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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hi, I’m New Here The requisite introduction.

  

  I'm a member of the class of 2010. (Yeah. I'm new here. Let's hear it for built-in excuses for not knowing what's going on!) I was born in Jamaica, but I moved to the Miami/Fort Lauderdale area in Florida at age

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  a blog from the universe aka me + my tarot cards + finals season procrastination

  

  ’s my general understanding of how to approach tarot. I’m going to model ... tarot deck is how the artwork really tells the story, which I’ll try to ... , I can’t help feeling like my world is smaller again; I’ve already

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • December 14, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  experiences, or the lack thereof flailing around in a sea of adjectives trying to find the noun

  

  Part I August 2020: I read a stray comment in the blogger slack that sets off a chain of thoughts in my head. Pulled by some force I can ... . "I can't publish this," I think, "I can't even look at it." I close the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 13, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 2) 12 hours of coastal biking and other Spanish adventures

  

  France, and ended up in Spain. Because I was asleep, I don’t remember much ... warmth. The world felt anew, like we were in the first episode of a new ... parking, which I had never seen in a city layout before. It felt like those

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 11, 2024
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  My First Few Weeks at MIT … one year ago

  

  , and failure. Fun. IT’S MIT. As new fears kept piling on, I started ... . I can power through.” Spoiler alert: I was wrong. I didn't just power through MITES, I absolutely fell in love with it. I remember stepping out

  • by Hala K. '29
  • September 22, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Have you seen your mother baby standing in the shadow? A visitor's guide to Harrisburg, PA, with original soundtrack by Billy Mack.

  

  Allison's new [Video Retailer] Movie Pass in hand, I vacillated between ... rocked and I think you should buy it. Actually, I have no idea how to play ... thing in the world? I leave this as an exercise for the reader. I can

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Last First Month Because I procrastinated too long to say 'day' or 'week'

  

  people or how to chameleon in various social situations. I have a lot of ... 've been in a while. Sometimes I'm afraid that I'm not 'MIT' enough to blog ... - Fundamentals of Ecology i.e. everything I've ever wanted in a biology class here

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MFA Boston A trip to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts

  

  . Look at the good weather, even in November! I wonder how long this will ... companies in America, William I. Koch is an international businessman ... , and antiques in the United States.' " 'Things I Love' features choice

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Week 1 ...of Year 2.

  

  , parties, and other events in an effort to attract new members. Last year, I ... Here’s how things have been going lately: I run a lot, I eat too much ... now it feels a little more like home. — I'm a sophomore and a new

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 14, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  For Those Weeks When You Just Cannot We all have those weeks, sometimes you need a break

  

  them all away. I went to a new counselor in the morning who taught me ... times like these I need to know I'm not alone in how I am feeling. I was ... never ended. I can't say what happened, but it was unfortunate. And no

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  add that I'll buy Jonathan's description, and that it's amazing how much ... dispell with names, each student can be RFID tagged? I know he was mostly ... telling people my major in words instead of numbers, and I always say the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  The Quest Continues and into the open world i go

  

  pastures, and that I can continue to say that I'm in the place that I am ... dream. And sometimes, even in spite of the photos, I’ll still wonder if it ... , they seem to appear in flashes way more frequent than I was used to. And

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 29, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Visit to the Museum of Fine Arts There's nothing like a trip to the Museum of Fine Arts to make you realize…

  

  my interest in the arts, so I thought I would make the most of my day ... crashed in World War I, so he gave up that dream in favor of becoming an ... display, but when I googled it I got a different painting as a result. In

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Perfect weekend Sun, fun, and Plymouth Rock.

  

  not to get skin cancer. I got to prance around in my new polka ... excited to learn new things. 3. Hannah asked, I'm curious, how does one ... in the City" on my iPod. There is basically nothing better than walking

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Pics from the WMBRBQ! Do You Like College Radio??

  

  uploaded to this website in that form, so i had to convert every single one ... with work. I got all excited with the new semester and joined some new ... !! You can listen to WMBR @ 88.1FM on the radio in the greater Boston area

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Your questions & my answers.

  

  . ------------------------------------- Visali wrote, "Can you explain why MIT is very selective? I know that it's the one of the most selective colleges in the US. I know applicants have ... every student we admit we know can do the work in both MIT's science

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to a Package of Dial Soap Substantial entries will come soon!

  

  to see how much I've grown In brainpower and stamina for sleepless ... shopping there And when I was about to buy soap, I Reached for the three ... -bars Of soap can last me for five semesters But I say, that's the magic of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 6, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  The MySpace Survey Mid-summer frivolity, part two.

  

  . How old are you? 32 003. What is the link to your website, blog, or ... this year? teach nance how to publish his blog entries so that i don ... ? i like both, but usually coffee In the last month have you... 031

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  #tbt: MIT Cribs Digging up some old freshman-year blog posts

  

  unread in a tiny corner of the internet, so I can dust off the MIT ... ’t F*** This Up”). New planner! Because I’m all grown up and in college ... friends in my dorm than a million-dollar view, but I guess I can’t be

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 5, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  rearview reflections newly-minted cruft rambles on post-mit life

  

  things in college (missed)   Let’s say I want to learn how to do Pogo sticking for a new, outside-of-work challenge. I could go buy a Pogo stick if ... ], but that can be hard to find at first in a new city. It’s still worth it

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 28, 2025