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• Blog / Advice

  letter to my 2023 self from: 2024 janet

  

  Janet, I’m responding to you from Toronto. That’s right — you’ll be relieved to hear that I’m actually travelling now, in contrast to last year’s misfortune. That’s a story that ends in two crutches, a sprained ankle, and a

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 2, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  I Miss College Application Season The Good, The Bad, and the Casey Jones

  

  yearbooks from the 80’s in the school library. I miss wearing crewneck sweatshirts in the parking lot covered in dead leaves. I still have them but it’s ... playing fortnite–I miss fortnite so much. I’m sorry, I know it’s lame, but I

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  close your eyes and put your finger on the map and other ways to make grad school decisions

  

  engineer in my company had a master’s degree or was studying for one. This ... my undergrad. Talking to master’s students at MIT helped solidify that ... funded study, and master’s programs in the UK are only 1 year, freeing up a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 22, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Raskolnikov as an Odd Metaphor on angst and deferral

  

  honey[/caption] Here’s my deferral story. It's pretty angsty. I was an ... right now. It’s funny, around that time my English class was reading ... going insane from guilt. I distinctly remember finding Raskolnikov’s

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  coronavirus, one year later recounting the craziest ten days of my life

  

  even the worst story that’s happening. Hundreds of thousands of college ... , it’s hard for me to go back and think about all that happened, to try ... . To relive all the pain that happened. (That’s why the beginning days

  • by Phi A. '21
  • March 6, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] MIT THINK Scholars – A High School Research Program! From one side of it to the other

  

  to THINK! It’s different from most other high school research ... possibly also understand art? And so my project of creating what’s basically ... , living with a host’s dorm community, eating way too much free food, talking

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  [guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes notes from a hall exchange in 2017

  

  La La Land did not win (and it’s not a joke!). Afterwards I learned ... met the magnificent beasts Loki and Peru. It’s been a good night ... place to call home for a week. agent jynnie’s quarters are warm, ambient

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of Embrace the backstory to a gender-bending concept dance video, written by Ayomide F. '18

  

  mother’s shoe closet and beelined for these crimson-colored wonders that I ... are this really fun way to tell a story through choreography. (Here’s a ... heels is fun, It’s hard as hell but the best part about being a dancer

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Cassava Connection Part 1 of a series, starring a man, a plan, and a root vegetable.

  

  , to get some things off everyone’s chest and provide a safe space to ... operator’s voice in Spanish, an absurd, confusing moment. These events ... “international” as a fluid term--I don’t always mean literally students without U.S

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Experience FAQs from high school counselors

  

  Morality. It’s a very “MIT” class, counting for both my Philosophy and Neuroscience requirements. And it’s been pretty amazing so far. This week, we are ... shirt is from MIT’s annual production of The Vagina Monologues, which has

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Fighting Indifference MIT and MLK day

  

  . Cecilia’s Parish in Boston, where I go every Sunday, and proudly belted out ... . Cecilia’s are similar in that they are both Catholic and carry out the same ... things like, “you’re lucky”. That’s definitely true--I had supportive

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Campus is quiet summer thoughts and happenings

  

  we’re lame, or because there’s not much to do in the first place. It’s ... . It’s pretty hot in here, but I’m pretty used to it. There are a few ... . She says “you guys, it’s weird to think that this is probably the last

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Blog Projects

  ASK US (the MIT Bloggers) ANYTHING! YES

  

  . You can also upvote other people’s questions if you really want to see ... questions as we can. You can address your question(s) to all of us, or to specific bloggers. Whether you’re a high schooler, MIT student, someone’s

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 18, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  I asked people at MIT what they were doing for Pi Day 2025 something is rising... 3/14/25 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  the "nerd culture" that MIT is known for, but it’s also tradition to ... festivity. The Moon shall glow ablaze, like a dragon’s eye, A drop of scalding ... moonlight’s full, Only at the BLOOD MOON FESTIVAL." FRANK: I'm just going for

  • by Jebby B. '25
  • March 7, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  GELcamp project management… in the woods?

  

  -day fever dream. Here’s a diary of everything that went down during GELcamp ... coordinate the GEL1s. Check out their website to learn more! Our journey to ... build a solar farm to help offset MIT’s carbon emissions! Half the time we

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 6, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hi again (and goodbye) (For real this time!)

  

  the MIT Media Lab’s then-called Learning Initiative. In 2018, I started ... farewell post?  Let’s start with the easy things, the stuff that hasn ... renovation last year (losing Verdes and Anna’s! RIP), still kind of has that

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Pirates and Pi and Rats and Pie and Rats (except there are no rats) 3.1415926535897932384626433832795… idk the rest.

  

  I [started] writing this blog on 3/17, and it’s the warmest day that ... semester."]2.S02[/annotation], and 21M.299. The last one is a world music studies class about “Pirate Songs and Whaling Chanteys.” and it’s AWESOME

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 23, 2024
• 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 ... . In fact, as part of MIT’s[annotation note="General Institute ... .000 discovery course,[/annotation]it’s a lot to keep up with.  I was also

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 30, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Strands literal and metaphorical >:)

  

  hairdressers happily babbling about mundane (but riveting) gossip and some 2000’s ... ’m actually a little reckless with my hair, all things considered. It’s been ... catching a cold), and it’s usually in a state of disarray, since I often can

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 10, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  in Black Valley Hostel journal of my third day in Ireland

  

  Kerry, Ireland. It’s the launching point to walk the Kerry Way, a nine-day hike around Kerry. This is also my only stop, as it’s the only hostel ... there’s a charity event for it. Folk come from all over the world. He

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2023