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• Blog / About Decisions

  Finding Your Match and why it matters

  

  at a rural but well-resourced public high school in New Hampshire. I ... school. I still keep in touch with a few friends from there. They did well ... others. I drove home. A few days later - just a week before I graduated - I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Things That Made Me Happy (and Sick) It’s me and my infection’s TWO MONTH anniversary!! 🎉😍

  

  graph, I guess I can explain some things about my semester in a way that ... every day at 6 PM and a late-night green tea. I waited in a VERY long line ... WORLD; I dropped like 50 dollars in there and drank so much coffee I had a

  • by Powers '23
  • January 4, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Why It’s Special all the things that make CPW amazing

  

  major. In 2015, as a crimson- and short-haired freshman with glasses, I ... long showers. “Oh, I gotta remember to audition for a capella!” “I could ... .” I was surprised how naturally I transitioned into MIT life, in my head

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / People & Identities

  what is and isn’t me (rush, part 1) and the somewhat methodical unraveling of self

  

  latter piece of this belief: that I would never fit into a frat. What ... happy about not being in a frat, and I had no particular reason to imagine ... have this sense of what I wasn’t that kept me from exploring a huge slice

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • October 7, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  craze how a blog gets born

  

    I have more than 100 blog ideas saved in a nifty spreadsheet and ... of ideas   in another life, I could have been a painter (I ... meal with me in deep detail, and have been told I'd make a good Anton Ego

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions; I’ve got (some) answers Answers to your questions.

  

  on what I've read, it seems like everyone maintains a balance in what ... ' classes you attend, I'm interested in what you do between classes, any ... will post once I see a logical end to my day. Brendan asked, "What do

  • by Bryan
  • October 10, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  A Tribute to the people of South Africa

  

  During a layover in the London Heathrow Airport I yanked Mariam (my ... part of me that doesn’t feel like I’m in a new place though. That in some ... blog post would and should look like. I've explored the option of doing a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 17, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The only living boy in New York I get all the news I need from The Colbert Report.

  

  and I had in New York last weekend, but I'm not going to write it until ... voting against Rick Santorum on a beautiful sunny Wednesday last week in ... everyone else, okay? Trust me, I'll know!

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] This is Junior Lab, not Junior Theory By Jorian B. '25

  

  amazing.  In the intro period, there is a discussion regarding what ... and therefore I could choose the direction to take it in. That was what ... physics, the joy of learning didn’t come with a catch. I could put in more

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 1, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  Quarantine and Social Life trying to maintain some connection

  

  socializing a task I had to complete every day. I recognize that phrasing it this way makes it seem like a chore, but I needed a way to hold myself accountable. Setting it as a daily goal made it easy to see when I was becoming

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 26, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Talent Show ua innovation gets lit

  

  (sophomore fall had me HOSED), I sent in a dance video and a performance video ... In mid-November, a [annotation note=undergraduate association ... decided that it was an achievable way to bring students together in a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  what we mean when we say the people why we like “the people”

  

  would answer differently in theory because what i like is my personal ... (and in a more convoluted way) - I think of the people with whom I have ... people are. With a few exceptions, people in general say what they mean

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 25, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  23andme happy new year

  

  did what was needed to get a bachelor's in computer science. I ... barely exercise, and also my time management is a mess, and maybe I should ... a lot in the previous year, and I feel much more grounded and clear

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  one hour in which i am Holden Caulfield (but more tragic and less hero)

  

  damn, i haven’t blogged in forever and it’s stressing me out (alongside a ... concerns)   what should i write about? i could talk about my weekend ... a quiz that should’ve been easy, or even how i’m not drinking enough

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Reflecting on the great memories of my freshman year ☀️ When life gives you lemons, share them with others >:) ☀️

  

  idea what people do in most majors (and where I would fit in), and a ... I’m officially 2A, planning to minor in Energy Studies and Theatre Arts. I wanted to share with you what makes MIT such a special place for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 21, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Reading What’s in your beach bag?

  

  that I find left out for the taking on a table in lobby 10. Emperor of ... what books are in your beach bag? I’d love to know. Happy Summer! ... downtime before school and college application season begins. I don’t know

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Operabots with Personality Ahhhhh.....music to my ears

  

  ……errrr uhhhhh……you know what I’m trying to say. MIT is cool. One of the things that I did not know about MIT before I began working here is that the ... freshmen last year participated in music related activities before they

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • August 26, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty weeks later a post of galactic proportions

  

  , which was what I thought at first: doesn't everyone agree what a good hunt ... , over a hundred simulations, the [annotation note="I have no idea what the ... . There are two puzzles in the hunt that I could truly claim a decent amount

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 6, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  things i’ve made and/or consumed art, movies, shows, and more

  

  concludes most of what I've been doing in my free time since the summer! A lot ... ~. In a way, it feels like a dream come true because I’m finally getting ... ’t check the width of the tulle I bought and it ended up being a lot smaller

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 28, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Banditos Misteriosos Everybody enjoys a ghoul dance party!

  

  while before we heard a siren. Then, this is what we saw (keep in mind, I ... , the flash mob became a relevant subject in my life. I started attending ... wasn't new to me, I'd seen it in an episode of CSI: Miami, but there was

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2008