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• Blog / MIT Life

  being bad at ice skating and learning to try anyway

  

  blinked, and suddenly the trees have shed their leaves, flecks of snow have infiltrated the rain, and people have replaced tshirts with puffer jackets. It ... lessons that everyone from snow-heavy towns learned: wear gloves and scarves

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 15, 2025
• Blog / Summer

  The Courage to Change Even Through the [Tough] Mud[der]

  

  Last summer, I got into running. And it was really fun! I enjoyed it ... through Boston and tried to run to the airport [ [annotation note ... get back into running. I’ve been on break for too long, and it’s time to

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 11, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my year in music, volume 3 i am starting to feel very old

  

  spotify ever since freshman year. shuli and ankita have also done posts in ... the lo-fi hip hop beats to study/relax to playlist, and that is usually ... when i was working in LA last summer and was doing no exercise and also

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  through some possible courses of action, and settled on: moping. First, I ... action would be to e-mail my professor and my TA. After procrastinating for a few hours, I finally hit "send", and away went my request for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 2 Really, there are a lot of machine shops.

  

  you can use your imagination, and I'll just describe some of the other ... and Productivity (LMP). This is another lab run by Course 2 (the ... IAP, maybe I'll finally do that) and whenever they take 2.008. 2.670 is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Awesome Robot Competition? LIVE?? Check out the 2.007 Final Robot Competition! LIVE May 12th/13th!

  

  and Design Final competition!!! This semester, MIT students have been ... , themed after the movie Wicked! Both me and Veronica P. '27 are taking the class and plan to write a longer blog about our experiences, but we couldn

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • May 12, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Shoulder Season Treat A little something for rising seniors to jump-start their exploration of MIT

  

  between peak and off-peak travel seasons, and the fleetingly brief periods of time here in the Northeast between heating and cooling seasons (or ... group of rising seniors (and other underclass students) who are anxious to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2025
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Admitted

  

  YOU GOT IN!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSWcy-bx_lg Come celebrate with us in the comments and—more importantly—share this wonderful news with your community and loved ones! We hope you feel like you

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything is different now That's ok, I have a cat now

  

  music and anime has been constant. I was shocked at how many of my posts were about Jojo and even more shocked that I’m still just as obsessed with it! The manga’s been getting good and I eagerly await Jojo day each

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Worms, Revisited a reflection on decisions from here

  

  comes to Decisions, both yours and… y’know… not yours. See with this ... will become. And, as a consequence, who you become is deeply entangled ... for nothing because it didn't pay off in the way I had wanted it to. And

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 18, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A poem for every day of August or nearly; I wrote 25 in all

  

  little free library while I was living in my van. I wrote a poem here and there, and I read a few of Masha’s from 21W.762: Poetry Workshop. Then ... called it — and I thought, why not? We met on Sundays at 10 pm for me in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / Travel

  spring break! so much happened, but also so much didn't happen

  

  -filled time, a time to relax, hang out with your friends, and have the ... , spend a couple of days there, then rent a car and drive from Louisiana to ... wanted to show us the southwest, Sophia wanted to buy a cowboy hat, and

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 16, 2022
• Blog / Public Statements

  Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic) tl;dr: mostly the same as during normal times, but clarifying some points of anxiety

  

  In recent weeks, we have been fielding many questions over phone and ... /disrupted], and my 11th grade teachers barely got to know me. I feel like my ... sentences might be different —  "I transferred schools, and..."; "I took a mix

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  18.600 poetry compute the probability i overuse the ampersand

  

  dedicated to 18.600, a.k.a. Probability and Random Variables, which I took this past semester. special thanks to: Brice H. ‘19, for your endless patience and generosity, & Ivy L. ‘20, who said, I feel like

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 25, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memory of a Greatly Beloved Establishment rip the stud subway

  

  between Subway’s parent company and the franchisee that ran this location. This happened with little warning and we are sorry that Subway is no ... growling stomach, and make a beeline to the gates of heaven - also known as

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 3, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  A Monday in the Life So many to-do’s, so little time.

  

  writing about my life, I'll do a little show-and-tell.   Half of getting anything done is really just remembering to actually do it, and I ... responsibility to an app called Todoist. A pen and paper could achieve the same

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2021 Wait List Today, we have closed out the wait list for the Class of 2021.

  

  The May 1 reply deadline has come and gone, and we know many of you ... from our wait list this year, and, if so, room for how many. Each year, our plan and hope is  to admit students from the wait list. This year

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester customary end-of-semester blog post: sophomore spring edition

  

  “school bus” for the working class. And it’s odd to realize that I am part ... MIT for work, wait for a packed train, then bus, and arrive home with ... ’t quite compare to a remote and private location that you have to clean and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask A VC Boston 2016 networking with over 20 venture capitalists all over the startup scene

  

  A venture capitalist seeks out startups with high potential and ... startups to make returns. As an entrepreneur, being in their good graces and learning from their insight could be the difference between life and death

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Winter Through the camera lenses of people who don't have winter

  

  California, we were ecstatic and decided to go grab our cameras and take as ... , got right down to business and started making snowballs. A picture ... lackadaisically, eddied in the streetlights along dorm row, and soon covered the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 13, 2016