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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Singing with a Local Filk Group [by Susan Shepherd '11] At MIT, I discovered that my "unusual" hobbies weren't all that…

  

  [by Susan Shepherd '11] For me, one of the greatest things about MIT ... aren't nearly hot enough." "I agree. What do you say to refining the ... hobby for me, and I assumed I was the only person who would be interested

  • by ARTalk
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of My Junior Fall stream of consciousness

  

  me realize that the idea of pursuing an PhD or Master's in media is not ... spent interview prepping. I was doing mock interviews nearly every night ... asking myself "Why them and not me? What did they have that I didn't?" It

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 31, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  A Running Journey ft. running 13 miles in the middle of nowhere with petey

  

  vivid memories from childhood is nearing the finish line of the end of ... grade because I very distinctly running up the road near my house to the ... REALLY knocked the wind out of me. I remember stumbling inside after

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 19, 2020
• Blog / Travel

  clownazoo part 2 this post is two years late

  

  In case you have not seen part 1, I posted it near the end of my freshman year. I am now going into my senior year. I think I may have procrastinated a little bit. In total, we ended up spending around 9 hours on

  • by Anika H. '26
  • August 1, 2025
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What type of robotics programs does MIT offer?

  Although robotics isn't a specific department or major, you can find robotics in nearly every corner of MIT. Here are a few examples: Biomimetic Robotics Lab CSAIL MIT Media Lab Edgerton Marine Robotics Team
• Blog / MIT Life

  the world is blooming! and so am i?

  

  ="attachment_101220" align="aligncenter" width="225"] Cherry blossom tree near Building ... near Lobby 7, MIT’s main entrance to the central academic buildings ... , large and… oh. They were definitely the same as the ones near Lobby 7

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Friends, Part 1 a cross-registration love story

  

  about our first interaction, but Denisse tells me that I asked her what year she was (a freshman, like me) and what her major was (she said ... . I somehow found myself somehow talking to her in Lobby 7 for nearly an

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Talking to Strangers

  

  me, made small talk. He was polite, clean-looking, from Memphis, not ... and ejaculating, and me in a state of shock, unable to say anything but ... ’d been less compliant. Things like this have happened to me before, and

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All I Ever Will Be? on friendships

  

  on a near-cosmic level, like soulmates for friends. That was until we ... . Until the person I considered my best friend stopped talking to me because ... year, I thought to myself now this is it. My best friend is talking to me

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] How to Revise a Paper in 5 Easy Steps Claire H. '20's urop experience TM

  

  back to me, it was nearing the middle of Week 3, and I was on my way to ... Cambridge office in the late afternoon - almost everyone except my host and me ... , which was me scrambling to finish my summer project and making slides it

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Blockchain and the Niger Delta Creating a system for accountability

  

  T ME THIS (!!!!!) too cute. I had heard from the rest of the African ... you to see how strong the connection is in Nigeria!” he told me, and ... project is that corruption is about the system,” Hassan tells me. When

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] 8.13 Junior Lab feat. aidan chambers '23

  

  notoriety of the class and its near-universality among Course 8’s I am fairly ... you’re doing and have nowhere near the amount of prior experience to ... made me wonder I wasn’t cut out for the rest of the course, but

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  alone in cologne homesickness, better late than never

  

  said goodbye to my parents ten times. The first time they dropped me off ... tried, the moment refused to hit me. Almost accusingly, I remember, she ... young, too out of my comfort zone, he would use his story to convince me

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / CPW

  From First Visit to First Week A Reflection on Independence and Making Decisions

  

  would’ve meant the world to freshman me back in high school. But as I ... yourself - at least it did for me.    Probably like most of my peers, I don't live near Cambridge. And the last time I was on a plane was

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  i love this f*cking place "say this to my face when you're a junior." ~an upperclassman

  

  since MIT is a freaking hard school that will likely destroy me sometime in the near future.   but i digress.   i had a strange ... Friends™! and wow it was a lot to handle. and for someone like me, who was

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Thanksgiving Nostalgia if MIT == home

  

  science, I spend nearly all of my waking hours hunched over a desk coding ... moving to Boston, winter was synonymous with the air fogging at me. Now, I ... A N T S Being off the meal plan has forced me to venture further into

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 1, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Home is where the heart (of Texas) is Going away to school isn't such a bad thing.

  

  things. Coming back to Texas allows me to think about how my MIT ... you need some context about me and my history. I'm from "Suburbia ... all mean. A friend who I caught up with over break said something to me

  • by Bryan
  • December 30, 2006
• Blog / Residential Life

  [guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes notes from a hall exchange in 2017

  

  in late february of 2017 me and jessica t. '20 did a hall exchange. a ... 6.033 design project preliminary report so nisha doesn't yell at me, i ... me. The climb to 5West was not terribly laborious and was well greeted

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2019
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  A Summer in DC what i've been up to this summer!

  

  years older than me in education and life experience. Nearly every time I ... DC have given me a good chance to explore the DMV area! Here's some ... , hand-made, and revamped goods. It reminds me of the Fenway Flea in Boston

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • July 30, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Love Lucy: Continued This time, the title even makes sense.

  

  ; however, in the cold of winter, or the near-flash floods of September, some ... than twice a week, because a car lets me carry back far too many gallons ... , Microsoft! For paying for near half of it, anyway) and ride into Allston to

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 22, 2010