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• Blog / Events

  Hospital Trips and Dance Parties MIT campus is where it's at over the summer.

  

  room: Hello, Charles River and New House :) I'm living in Mac ... campus for the summer. In August, I'll move back to French House, but this is where I'll come home to for the next couple of months. MIT during

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 29, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Sophomore Slump Last semester was not so great

  

  seniors and juniors, so my sophomore friend and I did not get in. So I was ... material, and she helped me understand that what I am going through in the ... like I learned a ton in the class, and I have accepted that there was no

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 12, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  Different Perspectives IAP from the minds of a few different people

  

  as I can in my training to become an EMT.  Here are some of my friends ... for it! You don't have to put in as much time as I did, and you can even ... 'm also working full time in the STEP Lab on campus here, where I'm helping

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 26, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  40 Hours Left! The time is 0500 EST, 12/15. I am studying for finals. You are waiting for…

  

  met. (Girl) Ah, the scene I can't forget We were thrown together in the ... tongue I made a hit with you, you must confess. (Boy) Yes, you hit me in ... at Harlem (Girl) At the Bronx I murmured yes, (Boy) We lost no time in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 15, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Visualize whirled peas

  

  I don't want to alarm those of you in California, Texas, Florida ... crowds, especially for big releases. The last crowd I was in that was this ... lately. Another essay I read recently talked about the conflict in Northern

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  Hold your breath my first CPW

  

  Breathe in. Keep breathing. The prefrosh I was hosting, or my ... couch you'll sleep in, I'm gonna head to class now. The first class I had ... leaves. I put on rain clothes and walk to the admitted student welcome in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Part 3 Helping the Class of 2010 with their decisions.

  

  ? What are your lingering concerns? Etc. I'll answer as many as I can this ... for almost ten years and I've participated in national competitions and festivals. I'm having a hard time finding an adequate teacher so far in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FWACC! and some small thoughts about kindness

  

  classes this semester and am now in fewer units than I've ever been at MIT!"]where ... happened, I was still a freshman, desperately trying to get on my feet. In ... be the standard spelling at MIT, although I can't really figure out why

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  in the future. I can just do my best now and see where that takes me ... effort I put in to make a change. How long can I hope that this time ... qualities of the game that you can't avoid, in the same way that I can't avoid

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 16, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing…Stan! Passing the blogger torch

  

  Arizona desert, where I spent the remainder of my pre-college days in the ... cognitive sciences). If you can’t find me in class, I’m commonly found with my ... remember when I was a prefrosh (in 2008...ouch), I dreamed of one day being

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 24, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Boston’s 3rd of July It's almost a holiday, but not quite.

  

  backpack!" "Nope, I'm sorry, you can't get in." Wonderful. Security 2 ... what very well could have been the longest line ever. I got in it. It ... the case in my current line). I wandered up and walked right up to the

  • by Snively '11
  • July 4, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  After the Storm Thoughts about decisions from someone who's been there.

  

  prospective members of MIT's Class of 2012 - foremost in my mind. I hope I was ... important things in life is to be at peace with where you are and what you ... could tell you that MIT is not the only place where you can live your

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons from Loomis and Whitney a math month post

  

  the math stuff, you can scroll on through to Part 2 where I talk about ...  size (i.e. how many) points there are in the shadows of $A$, can we get a ... : I love that I can describe this problem in a single sentence: I want

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Sensations On Having Feelings

  

  past it like some of the giant ideas in this area. I had no beginning ... incomprehensible. But, perhaps the best reason I can give for my love of Ladies and ... intertwined.   I remember high school as a blur of grey; in one word, I

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 9, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  poem snippets searching for hope amidst darkness

  

  . i hope that you can find solace or hope in some of these words ... come and the leaves come and they leave and i stand by the tree where you ... cry or laugh & i would put my hands in mud to make myself last &

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  H0sed Psets, exams, and being "mediocre" at MIT.

  

  where I would be now. And in one short year (come to think of it, I only ... believe in hope I believe I can touch the sky if I try. With you beside me ... (which was very exciting, by the way - I have never been in a country with

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  ways of saying goodbye joint post with CJ '23!

  

  's laughing in the background So this is how it ends I promise to never go outside again from waves: I watched my wild youth Disappear in front of my ... get the feeling that I'm right where I belong Why am I the one always

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  withdraw from MIT entirely and become a hermit in the woods -- surely I can ... pretty well on the psets, where I can look up what terms like "marginal ... the five stages of grief: i. denial in which I wake up, horrified

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  blind spots on privilege

  

  ’ve been better. II. Growing up in a place where I did not have many ... catch up. I feel like I am constantly running in a race where I am doomed ... I. eulogies are beautiful but  can we talk about leaves before fall

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 4, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  The train in Spain is ungainly, take a plane I'm an MITblogger, get me out of here!

  

  work with Amtrak and studies in Course 11, I think I have a job for you ... 'm glad that we ended up going. It's unlike anywhere else I've seen in my ... actually a recurring motif throughout the Passion Facade, although I can

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2006