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• Blog / Residential Life

  last fall / last fall it's senior year and i still haven't learned anything

  

  -learned lessons in mind, if not in heart. Maybe the only way to learn how to live is ... to make the exact same set of mistakes as last year. I landed in Boston ... for the equivalent of 6.5 standard classes, in addition to singing in

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Events

  MIT International Or how a local Model UN conference broke molds and expectations by going abroad

  

  in my two and a half years of doing Model UN in high school - to help ... )lucky as the delegates in this year's UNSC committee, you also had to stay ... leave the world better than how we found it - in some shape or form. And

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  Cannon Hack The famous tale of the Caltech Cannon Hack.

  

  with which Fleming has responded. In their honor, we wish to afford them the grandest celebration possible. And thus another great chapter in MIT ... In my email this morning: The Howe & Ser Moving Company cordially

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Womanhood

  

  audience member in my own life? Recently, I dictated to my friend exactly the series of steps required to charm South Asian parents. Dress in a ... success. But I was almost obsessive. I had to set the curves in my classes

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 28, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  poem snippets searching for hope amidst darkness

  

  cry or laugh & i would put my hands in mud to make myself last & ... ; in the dead of night, the gold i had woven turned out to be dust ... something silly, something weightless, i want my laugh to echo and

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I’m Watching ...

  

  , the streets after a day of rain reflecting colors in the sky, and I said ... restaurant and even after when we were just getting some ice cream, because ... learning to trust shapes and colors to be the real thing? Like a faraway

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  efforts to position your child for success in the admission process, at MIT ... , and the positive developments attributed to “getting out of the way ... , the underlying question is almost always some variation of “How do I

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  good morning, MIT Guest post by Piper L. '17

  

  teammates. inevitably, we get to know each other (a bit), because, well, we ... walked into class and sat in my usual chair, and thought about how a young ... -class problems, because i didn’t want to start crying at one in the afternoon for

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  More Milk Please And a cookie too. If by cookie you mean an awesome metaphor.

  

  struggling to take it all in. Don’t get me wrong. I love it here already. Sure ... learned how to drink from the milk bowl of MIT. I'm guessing this skill ... happened to me in these two and a half weeks in just one measly blog post

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  joshua angrist shares the nobel prize! and the research is *so* cool

  

  might be interested in how going to school impacts people’s incomes. We ... economists do work that relates to [annotation note='not casual, which is how i ... essence, what we’d like to understand the chains of cause-and-effect in the

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 14, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Recap—The Book Launch Oh hi there...yes, I'm back!

  

  me. But I’ll get to that in just a bit. In Closing, A Few Things From ... written. I couldn’t say why, but it just had to be, and in the absence of ... boxes they reside in. I just want to talk about the process of bringing

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to Maseeh! A look into MIT's newest dorm

  

  's extremely convenient that I literally just have to cross the street to get to ... much that it's starting to get cliche, but I love the people here! I ... As you may or may not know, I'm a Maseehdonian (aka I live in the new

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  Number Münchners Eaten by a Trogglus Nicoise.

  

  20 euro per night price tag. The second thing we did in Nice was go to ... easy getting to sleep on my unimpeachably soft MIT mattress is) . You can ... somehow built around me. There is like one person in the world who gets that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Musings on Colorful Balls (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ramya '14!

  

  ). Basically I wanted to get the most fun out of my stay per unit time. Hey, from ... to make contact with the balls represents how much I was overwhelmed by ... enough time to say hello to each of the colored balls in Simmon's (ex

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The Blogs Turn 10: Looking Back, Looking Ahead data and narrative, past and present

  

  redesigning the homepage so that, in addition to the blogs, you also get a ... asking a bunch of former bloggers to come back and blog for us. In case you ... Years by Kim D. '09 Fake it 'til you make it by Laura N. '09 How To

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at the Media Lab

  

  I have ever seen in my life. I was determined to get to MIT Media Lab ... undergraduate admission in the past, who went on to pursue their ambitions elsewhere, and who write me, years later, to tell me how things worked out for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 24, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My 2023 Libby Wrapped I have a problem with audiobooks

  

  [/annotation]. Get the Libby app. Profit from never spending money to consume books ... borrowed it, and how long I spent listening to it. And so… after forty ... 41,207 minutes listening to audiobooks in 2023. That’s 686 hours, or 28

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2024
• Blog / Events

  4th of July Celebrations Boston, and the MIT campus, are great places to celebrate the 4th of July.

  

  Delta. The houses in the Back Bay have incredible views and great parties ... families only, you can't get much closer to the fireworks barge. The nice ... arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country, and MIT has a front

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thinking Positive Sophomore year was kind of awful. But there were happy things! I'll focus on the…

  

  easier way to put that. I wrote about my first semester in my post called ... teach the incoming Medlinks class about how to Medlink and share my horror ... be nice to get a break from the institute for a little while. I Wrote

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 17, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m Not Normal About Friends (Part 1) i lost six nights of sleep to perform amateur data analysis on a sitcom

  

  three questions. How many times does each character get to speak? Who participates in conversations the most? How many words did each character say ... show. Sure, it's a sitcom, and it's in the nature of a sitcom to rely

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2023