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• Blog / How to Human

  My freshman year is almost over honest thoughts on it

  

  new people and hang out with old friends, out of the fear that they won ... 'm thinking about all of this means that I'm at least changing, right? Sometimes ... first year at MIT, but I feel less excited and more dissatisfied about the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 16, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  all time ever does is pass and all i ever do is remember

  

  my life. because the reality is, there's not a lot of new and exciting ... i've realized i spend most of my time trying to divorce myself from the present, lingering in corners of the past. revisiting things that

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 14, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Hello Blogosphere! My dirty little secret...(I've never taken calculus)

  work at MIT Admissions!? The kid who used to complain about how much you hated science at the back of every one of my classes?" And, well... he ... increasingly became one of few Black/Puerto Rican students in those classes

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 8, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Repainting the Smoots A Wacky MIT Tradition

  

  yards morphed into a new plan that would introduce the most iconic unit of measurement to date: the Smoot. This new unit of measurement was the height of ... than usual. I am holding pallets of bright green, yellow, and purple

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 27, 2023
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  good at theoretical plasma physics you have to know a lot of things that ... one of my longest friends at MIT through this research. it just ended up ... for the world?[annotation note="to be clear, plenty of people at MIT

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  into the pi day verse 3/14/22 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  available online Monday, March 14 at 6:28 PM ET. To check your decision ... , feel free to email us at [email protected] and a friendly guy named ... and then besides watching traversing the MIT-verse? I asked a bunch of

  • by Tim
  • March 7, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Things I did instead of thinking (about decisions)

  

  puzzling at the end of eighth grade, but as high school dug its claws into me ... at our lunch table. Within a few days of returning home, I fell in love ... new hobby, or if you miss one you used to love, or if any of the things

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Spring break in Canada Snowboarding ramps, waterfalls, poutine, butterflies, and lots of noodles.

  

  after their success at the Battle of Vimy, and the 22e was established as ... while chilling in a café chock full of university students finishing their ... Canada! My friend Yida, showing off the giant ramp of the snowboarding

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 4, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  I Made the MIT Admissions Blog TCG and YOU can get your own cards at CPW!!🃏🎴💳

  

  of small here, you can open it in a new tab at this link!] [Click on a ... This Project is supported by RealTalk@MIT. It is a part of a larger body of research from Cassie Lee at the MIT Media Lab in the Center for

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • April 13, 2026
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Christmas in December and July

  

  I'm back at my parents' home now (watching reruns of Buffy the ... , and I was surprised at the amount of respect the exhibits paid to the ... July 16. I'm wondering who among you will be outside of a bookstore at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Killer Mike, Lupe Fiasco, and the Dancing Body of the State five gatherings of many people

  

  in the back of the room who asked good questions. There are so many new ... This week was surreal, like turning pages in a book of moving ... Body of the State    Thursday afternoon, Thomas DeFrantz, a

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 27, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW time waits for no man, woman or beaver

  

  there's no shortage of activities and information for you at CPW, too ... first CPW, too, and I can tell you that the sheer quantity of options is daunting (in a good way). Luckily the level of enthusiasm all over campus is

  • by Dave McOwen
  • March 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Am Excited a day in life of a student

  

  infinite. That is, it’s on a whole new level of infinity, and this makes ... necessary to marvel at its results and review the pages of in-class proofs ... will appear at the back of my consciousness. It will be vivid and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  a hackathon, a marathon I went to MIT EnergyHack!

  

  .  Washed with so much new information, it was difficult at first to find a ... at 9:30 but the rest of us, uh, did not"]11am,[/annotation] we set to ... alarm rang at an ungodly 6am. I stumbled out of bed, wolfed down some pad

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  mit bingo! as done by the bloggers

  

  , which made some of the not water-proof supplies fall out of the box. At ... stuff as possible to get at least something out of my first career fair. I ... ), but some notable things I remember at desk: just handfuls of coleslaw

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  IAP Cooking a journey of uncooked pasta and cold pho

  

  trying new types of cuisine with friends. IAP still felt rushed at times ... questionable at times—one of the notable ones being baked potatoes—so we wanted ... new restaurants nearby or in Boston. One of my friends sent an Instagram

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 10, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Lounges: An Interactive Experience It's almost like you were here!

  

  . Dancing on tables permitted. At the start of the semester, lounge ... whiteboard, new equations spring. An elaborate web of classes of hall members ... to turn in psets. Leaving the lounge at bedtime is the hardest part of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivered celebrating halfway at the finish line

  

  students traditionally receive Brass Rats in the spring of sophomore year at ... , which was held last weekend at the Boston Park Plaza. Table of Contents ... the new Brass Rat design. I went to the Class of 2022 Ring Premiere in

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 22, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s FPOPpin’ Whatchu know 'bout me?

  

  coached a new generation of creative writers with Will '12 in the ancient ... As the advent of another academic year approaches, I feel somewhat ... with excitement and wonder. Of course, the honeymoon didn't last forever

  • by Tom R. '14
  • September 6, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Making The Switch Making the transition from high school to college, Chapter 1

  

  and myself. So my first semester at MIT, I spent a lot of time figuring ... Hello, I'm a PC. Hello, I'm a Mac. If you haven't seen one of ... not the subject of this blog entry, but if you do need advice about

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2007