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• Blog / MIT Life

  Clinging to the Coattails of Identity Who am I now?

  

  “local”–generally involves being born and raised on island. I was not born ... “About Me” descriptions, I always ended up identifying myself by the ... -to-know-you questions ended with college apps? Nope! “Tell us about who you are, your

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 29, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Let’s do a puzzle. Ready to flex some cranial muscle?

  

  's. 1400 apple pies. McDonald's. We screamed and high-fived and jumped around ... , she started with descriptions of festivals and then ended with dates ... feats (such anecdotes are, I think, the only way to do some shred of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Unedited notes on gravity, etc. Brief thoughts on gravity, science, and consciousness that I plan to elaborate later when I…

  

  , including a photogenic Bildungsroman in which I visit the beach and McDonald ... [Tonight I worked on a problem set in General Relativity until 4 AM ... laptop display I searched for comfort amidst the suburban silence of post

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 11, 2010
• Blog / Residential Life

  Life on Campus? remastered 2021

  

  wrote code for my UROP. Other days, I walked with friends to the Z Center ... hope you all get vaccinated by the end of April. I hope the students who ... I loved living in Macgregor. Every weekday, I woke up at 6, brushed

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Walk Across Rhode Island 12 hours, 33 miles, a million aches and pains

  

  the highway is also the main street. I caught the tail end of the group ... Last Sunday, some friends and I walked across the state of Rhode Island! This idea originated last year, when my friend Xavier and some of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The CPW Weather Machine Strikes Again a frivolous day in the sun and grass

  

  sunny warmth with a spring picnic. It was a day made for frivolity. I ... sweet potato fries, which I've been wanting to make since I read this MIT ... . Meanwhile, I caught the perfect lighting and discovered that everyone I know

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  OMG SNOW Well, FINALLY!

  

  to end well. And I don't want that! It's not you, it's me. Thanks ... and McDonalds came out with the McFlurry I thought they just invented a ... (To be serious for a moment here - I really love comments and emails

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Events

  life, with the brass rat we're halfway there????????????

  

  McDonald's commercial.   I feel old. I’ve always felt old, but ... " align="alignnone" width="1000"] bloggers!!! jebby, andi, ella, and i ... and i ganging up on sonny x. '25 (we weightlifted/kickboxed together on

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 26, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Mas33h Hall A quick look at life in the Castle

  

  It’s my 3rd year at MIT. I’ve lived in 3 different dorms. My current ... , probably. I want to talk about The Dorms though, because, a) It’s housing renewal season so I’ve been thinking a lot about where I want to live, and b

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hodge-Podge Random things from a random guy.

  

  !!!" Hosoi, you win. 7) Looking back on high school I realize that I ... I should be sleeping right now. I should be tired. I got less than five hours of sleep last night, but for some reason I'm awake and feeling

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fall Adventures a day in rhode island, maine, and boston

  

  . My friends and I wandered around Providence, visited the Rhode Island ... with a friend I've known since freshman year of high school, and we went ... My favorite season has always been fall. I love walking around campus

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visualize this! My new UROP We've got some really cool stuff going on this semester

  

  , even though I only really started working with this group at the end of ... sophisticated back-end than we have now. One of the things I’ll be looking at this ... It’s a new school year, and I’ve started UROPing in a new lab! For

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Truth Values [by Ken Haggerty '11] A fantastic one-woman show about life at MIT. (Now playing!)

  

  events portrayed in the play, and at the show's end, I felt that ... [by Ken Haggerty '11] As I walked into the main stage of the Central Square Theater, ticket in one hand and notebook in the other, I wasn

  • by ARTalk
  • September 22, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Are you sure you don’t want to cancel? Double whammy.

  

  Airport. Fly to Houston, TX for a day long interview. Now keep in mind, I have the GRE on Saturday. So I intended to study the entire flight; instead, I slept. Land in Houston. Now, here was one of the most exciting

  • by Bryan
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for the Applicants I was in those stressed and anxious shoes last year.

  

  and wouldn’t get into, and in the end I ended up exactly where I was ... to. In the end, I lost time, that I came to realize upon arriving here ... end, I can confirm to you that all those percentages did not have any

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 24, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and ends and Canada A study break, plus some other highlights of the week

  

  entry that would exceed the length of The Old Man and the Sea, and so I ... , not Hemingway's novella. I tried to split The Old Man and the Sea into ... ended up doing most of the planning and shopping. Thus, I authoritatively

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soy Bomb Doo d-d-doo d-d-doo d-do d-do. Ice tea!

  

  . After three years of p-sets (which, by the end of last year, I was ... business. Although I guess my sentence could still be technically correct ... parthenogenesis. Anyhoo, the last time I posted, like, a gazillion years ago, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Events

  I Feel Cool Welcome to MIT, Mr. Gates!

  

  today! And thanks to the MIT Admissions Office, I got a ticket to see him ... to Kresge Auditorium opened half an hour earlier. When I wandered into ... minutes later, there were hundreds of people behind me. Apparently, I got

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  O hai A reintroduction

  

  About four years ago, I ended my very last blog post as a student by saying that I hoped and suspected our paths would cross again someday. Well ... high school, I think YouTube had just started to become A Thing, so

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Quizbowl adventuring knowledge is (*) power !

  

  When I brought up at a blogger meeting that I was thinking about ... course I had to say, "Now I'm definitely writing a blog post about ... . Quizbowl at the high school level comes in a lot of different formats, and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 29, 2018