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• Blog / MIT Life

  On Being the “Dumb” Friend and the freedom from comparison

  

  A lot of people at MIT were probably seen as the “smart” friend in high school–the one who excelled in classes, or juggled impressive ... “smart” friend was a piece of our identities, a point of pride, even. Maybe

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  ’m currently moving more and more in the direction of grad school/research. And ... 1. Labels The number of double takes and comments I’ve gotten this month in response to my choice of dorm has been astounding: “What does

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living Like A Native Or living like a boss. Your choice.

  

  stop is within walking distance from the Berklee School of Music and a ... beginning of the school year for dinner. (As I checked out their website, I ... that were at MIT, and the slightly more pressing issue of getting around

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Slow down, fast train. Take me with you!

  

  tolerable for our floor by preparing one of Conner 2's patented senior finals ... breakfast for the rest of the floor on the first day of finals. Since we can ... ever seen at MIT. But after that? I'm at the start of a pretty big

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 26, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One new blog, three post-college thoughts just popping by to say hello

  

  from The Other Side of college: one on where I live, one on what I do on ... live - It's nice to feel like I live in a city, instead of feeling like ... long it would take me and my fellow undergrads to notice if all of Boston

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  City Strangers a comic

  

  .  Brown puddles of mystery city juice. Perpetually gridlocked traffic ... many people, so many of you, makes me feel anxious and invisible.  You ... the middle of The Metropolitan Museum. I flip through your zine about

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 25, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  That’s where you’ll find me Where troubles melt like lemondrops, Away above the chimney tops... my CPW schedule.

  

  the information session for visiting high school juniors & ... , 3:15pm-ish, Friday Presentation of New Undergraduate Curricula in ... :17pm-8:17pm, Saturday Battle of the Bands, Saturday night CPW

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 11, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Numbers, Perfect and Imperfect Math geeking, and a guessing game.

  

  are pretty cool, and have been discussed at least since the time of ... corresponds to exactly one perfect number. If you're even a little bit of a math ... Mersenne primes. Also, I expect that the number of applications we received

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 4, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  In a little while, I’ll be gone This is not a blog entry. I'm not here, this isn't happening.

  

  Act of 1957 by speaking in from of the Senate for 24 hours and 18 ... three days of finals I packed my entire life into about twelve boxes and ... person that I ever knew in high school. On Monday I'm headed for the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 27, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One and one and one is three Haha, it tells me to write an excerpt. This whole entry is an excerpt.

  

  -filled-enough weekend for me, as I scored free BSO tickets courtesy of MIT... but that's a ... in my life over the past few days. As my beloved high school friend Shana once said, I like excerpts. They're like snapshots of some element

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Classes about the Brain That Blew My Mind and I just had to share

  

  On the first Friday of my last semester, I had a choice between two ... rushed coffee break in the middle of the 10am-4pm seminar block. I have ... morning starts with 9.26 Principles and Applications of Genetic Engineering

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 6, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  tick tock tick tock notes about sunrises and broken doors and unfinished endings

  

  the end of a semester at MIT is a time of juxtaposition. it is a time of delight and sadness, of triumph and melancholia; it is a fast time and a slow time; it is a time of midnight doomerism and late afternoon

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • December 27, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-India student interns at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

  

  monastery 30 minutes outside of Kathmandu. This includes teaching English/Math/Computers to the novice monks, and some local school children, and participating ... /interests without a constant stream of deadlines helped me develop as a student and

  • by MISTI Program
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to succeed in business without really trying on leadership, being bad at things, and musicals

  

  ='this review provided by the father of one of my friends. Incidentally, the phrase "one of my friends’ dads" feels very natural when spoken, but ... few years, I've been in charge of many a thing, between music directing

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 18, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2,024 liked songs spotify is my favorite social media

  

  a bit of a personality trait for me in high school and honestly, it ... me of East Campus, and when she turned on the red lights I noticed the ... . “Guess,” she said. She’s the kind of person who exudes bright optimism and

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard Yes, yes I am.

  

  everybody likes happy, right? This weekend is parents weekend, so instead of just seeing the faces of young students and old professors, you start to ... . Parents are usually easy to spot for a couple of reasons. First, they all

  • by Snively '11
  • October 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skipping Class and Failing Bio A practical guide to poor life choices

  

  ’ combined. Of course, this was typical: in high school, I perpetually resolved ... at the last two months of material. Welp. Many times in high school ... Fall semester began as expected, with a shot of adrenaline and

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 29, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things That Have Happened To Me Recently in no particular order

  

  stuff, but I'm not a huge fan of mayonnaise so I figured I could ... random songs with the names of Pokémon.  Right before ... of Wikipedia golf. I don't know what rules people normally play by

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • January 28, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Refreshment We need your help!

  

  Last week, I spoke a little about Camp Kesem, one of the many student organizations at MIT and one that dedicates a lot of time and effort into putting ... buy library books for elementary school children, among other things. It

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 6, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  0 Days Since Last Fire Alarm Oh noes! Simmons Hall on fire!

  

  alarms since orientation, one of which was a drill. Simmons, on the other ... knows more about this than I do, but the gist of it is that Simmons has had somewhere around 10 to 15 fire alarms since the school year has

  • by Snively '11
  • October 29, 2008