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• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Physics A short novel.

  

  out instead of taking them all at once, there are a couple arguments ... classes you'll never need and don't even like instead of spending your time ... spent a lot of time and effort preaching to you about your high school

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday on 16th Street A Day in the Life

  

  of the city where I was born. I felt the calling. Actually, I also ... high school. I take the free bus down to the other end of 16th Street ... to the ticket window. I give people the benefit of the doubt, but I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happy Birthday to m—-suck. I turn 20 and cry tears of blood

  

  are at least two reasons behind this, one that's my choosing and the ... entries is because I'm no longer a freshman, meaning all of my admissions ... tasty avocado. *My roommate found a box of 50 avocados for $3 TOTAL in an

  • by Snively '11
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] A day in my life! by Callie T. '26

  

  while watching the turtles at the pond where I’m working. I am jealous of ... Calendar, which I commit to memory every week. At the table, a few of us talk ... :20 — My second alarm. I ignore this one too. 11:25 — I roll over at this

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 1, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  reminds me of japan a lot. there's a japanese market that i do groceries at ... 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

  • 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 / Events

  BLOOD MOON FEST IS REAL!! "the blood moon rises and the blood moon falls but the wave of whimsy it…

  

  the sacrifice. By some stroke of luck, I found a large cookie platter at ... both of our busy schedules, we started scheming of red pies and balloons and some kind of sacrifice, obviously. Planning began. What I had was

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  sinuses.   Friday marked my first full month of classes at MIT. Back ... ’m struggling at the intro level. And you have to take care of yourself now??? Add ... I could slowly ease into the shallow end of the pool feet first so I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  Fortin’ with Mimi Let’s. Talk. About. Queer stuff.

  

  dedicated queer space at MIT. They host a lot of events such as open houses ... discriminated against in public areas based on gender identity. One of the most frequently used examples of this is restrooms. A transgender woman can’t be

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • September 18, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Love Is Hard (A Sequel) wherein anon feels different from how he felt seven months ago

  

  .   No matter what you call love, at the end of the day it’s an ... Continued reflections on love at the Institvte (and really just love ... . Have I gained an ounce of sanity? Not really. Will I continue to obsess

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 3, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Events We’re Pumped For! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  

  ! Here is a small sampling of events in our dorm Next House and Other Events from clubs/groups that we are part of! Next House Events But first a little bit about Next House. Next is awesome! It's full of nerds, musicians

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Magic Cards and a Farmers’ Market And frozen advice for the 2019s

  

  ’m desperate to avoid blogging, and I blog whenever I should be studying. At the ... talk about the history of computing. He was inspired by Marco Tempest ... watching (Marco visited class in February to give a talk about the use of

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Faith Embracing uncertainty as the world changes around us

  

  weeks staring at the ceiling, pondering life, pain, and the existence of a ... earth was catching a glimpse of heaven. I felt safe, warm, and full of ... like a crazed lion, tearing at every nerve ending within its grasp. I

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Paris Hilton comes to MIT Just kidding, but I bet that got your attention

  

  to throw at her. This past weekend was an extended holiday because of ... , somehow, I spent all of Tuesday night trying to write a chemistry lab report ... amazing three-day conference, which was attended by hundreds of people

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  A waffle house is not a waffle home This is actually an entry about modern Chinese cinema.

  

  Okay, so tonight we were at Allison's house and I didn't take any ... of us there and each of us preferred a different movie. So, we each ... of Music The Sound of Music went up against a bye in the first round

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  And now, for a brief interlude from our regularly scheduled finals whining. I should be studying E&M right now, but this is much more fun.

  

  with this is that I am literally in a pair of free Crocs I got at Notre ... Friday night when I ran into a couple of my sisters. Them: Where are you ... fashion, come home a few hours later and camp out in the basement of our

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part IV This should tie up the loose ends...for now.

  

  The deadline for Early Action has come and gone. I hope all of you ... repeat of what you wrote in your application. It will mention some of those ... school here, know what it was like and what kind of people and

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ask me (an mit alum, maybe) anything! aka, am(amam)a

  

  friends, refreshing some of my math knowledge, incredibly weird technology ... figured I'd say hello to all of you lovely folks in the style of Qiaochu Y. '12's post from the time of yore with an Ask Me Anything! If you

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • August 12, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Haven’t Been Blogging I, uh, don't really have an excuse

  

  outside of the bathroom. ----- So I bought some Ethereum at $7 and it's worth $400 now... ---- Looks like I decided to write something at a ... Behold, the first sentences of four different unfinished summer blog

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 1, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Seemingly Stressful Survey The Tech publishes about stress at the institute

  

  one night a week in our office on the 4th floor of the student center ... that there’s stuff to go on the front page. It falls on the shoulders of ... -weekly (twice weekly) dose of news from reading our paper. Over the past month or

  • by Stanley G.
  • December 7, 2012