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• Blog / Events

  Why Leadership? (guest post) Inclusive leadership and vision-building at LeaderShape 2018.

  

  Shape program. As a student—at MIT or anywhere else—it can be easy to lose ... importance of taking time periodically to think about my vision of the ideal ... come true. “You have no right to be shy, when you have a gift to give

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of the 2.009 Final Presentations rough, tough, messy!

  

  . From interactive climbing to portable AEDs, I felt that all the products ... to know, this is a really great blog post), I wanted to give a recap of ... message to a master controller which relays that signal to a motor

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • December 26, 2016
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  my STORY of helping Wyoming students shoot for the STARS get it? do u get it??

  

  made the journey from a rural upbringing to working at selective ... ) College Network and managed to both plan and execute a five-state/25 ... the highway turned out to be quite a highlight; one of the best parts of

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Liveblog: Info Session with Karyn Blaser! Learn about MIT

  

  Hey everybody, I'm taking a break from working on 2.004 in order to ... slides, etc) online for people to get a similar educational experience as ... to find a cure for cancer. MIT's motto is "Mens et Manus," Mind and

  • by Snively '11
  • October 12, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  So who is this Laura person, anyway? Hello and welcome to the single coolest blog on the entire admissions website. My name…

  

  to declare Course 2 (Mechanical Engineering) as a major and possibly ... ever, ever, EVER refers to it as "Joisy." This is a Brooklyn accent, not ... Waterpark. This means I get paid a very small hourly wage to stand outside all

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  Food for Thought [guest post] On food and our culinary club, Mince

  

  about it. This itself was like finding yourself at a meadow, and having to ... gravity, a first principle to found my life upon. I’m not sure when it ... belongings I hauled to campus my first year of college was a cleaver carefully

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 4, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogging Is The Salt Shaker Of My Life thinly veiled platitude included free in box of metaphors

  

  to blogging propriety: "Imagine you are writing a letter to your ... parents, and potentially anyone who knows how to use a search engine ... from a lackluster turn of phrase, or to propel a drowning post inherently

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Restoring Sanity… and Fear And love of cats.

  

  adding Halloween to my blog post, but it was a rather quiet Halloween in my ... -or-treating (ahem…) – it was tradition for me to sit outside in a chair pretending to ... down the street who I scared a bit earlier to break out in laughter

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Summer Reading Challenge Read with me!

  

  honestly more of a long essay that happens to be bound than a book, but I got ... Gene by Siddartha Mukherjee (the sequel-ish to a book above) (was too ... -fi stories (!!!!), in a very organic way. Going to try and add to that~ Some

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  . It's virtually impossible to summarize yourself in a few paragraphs ... to a prompt. You are not your résumé. Specifically for the MIT ... "Activities" section is to capture a glimpse of you outside of what you look

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen AKA, the "Magic Pen"

  

  . A flashback to a previous entry is probably a good way to begin this ... everything you write and syncs it to your computer to be used later in a ... notes you're taking. All it takes is a tap on a word you've written to

  • by Snively '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Reflecting on the great memories of my freshman year ☀️ When life gives you lemons, share them with others >:) ☀️

  

  I’m officially 2A, planning to minor in Energy Studies and Theatre Arts. I wanted to share with you what makes MIT such a special place for ... always been a quiet type, and so I often find it difficult to make new

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 21, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bio? My sort-of bio, but not the Course 7 kind.

  

  moved to Northern California in 2000, just in time for warm weather and a ... In my past entry, a few students commented with the request that I post a biography of myself. I wrote a list of things I do and don't like

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday! 1 in 365 readers are really pleased that I remembered their birthday! ...or creeped out…

  

  blogger is honoring them for their birthday, not to mention a little creeped ... confused. Let me clarify: If today does happen to be your birthday, have a ... friends. The important word to understand in that sentence is ‘celebrating

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life Tokens the currency of joy

  

  importantly, though, when you land on these squares, you also get to pick up a ... ), buying a house, and eventually retiring. The goal is to collect as much ... donating to a charity. Sometimes, though, you land on a “LIFE” square. Each

  • by Allison E. '27
  • July 6, 2025
• Blog / Events

  A Brief History of Thursday I met Kip Thorne.

  

  wonders of educational television, I wanted to be a cosmologist like Stephen ... to give a colloquium at MIT. Kip, for the biology students reading this ... community. Thanks to my well-documented genetic inability to win a single

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  the children yearn for the snow quarry 120 bricks, 80 man hours, 3 tons of snow, 2 forts, and a partridge in…

  

  only mean one thing--IT'S TIME TO BUILD A SNOW FORT! Part 1: The ... snow shenanigans. When? It’s important to build your fort before ... stickiness to form blocks, and also you’ll suffer more. With a cold front

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Life Lessons From Pistol Class But they don't buy pajamas / For pistol packin' mamas!

  

  Technically, there isn't much to shooting a pistol. Load rounds into ... in my head, as I type this. It's soothing to step through a routine ... usual routines with reckless abandon in a desperate attempt to hold too

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Take Only Memories Leave Only Footprints

  

  IHTFP, which can mean a variety of things to a variety of people, have been passed down through MIT generations as a sort of rite of passage. To ... years. I joined GEL for the opportunity to develop leadership skills in a

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  SHE CAMPUS ON MY PREVIEW TIL I WEEKEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my freshman cpw post turned east campus love letter

  

  it was hard not to forget that I had psets for a couple of days. Here ... CPW events to give incoming students a taste of their unique brand of ... . Those who fell below a certain threshold would have to eat a sardine (a

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 6, 2025