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• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback A useless guide to MIT undergraduate housing.

  

  So, being an incoming frosh, there's really not much I can talk about. Unless you consider all of those 500 forms I needed to fill out and send in ... freshmen can make a more educated choice about where they want to live. Of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What has carcinogenic chemicals, alum bloggers, and ~art~? embracing my inner hipster

  

  in a very mural-happy dorm, I can't paint to save my life. But I do like to photograph a lot, and in fact I've done quite a lot of it in the ... ) never touched film before. And that's where this post comes in. You see

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 29, 2012
• Blog / People & Identities

  A Part of Me or apart of me?

  

  while I’ve been in school because all three of these parts can continue to ... lead to one of two cases as far as I can tell: 1) I become just ~eh~ in ... also clearly note where spoilers begin and where they end.) 1. Voices In

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 22, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  semester 4, take 2 positivity edition!

  

  school where I can do so while majoring in something completely different ... growing old? can someone tell me how i got here, and there, and to all these ... look like in a few months. I could, and maybe sometime I will, write

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 23, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  hihi i’m back featuring all my favorite excuses

  

  i’m gonna keep this short so i can get to posting real content again ... in writing Last semester I tried to get all my writing requirements out ... resulted in way too many essays for my liking. On the bright side, I didn

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  friendful life recently

  

  community in the past few months. mostly, how i wouldn't be where i am now ... in kendall square or come to the whitehead institute (where i work) and ... elementary school as "filled with friends." i think that's how my life can be

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Speaking of mu…

  

  : I love living in a city, if for nothing else but the food. Last night ... over to the previously mentioned Diesel Cafe, where I read three ... scrimmage at 10pm. Should be a good day. Opening up a big can of worms: so, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 17, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  as much apple juice as I want, as often as I want, in whatever size glass I want! And now, living in a dorm where I am in charge of my own Apple Juice Acquisition, I can! Apple Juice Liberation is upon us! Okay

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Uh-oh Spaghetti-O

  

  feminist you are, I'm sure that you can see that it can seem a little ... directly corresponds to a nearly 1:1 ratio in the admitted pool. I'll admit that I've even been slightly skeptical of that in the past. Anyway, the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  and they’re going to better places lessons learned from a hard summer

  

  seems to follow? I can't keep my fucking mouth shut for once in my life ... connect with people. I have many friends in my work and I'm grateful to ... good. I never know when to shut up, and I'm the loudest in the room half

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘Magic Paint Brush’ This is so much cooler than MS Paint.

  

  It seems like every six months or so I discover an MIT video that leaves me in awe. This time, it is the I/O Brush: [I just realized that Laura blogged this almost two years ago! Where have I been?] The I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  unicorns big confusion

  

  i. in the business world, a unicorn is a startup with a valuation of ... people can be unicorns too. not in the business sense of the word, since ... because i expect to be worth a billion dollars in the future. rather, what i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 18, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  , can we have dinner tomorrow night? i feel like i haven't seen you all in ... When I first got to MIT in August and checked in for Orientation, I ... off of it and realize that there's more stuff that I can check off. (For

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  halfway there musings about currently being an MIT student

  

  otherworldly...I can't imagine reading at this point in time; I managed to get ... 's a weird experience. I can compartmentalize the last 14-ish months of ... , in retrospect, and I hope that I'm able to participate in at least one

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  dont want to write ah

  

  game i'm going to run. it's set in a magical realist world where ... i haven't written about what's been happening in my life at all in the past month, not here nor in my personal notes. i want to say that i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision

  

  hating it because it just becomes work. I can't just be in a play, I have ... . What follows is the very long and detailed crisis I had in picking my major, organized by what I considered, in a roughly chronological order

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT: Round 2

  

  always on the move, always trying to figure out where the next place I can ... . So cherish it while you can. For me, I don’t anticipate staying in the ... maybe some engineering problems). While I can’t say that I’ve personally

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  hold me (but not too close) on writing the full-length play

  

  , where I suddenly had an infinite amount of time to respond in a way that ... : Playwrights’ Lab in the spring, where I’ll get to collaborate with a ... in a while, I’d open my eyes and check the clock, just to see that only

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  classmates. In fact, the only thing in school I have ever been “naturally” good ... taking courses in their majors. I went to the student talks that we have at ... sad about my failures in high school, and I found out there are tons and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  read research papers in bed. I answer emails in bed. It makes it to where I can't sleep when I need to sleep in the furniture I need to sleep in ... not sound like an ass in doing so. I've got them all written down, and

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022