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• Blog / Challenges

  emails to self & the long goodbye

  

  , there was solace in having this one place where everyone could return to ... life, and what does it mean to say that you have done so well? these are ... have made some things that, if not to anyone else, meant something to me

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 27, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Day, the Year I Applied what I learned in college about application struggles

  

  made the room burn. Whatever manifestations of worry there are, I felt ... ’ve been the case no matter where I’d gone. Two years ago, my college essay ... elective, Plains Indians? Where you got an F on the fire-building assignment

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 20, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] 10 Reasons I Joined Rocket Team

  

  connections I’ve made even this semester within the team are unforgettable and ... Earth's atmosphere and outer space (100 km above sea level). We are ... . Hand-laid carbon fiber fin cans. All designed and made by students!!! It

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 11, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skullhouse Road Trip Seattle, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Austin, New Orleans, North Carolina, Delaware, New Jersey, and New…

  

  Kappa Sigma (aka Skullhouse) has a tradition where the senior class goes ... check in late and gave me a standby ticket. I made it to the gate just ... down the terminal hallway to my gate, where I saw that no one was there

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Truth is Rarely Pure and Never Simple A behind-the-scenes special on directing a play

  

  Nov 8th at 7:30 pm in Kresge Little Theatre! Tickets are free!   I have ... , facial expressions, these are skills drilled into you in every theatre ... —communication, collaboration, vision, decision-making, advocacy, trust, leadership—are applicable

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 1 MITWE (+ FJE and VJE) go to Brazil

  

  . Finally, in my second-year fall semester, the big announcement was made – we ... , locally-made cheese, and a peculiar sandwich named “x-caboquinho”, made ... "]Ananda[/annotation] was right – all the fruits here are amazing!”. However, Ananda was wrong

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  so you’re starting your first year? boy do I have unsolicited tips for you

  

  program, made specifically for first year students. By completing it, you get a free Arduino, toolbox filled with tools, MakerLodge T-shirt, and ... included in the program, but they just wouldn’t receive the free stuff

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 2, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Into the Unknown with bravery

  

  of you are there now. We find ourselves here again, trying to figure ... months, we’ve been imagining futures where we get some industry experience ... for the reality where maybe we won’t get into grad school, and maybe

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  seattle (again) home and away

  

  go to, and where the bus stops are, and there are a couple ... -night craving and wandered to safeway for ice cream, where we discovered that ... we invited people over and made homemade dumplings and played monopoly

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 15, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  happiness springs, songs, sheep

  

  cream with toons. it was a rare occasion where i didn't feel drained by ... thus do not benefit from collaborative filtering. Black sheep are the ... being in school, where all your work is on your own 'becoming,' that I

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 24, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  One Day in the Life of Dora as told by the one and only Dora

  

  learned about interfaces. Me: What are interfaces? Dora: It’s like an ... always puts super cute pictures of his cute baby son with captions that are ... Maseeh dining where I had three pretty decent tacos. It was crispy taco

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 4, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Poetics of Place Snippets from my "Critical Writing for Designers" course at school down the street

  

  it must be a draw for many other people too. Yet somehow I made it to ... , Darwin’s, where I am now, and work and have a cookie. Today I sat down to ... : these are also words to describe the body of a woman (very different from

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Everyone at MIT should take this class. How often do you get to design toys in class?

  

  , where students are split up into groups of 5 and given a budget of ~$700 ... picket fence because white picket fences are ugly. (okay, maybe I didn ... -(semester)-life crisis where I asked myself why I wanted to major in bio: was it just

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things you might have wanted to know

  

  There are a few questions that I've often wondered if people were ... say that MIT's campus isn't beautiful! Where did you get it? Well, I ... shat by a raven. It is the body of a fallen father, whose bones are

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Double Edged Sword On Time Magazine's article titled: "Are We Losing Our Edge?"

  

  scientific development. Other countries are becoming equally competititive in this new era where communication occurs rapidly and information is only a keystroke away. There was one part of the article that made me feel a bit

  • by Bryan
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  “the worst they can say is no” the costs of trying

  

  , and you took action and got rejected so you are not dating them and being made ... -risk. The potential outcomes weren't you took no action so you are not dating them, you took action and are now dating them, and you took action and

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Parliamo Italiano! And some other languages too.

  

  reassure you that MIT does have humanities classes, and a lot of them are ... 's selection is pretty limited, but the classes are still great. (We only offer ... it a lot. Knowing Spanish has made learning Italian both easier and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Someone saved my life tonight Survived my squalor, like a butterfly.

  

  cleaning them. Frozen grapes are really delicious, and keep basically ... seven favorite words in the English language. In order, they are: 1 ... assume they are laughing at me, so I asked them what the heck Second Degree

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Venturing to far living groups

  

  cats and which floors are smoking floors in EC (EC's webpage doesn't seem ... are pretty polite about it. Cats, Smoking 4th West 5th East Cats, No ... concern I hear a lot from people who are not MIT students is "Oh no, if they

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  growing over time continuing to become myself

  

  Sometimes I worry I have too many blog posts that are just paragraphs ... blogs to see what fun stuff the bloggers are doing; maybe they don't want ... struggling through a viscous fluid. Or like those dreams (maybe these are just

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 31, 2022