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• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday on 16th Street A Day in the Life

  

  Mall, and exchange my tickets. A man says something to me ... , what’s your name?” We talked for a while. He said he’s from Texas and he’s really excited to go to Metro State (a local community college) in the fall

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Story of a Lifestyle I'm going to kick you - No, for real

  

  I've always thought about doing crew and Taekwondo (TKD) in college. So at CPW, I visited the crew and TKD info booths, and during ... .E. Taekwondo and loved it. Master Chuang (head Instructor of Sport TKD) brought

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 30, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  winter things a sampling of IAP plans around campus

  

  allows undergraduates to work with professors and in research labs to ... really valuable and people find the best ways for them to spend their time ... these ways! Andrew L. ’24: pokemon quiz. nike. just do it.  and

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Self Help I

  

  Children Will Listen, How to Listen So Children Will Speak and The Blessing of a Skinned Knee--and marked the pages I thought my parents should ... needed them: The Care and Keeping of You before I reached puberty, Don

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Telethon FAQs from a small but enthusiastic sample of prefroshies

  

  This Monday and Tuesday, undergrad volunteers banded together in a roomful of Institvte phones to individually congratulate and chat with each ... longer than we'd planned; my hallmate and I swore we would only stop in for

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 5, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT CodeIt or: the best decision i've made this semester

  

  where MIT students teach middle school girls and nonbinary students basic ... on their final projects, which they showcase and present at the end of ... friend, Tiffany T. '22. I didn't really know much about it and wasn't all

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  living having the time of my life

  

  somewhat froshy despite their years at this institute, curious and willing to ... differential equations and op amp PSETs, I’ve learned how to take care of myself, interact with others, how to be independent, and how to lean on others or ask

  • by Anika H. '26
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  finding meaning at the end of the world i alone determine my destiny

  

  him when he gets deferred. i want to tell him, hey! i struggle, and have ... existential crisis and it seems i have been blogging about these more and more frequently. all in a week's work, right? to wail and complain about how

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Anticipation of Pi Day 2017 bloggers past and present try to make you feel better right now

  

  “right” for the field. And I would have overlooked the Institute that was ... unknown. And not getting into the “right” college meant that the future was ... field to love, Political Science, and thinking of my thesis experiment now

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Trp

  

  Street from Stata, the new Broad Institute building has broken ground and ... Building 100000 for you binary fans) and read, among other things, about how ... , and has heated the surrounding sidewalks up to a temperature of 138 deg

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2004
• Blog / MISTI

  alone in cologne homesickness, better late than never

  

    I counted today, and since freshman year orientation I have ... only one of us truly overcome with sadness. She’d squeeze tighter and ... fifteen, but after his fortieth retelling or so my sister and I gathered

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  A Run through Boston Having an adventure was easy. Carrying the camera around was the hard part.

  

  . During my confrontation with Level 10 Opponent “Electricity and Magnetism ... card. Equipped with foresight and past experience, I pulled out the ... page 2 of my test booklet, and continued to the next round of combat

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 4, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  “Learning To Learn At MIT” guest post by the plaz

  

  (or EECS). His website - ThePlaz.com - also has a wiki, and on this wiki ... the Class of 2015 Facebook Group and liked very much is called Learning ... environment, which, as Chris M '12 has posted before, is tough. And while the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Week 1 ...of Year 2.

  

  free pizza, and I’ve spent three of the past seven evenings at Harvard. My friend taught me how to lift weights, and my extracurricular commitments are taking shape. My new room has thin yellow curtains and at least

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 14, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  61 Photos from my Time at MIT from freshman to senior year

  

  friend and neighbor (the one with green hair) is a pet mom to two bearded dragons, named Mushu and Crickey. I made another embroidered thing for a ... -shirts with our faces on them. The First East and beyond seniors on our Last

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 3, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  CMS.621: Fans & Fan Culture the class that changed my career trajectory?

  

  's universe, introducing her to European culture and life. [embed ... kinds of classes that let me discover things about myself and about the world around me and see things in a perspective I've never really

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 17, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Good Morning or Good Night? seven am adventures where people say good morning and good night

  

  than me >:("][/annotation] Course? 14 and 18. (In which I usually ... 6 is electrical engineering and computer science, course 18 is ... , 14.73, and 18.022.[/annotation] People usually can only tell what 18

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  they want to see you fail managing others' envy

  

  ’ve never really known how to deal with others’ envy, and it feels weird to ... spectacular that others might want it, and isn’t that a boastful claim to make? And isn’t it presumptuous of me to assume someone else’s underlying

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  a jaunt to Philadelphia We went to the AWP writing conference!

  

  . I’m surrounded by pamphlets, business cards, cute bookmarks and postcards picked up at a writing conference many states away. I moved the lamp ... loft bed where the wall is white and blue and red, though not in any sort

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done done done end-of-semester happiness

  

  hi internet! i took my last final this morning and am now done with ... about my semester. classes i only had one final this semester, and for ... and letting myself lost sight of the underlying economic intuitions

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 24, 2017