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• Blog / How to Human

  I Get To Blog Today! Is this meta enough?

  

  to an organized, clutter-free space is a huge boost to your mood ... shifts in perspective that make a huge difference in the way you feel: Midterms really don't equate too much in the grand scheme of things. Work

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Rain is evil There's only one kind of good snow, and rain isn't it.

  

  weather. Granted, the weather is not all that different in New Jersey ... creates perfect little dams. And then the rain is free to collect everywhere ... is what I mean: Edit: Ruth pointed this out in her comment below- it

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 14, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  My Life Is In Shambles… … and that’s ok

  

  can sit and watch the moisture in the air fluoresce on a foggy night ... tape back from her Terrascope project. Jennifer is so bad at waking up in ... people I love very much.    There’s a reason 351 also fills my mouth

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 26, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for September imagine a movie montage, but for politely asking teachers to say nice things about you

  

  ; back to 2014 for my post on how I read applications; Nisha's post in 2018 about how much much she loves Spotify; and Abby's post about the blogger's collective Spotify wrapped. It's crazy to me how much Spotify has just

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  CP* restored my faith in the universe i read...My Immortal...with prefrosh

  

  Campus Preview Weekend, was SO much fun. Sure, there's no free food ... !!!! I love talking to everyone and sharing in their enthusiasm so! much! These couple of days have been a testament to how amazing the MIT

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Going Social Thinking about MIT Admissions and social media.

  

  "everyone was in it." His brother was a meaty metalhead (and consequently a ... weren't on Facebook. In retrospect, it was a primitive and dim space to socialize, not unlike a hipster bar in an NYC bomb shelter, or Olympic Stadium

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Boston’s 3rd of July It's almost a holiday, but not quite.

  

  surprise was that a lot of people don't realize just how long this song is ... instruments is a winner in my book. There was a short intermission as the ... campus much earlier than normal letting me have a little evening-time fun

  • by Snively '11
  • July 4, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  moving on, as shown through free t-shirts some spring cleaning

  

  only things in my room were a bed, bookshelf, and keyboard. I kept it ... security card) into my closet, which stayed in a state of constant chaos ... 6 shirts I can rotate for a max of like 8 outfits in any season

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  tryharding but still not enough

  

  has a lot more free time for me to do other things and really focus on doing well in school. It's a lot of free time for me to be a tryhard. For ... , which is a bummer considering how when I got into MIT, I texted my friend

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  learn by doing things i've done without really knowing how

  

  field. But in a lot of cases, that sort of attitude is self-fulfilling; a ... account, typed a few lines in Python, hit F-5 to run, and...there it is ... projects too--the Design/Build/Fly team is working towards competition day in

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 26, 2015
• Blog / Events

  So much to do, so little time There's always something exciting going on at MIT.

  

  Condry, an MIT Professor in Japanese Cultural Studies, is giving a talk ... Undergraduate Economics Association (UEA) is hosting a lecture by Frederic Mishkin ... So, my wife just popped by my office; it turns out she and a friend

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Apple Juice Liberation! Something very important happened to me when I came to MIT a few weeks ago.…

  

  . In fact, people here are free to do almost anything they think is a ... weeks ago. It was a momentous occasion in my life, a turning point from ... see, in my family of five, we all like apple juice so much that if we

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Night Vision Funny how "photo"graphy throws you into the dark

  

  time-machine (film? what’s that?)....and a time-warp. The darkroom is ... , shaking, and sifting, not thinking much at all except keeping track of how ... , aperture, filters quite literally in the darkroom has made me much more

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 8, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I “less than 3” the Chorallaries My relaxing and enjoyable vaction draws to a close. *sigh*

  

  Princeton, NJ. This is not the be confused with a meeting of students who have ... things about MIT is the names of our a capella groups. The Chorallaries ... actually did this week and wondering how in the world I'm going to fit all of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where is my mind? In Northern California, Munich, a tent in New Hampshire, and an oreo-flavored soft serve machine.

  

  once in a while. I've been feeling kind of floaty these past few weeks ... late to find an internship in another country right now, which is cool because my one requirement for a job this summer is NOT TECHNICAL. So she

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Moment with A Minister kevin rustagi '11 on MIT and entrepreneurship

  

  skills that would help me learn how to get my projects off the ground in a ... Kevin Rustagi '11 is a designer, entrepreneur, and musician whom I ... began, how he spent his time here, and now what he is continuing to do

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Four days of fun! I did so much last long weekend and very little of it was productive.

  

  .S.S. Constitution in Boston Harbor The Constitution, a.k.a. Old Ironsides, is a three ... in the parade were a group of men called the Aleppo Shriners (which is ... orchard is. All in all, it was a really great weekend.

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Where is the banana… ...and why is that man chartreuse?

  

  reason, is sitting at a desk, rifling through some papers. His partner, DETECTIVE POLK, is speaking indeterminately into a taupe-colored telephone. In front of him is a two-way mirror through which a nervous-looking aardvark

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 11, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Global warming? ...or just a weather anomaly?

  

  free time to participate in competitions, take a class in something you ... of the warm spell by being outside as much as possible. I saw a group ... pictures (I included some below), and go for a run. Boston is known for

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 9, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Engineering leadership: the one-hour edition President Hockfield makes a surprise appearance!

  

  . As I hinted at in my last entry, the GEL program had a hands-on hour ... students did a similar activity in an Engineering Leadership Lab earlier in ... 'cool' factor that trips up some MIT students." This is a lesson I

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 6, 2011