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• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding a Second Home love is where you least expect it

  

  Let’s flash back to a sunny weekend in April, where the grills of MIT ... my dreams, and senior-year-me couldn’t be happier to be there. I was ... various dorms and houses to decide where I actually wanted to live for the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Rowing at MIT: a guest post by Connor M. ‘16

  

  summer to compete at the Henley Royal Regatta. That Fall, at the first day ... than I had expected. That first day on the river we rowed up to Harvard ... pool, but I wanted to continue my involvement in sports at MIT. I felt it

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 26, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’ve got Mail! And a LAPTOP! Why I can breathe again, and the 10 most recent emails in my inbox.

  

  a few times to me. One of these was when I was in high school and ... upperclassmen gallantly agreed to give us piggyback rides. Eventually I decided I ... attempted to propel myself off his back, except that with my knees roughly

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Rocky Mountain Round-Up The latest from my travels in Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico.

  

  Currently, I'm in the middle of a week-long Admissions trip to Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico to talk about MIT with students, parents, and other interesting folks. This trip follows another recent trip to Northern California

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / Events

  I’m still here. Promise.

  

  functional enough to update! Ok, first things first: we have a new blogger ... claimed that the solution to one of the metas was given by reading the first ... Whew. It's been awhile. Um...so what I've come to realize is that IAP

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  what is and isn’t me (rush, part 1) and the somewhat methodical unraveling of self

  

  first came to [insert college here], I didn’t think frat/sorority life was ... concept of rushing, and he'd felt similar to me when first coming to MIT ... even thinking about going to “Kresge Kickoff” that first week of the

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • October 7, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  Cooking with Cami learning to adult part 1

  

  all my first year of MIT. I had made promises to earlier, but never ... . I wanted to document my first week of "actual cooking", showing you ... with friends in Washington, D.C. and wanting to save money for future

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint post] give us your words you have words. we want your words.

  

  . By competitively, I mean, we were trying to see who would finish first ... constraints are fairly lax but the form is long and repetitive, forcing you to return to a topic over and over again. It is a form whose flexibility

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  PSA: anyone in the world can stream this MIT class about coronavirus for free this fall the new subject will be broadcast to the public beginning tomorrow, sept 1

  

  up for classes. I'm co-teaching an a first-year advising seminar on ... -focused credit limit for first year students. As of today, you (the person reading ... education to the public through longstanding institutions like OCW and MITx

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cancer on my mind Wait, shouldn’t that be Carolina?

  

  Cancer is on my mind lately. I know how to have fun, huh? But maybe ... engineers and half are scientists. Or I could point out that it is the first place of its kind trying to come at diagnosis, treatment and prevention of

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 18, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  For love of Baxter A story of love, loss, and catnapping on Burton 1, as documented by my cell…

  

  From: rich Subject: LOST CAT Date: January 22, 2008 1:22:26 AM EST To ... , 2008 1:51:44 AM EST To: rich Cc: burton1 Dear Richard, We have ... you ever want to see him again, you must meet all of our demands. The

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  2021 Applicants: Answers to Your Emails Inspiration, Process, Components, Stress Mgmt, and More

  

  Hi 2021 Applicants! It’s been two weeks since my first post addressed to you. It’s a long weekend and thus an excuse to pretend that I don’t have to do work yet (although this is work; also

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Christmas: The Playlist and much music was had.

  

  But first I'm going to talk about the Toons. Some of you might ... like crazy to put together a kick-ass performance. There's a song by ...  a cappella. Of course, the concert's not limited to just singing, because who

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Nerd’s Paradise Phi is a "h" of a lot cooler than pi.

  

  Ever since I first visited MIT in the summer of 2007, I knew that the ... listen to an admissions presentation, take a campus tour, visit a lab, and talk to some of the current students. I was on campus for a grand total

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Pictures that don’t belong anywhere else – Part I because i'm a slackslackslackball.

  

  - Blackjack. Though lazy and fat at first glance, this cat can go 0-to-60 in 6 ... This entry is a lot of things. Read! First here are some pictures ... it over IAP when a single became available) and was kind enough to let

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • February 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have classes

  

  to be able to keep all five, but if it is too much work then I will drop back to four. I've provided my first impressions of each class ... else from a first lecture. 9.22 (A Clinical Approach to the Human Brain

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 9, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  [joint post] A Map of MIT Makerspaces ft MechE grad student and mapmaker Rima Das

  

  makerspaces, if you know where to look. The issue is, it’s difficult for any one student to know where all the makerspaces are. PhD student Rima Das is working on a project to remedy that — she’s putting together a collaborative

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 1, 2022
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Boston’s Climate Strike youthful activism

  

  began to feel hopeful. For one of the first times in my life, I stopped in ... Today has been a hectic day, to say the least. It's only around 9pm ... around to call for climate justice. At MIT, and other schools in the area

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 20, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for transgender students in light of the military ban and our ROTC program(s)

  

  banning the recruitment of transgender people to the military. While the ... on behalf of undocumented and international students, to reaffirm our support for transgender students, particularly those who may wish to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 3, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Stomach Overrides All Priorities culinary procrastination

  

  somewhere first for it to run on!" But since I didn't want to run a server off ... from the somewhat ambitious "Find a UROP to turn into a thesis!" to "Keep ... in my browser to do just that, I was seized by the sudden necessity to

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 22, 2011