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• Blog / Residential Life

  Siblings, Scrabble, and Boredom we're bored in the house, and we're in the house bored

  

  my dorm in a rented Penske truck. We piled all of my boxes and bags ... 'll be given a spot in the dorms"]never see again.[/annotation] I've mostly ... leave anything in [annotation note="my dorm"]MacGregor House

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Coming Into My Own ft. an exciting semester and an exciting job lined up + making positive changes to…

  

  . That being said, this is definitely the semester in which I think I ... 've taken before. Joon's in it with me too! 6.902 + 6.911 + 6.912 (GEL) - GEL ... different UI modalities we'll be learning about in the class. CMS.362 (Civic

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Experience FAQs from high school counselors

  

  , Year, Major, Place of Birth, Dorm Hi! I’m Yuliya, a senior majoring in ... in Course 9 - Brain and Cognitive Sciences. I was born in Donetsk ... in the brain. Although the science on this is very new (the papers we

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Embarrassing One Minute everything that can go wrong...will find a worse way to manifest itself

  

  In the tale that is my Junior Spring Semester, two exciting and ... and open-ended, which means that there’s a lot of groping walls in the ... fair chunk of the grade to participating in various forms – whether it

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Final Blogpost With a heavy heart, I say goodbye to the MIT blogosphere. The journey was all…

  

  And psych! Happy April Fool’s Day! I didn’t celebrate it in ... ’t seen her in nearly nine months, so I was shaking with all the excitement ... melodramatically shrieks, “Avada Kedavra!” at Harry Potter in the penultimate forest

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  The American Astronomical Society’s Winter Conference: 2013 Edition THIS IS SO EXCITING I THINK I'M GOING TO CRY

  

  of Mountains In The Continental United States, so I stopped a random ... a very bright yellow bag tucked under the seat in front of him - it ... research at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) headquarters in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 15, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Short Dining Guide to Cambridge Where to find food within walking distance of MIT, other than in my fridge.

  

  slowly over two-hour, three-fork dinners in French restaurants with napkins pre-folded in topologically confusing structures (not that I needed to ... vegetables ($2.00 per 16 oz.) doused in oyster sauce and Sriracha, digging for

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 23, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Nerdy adventures on the West Coast Q: What changes when you transplant a few MIT students 3,000 miles? A: Not much.

  

  conversations. I can't tell you how often I find myself having in-depth and ... . (Free admission! If you're ever looking for something to do in San Fran ... pasty white or what???) Another one of the very first things we did in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Events

  DEAPS 2005 Yellowstone freshman year.

  

  in a pre-orientation program they thought I'd be able to help. Instead ... screws appear to be in their right holes, in a 10 hour marathon lab day ... graduate of Hamden High School, #6 in my class, good grades fine scores

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Burton 1 Cribs A look at the interiors of several rooms on Burton 1.

  

  In Matt's recent entry about the movie 21, he mentioned that he found ... forgo the opportunity to decorate their room - especially in dorms like ... on my floor, Burton 1, all decorated in such a way that creates a place

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 6, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  parallels or juxtapositions in one sitting at flour cafe

  

  and i am running out of time. when i was in barcelona, i talked about ... fall i was in an engineering class that pushed my brain in satisfying ways that validated my place here. this spring, i am in an engineering

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 26, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Unveiling the New Varsity Weight Room let's get buff !!!

  

  now open! Accessible to all those who participate in a varsity sport at ... putting in the work[/caption] [caption id="attachment_106057" align ... vwr[/caption] It was super cool to get to lift in the new VWR. In the

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 23, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Something to chalk about “These murals are f*cking rad” – Petey

  

  ! Not with paint (as students used to do in East Campus and Burton Conner ... chalk murals in Simmons last year, but [annotation note="For unsavory ... [/annotation]. It was a sad day when we moved back in and saw they were gone, but now

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 24, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  can’t stop smiling a time capsule for freshman fall

  

  I started writing a blog about freshman fall four months ago, in ... entrance to Baker. I couldn’t stop smiling as I waited in line for food. I ... seminar, or while knitting in a library study space, or just in my room

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  things i have done since leaving school but only in the ten hundred most used words

  

  friends drank at bars decided that black is my best color played outside in the sun and in the cold played lots of games got back into hitting ... to be a doctor in games computers and learning didn't get into the big

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 19, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  dumb little poems and such emotional support procrastination

  

  pretend   fight me if my past self could talk to me We thrash in ... , fragmented by time Lashes out at its own decisions Stand up and look me in the ... , a player in a perfect tragedy Vibrant prose dances sentences And dulls

  • by Anika H. '26
  • November 7, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Attack of the Acronyms and the space between the letters

  

  were greeted with was an absolute flood of more acronyms. In fact, I think I’ve seen more acronyms in the past few weeks than in my entire life ... two acronyms ingrained in my head. They’re the ones that defined my

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 3, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Misconceptions initial thoughts from a first-gen college student

  

  I first stepped onto MIT’s campus in the summer of my junior year ... like. I didn’t visit many colleges outside of my local area in high ... getting into. I had a few ideas about how I thought college would go—in some

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 30, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  walking into the MEng thoughts about a 63-mile trek

  

  's Island in Maine, along with Nathan S. '25 and Jonathan H. '25, I took my ... would take us 22.5 hours, crossing[annotation note="I mean, we were in ... darkness of Highway 1 in the evening, until, finally, at 2:50 AM, we stumbled

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 8, 2023
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  child for success in the college application process?” About two years ago ... probably even more interested in why.  It is entirely possible that your efforts to position your child for success in the admission process, at MIT

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2023