my eye on the closet door it ... lettering, the gradient on the hand. Sometimes I get into uniquely productive moods, and this was one of those times -- but this one was definitely

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fact: Architecture majors have to code I don't remember signing up for this

  

  ...with programming languages. A few of us have some programming background, but for the rest of us (me!) it’s like … I don’t know, catching up with the rest of ... first project in 4.113, each one of us had to thoroughly research a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Going Social Thinking about MIT Admissions and social media.

  

  I remember the first time I ever heard of Facebook. I was donning my ... personal hero of mine) so I figured it was some sort of creepy cultish leather tome with yellowed pages and predictions about how each one of us

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Preview Weekend ...begins a week from today!

  

  working hard to finalize plans for the ~500 events we're going to cram into ... ), please do so ASAP! CPW is my favorite time of year, as I get to meet so ... 's where you'll find me over the course of the weekend... the events in bold

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] STARS@MIT: A Year in Review By Claire S. '25

  

  take full advantage of a STARS virtual college fair, look into the universities beforehand and come into the event with an idea of the institutions ... marked our second year as part of the consortium, and we’ve received a lot

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • April 23, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  mit x caltech the wedding another other comic shitpost

  

              if only i put this much effort into my academics    

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • April 1, 2026
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  the confidence of a Bostonian driver running a red light, I marched into ... Last Thanksgiving break, a few of my friends and I visited Acadia ... Airbnb months in advance, creating an itinerary of trails to hike, and even

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cooking in Quarantine making all the recipes

  

  We watch a lot of cooking content. We really like making food ... Ghibli movies and Ratatouille), and of course, eating it. During a normal ... video of a recipe we like, we email the link to ourselves, and usually try

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes, we care about your stories Reflections from the road

  a similar version of the question, “Do you care about this life ... violence during my first year of high school? Can I write an essay about how ... then had it disbanded because of problematic school administrators? Do

  • by DJ Rock
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  registration day! aka "registration day blues", but like, only in the good sense of blues

  

  July and were comparing schedules; we, even with the combined power of ... . But now -- now I am an MIT student, and so I can enlighten any of you ... Tuesday, Reg Day is the "first" day of the semester in that it's when campus

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 7, 2019