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  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
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Thoughts from the Other Side MIT through a different lens

  

  at 7 am... but it was a pretty boring month of my life. We tried to ... to be A TON OF WORK (ie, I'm working on the weekends) which can be ... about Cambridge- Being able to explore such a beautiful little city on

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary an image a day keeps the psets away

  

  started looking around for things to stir thoughts in my head, a stimulus of ... . I had wanted to blog about some casual photos I had around for a while ... to them being like, "wow, I see you :O" 9/10/21 A completely different

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 3, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  i [don’t] have covid?? in conclusion, i am the absolute worst at managing stress

  

  So. I had a COVID false alarm this week, which is why I'm currently ... with a sore throat. I didn't think much of it—I get colds quite often, it happens. My boyfriend told me that he'd had a sore throat two days ago, so I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  lord, it is time for a blog post the huge semester has gone halfway by

  

  to buy tuxedos in Porter Square, because our wing is a big fan of the ... living crisis to crisis." In the joke, however, was a pearl of truth; we ... extensions on assignments, looking for a way to cling to the raft of life while

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 13, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Days in lives that aren’t mine in a parallel universe

  

  before heading to the living room. Kate's there too, writing something on a ... next hour and a half, before I head to the kitchen and cook lunch. The ... to the living room to grab my laptop before going upstairs to take a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This title is irrelevant In which I discuss two important aspects of undergraduate life: scientific research and climbing stairs.

  

  letter to MIT, I glimpsed a beautiful future in which all of life ... say. In actuality, it's a tolerable idea up to the fourth floor, at which point it starts to become a pain-in-the-knee idea, progressing to a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 28, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  bday burnout no more spiders please

  

  thought about taking a shower, but it was like I was glued to my bed. Just ... the kitchen to get ingredients for a smoothie. I pulled the fridge door ... hallway playing with a hyper Kiko before I went back to my room. -- At 3 AM

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 18, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 / Field trip Art, science, and agriculture in Palestine

  

  opportunity I couldn't pass up. I took a leap of faith and was ready to be out ... embarked on a site visit to a small village next to Ramallah, Palestine, with ...  projects. After the first class, I was sold. I even passed up an offer to skate in a

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 29, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Things that make you go hmmmm……. Obama’s transformative presidency………for geeks????

  

  Ledger’ to casually peruse the headlines and get a sense of what was going ... ready for the geek-in-chief. President-elect Barack Obama used to collect ... , noting that Occidental was a geeky school to start with, billing itself as

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • December 30, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Anticipation of Pi Day 2017 bloggers past and present try to make you feel better right now

  

  Dear MIT Protofrosh, If I had a time machine, I’d travel to my senior year of high school. I’d tell myself not to worry about college ... , perhaps I would not have applied to MIT, but rather a college that was

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  we named 2124 cities of the world fridays with 4W

  

  around 2:30 am, after a game of trying to name all the sports teams in which I was just a spectator, we decided to try to name all the cities in ... down on a whiteboard trying to remember any cities I could and Alan Z

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 29, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  tick tick tick and the euphoria of it stopping

  

  head, a whirring that keeps my mind thinking about what I need to do next ... stroll from a campus library back to my dorm—I will bump into at least ... should be more grateful. … It's such a privilege to be here. I'm really

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 16, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Junior Fall we're back in person baybee

  

  just needed to take a CS class this year and I heard very good things ... a dentist appointment, and catch the 1 bus and run over to 26-100 for ... able to go into a computer science class for the first time and actually

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i am taking in spring 26 because i'm stuck at the airport right now. NOT ranked in terms of edibility (sorry)

  

  ="as in, i drank a matcha this morning that i'm somehow reacting to right ... less jittery"]I have nothing better to do, [/annotation] here's a mind ... requirements according to the structure of their pre-determined major. MIT has a

  • by Janet G. '27
  • February 8, 2026
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Room, A Short Story This story is somewhat weird and slightly dark. Reader's discretion is advised.

  

  ,” she said, leading him gently to the couch facing a television that could ... her temper—but give him a good talking-to just before then. “It’s over ... had begun forming, thanks to a failed New Year resolution—and worked his

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 2, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  friendful life recently

  

  . i've come to peace with a lot of the things that kept me up late at ... sound trite, but i genuinely mean it. i think that i have a tendency to ... from a concert he went to in the 2000s talking about birding with my pi

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Blogs Featured in NY Times "[N]one of the [other colleges'] blogs match the interactivity and creativity of M.I.T.'s, where they…

  

  admissions office has been so ready to welcome uncensored student writing. "A ... or trying to set a world record in the game of Mattress Dominos ... to learn about a college than from other students." Many high school

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catching up What's new? Lots of things. I just haven't told you about them yet, because finals…

  

  't need to get ready tomorrow morning. So what final details of my freshman ... new stuff and forgot a lot of old stuff. I'm really looking forward to ... ...what's the word? Oh yeah, fun. To tell the truth, it can be a really

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Expo how MIT is leading the educational revolution

  

  , follow the links to learn more. Visit openlearning.mit.edu for a ... equipping one of the members with six microphones for a fictional “quest” to ... ! And if you can't make it to Splash or Spark, neither as a participant

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 20, 2018