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• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Leavetaking and homecoming

  

  liked the house we already lived in, an old adobe building at the edge of ... occasionally found rusty nails, broken glass, and bits of pottery we thought were Native artifacts, but which in hindsight were just fragments of floor tiles

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 28, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  Campus and Memories low-quality pictures and some memories

  

  pictures of the places that were memorable to me in some way. Eighteen months ... than that was the emptiness of it all: lobby 10, 26-100, banana lounge. Too many locked rooms, too clean rooms, too many signs of lifelessness

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 24, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  walking, walking, walking walking and/as coping

  

  the river On its bridge with wooden piers, Like the odor of brine from the ocean Comes the thought of other years. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ... from Kendall/MIT to Charles/MGH, is named as such because of this poem

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 31, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  oh, the places you’ll go

  

  In my freshman year of high school, my favorite teacher that year had ... of us a custom version of Dr. Seuss's Oh, The Places You'll Go! Every page contained one of our names on it, saying we were all traveling off

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  10 Things I Miss About MIT that i didn't think i would

  

  danced like animals in the middle of the dance floor. but times have ... if i'll be trampled and shoved in a giant sweaty mass of college students ever again, but god, do i crave it; the sheer liberation of dancing

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Write an Original Song (ex?)-emo kid gone rogue

  

  ; whenever you have a moment of free time, you're sitting there, jangling ... living in the middle of the woods anymore. You have no clue what you ... ’ve found a thing. Without writing anything down, you kind of just start

  • by Powers '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  [Guest Post] One Year Later Some things changed, some things didn’t

  

  fine clay particles of my life, and suspended them into a cloudy mess. It takes a long time for sediment to collect at the bottom of a liquid ... was more in-between, meant different things for each of my parents, and

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  trips and transit i'm spending obscene amounts of money on uber god dang it

  

  the city, so i've had to rely heavily on the wheels of other entities, both private and publicly funded. here are some of the trips that i have ... longer because of the world renowned LA traffic, but it's a pretty reliable

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 10, 2019
• Blog / Residential Life

  A man’s reach should exceed his grasp My roommate and I built a lofty heaven!

  

  Even while I was excited by the thought of MIT, I spent many years being intimidated: as a child, hearing stories of what MIT undergrads got ... ; and as a prefrosh, getting a glimpse of the amazing things my future

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 23, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  How to not love CPW but love MIT (for the most part at least)

  

  mystical fog of technological magic and innovation. I still decided to come ... , upperclassmen I knew from high school, and of course the academic excellence and intensity. I wanted to address some of the fears and concerns I struggled

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  what happens when i don't. The week before my freshman year of college ... picture lying in my aunt's bed, listening to my favorite song of all time ... the same song and suddenly felt overwhelmed by awareness of all the ways

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breaking Normal From Freshman Spring Archives

  

  . The rest of the day promises no surprises. I’ll need to find food, wash off long hours of studying, check in with friends and fellow midterm ... of… ordinary. MIT is pretty great, don’t get me wrong. But now, when I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  The Tech profiled Lydia about resilience @ MIT "I’m building my vocabulary and I’m building my mind and I’m building myself as a…

  

  hundreds, maybe thousands, of people, not only across campus, but among ... purpose of the blogs is, and always has been, to give MIT students a place ... students access to the interior lives of current students; a sense of what it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We were worried An insider's look at a February tradition

  

  one of my sisters (and friend I made before MIT through FRC), Erin B. '15 to write a blog about her experiences as part of the cast. This ... Vagina Monologues in my freshman year. An alum of my dorm was the producer

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  I’M BACK!!!!! (and MIT is hard)

  

  18th. Of course being that it was a long plane ride, I wrote some entries, read some books, watched some episodes of How I Met Your Mother (I ... long hold times on tech support, arguing, and TWO reformats of my

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 11, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Burton-Conner Floor Rush and Rooming How does it work?

  

  Burton-Conner is one of the dorms here at MIT. You can check out our ... lot of questions about how choosing dorms, floors, rooms, and roommates ... attend, your next mailing ("The Next Big Mailing") has all of the awesome

  • by Snively '11
  • August 30, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Adonde? Excuse me sir, I seem to have misplaced my pants.

  

  during lunch when a friend of mine ran over and said "You have to watch ... video of 80 people, all dressed in blue polo shirts and khakis, just ... there. "THAT'S AWESOME!" I told him "I know! And they do all sorts of

  • by Snively '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Once upon a time Who I was in high school.

  

  Last time, Jon asked, What kind of high school student were you? Did ... somewhat challenging, considering how much of my high school journal is ... 't about being boy-crazy. First of all, this was me in high school. I think

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t forget to check in with yourself On living with intention

  

  ’ll delight in for the rest of my life, probably in part because many of my ... there are just a whole lot of stories to reminisce about and tell over and ... challenge of growing as a person, but I’ve since learned that it’s a false

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final projects from the fall three coding projects and an alien in disguise

  

  the last several weeks of the semester, I was so relieved that I didn ... ratings were high, but it ended up being one of my favorite classes that I ... autostitching, or automatically stitching together separate images of the same

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • January 16, 2025