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• Blog / Challenges

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  of our living group. The entire time, I could only marvel at how ... inevitably be split up at the end of the year. It also was incredibly ... at risk of not getting into a Cook-For-Yourself dorm due to the group

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Moms We stand on the shoulders of giants....!!

  

  importance in my life and at MIT. We all talk about a lot of stuff happening around campus, but for many students, family is still a huge part of their lives, even if they live an ocean away. I call my mother at least once a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Guide to Farmer’s Markets We found lychee in a hopeless place.

  

  good for that sort of thing. I've expanded my skills (I'm faster at ... in your head). I forgot to do this at first out of excitement, but was ... (samples at the market, grabbing a couple grapes out of the bag on the train

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nonlinearity My conjecture on finding my way through four years at MIT.

  

  look back at my four years as a continuous system rather than a bunch of ... small island of paper known as problem sets, tests, term papers, etc I ... of success in achieving said goals, this probably would have been a

  • by Bryan
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meow Yes, you can have cats in some dorms.

  

  I was reading one of Laura's recent entries with a response to a commenter asking about cats. East Campus is one of the dorms with "cat floors" -- floors which allow residents to have a cat -- and Third East is one of them

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for the Applicants I was in those stressed and anxious shoes last year.

  

  haven’t. However, at the time, my part 2 of my MIT application was ... , interviews were in frequency of about two per week, and I was focusing more on ... post as a reflection of how I regretfully spent some of my time during

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 24, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge, CPW, and YOU! A welcome from a couple of MIT Quest Scholars to our newly admitted Quest Scholars

  

  again and again was “The people.” Of course at that time, I had no idea ... everything that I do, much of which I could almost only do at MIT. A little ... Hello! In just a couple of days, MIT will be hosting the Campus

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • April 2, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Splash. Was. Awesome. I taught: 3 classes, 5 sections, 246 kids.

  

  that they can give me whatever questions remain at the end of class - I ... 't shout out, and aren't disrespectful of each other or me. They laugh at my ... . At the end of class, I collect the notecards; they say things like "you

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Hate Superman. (I Love Superman.)

  

  discovers that he has multiple forms of cancer and at best one month to live ... had been tossing around the idea of hating superman for a few days at ... other superhero just by looking at them. I thought he was stupid.  During

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 16, 2024
• Blog / MISTI

  six MIT students walk into a german bar iap '26 #2

  

  Germany that has a full deli/bakery section at the front. the number of days ... students can take part in a variety of opportunities or take a much ... time, in which MIT students are sent to dozens of countries around the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 16, 2026
• Blog / Challenges

  Fighting Indifference MIT and MLK day

  

  street sweeper who swept his job well. If you can't be a pine at the top of ... be) be representative of today in history as told by a twenty-year-old college student at MIT, typed quickly in Hayden Library. Today, I got up to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Lessons Learned from (Watching) D&D thank you brennan lee mulligan

  

  for 'binging copious amounts of Dungeons and Dragons content.' I've been watching a lot of Dimension 20, a tabletop RPG game show produced by ... Dungeons and Dragons. For those of you who do not know, Dungeons and Dragons

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  be able to play ten more years of soccer at the time was if I was ... body at this point and who are one of the few that can say they’ve been ... exactly did the rest of our season go? In my last update, I regaled you

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Sophomore Stupid It’s morbin’ time

  

  said than done. tooling At the start of the semester, I tried to take ... .002), and Fundamentals of Programming 6.101(6.009) at the same time on top of ... the eventuality of winter break. [caption id="attachment_95733" align

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • December 30, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Rush Course 12 what it’s like to study Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT

  

  Sciences (EAPS) and it’s one of the smallest majors at MIT, despite the breadth of our department. We study everything from the origins of life to ... lot of words, but more generally I’m interested in the chemical traces

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 6, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  applying sideways, beyond admissions a rendition of Petey's hit blog

  

  that would determine the entire course of my life. I thought that if the odds of me getting in panned out, and in some wild reality I actually ... eighteen-year-old mind didn’t realize that this application was the first of

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 22, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  on realizations and learning in which i say a bunch of things that might seem obvious

  

  the same kind of mistakes at about the same age, and master the same parts of language at about the same age. The input is necessary, but it ... oversubscribed), so instead I'm taking four classes, of which only one is likely to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 10, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Better Late than Never I wrote this post a week and a half ago. Note that the "better late…

  

  week. -Twelve jars of tuna canned at home by loving mom and sister. They ... -postcard of Marlon Brando, which is nicer to look at than the green plastic pot ... chillness progresses through the semester (a harsh winter of studies and ice

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Hayden Christensen Comes to MIT, Looks Pretty Pictures of the top of Hayden Christensen's head inside!

  

  Tonight LSC hosted a pretty exciting event - a screening of a few ... Darth Vaders up on the stage at 26-100, so there was a pretty sizable ... , I give you HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN AT MIT IN 15 MINUTES! (and pictures

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends

  

  trouble thinking of anything. We were at a Conclave (sectional meeting) at ... This is the first of my "entries-on-request" - as you probably ... close friends?" I'm sure that some of the incoming frosh reading this

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2006