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• Blog / Events

  Classy celebration, 5E-style

  

  Florey know how to celebrate in style. *grin* ... about what to get. For one thing, I had no idea what skirt/dress size I ... me in my ignorance, it would be a major fashion faux pas to wear this

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  Yestermonth’s IAP Everyone else is doing it.

  

  tend to get much more done for yourself. Some people spend IAP home, or ... , blacksmithing, pistol, etc. That said, I'm finally getting back to the alleged ... I did get to spend the other half pondering my project and customizing

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 14, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Joint Post] Chatting with Hank Green, the MIT Commencement Speaker interviewing Hank + sharing student stories!

  

  reminded me how beautiful it is to be human. Amidst all his projects, Hank ... arms when he gets to campus! Interview with Hank We had some questions ... a huge fan of things. Like, I tend to consume content in a way that is

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  TEDxCambridge! 1. How TED talks can improve your life 2. Recently hosted and filmed right here…

  

  remarkable people, free to the world." I started watching them in high school ... we were going to host a TED Conference right in our very own Kendall ... asking who I was and why I wanted to attend. I ended up getting a

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  senioritis i wish i had no work today

  

  enough to enjoy. now that i'm back in school i can feel how different it ... in bed, wanting to take a nap even if i feel well-rested. i've started ... senioritis in non-schoolwork things too. i don't feel like going to many of the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 31, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas a good semester ‘twas :’( the end of Pass/No Record

  

  ’s joy in challenge, in starting out having absolutely no idea how to begin ... awesome Nigerian food—how I missed that!—and looking forward to a wedding ... not just because it took two buses, the T, and an hour to get there). I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 29, 2013
• Blog / Events

  eclipse chasing, undergrad edition compilation post by Kano '25, Allison '27, Amber '24, Ali '26, & Audrey '24

  

  getting access to Caroline fell through. In the wise words of one of our ... are just like the rest of us, in a hurry to get from one place to ... Albans City in Vermont but, early on the way we then decided to go to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 22, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Young Guru & the Metropolitan Opera The Arts at MIT

  

  day soon get your art on again. (Maybe when you graduate, the cynic in ... time in which to draw on unexpired inspiration). There are incredible ... and Planning major in me got real excited. The exhibit considers "how

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 15, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i will meet zendaya even if it’s the death of me a wide-ranging rant written while feverish

  

  couple days, leaving me to overthink in bed. It happened as soon as I moved ... that rotting in bed alone is a privilege, not a right. So to distract ... probably connected to a lot of deeper things than this blog can go into

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 26, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Conversations with graders And other ramblings of a frosh...

  

  concepts that I couldn't quite remember how to do and a couple that I just ... evaluations for us to fill out about him. I suggested that we work in small ... that only gets seen by some poor undergrad grader. I was tempted to write

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 2 The next installment of my saga...

  

  Not surprisingly, you all seem to be the most interested about how ... interview plays in selection so while I’d planned to start at the very beginning—a very good place to start, I think I’ll have to start in the middle

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 30, 2008
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT have any age limits?

  /employers and other supportive materials that would assist us in getting to know ... , the more creative you'll have to be in submitting supportive ... courses at a community college or in a non-degree program prior to applying
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  summertime! and the livin's easy?

  

  Tick list. Oomf. I need to get on that. I know I'm on top of the things that I ... 've been in a bit of writing rut but, as I was reading through an email I sent out to my friends, I thought: oh! this would be a cute blog so that

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • July 15, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  24 Hours From sleeping in a homeless shelter to waltzing in La Sala

  

  , then read it again. Kirstyn sat out in the hall, on her laptop. To get to ... Harvard, we scurried out the sliding doors in a frenzy. We made it to the ... '), and where in the kitchen you would hide if aliens invaded. I wanted to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 24, 2013
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What does “drinking from a fire hose” mean?

  Getting an education from MIT has been likened to taking a drink from a fire hose—the sheer number of opportunities and rigor of our ... must pass a swim test in order to graduate!
• Blog / Events

  RecomMITted On Ring Delivery and the halfway mark

  

  's motivated me to get through some hard weeks — "It's almost time," they said ... forward to in the next two years. PC: Chheangkea Ieng.   Best ... . Why I gave up the opportunity to go to school in the same department as

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 2, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  scherzi.    I can’t listen to Paganini’s Caprice No. 24 anymore. In ... , only feeling. It was this wonderful opportunity to wander about in my ... Chinese” in bold underneath, as if that’s good enough to fool you. You learn

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re Not Alone Even if you think you are.

  

  : Integrated Chemical Engineering 12:00 - 1:00 PM: Lunch/Time to breathe 1:00 - 2 ... seminar in Japanese Politics and Society 3:00 - 5:00 PM: seminar in Japanese ... was awake. "Hey Boone, I went to office hours for ICE tonight." "Cool

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • October 17, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Boston’s college mascots, placed into a Tree of Life a project that nobody asked for

  

  finicky when I only have Google to get my source material from. Different ... student thing to do." This is the best compliment I've received in the past ... Have you ever wondered how different college mascots are

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 18, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  624 Hours: Columbia, MO or, Things I Made While I Was Home

  

  altitude over some undetermined state in the Midwest. I’m now writing, I can ... the last 26 days in my hometown – Columbia, MO. Located in the heart of ... parts like this: (I call this one, What The Two Hour Drive To The

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 19, 2012