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• Blog / Challenges

  Days in lives that aren’t mine in a parallel universe

  

  I wake up at 9 AM, and it's the first time in a while that I've been ... back to sleep, and after checking my phone for five minutes, I get out of bed and put on pants. The smell of scrambled eggs brings me downstairs

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  F=-kx spring break in nova scotia, nyc, and dc

  

  Organizing Fellow and, later on, Data Analyst for my home state of Nevada. I ... days swung wildly up and down. The more I pushed myself, the greater ... . But, as I approached spring break, assignments finally wound down and

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  things i wish i could do thoughts from the bay area

  

  it with a road 45 degrees offset from most of the city, how hunters ... afraid of upsetting the chinese government, and so on   ii. of ... ongoing housing and homelessness crises. this is an expansive and very

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 23, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part three) junior trinkets

  

  are parts 1 and 2 ! As we've described in the first two parts, we have a ... organized and arranged all these things into a hopefully aesthetic square-ish shape, and will now describe all of them as we reminisce. 1

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Generally Unrelated to General Relativity In which I am not a graduate student.

  

  dessicated hours between 12 and 5 pm. Recall that the most cherished hallmark ... creativity and free-thinking, is the venerated observance of Lunchtime in the ... Recess for the worship of spherical projectiles and various incarnations of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 15, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A follow-up

  

  includes a little bit of everything, and because it's such a flexible major ... , for instance, took a lot of cellular and molecular neurobiology classes. I've taken, among other things, a functional and evolutionary

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nicht Bach, Sondern Maurer The proudest moment of my life since figuring out that "Wok & Roll" was a…

  

  Decker fail to save the universe with his well-intentioned but ultimately ... would yell out a number, and MIT people would say to which course it ... with Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Harbison and Bach cantatas. You

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  things i’m thinking about a brief series of incomplete thoughts

  

  now, supposedly halfway between this state of knowing and not knowing. I ... forcing me to complete my thoughts, to fully flesh out and consider every ... middle of junior fall where I admitted that I, too, was terrified. And

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 7, 2026
• Blog / Athletics

  Gobble Gobble Geeks with guns

  

  any of the classrooms and see hordes of hyperactive chillin's running ... headdresses, and wielding construction paper bows and arrows, chasing around the ... into the hearts of state schools around the country. What really

  • by Snively '11
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Lovin’ Had me a blast. Or, the last post I'll write from home!

  

  I didn't even know we had suitcases big enough to pack up my life and ... few days ago, and I don't even know how I feel about that. I'm going to ... heavy and shipping would cost me my soul. Other than that, it's a good way

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s First Annual Q&A Kidding about the annual part. Catching up with my blog comments... finally!

  

  . The country is in a state of terrible disaster and trauma and we need a ... city (that too in India) I missed out on lots of competitions and science activities that never came to our school and I want to tell how I still managed

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  vienna & prague, in 194 photos iap '26 #1

  

  options and noticed that Central Europe is more realistic than the beaches of Spain and France? Ever heard of Billy Joel? Ever known of Prague as a city and the Czech Republic as a country separately, but then

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 6, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Shortest Blog Ever (update 3 =p) 19 days till Taiwan!

  

  one test My fate and class grade is sealed With one test I'm the good ... , you can't write that down You know I tool, it's there in black and white ... last (3rd) test, and now I absolutely need an A+ on the next test to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 4, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  contradictions too much, not enough

  

  , but like, a deep post. something that's a little more reflective and ... guess it's just that i've been busy with classes, and my urop, and there's a lot going on, you know? and also, overall, i'm a lot happier these

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 8, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  what is and isn’t me (rush, part 1) and the somewhat methodical unraveling of self

  

  different times in my life and especially throughout my MIT journey. And, to ... came to MIT, I really didn’t think frat life was for me. And there is a ... Texas, where the concept of a fraternity (especially at a state school

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • October 7, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  breathing in and out

  

  metro manila, you see, and in high school earth science lessons we would talk about volcanoes, and my teachers have been old enough to remember the 1991 pinatubo eruption, and they would tell us stories. no one lived near

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 2 Tempering Iron

  

  things that can and will change at MIT. In fact, that’s what I love about ... . That includes both robots and mental health. There’s been a lot of debate ... page about Imposter Syndrome, I think everyone responded with relief and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 28, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Short Dining Guide to Cambridge Where to find food within walking distance of MIT, other than in my fridge.

  

  ugliness. Fulfillment proved to be elusive, expensive, and less compelling ... vegetables ($2.00 per 16 oz.) doused in oyster sauce and Sriracha, digging for leftover cornbread and lentil stew in pika's fridge (too many potatoes per 16

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 23, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Senior Survey (Says?) (For the record, I think that being on Family Feud would be totally awesome)

  

  Friday's deadline and surveying everyone and their grandmother for an ... hours? Four? Should I just leave and get a sandwich now?) I still don ... 've been hoarding in my room in case of housing emergency become more and

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 3, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So I said to Einstein… ...think of a name for my new theory while I go talk to my relatives.

  

  ... and that is not trivial." According to Ben, it's got some factual errors ... sounds out of gravity waves... and probably, like, solve the mysteries of the universe at a quantum level. I don't know. I'm an engineer, not a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 19, 2006