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• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Should Go To Canada In which Kayla E. '15 and I took a spontaneous adventure to the great land…

  

  CAFE! A CAFE WITH CATS! CAT CAT CAT!!! Kayla and I would just sit with ... like "I am cat" and don't care about anything in the world. Anyway, we were not just in Canada for the cats, so we had a shopping day with a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 15, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Stressful Times in my opinion, the best advice, ever.

  

  able to do it all? When should I stop studying to take a break? What time ... well I needed to do on the next exam to get an A in the class. I thought ... close I was to being done when in reality it should have been reminding me

  • by Ana V. '15
  • December 11, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 2)

  

  to do this before exams or when I’m stuck in a place that doesn’t have ... ), unfortunately up to the Monday before Thanksgiving. You should check them out in ... doesn’t give in, and is more like a balloon, take it out. This should be

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  In which I am no longer new here ...well, it's true.

  

  Development. I've now seen more snow than I ever cared to see in my life; by that token, you can tell that I'm certainly not new here anymore. (In ... to my former desire to earn a degree in Chemistry (HAHAHAHAHA) and

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 11, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  A New Year’s Resolution, MyMIT-Style Thoughts on my proposal to make MyMIT more community-based.

  

  's going on in MyMIT land? I submitted a big proposal just before holiday ... MyMIT is designed for you, so you should have a hand in its design. All ... week so I'm feeling horribly behind in most areas of life. Being sick

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  my MIT admissions essays a retrospective

  

  few days before a concert, my primary reed cracked. Panicking, I asked ... thinking about writing a blog post about advice for high school seniors but I ... . What field of study appeals to you the most right now? (100/100) I

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 14, 2025
• Blog / CPW

  I did a comedy set* in front of 1000 MIT admits and everything else that happened at this year’s CPW opening ceremony

  

  for my sound check the hour before the show. I was initially a little ... her as Chris Peterson. And I asked a bunch of my wonderful friends in ... selfie with the 2030s, I thought I should also grab a selfie with the over

  • by Janet G. '27
  • April 29, 2026
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Makes Taiwanese Talk Show! All the way across the world

  

  :40: Introducing Berta - who had a degree in Course XVII. 1:45 to 2:16: Host: "What ... 's what everyone thinks - but I consider my roommate to be a genius and she ... , Interview... 4:00 to 4:57: Host: "What should you write about in your

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  , and I’m a sophomore in EECS. I also really love teaching. Unsurprisingly ... the morning and headed over to check-in. This is a three-hour shift of ... working in a haze trying to make sure I was completely caught up in my

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales of a College Froshling Okay, so I'm not a frosh anymore. Meh, whatever.

  

  it, which is just as well because I don't know what was going to be in ... for the summer. After some panic that I'd be jobless and living in a ... activities in the area. ("So let's all go out for ice cream! And what a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 3, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  everything is actually going okay and i think that's pretty cool

  

  people. i have this ideal vision of what floorpi should look like in my ... want, just what I've got And if we sit and count it up, it's really not a ... what if i overshoot, what if i adjust too much in the wrong direction? in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I auditioned for a musical Oh my goodness, oh my goodness

  

  8:30, I went through a major attitude check. I was being a wimp. What ... about for a few days wondering what to do. Wednesday night, I told my ... . He got all excited. "YOU SHOULD AUDITION!" I face-planted into a pillow

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 2, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

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

  

  When I introduce myself in new groups, a lot of times I bring that up ... she was in tears, unable to do a move called the pivot. And I was ... home. In fact throughout the camp I’d look over to check in on her and

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

  A blast from the past Looking back at things I wanted to do at MIT

  

  , fyi"]taking 66 units[/annotation]. I had probably hoped that in a future ... [annotation note="usually around finals season, in which I choose a show to ... [/annotation] ...and that was just a subset of the shows within junior year. I should

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updates i'm still here.

  

  is a minimalist. Last semester, I began practicing what I knew I should ... -based math, and it culminated in a project where I got the chance to listen to ... , a good cousin, a good house manager. I had to re-define what balance

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • January 20, 2020
• Blog / Public Statements

  A letter from President Reif regarding George Floyd and Minneapolis

  

  . At this moment, let’s do what we can. I believe a place to begin is by ... normal day, we'd be gathered in Killian Court, and I'd be kneeling on the ... . But I write with a heart that is also full of anguish – because it is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  breaching discomfort

  

  they made me uncomfortable. That I did not feel safe being in a house ... friends that he trusted. We eventually lived on a floor in New Vassar with ... myself: Do you feel better now? In a way, I did. This time was different

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 16, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  $100 Laptop Unveiled Inspiring!

  

  I just took a break from reading to watch some of the webcast of ... , 1 Megapixel." The plan is to initially roll out the computers in a little over a year to six large nations. Negroponte has identified China

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what makes fear worth it musical theater and anxiety

  

  Despite being a brief and shallow fan of Hamilton in middle school, I ... ’t be the only thing—seeing a movie in a theater is more immersive, and I ... but in the sense that I’ve painted a world that reflects something that

  • by Kai V. '25
  • February 27, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a lesson in the feminine arts aka mfa boston and a rant on enjoying art

  

  . Growing up, I just had no preconceptions of what Boston was like how L.A ... what could be. Just like with Dali and surrealism in general, I feel like ... describe art in a way that is purposeful but not esoteric. This is why I

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 30, 2024