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• Blog / Uncategorized

  working very, very hard campus tourism and imposter syndrome

  

  that I've earned buying a coffee nearly every day of the week. I go on ... -grad preparation drift, unchecked, from one week to the next. Yet, as long as I'm a ... , typing away, I wonder if I'm a part of the exhibition: real-life MIT

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • July 22, 2026
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in BRASIL! my summer in january

  

  a transit card (at least, as far as I can tell). So you have to go up ... California where I'm from, settlers planted eucalyptus because it grows quickly ... .[/annotation] Approaching from an urbanism perspective, this course helped develop how I read

  • by Victor D. '27
  • February 5, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  Poetry Prescriptions Things I've Made and Consumed. Sophomore Fall, All of It.

  

  -Madison. *Having a five-year-old sister, I get to see for myself, from a new ... had a giant crush on MIT. I signed up for a million classes (five and a ... brothers. The acronym 'scuba' stood for "little can of air I strap on my back

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final projects from the fall three coding projects and an alien in disguise

  

  list of options to choose from for our final project. I chose ... to write about for my final project, so I took a theory I have about ... suggestions, I tried to make a Bayesian model for how a player's confidence

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is wondrous strange. Why didn't the ostrich cross the road? Because a girl had no pants on.

  

  California. If you can't trust a student blog on the MIT admissions portal, then whom can you trust? Turns out that there's a zoo in Dorchester. I ... was a little bored (for the very first time since I got to MIT two years

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three patterns from the pattern language of my life

  

  newborn.  In the 3,000 days, I moved to Washington, D.C. (for a fellowship ... for five years, reconnected with a friend I met on the first day of CPW ... messaged me, and on a whim I invited him to visit me in New Mexico, and he

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  checked off 101 things to do before you graduate...

  

  This blog has been in the works for a… long time. I first started ... the C League (Leagues go from A to C, in decreasing difficulty), so for ... time, I share a two-scoop cup with a friend so that we can save money :D

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All-You-Can-Eat Summer I hit food coma at the first paragraph.

  

  . It also turned out to be a record for me, as I ate 11 scoops of ice ... can be difficult to find the time for during a harried semester schedule ... razors with soap in them already. I'm living in a fraternity in Boston

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 10, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  Where’s Waldo? Hack Attack!

  

  to in my email inbox I receive this email. From: Friend with the ... =) --- Mental Bubble: "ZOMG A HACK, Where's my camera?!?!?!?" Luckily, my blogger ... . I especially like the French Waldo. Off to the Stata Center for more

  • by Bryan
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  hey hey HAYMARKET slicing and dicing all over the place.

  

  from the day: I just had to take a picture of this sign. Haymarket ... , my friend Diana and I thought we'd take a little trip out to Haymarket ... advertising auditions for a show on WGBH, so we decided to follow the posters to

  • by Bryan
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  World Cup Challenge A little admissions fun during the World Cup.

  

  students, World Cup fever is in full force. I got to watch the opening match between Germany and Costa Rica on the big screen with a huge and rowdy group of MIT students, and I'm looking forward to watching many of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 13, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  tea shirt the tea and stories behind the merch in my closet

  

  ) and a shirt from Makerlodge. Though I haven’t gone to makerspaces as ... ’t know, I am a 2024 (for now). This means we had a fun thing called virtual ... . I’m not as certain where the ASC shirt actually came from. It might

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 19, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?

  

  -based project classes, and learned a lot.  I've worked closely with students from many different courses, and a handful from Harvard too.  This year, I ... mechanical engineering class. So while I can't really provide a success

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC’s Q&A with Dean Kelley of Pixar’s Coco (he also worked on Avatar: The Last Airbender, Monsters University, and The Incredibles 2)

  

  . But I would say scenes where you can get a lot of emotion from animated ... my eyes. I think of parts of Mexico where the music evolved from. I ... built, it’s a virtual space where the layout artists can come in from our

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 8, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  “Take care of yourself.” "Can you post something positive please?" - my mom

  

  chat with me. "Where are you from?" "California." "Ah, I'm from ... once again. I would neglect my own mental wellbeing for the sake of a ... Women This is a pretty big one for me actually. I grew up really hating

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  . He also, I found out, is a recitation instructor for 8.286 - The Early ... will: I am currently living on a Navajo reservation, forty miles from the ... work that I’ve been doing, but you can expect to hear plenty more from me

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Making an Entrance On being helped to my feet.

  

  lobby. Rewind four weeks, to a field in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where I ... upperclassman at a lunchtime barbecue. I apologized to her for not talking much ... -mate caught my eye. I nodded. He threw a low, fast forehand, which began curving

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Born Under Punches The heat goes on, which is nice, but so does classwork.

  

  to a range where I can sing tenor parts again. We've also got to choose from a list of 12 diverse pieces for our project on improvisation. I ... (fressen). I have also learned the German word for "to strike a deathblow

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  let’s talk about financial aid a different kind of holiday miracle

  

  financial aid, I receive over $5000 a semester for living expenses, on top of ... happens, but also a pool of savings for me to use once I leave college. This ... MIT "set aside" a certain amount of money for me to eat. Now that I'm in

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 24, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  MIT for Book Lovers Yultide Day 4

  

  Engineering professor. I can’t express how grateful I was to be a student at the ... the book for my sister at a discount, and personalized signatures from ... included below. BBF is another event where I got a signed book (the first of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 29, 2018