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• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  , and this Saturday has been the first time I’ve really been able to ... tired. Tired. Exhausted. Bushed. Ready to curl up into a ball and sleep ... I had trained myself to overcome last year. Instead, I sat in the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] A Journey to the W I D E by Wide Tim (Margaret Z. ‘23, MEng ‘24)

  

  ’s hard to go through the semester without seeing him, from a poster in the hall to a post somewhere on Instagram. I even have a little sticker of ... blogs! I thought to ask him to say hello, so I’ll let him take it away

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: an interdisciplinary collaboration A day in the life of MIT research... on the Internet. A story of how…

  

  absolutely exhausted one evening, getting to bed early for the first time in ... all the time, and along the way, the prototype site was presented to key ... , but no way to develop it; the other with no background in that idea, but

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Our thoughts go out to Virginia Tech.

  

  don't know what to say. Today, President Susan Hockfield sent this message out to the MIT community: From: Susan Hockfield Subject: Tragedy at Virginia Tech Date: April 17, 2007 To: [email protected] Reply-To: sh

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  A Brief Addition to My Last Exposition (Or was it a narrative? My FCAT Writing skills are long gone.)

  

  key. The tube was by my front door. I missed it on my way in to find the ... My introduction to most of the MIT Admissions staff - aside from my ... comments to a post in some older blog y'all don't know about, when I was so

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 20, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  sitting down no more sprinting

  

  swept me up; from the 21st to 25th, I was an [annotation note="First ... ’s been about what I expected: seeing friends, going to class, psetting… all ... came onto campus almost every day anyway. But it felt official to move

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • October 12, 2023
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  From East to West: An American’s Cross-Atlantic Voyage The start of my MISTI UK experience

  

  ! He used to be my neighbor when I was here." "This is her first time in ... knights from London to Bristol, where I currently reside in a castle. I ... the first time I’ve ever been in the UK. My journey involved three

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 10, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Collections Simple

  

  to get it. My life is getting infinitely more complex. I have to think ... the first time. I am also so thankful I had a Spanish speaker to cling ... 've reached this strange turning point in my life where I want to do things more

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Friday Night, Off-Campus Style come along on our evening of fish and wine

  

  past midnight. These days, my Fridays tend to be a bit more low-key. In ... around us: to our right, a slightly awkward pair (perhaps on a first date ... deadlines. The only struggle is picking something to do. With so many good

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I who have nothing Darling, 'tis I who loves you.

  

  them a pale appearance. History has not recorded what happened to these ... -conditioned (!) hostel room, listening to the dude above me snore, and I thought that ... bajillionth time, I should make good on my promise to write something from Spain

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I would like to find an astronomer to talk to No admissions. Just good writing.

  

  certainly not forgotten. I've got a blog post in the works about how to write ... application season approaches. I hope to post it some day soon. That day is not this day. Today I am just going to rip a post from Ta-Nehisi Coates - an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living in Random Hall or: i really miss loop

  

  first and third floors are connected so if you want to go from Loop ... , go to the first floor and do the same process, or go to the basement ... stay the latest at Random. At first, we just told him to crash here and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving season blue blue blue

  

  dorm, went to advising meetings and chose classes for the first semester ... home the first time. it, still hurts so, so much to leave my home. but ... incredibly hard to leave MIT, if not the first year, then the second. it is a

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 21, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The Real Deal no impostors here

  

  deceit, and they're in over their heads. The key to getting past it ... . When I first came to MIT - having never stepped foot on campus before my ... A few days ago a young man posted a confession to the Class of 2016

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Oh, the Places You’ll Go(ogle) The path to enlightenment is paved with Google searches.

  

  -Per-Day bandwagon and pinwheeled into a rut of intense, hardcore* Googling. Or, to ... , unborn sociological research papers were practically waiting to be pulled ... sloppy, unedited abstract to a half-dozen papers that will never kiss the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Fall 04 What I took way back when

  

  : Professors' names will go to websites about them, not their email addresses ... Robert Weinberg “discovered the first human oncogene and the first tumor ... saying, “I'm married to a lactose-intolerant person. She's otherwise very

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 23, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Checking My Calendar I know I'll eat my words come late September, but I'm looking forward to three…

  

  were nearly impossible to guess... First Row 1: Ortaköy Mosque and the ... six-week breaks and a summer vacation lasting from mid June to early ... per week, but only during the first two terms (uh-huh, no lectures after

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 17, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Why did I come to MIT? by River A. ‘26

  

  ≧◡≦ , my name is River. Just like most people, I had dreamed of coming to this university since childhood. And now I am about to enter my sophomore ... it really came true. I never expected to be the person who I am now

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Radio Nerd Shenanigans i wrote this in october and forgot to post it oops

  

  copper wire key-ring, and a kilt. It was a joy to draw and has since then ... beach over radio and talk to each other on air while driving (probably not ... unexpected diversity,  I was shocked to find we also have our own frequency

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 25, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  glassblowing & me a series of memories

  

  loud to my partner: "It's like, the realization... that my first ... first responsibility, if I want it, is to protect the glass ball that I am ... The other day, I had a little epiphany that came to me in the shape

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 18, 2022