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• Blog / Challenges

  Embarrassing Mistakes I Have Made…So Far Me: 0 MIT: 1 morbillion

  

  It’s been about a month since the first day of classes. Isn’t it so funny how fast time passes?. No. No it’s not. Because even though it’s ... .[/annotation] So it hasn’t been a good time for anyone. But you know what’s good

  • by Leya E. '30
  • October 4, 2026
• Blog / IAP

  WE BUILT AN IGLOO! ❄️☃️ a long-lost McCormick Tradition

  

  the decade (at least that’s what Yahoo news told me) impacting more than half the country. Most people I knew were anxious about the storm’s ... eggs and milk from Trader Joe’s to last them weeks. MIT officially

  • by Hala K. '29
  • January 30, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  . It’s a rare and wonderful thing to get to read about the joys of others ... Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for the first time. I fell in love with Adichie’s ... rediscover home. It’s a coming-of-age tale, a love story, and a record of how

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  you read my responses. Friends change, it’s true, though I resisted ... to complete the cycle. It’s the college circle of life. You will also ... , you’ll never quite forget them. And that’s the beautiful thing about

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Learning about the ABCs Apple Bake Competition, At Burton Conner

  

  . It’s a competition where people bake a lot of goods with apples, to ... -picking outings that MIT dorms help subsidise. For most people, it’s a great reason ... , Apple Bake is a little more serious. It’s on our shirts, it’s in our blood

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 29, 2024
• Blog / Community Projects

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  center, and it’s a highlight of my week. It’s a time that I carve out of ... . It’s usually made up of people from your own or surrounding dorms, but you can really go to any group you want. It’s a great way to get

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  Home is where the Heart is visiting my grandparents

  

  , knowing that they’re only gonna get older. Grandpa’s gone deaf, and grandma ... items. I think we did an entire year’s worth of clothes-shopping that day ... brother’s safety and our cousin’s sanity. [caption id="attachment_101989

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • August 4, 2024
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Some Art About Other Art it's super meta

  

  There is currently a painting staring at me.  It’s perched on top of my bookshelf, at the perfect vantage point to scornfully watch me. It’s a green house, inspired by the one across the street from my parent’s

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  what happened yesterday? "what's the name of the mushroom shop?"

  

  room. I don’t remember the last time I’ve let myself sleep in to my heart’s ... market in Boston that’s open every Friday and Saturday until sunset. Also ... ="suburb north of cambridge"]Somerville[/annotation] that Winnie’s coworker had

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  alongside many of Boston’s universities and colleges: MIT, Harvard, and Boston ... "]Boston proper,[/annotation] you have to walk across one of the city’s many bridges ... to Fenway’s House of Blues to catch a concert, a return home after

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  OUTRAGED. #ican'tbreathe

  

  little power to actually change anything. There’s no ‘taking my anger to ... human being in this country.  Sometimes it’s in the covertly racist policies and tweets of a certain president, and sometimes it’s in the open

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  “How was your day?” asked and answered

  

  - khaki shorts and a lion-face-print top, since it’s a warm spring day and I ... them. I know she’ll do great. I walk to my hall’s kitchen and ... that. At the nurse’s office, I eye the three gigantic needles laid out on

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 2, 2019
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Year of the HASS thoughts on single-tasking, cheese slicers, and the tyranny of the mind

  

  class, it’s the first time that the number of hours my classes are supposed to take is less than the actual number of units, although it’s a bit ... in mind. It was magical. It’s not that I don’t enjoy the technical

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 23, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  One of this year’s admits asked me how MIT sets you up for grad ... a teenager. But since it’s been a while since anyone’s blogged about it, here’s my probably-more-comprehensive-than

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Classes about the Brain That Blew My Mind and I just had to share

  

  one… I chose both. It’s Week 5 now, and I've gotten used to taking the ... get my Course 9 - Brain and Cognitive Sciences minor. It’s Week 5, and ... exciting class of the week (or even the past 3.5 years?). It’s one of those

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 6, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Revolution Some really cool things are happening in Boston

  

  Literature in Boston (thank goodness there’s an acronym for that: DHLB FPOP. Wait, I think I need an acronym for that acronym!). That’s a lot of ... was a giant room full of plastic balls in Simmons. (Wait, that’s not

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Español Foreign Languages at MIT

  

  I’m frequently proven otherwise. There’s something about learning a ... speaking country, perhaps for a MISTI or a GTL over IAP. It’s one thing to ... sentence using words from a vocabulary list; that I can do. It’s quite

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  – it’s like a bizarro-version of the MIT I remember. There’s plenty new ... bag and show you what’s in mine on any given day. (I actually did just ... maybe you just want to know what to heck it is. That’s why I numbered it

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Uncreative Post with an uncreative title

  

  two classes, 18.S097 Introduction to Mathematical Proofs and 20 ... of an educational video on fractals. I see fractals everywhere now. It’s ... to fun locations, like Chinatown or the North End (“Boston’s Little

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catalogue of Fridays Like the unsolicited kind you get in the mail, but with more pictures!

  

  by the time the alarm declares that it’s 9AM on a chilly Friday morning ... -season conditioning and practice in the bubble, MIT’s very own indoor tennis court ... seems like there’s a student performance every week, from a cappella

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 10, 2013