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• Blog / Featured Blogs

  1 Fish, 2 Fish, a Lot of Fish, and a Snail Putting a Big Box of Water on my Dresser

  

  So last semester I had a radical idea to get a pet aquatic turtle. I ... and wanted to get a large 20 gallon saltwater tank with a clownfish and ... to make it look appealing. So I eventually settled for a 16 gallon

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 30, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Craziest of Weeks I had one.

  

  ) senior capstone class, which is essentially a course on "How To Make Stuff And Not Have It Suck" as it is related to microbes. We spend a semester together with our team and develop a novel product to tackle antibiotic

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Process of Psetting And the technicals of technicals

  

  appropriate to blog about their culture. Q: What is a pset, and how to do you ... follow what appears to be a consensus of bloggers before me and adhere to ... sentences? A: I don’t know. I’ll probably just take great care to avoid that

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 23, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  I LOVE TATTE💖💖💖 back in boston baby

  

  A Love Letter to Tatte August 30th, 2025 Dearest Tatte, It has been ... [/annotation] between psets for a much needed comfort meal. Here's to a new year! xoxo ... know that you could only be awaiting (all of) my money to support your

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 30, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  dating while asian to love & be loved freely

  

  sported a brass-colored bob that I can now admit was ill-suited to my skin ... ’s relationship, and who are we to erase a woman’s agency by assuming she must be ... to stay polite? Was it his fault for asking me a racist question, or

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finding a job at the National Institutes of Health A guide to getting a job at the NIH

  

  complete a Senior Research Project and I thought it would be neat to do my ... to be placed in a laboratory. I thought it was just because of my lack ... find a job and figure out what they want to do in life. I also used the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 13, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  The Quest Continues and into the open world i go

  

  translate to a day in my life where I feel like I'm on top of the world, doing ... energy to. But unlike my previous sidequests, I'll have a lot of time - and hopefully, a lot of joie de vivre - to complete these with. They're things

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 29, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mexico things my MISTI experience

  

  I persuaded to come to Mexico as well. As a digressionary piece of ... impression is that at least a good majority of students who apply to MISTI do ... and a “Letter of Motivation” which explained why I wanted to do MISTI

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  furniture to ceiling when bored.1 I’m a pretty vanilla EC resident. My ... ’ll be an interesting thing to try for a month, but I don’t expect to like ... worse, “Oh my god, are you a banker now? Are you just going to sell out

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i’m back .gif not an undergrad, not a grad student, but a secret third thing

  

  -town hotels, accidentally drove through Canada, listened to a lot of [annotation ... prior, so I have a very distinct memory of us trying to find and ... . This city was where I learned how to advocate for myself and form a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Saturday at the water park

  

  worlds. Actually, it's a story about going to a water park. But the reason ... was a sweet vacation -- we got to eat Cool Dogs and scream our lungs out on the newest water slide, Dragon's Den. And I got to run around with a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Drawing from Life "is that the boldest stroke you can make?"

  

  [/annotation] major at Tufts and invites me to a life drawing session the other day in a ... for a circle of artists to sketch. Life drawing is essential to a ... planes and contours. It's fun to choose which ones to emphasize with such a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 28, 2023
• Blog / Events

  A sample of life in the past week A summary of a million events in 7 days!

  

  I can’t imagine what it must be like to face such a tragedy, I think I ... rising star in economics since her doctoral dissertation- on a new way to analyze how people respond to rising uncertainty- creating a stir on the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 21, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  telling the tale some thoughts on acting, change, and meaning

  

  to Hell, Hadestown in a song that introduces the cast of characters, before we know anything of the plot, we are given a spoiler to the whole ... the post-college world, i’d accepted that i’d never get a chance to act

  • by Phi A. '21
  • August 3, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [joint post] blogston commons with Allison E. ‘27, Ellie F. ‘28, Jebby ‘25, and Sara N. ‘28

  

  [annotation note="jebby & fatima, kai & uzay to name a few ... .  however, this does not stop us from trying to make the claim into a fact ... , with a when2meet. in true mit fashion, this attempt turns out to

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 11, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  cliché but it meant a lot to me, especially considering where I had come ... question: “Are you afraid?” To my surprise, I responded with a serene sense ... ways life would be better if I could just find a cozy nook in the past to

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

  Ho-dee-hi, hi-dee-ho, ho ho. How many digits of pi do you know?

  

  devised a new cheer that we want to do with the crowd and cheerleaders. We ... band, I'd say at least four had pi memorized to this many digits, and a ... , here the top five reasons to have a beard. 1. Warmth 2. Less shaving 3

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 1: Hartford Part 1 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  as a student at MIT. Got back to GHAMAS to set up for the Hartford ... rockin' (usually we have to bring that stuff with us). They had a free ... I hope we will), we'll move to the theater, which holds a few hundred

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Experience with Real Analysis epsilons, delta, and the technique

  

  low on a homework before, and I honestly was so confused as to how I ... taken a class and gotten so much out of it before. I did start going to my ... in my schedule. I saw that it was much more rewarding to take a course

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • June 10, 2018
• FAQ / Transfer

  Are there other classes I should take beyond the recommended coursework?

  what you would like to major in, you may also want to take a look at the ... While we can't recommend specific classes, you may want to compare the courses offered at your institution to MIT's by referring to the MIT