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• Blog / Challenges

  novelty the closest thing to time travel

  

  i am in the tenth week of my summer job and i can remember how the ... cheat time, and how everything since then has melted into an ... together and passing faster and faster, like sand in an hourglass falling, a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 5, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Hesitations about Choosing MIT our experience

  

  want to do. We were in this boat as prefrosh, and then in our freshman and sophomore year, we hopped into the “did we come to the right school ... read the blogs and didn’t give another school a chance… that is, until

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 28, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wrapping Up First Semester Two more weeks to go.

  

  With my classes ending on Wednesday and finals starting the following ... preregistered for IAP and Spring Term classes, started discussing new research plans for the future, and also will be hitting the 50% point in my book

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • December 10, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January Book List Oaks & Poems & Baldwin & Biss

  

  The snow is quiet and deep. I hope all the people who want to read and don't have time got some time today, stuck at home by the blizzard ... phone service, and no problem sets. I went to Powell's, brought my old

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Closer Calls and rising unease

  

  or buy new paper sheets, to upgrade my iPad’s internet plan and most ... entrance and exit gates. Within the plaza itself, paint-peeled buildings ... with the vibe and chatter of people searching for anything from clothes

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  No Touching one plane, two planes, red plane, Corn Dog

  

  and their airplanes stuffed into a single Cessna hangar. There's the ... airplanes. One-propeller airplanes and two-propeller airplanes. Big, long, tubular airplanes and boxy nugget-shaped airplanes. Airplanes with two

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 11, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Outing Club: Ice Climbing tl;dr Ice climbing is nuts

  

  A critical factor in getting outdoors is having something to do, and for most people, they go through a rotation as the year goes round and temperatures and conditions rise and fall. For me, summer and fall mean rock

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt. 3 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Techiya and Beyond.

  

  [by Jessica Noss '14] While MITSO, MITWE, and Chamber Chorus all have a very high level of musicality and are full of virtuosic musicians ... of a mix of undergrads, grad students, and other people, some of whom

  • by ARTalk
  • May 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  There’s More to Life Than Tooling You can, for example, write your mechanical engineering thesis and an original musical. At the…

  

  exciting, because MIT students take "awesome" and "we can" to a whole new level. And that's why this story starts with that question. - Julie H ... ended up taking "Harmony and Counterpoint" in her sophomore year - and is

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 9, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  How I got mugged in the frozen foods section. So, MIT is kind of like a turkey and provolone Subway sandwich.

  

  snowboarding with a couple of my friends from high school, and if you’ve ever ... when I got home, only minus the drool. And when I’m tired, I have kind of ... Potter, and I had to get Dumbledore’s help because I was hiding in a broom

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 5, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Where WAS I? Honestly? I still don't know.

  

  periods of time and then come back mysteriously with scratches on my face and the arm of my coat ripped three-quarters of the way off. I always seem to make it back with some sort of lame and totally transparent

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poems Robert Creeley today.

  

  . This semester, with two of them, Roman History (21H.302) and Reading ... and 8.06. I really love both these classes though. I'm this walking ... yesterday's assigned reading, and I'm feeling more well-read every day with

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of school The first day of school

  

  , my backpack would be loaded with paper and colored pencils, and I ... own film series) and afterwards slept like a rock. This morning, I woke ... classes (Course 2) and filling in the rest of my schedule with classes in my

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Events

  I’m still here. Promise.

  

  -credit class that meets twice a week for an hour and spend the rest of my time ... ! Yay! Go check out Luis's Blog and say hi. Next, Mystery Hunt! Yes I ... , metapuzzles, and some data about teams involved in the hunt. One of my absolute

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Tour of an MIT student’s notebook my brain is a mess so my pages have everything

  

  their own style of taking notes and keeping organized. But if you’re looking to start keeping a little notebook or everything and have no idea ... second was a multipurpose notebook that I handcrafted and bound in 8th

  • by Anika H. '26
  • July 8, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  how not to be a mathematician on taking time & not running away

  

  before. I felt lost and unhappy, wondering if I truly did not belong here ... nothing is impossible (and in some ways, it did that for me), for the most ... peers and professors, people I respected and admired, solely because I

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 15, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  Home is where the Heart is visiting my grandparents

  

  blurry memories of restaurants, relatives, and a zoo. I flew over to California a Monday afternoon and stayed there with my family for a day before ... ourselves and our bags onto the 14 hour flight. The best part was that not

  • by Anika H. '26
  • August 4, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  social groups a different angle on the 'i found my people in college' trope

  

  and it’s something i struggle to understand. the claim is something like: we can replace traditional capitalistic and commodified forms of value and support by organizing into small squads of people that hang out a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 27, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  this is the real life I love in-person MIT eom

  

  , because it's just so sad and generally emotionally taxing to think about ... in the "before times," of course. We wear masks in class, and because ... comparison to the spring. And incredibly real, to the point where I'm just so

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  a love letter to rice cookers and a recipe

  

  breakfast, I have an egg sandwich with tea, and for dinner, I have the juiciest, most delicious chicken and quinoa. This blog will focus on the ... many other appliances save for the few plates, utensils, and other

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 16, 2020