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• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Reflections from the STARS@MIT Fly-In a 15-author guest blog, featuring the small town/rural students that visited us this october!

  

  admissions in a more positive perspective. I have realized it is a human ... a minority. I asked him how being in the city does to one’s mental ... for fun! What made you want to come to the MIT fly-in? “I live in a

  • by Sara N. '28
  • November 11, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  An American in Copenhagen but my luggage went to Amsterdam

  

  all day. There is oatmilk in the fridge, and a basket of granola bars upstairs. In some ways this is exactly what I predicted a startup would be; in other ways, it’s better.  I’ve been just over a week in this city

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 14, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  a jaunt to Philadelphia We went to the AWP writing conference!

  

  note = "that is such an ambitious time. Did I actually wake up that early ... this case, a community around a practice that is typically solitary ... between talks and the vast hall of booths, except now I was dressed not in a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 26, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Years Through A Laptop Case a walk down memory lane

  

  and all I could do was make sure that I was bringing my best in that ... stressed out- but all I can think about is how the finish line is really in ... aesthetic. I don't even like sneakers like that. Rooh Afza: Rooh Afza is a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 10, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  An Atypical Saturday That followed an atypical week.

  

  looks like that. I hadn't been to a baseball game in a while, and I ... certainly an unusual place. Case in point: no one really asks how your day is; they ask how your week is. That's because most MIT students take this

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 30, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  one with nothing making peace with unproductivity

  

  about it than in a usual semester, then so be it! my theory is that i ... like that. it's more of a, if i don't write anything in a week then that ... doing?" in that sense it reminds me of the conundrum i had with my urop

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 5, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A follow-up

  

  feel sad to say but its reality that i am a loser who failed to got in. But i have decided that now my only aim is to get in MIT so i need your ... , that's a pretty good school too. I don't know how much college reputation

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There Are No Uninteresting Things I'm taking classes. If you ask nicely, I might tell you about them.

  

  like how MOSFETs work and signal filters. I can already tell that this is ... classes, but I know already that it's going to be a rough semester. In the ... , so when I can't, I scour the internet for a quote that's moderately

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Future of Work How can people and computers be connected so that—collectively—they act more intelligently than any individuals,…

  

  communication is the single most influential factor in how we work, from the ... years, Terkel's Working still holds up, it's a great read. I suspect in ... When I was in high school one of the most influential non

  • by Laurie Everett
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  19 Summers AHH I'm getting old :(

  

  to do justice to this in a few sentences, but I'll try. This is an ... above that. Summers 12: Basketball camp. Not a clue why I decided to do ... figure that you might be curious about how I spent my summers (particularly

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

  math major at a tech school in the ‘80’s. When was the hardest that I ... they have a system that helps keep everything in balance, and if I can ... choose to, I can graduate a semester early or drop any class that is

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Rules and who sets them

  

  happened that year, and I do that best through writing. Is there a way to ... rules that be. In particular, I wonder who created them, how they are ... is that “first years need to learn how to be independent at MIT”, but I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  miserable and magical oh, to feel moved

  

  a big deal.    in fact, most of the point of life is that ... configure our camera, but in the end, all we do is we look at the sky. it is a ... right now    a lot of the times, i am my first invalidator. it is

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogging My Way to a Passionate Life On writing, during and after MIT.

  

  can do in a long period of time. Here, he reminds us that a career is ... distilling my thoughts over the last 4-5 years. That is, in addition to no ... famous for "thinking out loud" on his corner of the web.) In that moment, I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Accepting criticism please criticize this blog post

  

  the things that I strive to do is blog every week, or at least something close enough to that. I justify it in the sense that, having a regular ... about themselves. I want to tell myself that maybe some of them are in a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Brief Retreat How a short trip to Block Island left me revitalized

  

  't even a good incentive to do it, then frankly, I don't know what is. For ... from the future. I got a crash course in not burning out - and my mentor ... away from where I live. We spent the first two or so hours in a car

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 31, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Everything Everywhere All At Once a free early screening from lsc and a q&a with the directors

  

  Once is a movie that will stick with me, that will haunt me in my bones ... screenings of movies and projects them in 26-100. I've gone to a couple of ... , the Daniels talked about how they wanted to create a movie that really

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 29, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  4 Years advice from a freshly minted alum

  

  as an introduction. What I do remember is thinking, "Wow, this ... freshman-- How are you doing in your intro classes? How much sleep are you ... awesome things these people would be doing in 10 years. That definitely

  • by Ana V. '15
  • June 8, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  pathways where do i go from here?

  

  "it's been a year since I last saw that person." "it's been a year since I was last in that room."  "it's been a year since..." in the past ... lived in the dorm, which is a hard truth to internalize. how did only a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 23, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Seasons of Spam Next up: a Nostalgic entry about my frosh year. After Finals. Maybe.

  

  -hours How do you measure, MIT time? In psets, in physics In midnights, in ... getting a free T-shirt shoved into my arms. I felt like Napoleon, doing his ... about this store, I can't see anything that's really different from a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 16, 2008