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• Blog / Challenges

  Chasing Butterflies on community and friendship

  

  the bus turns off the freeway back towards school, the sound of traffic gives way to the soft rumble of the engine. Just as the wheels make their ... top of my shelf of memories, because in many ways it’s the best monument

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 28, 2026
• Blog / How to Human

  Some Useful Things Things that greatly enhanced my chance of survival quality of life at MIT, and lots…

  

  At the start of the semester a close friend of mine gave me her loft ... , the height of a loft—evaporated within hours. When I moved my head, my ... an open window I get a cool breeze at night and the light of the sun in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hit in the Face: A Snively GuestBlog Snively's point of view. Only this time it's actually his point of view, and not…

  

  up! Of all the food I’ve been eating, 78% has been free. Of all the t ... of my important due dates for projects next week (the second full week ... and bounds. Hopefully by the end of these four year I will have found a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 14, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  [Guest Post] An Overthinker’s Guide to Finishing Your Transfer Application by Warren K. ’27

  

  -time, so I had to budget my time carefully. I made the plan to do most of my ... that I had already spent the right amount of time working on it. Since I ... . There is already a bunch of great advice on this blog, but with the

  • by Jeremy W.
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Flourish and Blogs how to be a professional harry potter fan

  

  sort of a broad overview of media studies at the graduate level. Anyway ... , because a little over a decade ago, in junior high, we were members of the ... seconds of shocked silence she raised her hands in the air (rushing past her

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 30, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t forget to check in with yourself On living with intention

  

  ’ll delight in for the rest of my life, probably in part because many of my ... , frequent walks around the neighborhood, and yes, a lot of time to ask, what ... do the same.  The specifics of what I do or the path from here on out

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  (Guest Post) how can it be home when it’s not finding a sense of belonging away from home

  

  probably because the excitement of being at a new place never got replaced with the overwhelming realization of being at that new place before that of leaving the new place. after all, i had only been away from home for

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Beaver Nation An intro to athletics at MIT

  

  ’s quite the event: Shot of the MIT crowd, courtesy of Maude Gull ‘19 Women ... say is pretty well-summarized around the first minute of this video: To ... with tales of the workload or the sleepless nights, but let’s just say

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • November 12, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Where WAS I? Honestly? I still don't know.

  

  and the arm of my coat ripped three-quarters of the way off. I always ... , and, well, it's a month later. I woke up on the floor of the blood bank ... wear their hats sometimes, and made fun of me when I try to use the word

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC Presents: Black Panther 2

  

  of Black Panther 2. Black Panther 2 had been on LSC's radar since the beginning of the semester. We knew for sure it was something we wanted to ... refreshments worker, we made 5-6 batches of popcorn in advance to prepare for the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 11, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  What Should I Do Next Semester? i'm making a list and checking it twice

  

  else who did exactly this, and he had the time of his life.  I fully intend to have the time of my life too. But I need your help! What ... can convince me that that's the best use of my time I'll think

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  NIGHTMARISH THOUGHTS fear of technology

  

  Hello all, I interrupt the great back-to-school flow of these blogs ... ordering an e-book reader (the brand of which I will not specify but you ... NO.1 MOST FAVORITEST THING ABOUT THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. It's an

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happiness in threes

  

  the city today, and I was proud of myself to discover that I actually have a pretty decent idea of where things are. The highlight of the night ... , that's right, we saw a modern, Spanish interpretation of the Oscar Wilde

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Introduction To ROTC At MIT A new guest-author blog in response to a variety of inquiries regarding ROTC programs at…

  

  tradition of preparing students to serve as officers in the military; since ... , of whom more than 150 have attained the rank of general or admiral ... (undergraduate research)... one great advantage of the ROTC program is you'll have

  • by ROTC
  • August 14, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hey look, I’m famous…or something

  

  where I find it sort of exciting to be in the Tech, assuming that I'm not ... East Campus, home of the Emergency Pizza Button and the Motorized Couch ... was (I think) one of the 5th East freshmen who made fools out of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  don’t build the torment nexus and other such cliche advice for frosh

  

  in 2022, and now there are class of 30’s. By the time they graduate I ... "] american bullfrogs are the largest species of frog in north america and will ... the same time, the rest of us who’ve already experienced MIT for at

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • September 18, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mini-Guide to the GIRs Now I've been through them - don't make the same mistakes I did.

  

  from the conventional path of telling you what options are available to ... interpretation of the GIRs, so please ignore them if you think I'm just being woozy ... overflow room) so a lot of people didn't have to go to class (humph*) - the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 10, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  whether to share it with the rest of you guys, but I thought that this ... midafternoon lunch rush. "wassgood?" A familiar question snapped me out of the monotony of my day and brought me face to face with the cashier. "you good

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  SUMMER ROSES stop and smell 'em

  

  In the past five weeks or so, the pace of my life has dramatically ... ’ve found myself with a lot of time to “stop and smell the roses.” There ... that my January was more representative of the average student’s here. I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too…

  

  visualization, oscilloscope showing the waveform of the music, and surveillance ... how.) Facebook I see that many of the '10s have set up their MIT email addresses, judging by the number of friend requests I've been getting on

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 12, 2006