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• 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.

  

  . (Free admission! If you're ever looking for something to do in San Fran ... Patricia McKillip (an author I've been curious about for awhile), and Uglies ... know it might look like I'm smiling and enjoying myself in that picture

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  cooking—and thus we could create an app for cooking enthusiasts in MIT to ... minutes cringing and rolling around in bed, looking like this: How did ... for which we’re creating solutions. So, for instance, we can’t design an

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  An Atypical Saturday That followed an atypical week.

  

  certainly an unusual place. Case in point: no one really asks how your day is ... place one week at a time. For me, each week is like a round in a boxing ... looks like that. I hadn't been to a baseball game in a while, and I

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 30, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  in an effort to be whole again recovery

  

  going in and out of MIT Medical for the past three weeks for a mix of ... hard for me to study in the same areas that I slept and lived. I would ... overwhelmed me. He thankfully was able to get me an exception for my 18

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Lounges: An Interactive Experience It's almost like you were here!

  

  lounge looks lifeless. An occasional student passes by or preps for class ... The 3D Lounge Experience For this part, I ask you to settle in a ... really in front of you. Munch on some (free) lukewarm fried plantains. For

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #1-5 Concerning the half I spent at home

  

  , looking for practicing physicians in my area to email. The response rate ... less time in bed and on a sofa. Keep an eye out for numbers 6-13! ... fascinating externships, or participate in an assortment of competitions. Last

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breakfast with a Genius Okay, so I stole the genius joke from Bryan. But it's still true.

  

  /Underdog won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, making her the first black woman ... Arthur Genius Grant in 2001, hence the reused genius crack above. She's my favorite author; I even met her a few years ago at a discussion/book signing

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 28, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  An (overdue) blogger update! I'm trying to come out of writer's block lol

  

  wasn't an announcement or a tongue-in-cheek joke, and the one before that ... a lot of my restless energy into my blogs, as an excuse for ... what I thought was interesting in that phase of my life. Looking back on

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 4, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  . From the outside looking in — and even from the inside — MIT can be an ... here as an artist. For me, because I am interested in purely art in ... animation program) when I had free time back in high school. For me it was a

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  born again freshman too junior for this

  

  i'm in the class of 2023. this means that i spent only six full ... . this is disconcerting for numerous reasons. firstly, i feel like i don ... three years older than me in high school, so i was always the youngest. in

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 4, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT at Copley Square Yet more photos of #NoBanNoWall protests in Boston, plus an update from President Reif.

  

  ourselves in, as an institution and as a country. MIT is profoundly American ... many stay in this country for life, repaying the American promise of ... support for our Muslim friends and colleagues. As an immigrant and the child

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 31, 2017
• Blog / Events

  REX at Simmons Hall 2015 water balloon wars, pancakes, roofdeck parties, and a trojan duck

  

  it in the news). Simmons is hard at work as well, preparing for the ... for West Campus in the Water War by painting your battle shield or ... Puzzle Hunt A puzzle hunt made by MIT students for MIT students. Drop in

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 31, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 3) notes from the third day

  

  seats in the lounge car are very full as we prepare for the journey over ... bed. She asked me an interesting question: “what is your one wish for ... were a lot of people contending for seats in the observation car earlier

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 13, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three patterns from the pattern language of my life

  

  newborn.  In the 3,000 days, I moved to Washington, D.C. (for a fellowship ... . Each is laid out in this way: “First, there is a picture, which shows an ... an introductory paragraph, which sets the context for the pattern, by

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas thanksgiving and warm fuzzies all around

  

  's below freezing, cold enough for there to be ice puddles in the streets ... Currently drinking: Odwalla Superfood Currently feeling: warm and cozy in the ... course, Thanksgiving weekend. I have...a lot to be thankful for. Mom, if

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 30, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall 2024 🍂 aka, things settle down.

  

  definitely could’ve appreciated more grade transparency in this class. As an ... ="attachment_112262" align="aligncenter" width="1400"] an assignment for 21W.744 ... Disordered Cosmos] - This is an advising seminar I participated in as an

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 21, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is going to pump you up! A bit about a cool new fitness program called getfit@mit

  

  known for being the breeding ground of the next big idea in science and ... not, then I’d recommend it. The author, Pepper White, got his Masters (in MechE!) from MIT in 1984 and the book is about his educational

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  [GUEST POST] Cooked Cooking by Joy X. '29

  

  that had all the salt in it.  Then, I baked it for an hour, flipping ... Bad Idea™ going on. In fact, every IAP, they organize something called ... many times as possible, building useless things for the Bad Ideas

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 14, 2026
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We were worried An insider's look at a February tradition

  

  talking about vaginas in front of a large audience. For an audience member ... Vagina Monologues in my freshman year. An alum of my dorm was the producer ... thought of talking about vaginas in front of an audience made me blush; I

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Growing Pains And Every Other Type of Ache

  

  in Boston after school, get an MD-PhD at Harvard, be married by 25 ... study biology for a while. Some of this stems from living in Next House. I ... take more biology classes in the spring (looking forward to [annotation

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • December 6, 2022