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• Blog / Challenges

  good morning, MIT Guest post by Piper L. '17

  

  she does a beautiful job trying to express the ineffable. No amount of ... teammates. inevitably, we get to know each other (a bit), because, well, we ... the second day in a row. he was my teammate. i sat next to him three

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the lying lives of adults by elena ferrante

  

  the betrayed party would find out. Here, the affair seemed to be the ... revealed that he, too, is willing to betray his fiancée for a night ... sun as a metaphor for Meursault’s super-ego to criticize the societal

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 1) two trains, twelve states, 540 pictures, one Speaker of the House election, and more!

  

  pinpoint accuracy on my shoe, so I will have to go find a napkin. See you ... find a mother and a baby as the new occupants of the seat next to mine ... up to, what was happening around the train, what I was feeling, and a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2020 if you read even one of these i will be happy

  

  sensible."]a callback to last year's post.[/annotation] But then I decided ... the jump, ask yourself: "Why does this thing I'm writing have to be a ... have to find their strength, and when they do find it, it comes forth

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 23, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Home, not just a Haus fighting the good fight

  

  wearied mind. A place where residents are not afraid to look the creatures ... part of our community, for wanting to live in a place where we can forget ... handing in on time, there are no more days where I have to worry about

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 12, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updates i'm still here.

  

  -based math, and it culminated in a project where I got the chance to listen to ... It’s been a hot second since I last blogged- about ten weeks, to be ... family for going three weeks before replying to a text. ‘School is crazy

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • January 20, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Brief Retreat How a short trip to Block Island left me revitalized

  

  up last weekend, when my family and I took a trip to Block Island, a ... away from where I live. We spent the first two or so hours in a car ... sinking feeling that I was able to shake off by taking a few swimming

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 31, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  how to meet curious people

  

  passion. To be fair, MIT may have cultivated a different culture than these ... level. While I’m sure these clubs appeal to a large variety of people ... nobody in 18.032. Due to a mandatory recitation for another class, I would

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Questions Fall 2007 Here are answers to the questions posted in my blog over the last month or…

  

  the option to choose 'A topic of your choice?'" We find that our essay ... adventurous enough to want to give Senior Haus a try!" Absolutely ... : "What if I tend to write meticulously enough for a paper to seem d

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Structure and function, dorms and culture

  

  structures and secrets, belonged to me, rather than simply being a place where ... structure. Or, to be more descriptive, geography and physical structure have a ... "normal" (though really, there's a limit to how normal anyone at MIT is

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  a most beautiful camping trip it's always good to get back to nature <3

  

  for a long, long, time. Thankfully, the real weekend (the one where I ... It's pretty common at MIT for living groups to take advantage of the ... luxury!!) to go on fun trips and retreats. On Friday, my floor, Putz

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 17, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Batman Picks a Username learn from him.

  

  Trouble thinking up a good Kerberos username? Take some hints from Batman.

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 8, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Venturing to far living groups

  

  to be working)." One thing to remember is that just because a hall is ... 're allowed to choose where they live, they'll only associate with their living ... deliberately circled around here to make it easier for Yoyo to get a pic. "Grrr

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  My First Few Weeks at MIT … one year ago

  

  . For our cohort, we created a game where robots had to remove tennis ... Every freshman’s first few weeks at MIT tend to follow a predictable ... (commonly referred to as the Stud)"]Stud 5,[/annotation] learning to share a

  • by Hala K. '29
  • September 22, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Delicious Things Mmmmm.

  

  commit a...healthy...amount of time to extra-curriculars, but outside of ... . Ooooh. But the magic wears off after a couple weeks, to be honest, and soon "free food" isn't a good enough reason to walk across campus for a 2

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  WTHBBQ! Chinese Buffet! Spring 2008 courses, with a really bad analogy, haha. (super long post o___o)

  

  was focused on interactive exercises in class where you had to speak a ... Sooo. It all ended a few nights ago. The all-nighter turned out to ... physics in a manner that was "exciting," or so to speak. To me, physics is

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yes, eat all our shirts! See MIT through the eyes of my prefrosh.

  

  introduction to chemistry for, say, a chemical engineering major, usually take 5 ... want to. In the Friday's 3.091 lecture, Professor Sadoway delivered a ... Yesterday one lucky prefrosh got to be hosted by me through the MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The end of an era Veronica Mars was canceled. That, or the seniors left. Interpret the title as you will.

  

  . I'll be watching, just to give the show a good kick in the pants on ... more like a toy plane to me, but there's a reason I stayed away from ... free time to chronicle the life of a summer-time MIT student. As sad as

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Dance at MIT!!! [Collab with Ben O. ’19] hip-hop? contemp? bhangra? lion dance? MIT's got it all

  

  trying to find a place to start dancing at MIT, to grow as a dancer, or to ... with a Dance Camp series, where everyone is welcome to learn some basic ... dance, from traditional Asian dance to K-Pop; members perform at a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 30, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Splash. Was. Awesome. I taught: 3 classes, 5 sections, 246 kids.

  

  latter are a little stressed out. They are all wide-eyed as they try to figure out where the heck they're going. Our hallways aren't the easiest to ... my pizza horizons - I used to be a strictly mozzarella, or mozzarella

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 21, 2012