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• Blog / MIT Life

  the best thing i did for myself as a pre-frosh the one where i gush about burton one

  

  and soaking in the Boston sun on one of those early spring days where ... resemble the campus I fell in love with, the one I encountered in this same ... . Luckily, college orientations are funny in that they're a lot like

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • April 7, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  I asked people at MIT what they were doing for Pi Day 2025 something is rising... 3/14/25 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  Pi Day is a big deal at MIT. Not only does it go hand-in-hand with ... . JOHN: We’re both heading over there in a few minutes. Gonna be dope. A ... costumes? The flyers didn’t really elaborate on— FRANK AND JOHN: (in unison

  • by Jebby B. '25
  • March 7, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Something to chalk about “These murals are f*cking rad” – Petey

  

  ! Not with paint (as students used to do in East Campus and Burton Conner ... chalk murals in Simmons last year, but [annotation note="For unsavory ... [/annotation]. It was a sad day when we moved back in and saw they were gone, but now

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 24, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  can’t stop smiling a time capsule for freshman fall

  

  I started writing a blog about freshman fall four months ago, in ... entrance to Baker. I couldn’t stop smiling as I waited in line for food. I ... seminar, or while knitting in a library study space, or just in my room

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  things i have done since leaving school but only in the ten hundred most used words

  

  friends drank at bars decided that black is my best color played outside in the sun and in the cold played lots of games got back into hitting ... to be a doctor in games computers and learning didn't get into the big

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 19, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  dumb little poems and such emotional support procrastination

  

  pretend   fight me if my past self could talk to me We thrash in ... , fragmented by time Lashes out at its own decisions Stand up and look me in the ... , a player in a perfect tragedy Vibrant prose dances sentences And dulls

  • by Anika H. '26
  • November 7, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  walking into the MEng thoughts about a 63-mile trek

  

  's Island in Maine, along with Nathan S. '25 and Jonathan H. '25, I took my ... would take us 22.5 hours, crossing[annotation note="I mean, we were in ... darkness of Highway 1 in the evening, until, finally, at 2:50 AM, we stumbled

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 8, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  Parental advice, revisited… a self-referential throwback, that is somehow, still relevant

  

  child for success in the college application process?” About two years ago ... probably even more interested in why.  It is entirely possible that your efforts to position your child for success in the admission process, at MIT

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 2 Hearing Amazônia

  

  If you missed part 1 of the Fredventure, be sure to check that out in ... hike around in the thickets of the rainforest. At MUSA, we were split ... arthropods in the rainforest? Or that adult scorpions glow bright cyan under UV

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  last first day (take 3) there are so many other blogposts with this title

  

  't even quite understand what right means in this case. I spent the first month of this year in Europe, studying abroad in Madrid before going on a ... missed being in a proper routine. This semester I am taking the most

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 8, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXachusetts Institute of Technology your guide to the daily confusion

  

  and pick the place where you fit in best with the culture and residents ... published in the Tech in a center-spread titled The Daily Confusion (see e.g. TDC for 2015, 2014, and 2013). In recent years, in an attempt to make

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  you can care about things revisiting stoicism

  

  both in the context of writing a blog and in the context of being a ... people around you, often in significant and long-lasting ways how do people in these areas reconcile “not being able to change other people

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • July 18, 2022
• Blog / Mailings & Comms

  Be a Blogger 2022!

  

  It is summer in Cambridge, which means that: I am growing an ... 's a million fun things happening in the Kendall/MIT Open Space it is ... pick your classes, or a really cool new thing you learned today in class

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  random thoughts about choices why mit? why not mit?

  

  't made the decision yet, well, i was once in your shoes. i didn't commit ... things that matter to me i never would've expected. in particular, what ... being in mit. despite that, i'm still happy i chose mit. the other day i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 29, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  happy lunar new year the year of the tiger

  

  Google search, those in their ben ming nian (birth year) may encounter ... of the tiger, I was in sixth grade. Nicki Minaj was on the radio ... has been twelve years. I am so very old. A lot has happened in the last

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  I Could Never Do it Alone People of a semester, thank you

  

  often at MIT: I could never do it alone.  With this in mind, I wanted to share memories of friendship in the form of a poorly formatted digital ... '25 and I taking a ginger shot in front of Cambridge City Hall

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 19, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivery 2021 meet me halfway

  

  Delivery typically happens in your sophomore spring, to mark not only the ... result of the pandemic, we weren't able to have a ring delivery in the ... students in your class year that works on designing the brass rat as well as

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / CPW

  Who’s psyched? I’m psyched! It's gonna be stitchin'!

  

  am employed this year, in an industry that wasn't absolutely devastated ... in a new house that my wife and I just finished building. Well, we didn ... 's brand new and we love it! We've been in it for about three weeks. There

  • by Snively '11
  • April 6, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  walking, walking, walking walking and/as coping

  

  been fantastic in a lot of different ways. I'm back in Cambridge, I did a [annotation note='this is a program run by CAPD which has, in the past, been ... actually find me in a photo in this post!']micro-internship[/annotation] at a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 31, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  How to (Im)properly Get an Independent Study another step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  , we are taking 6.910 Independent Study in EECS!  We really wanted to ... offered in the fall. So constructing an Independent Study seemed like our ... the list we made in this post. Come up with an idea for a project

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2020