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• Blog / Residential Life

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

  

  always on different dorms, live in each other's rooms for several days to ... would to a joint blog post and write about our experiences, but never got to finish it. two years later, jessica and i are neighbors at next

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview It's only going to be as fun as you want it to be.

  

  surprised when I noticed that many trees have started to don a new coat of ... "wet and not-so-hot." It's quite an experience to be in a place where the trees change color according to the seasons. Saurav from India asks

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the (New) Bloggers! CONTENT COMING IN HOT

  

  , Anastassia, Natasha, and I met and we picked five of them to be new bloggers. Here they are - we're super excited to have them on the team! Say ... things from scratch, from food to clothes to what you’re reading

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  My 21st Birthday More details about the transition to Halloween than you ever wanted to know.

  

  This is Anna Ho, reporting live from her transition to being 21 years ... that whenever you go to the doctor's office and state your birth date ... /husband/estranged son-in-law/daughter/stepson). Everyone seems to know one Halloween baby

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Scary Tails and College Essays Three bad puns, two bloggers, one post.

  

  ! Brought to you by bloggers Canna H. and Am T. and a pair of mouse ears ... the aforementioned Lucy to go for a drive. Driving by muscle memory led us to Wayland, my small, moderately nowhere-ish hometown. Surprise

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 31, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Chinatown Food and friends and pigeons.

  

  To be honest, my weekend mornings are probably less exciting than ... 'm stuck on a deserted island of pre-afternoon hours with nary a soul to ... horizon. Dim Sum! If you're ever mind-numbingly bored enough to pop open a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Library Battle: Harvard vs. MIT Harvard and MIT Libraries are given a theme topic and each an afternoon to compile…

  

  Music Librarian. So read on ahead, to learn about MIT's Libraries, Harvard's Libraries, and why you should go to either MIT or Harvard. Here's a picture of Harvard's Widener Library to serve as a transition

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Getting Help @ MIT by Warren K. ’27

  

  A thank you to all the supportive faculty & staff at the ’Tute ... folks here aren’t used to failing. The biggest highlight of my first month ... imagine the kind of support you’ll get. You don’t need to know what to ask

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 17, 2025
• Blog / Events

  total eclipse of the cruft

  

  of others, I traveled to northern New England to see the total solar eclipse on April 8th. I had happened to see the total eclipse in 2017 in ... had to see it again, and bring my family this time. https

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  many pink dresses come to 2.009 :D

  

  several weeks building them in lab. We're so excited to launch (and to finally sleep after the launch). Tune in to our presentation!!! I'm one of ... crop top originally purchased for Barbie, and a t-shirt given to me by 2

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 5, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  what your favorite study spot says about you badly stereotyping places to work on campus

  

  a cursed follow up to this post. note that these are based off general vibes and probably hold no truth to them whatsoever !   Plant ... . you might procrastinate at times, but you definitely know how to get

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Above Ground now breathe

  

  and final part to my previous blog. I spent last semester trying to catch my breath. Now that I finally have, I'm not quite certain what to do ... , I completed two puzzles, and I'm finally feeling ready to start the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 10, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  whiplash feelings from yesterday

  

  november 29th, 2022 10am: you attend nano lecture but are unable to ... somehow always manage to feel burnt out at this point in the semester, regardless of how many classes or commitments you have 11am: you decide to try

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 30, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Tales of Two Parallels East Campus History class!

  

  fall, and I want to encourage people to take it! [caption id ... learned how to collect oral histories (read: interviews), access the MIT ... out directly to alumni to gain an understanding of East Campus in days

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Declared My Major :D aw yeah i'm a College Student™ now

  

  At MIT, students are able to declare their major starting sometime ... when it come to what I want to do, so I was dead confident that nothing was going to keep me from declaring [annotation note="Computation and

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 21, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  two years after my book auction in retrospect

  

  On April 16th, 2020, my life changed. That’s a kitschy way to put it ... memorable than usual, because it’s the day my first novel went to auction. It ... begun to claw its way through the United States, and a month earlier, MIT

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  in wonderland hello from the number side

  

  . I've been known to say things like "Well, I'm fairly sure that I have ... makes my tendency for already-nebulous statements even more nebulous to ... (thing is true) but why? I go to MIT 100% (or so I've been told) I get these

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 16, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  head above the water (intro post) an inner dialogue about my first month of classes

  

  could get used to the water temperature before going out further and ... forth underneath me while I tried to propel myself up. Keep in mind that, to pass the swim test, you have to travel down the lane four times, two

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Tier Listing My Classes i may have got this idea from tiktok

  

  of this week, to be precise. Once January 29th comes and goes, I will no longer be a student blogger, and will have graduated to the nebulous realm of cruftiness. So, in the name of going out strong, I'd like to put

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 23, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  thing that have changed not my class year...pls god i want to be a freshman forever

  

  lived in a dorm, participated in lots of student activites, and went to ... using Notion to track all my class assignments. i feel very on top of ... opposed to last year. i look forward to cooking for myself every day instead

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 12, 2020