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• Blog / MIT Life

  This is wondrous strange. Why didn't the ostrich cross the road? Because a girl had no pants on.

  

  , then whom can you trust? Turns out that there's a zoo in Dorchester. I ... can run 43 miles per hour, which is much faster than I can pedal my bike ... . And I saw an ostrich across the street from a Chinese restaurant in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 25, 2005
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can I study Global Change Science/Climate?

  predict changes in the global environment. Additionally, a variety of
• Blog / Challenges

  from me to you burn it all down

  

  the people I’ve met on hall, learning how to skate down in the tunnels ... Sometimes, you need to let things go up in flames. . . . I have ... in me. I look back at who I was a month ago and it takes me some time

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  am i boring or just overstimulated?

  

  can take in college as an extension of being young, fairly detached from ... fully carpe diem-ing or whatever. Is how interesting I am proportional to ... interesting place? Or to how much I do compared to those around me? I feel that

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 5, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving yet another senior writing about their last semester

  

  can no longer be a part of “When people ask me why I live in ... and i thought about how absurd it was that i was even allowed to be ... , except i suppose they’re also allowed to be in the office. but when you

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 20, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  I Don’t Know where am i going to be a year from now?

  

  a senior in high school trying to figure out which college I would be ... [/annotation]has kind of exploded into a thousand different directions. Usually, I can ... realities really could be me in a year. And as I continue this whole process

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  a house tour of mit sororities! meet aphi, axo, and theta

  

  're interested, I've also talked a bit in the past about what the sorority recruitment and experience is like, which you can read here. Because a lot of us spend so much time hanging out at our respective sorority houses, I

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 21, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Reading folders A little bit more on evaluating applications.

  

  throughout the reading of the application), I'll dive right in. How do you ... application by thinking a bit about the applicant's context. I can see much of ... better picture of who you are, how you are in the classroom, how you think

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2021 another year another book post

  

  -deception.' 'How can a man live in perfect harmony?' To which YISUN replied, 'Non ... feelings; it's how I came to the word mudita, for example. In France, the ... the largest impact in how I approached programming. I think these two

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  will.i.am: An entry by Prof. Patrick Henry Winston The Black Eyed Peas' frontman hangs out at MIT.

  

  at MIT whenever he is in town. This time I took him to see robots in ... besides, I hadn’t been to a good concert since the Rolling Stones were in ... I got an email the other day from Professor Patrick Henry Winston ’65

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  How To Fumble Your Way Through MIT and Still Turn Out Pretty Okay Step 1: Fumble. Step 2: Turn out pretty okay.

  

  less than stellar. I sat in my assigned seat at a table next to Jennifer ... making the final cut. This is not how my college applications went. I was ... emerged since then: I am twenty-five, not sixteen, and my mucking about in

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Embracing Change How I came to be a cook in a professional kitchen this summer

  

  passed on to me. I counted. The word “how” appears 12 times in the ... , seen, or experienced before. I got a new job, worked part time in a ... from, and how I used to be. I used to be afraid of change. Complacency

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 20, 2015
• Blog / Residential Life

  how to grow a vibrant kresge just add sod

  

  torment season. From August to March, the grass in front of Kresge is hit ... it to mud. Recovery begins in April, when it is no longer snowing, and the rain is sufficient to water [annotation note="I have all sorts of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 18, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snowed In at the Fraternity the blizzard is real.

  

  's my mission to give you as complete a picture of MIT as I can, I'm excited that I'll be sharing other people's experiences in the future with you so that you can get to know them too, not just me. I know that for

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 28, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  what i ate in a month* *basically true to my word this time but at what cost

  

  trader joes for the second time in two days (obsessed what can i say) and ... note="i live in Burton-Conner and thus am free from the shackles of a ... [annotation note="in Toronto specifically… I didn’t research or travel far

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A love letter to psets Masochists In Training

  

  frolic in the joys of psetting while I can, eh? p^3.s. don't worry, despite ... concept. You've twisted my mind in ways I didn't know it could twist before ... equations and formulas that I learned in high school, but by making me apply

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Upside-Down Letters We will get to the bottom of whatever caused this error, that much I can…

  

  MIT stationary, I cannot begin to tell you how sorry I am. That is ... -bad letter even worse. I only hope that you can accept our apology and ... sign that we don't care. While I understand how one could feel that way

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  the one where i talk to ameer what is real again?

  

  " anymore? In an effort to figure that out I wanted to have a conversation ... 's talk about stuff so I can blog it." And, that's what this is. Ameer and I talking about stuff. --- Ameer: Yerrrrrr Kellen: Ok, so in this new

  • by kellen manning
  • April 9, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Katharine Hepburn’s Brownies How Kate saved my kitchen cred.

  

  . Because I truly, truly do. No, I can’t tell you my favorite flavor of ice ... accessorizing? Is soft serve an option, or not? What’s my day been like? Am I in ... not something that can be decided on a whim. So when I tell you

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Life Changes, Described by a Frosh Yultide Day 3

  

  is in the world and how little I can access in a lifetime, let alone ... changed in life. For example, I realized how little I know and how uncertain ... , I thought I knew how to handle life. In fact, I had a clear vision in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 28, 2018