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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  to the skeletons in my closet an open letter to you

  

  where the anger comes back because it was you that made me like this, that ... . there are blatant ones -- photos of us, well. what would have been us had ... have now are like night and day in comparison to the past. they know how

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  Khan (founder of Khan Academy) made at the 2012 Commencement where he ... -person interviews. This happens in NYC or Boston, where apparently alums fight over ... admission department to reach out to kids in areas where an in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Imbibing the Nostalgia Punch More akin to jumping on the bandwagon than drinking the kool-aid in that it is…

  

  some-years-past Rachel are an unintentional time capsule fired naively ... as a magical rainbow wonderland where all dreams come true, which as I ... started writing this post, I wrangled Elasticsearch at work and made dinner

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining Hall Alchemy The art of turning cereal and chicken tenders into slightly tastier cereal and chicken tenders

  

  are buffet-style, allowing you to get as much food as you want from ... combinations across different stations. Although they are designed to be self ... and I have enjoyed over the years are as follows: Chicken tenders

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Glassblowing at MIT my IAP excitement

  

  Necklines are just what they sound like, and are the first skill we were ... make him into a bird-type thing.. It would have made more sense if I ... paperweight!!!  This is probably my favorite thing I made in the class. To

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • March 10, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  e3 2k19 at long last, i got to go to gamer christmas

  

  , grab the sandwich i had made the night before, and head out the door. i ... much ran/speed walked the whole way to the bus stop, and actually made it ... got there. quest: completed. LOADING LEVEL: i made it to the office

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 14, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  It’s Nice to Meet You Finding my confidence through inline skating.

  

  skating looks like this: yes those are sparks I didn’t start skating ... living near hills made it too intimidating to learn. The area around MIT ... annual weekend of inline skating across the city. I made friends from all

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • March 29, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear Mom, Vol. 1 If I told you my life was a circus, would you believe me?

  

  So my mom and I are pretty tight. I do call her every day courtesy of free family minutes. Today, I tried calling my mom, but there was no ... brought the big elephants. I took some pictures for you. Here are my

  • by Bryan
  • October 6, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  setting things on fire and playing with flames

  

  ’ve grown close to the people in the club: those who are just as eager to teach fire techniques as they are to learn them together. One of my ... spinners, where we learn to spin, flesh, breathe, and eat fire. Professional

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 18, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Random Post While Reading Apps. Because we need some new posts...

  

  realize that if you need help, there are good people out there who are ... write this.) 3.) The third is Chrome, where I'm now searching around for ... ?) 4.) The fourth is also Chrome - where I'm doing some research about my

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments, UROPs, field trips, and OMG HP7! The most awesome blog entry ever. Because...okay it's probably not. But it's all about how…

  

  the coolest boyfriend ever. Mollie said: Wait, where's the part where ... housewarming. Aw! The bloggers are like one big, happy family. *sniff* Of course ... averted" with relief. Anyway. Where have I been, you ask? Well, here

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 20, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  [JOINT POST] Travelling as a black female "Alexa, play Brown Skin Girl..."

  

  black people are the majority, and coming to the States where I am part of ... most of my life in spaces where great strides have been made in ... made at the school they were doing research at. From then on, I tried to

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 3, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Taking a Step Back Using Avatar: the Last Airbender to talk about my feelings

  

  villain for the first two seasons, falls very ill after freeing avatar Aang ... battle within where one part of himself –the compassionate and sensitive ... think that at some point, everyone is presented with a moment where they

  • by Powers '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding My Way Around MIT (Guest Entry) CPW was so hugely difficult to take in all at once that it's hard to…

  

  getting some free food, we sat in on a 8.02 class (Electricity and Magnetism ... if you are high enough so the buildings don't get in the way. We were going to go see Baker House, but we ended up at East Campus, where they

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Goal Setting a learning process

  

  set everything up. The Notion renaissance has made me reconsider the ... made no effort to organize things into categories or prioritize or ... -study, reading, school work, exercise, and personal projects. There are some random

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 4, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving My deep thoughts on surviving and thriving at MIT, straight from three years ago.

  

  Today I am bringing you my MIT Survival Guide, which is a list I made ... seriously, all-nighters are bad for your brain. 3. Shopping is therapy. Especially when there are so many great malls in the Boston area. ;) 4. Naps

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We were worried An insider's look at a February tradition

  

  that I am lucky to go to a school where there are student groups for sex ... one of my sisters (and friend I made before MIT through FRC), Erin B ... thought of talking about vaginas in front of an audience made me blush; I

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Green Building Challenge hex wins third place!

  

  few minutes on the 18th floor, where we first made sure to record our ... other climbs where we did take breaks. These climbs are take less time ... floor and again on the 13th floor. On the graph, there are several climbs

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 31, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer begins And I get a brief vacation.

  

  think that I have no idea where I'll be after next year. I should try to ... 't worry! Me: ...great! TSA Agent: In some ways. Me: Great! Well, here are my ... to adulthood! After I made it through security, I found myself right

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 25, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story of the most epic pset ever If you correct my problem set in the comments, I will get angry. And you…

  

  far, it's pretty awesome. It's one of the few classes where I really ... library" (fancy name for a bookcase in the floor lounge where people stash ... there are 0.9 hydrogen atoms per one carbon atom in every molecule of coal

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2008