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• Blog / Challenges

  101 questions we’ve asked ourselves at MIT we're all just trying to figure it/life/ourselves out

  

  My high school life was a cycle of home, school, and church. My parents were relatively strict about sleepovers and hanging out, so most of my friendships were limited to class time and extracurriculars. I

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 27, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Random Hall Rooms Six rooms and ten stuffed animals.

  

  consists of two adjacent chiral buildings, 282 Massachusetts Avenue and 290 ... , and the roofdeck. Each building has its own four floors and its own ... was old and cracked and had handprints suspiciously close to the ceiling

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Putting The Pieces Together: Hacking at MakeMIT in which four biological engineers spend 16 straight hours making something

  

  around offering advice and troubleshooting so we consult with one regarding ... engineers (Cathy, Katherine, Tara, and I) embarked on a daring journey into ... MIT’s campus that brings over 250 students together to hack, make, and

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 12, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In Our Bedroom After the Pandemic a bedroom is something that can actually be so personal

  

  could get to black without my parents becoming upset with me, and an ... in that I had a bed there and my clothes were there, but I was so young ... suburbs and I got my own room, and suddenly the walls were lavender, along

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  who started the fire? (not clickbait) playing detective

  

  , Sorority, and Independent Living Group) system. My house is called WILG ... called the fire station. The firefighters came and unfortunately sustained ... few weeks ago, a friend and I decided to figure out what had happened

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 28, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roombaaaa The longest trip I've ever taken in my life

  

  to make my way through the hustle and bustle of suited up MIT students ... booths and acclimatize myself to the craziness. Career fair is always an ... upon the iRobot booth, and started talking to some of their

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 21, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  at least i’m not as sad as i used to be i don’t keep friends, i keep acquainted

  

  imagines a universe when my parents were more accepting of me, and it is ... people graduated a couple weeks ago and i didn’t feel as sad i was supposed ... upm or ateneo or ust or la salle, and these are all nearby. when i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All I Ever Will Be? on friendships

  

  tw: slight nsfw language and talk of objectification and ... of three girls I hung out with a lot and I felt like I understood them ... inevitably fell out and started on our different paths. In my freshman year of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 20, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Raskolnikov as an Odd Metaphor on angst and deferral

  

  late, I finally actually looked into what other schools had to offer and ... supermarket and it is absolutely DIVINE with honey"]tea[/annotation] to celebrate! If not, I hope this blog, the same virtual mug of tea, and a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  piano was to fill a random spot for the State Solo and Ensemble Contest in ... pretty reserved, and, although I think I've become a lot less shy over the ... explainable factors. First and foremost, it is very easy to convince me to do

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

  Breathless Why it's so hard to tell college students to ease up a bit.

  

  year, and we’re all always busy, so this is, surprisingly, a rare chance. I ask him how his life’s been lately. He pulls out his cellphone, and ... everything on it from important academic and club activities to hangout time

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  Different Perspectives IAP from the minds of a few different people

  

  theirs. There are people doing externships in other states and countries or ... transformed into a mix of adventures, innovation, and learning.  I am spending ... weeks of IAP at MIT, and the last week at home. Over the past few weeks I

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 26, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Books I did read this semester I am literate if not literary

  

  and recess, in the hall and during class. Then in high school I took classes that I had to pay attention to, and somewhere along the way learned that respecting your teachers was a thing, and obviously reading while

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 21, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the intervening…

  

  intervening time, I have accumulated like 5 entries worth of photos and stories ... , if you can imagine- and how freaking awesome it was. Seriously guys, go ... summer programs called the "Governor's Schools," and there's one for each

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Massachusetts to Michigan guest post by Liz O.'21

  

  confident and professional in a button down shirt and grey blazer, handing out ... little overboard and printed more than I needed. There were so many big ... enthralled. Then, as I was about to head back to my dorm and call it a day, I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  . Nonetheless, after a quick homemade dinner of soba, ginger, almonds, and dewy ... in a while! See you on the Internet sometime,” and then I figured that ... asked him a question about the physics department at MIT, and he directed

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  glassblowing & me a series of memories

  

  thought that was funny, and kind of cool, and I wanted to share it with you ... -250 for an hour with 250 other very hopeful people, and feel like the luckiest sophomore in the world when my piece of paper is pulled and I get

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 18, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! While the science gets done, you can build a neat fort with the Settlers drinking…

  

  less soggy shoes, battling a CPW-long downpour over and under rooftops ... . Visit every dorm. Talk to fellow incoming freshmen and talk to ... come to Meet the Bloggers so that you can meet us, the bloggers, and you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2013
• Blog / How to MIT

  Laptops! It goes on the top of your lap.

  

  things I was looking forward to most about MIT was having a laptop and ... about what computers to bring to campus, and some articles around the internet, most of the links were broken and the info outdated. This is my

  • by Snively '11
  • March 22, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Always the Art Kid many many many identities

  

  lopsided houses in school and haphazardly scribbled drawings to proudly ... everyday after school, spent all my money on art supplies, and absolutely ... ="which is as nerdy as it sounds"]Reading Olympics[/annotation]and even

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 28, 2023