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• Blog / How to Human

  you can run but you can't hide

  

  do it anyway. In recent weeks, I've realized that I've been running. I run from the shitty things I did in high school. I run from the mistakes ... happened in the past and be born again in this new world, shedding away the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 24, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  Parting Remarks Part I: Leaving Marks reciprocal changes

  

  time soon, but my time [annotation note="In LiGhT oF rEcEnT eVeNtS r ... to its end. And I do not want to be just an entry in the registrar's records, a person who exists on paper but not in living people's lives. I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 3 is third time the charm??? questionable

  

  my cave of despair to blog again! I've made this post two years in a ... Pirate Certificate – 25% complete. In my defense, I'm really trying to take ... in-depth analysis of a TV Tropes page for T.L. Taylor's Games and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of East Campus i live in an art exhibition

  

  camps - at every single camp I went to, I was housed in a dorm room that ... college dorms didn’t fully hit me until I walked in for the first time. For ... oldest mural in East Campus, and according to legend, it was originally

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Curbing Hunger at MIT food for thought

  

  Being a college student in a dorm means finally having to decide how ... , because in the end, food is great. I like food, you like food. So let’s get ... ) Taking charge in the kitchen isn’t quite as hard as it looks. While it may

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 6, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Black Lives Matter until they don't.

  

  . The food is wildly different. In Nigeria, food is abacha and achicha and eba and fufu and egusi and suya. In America, food is burger and pasta and coleslaw and pizza and fries and Coca-Cola in three cup sizes. And

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Now and Then and Maybe Later Tying up loose ends and weathering the calm before the storm we call "Fall Semester"

  

  're doing. 12:45pm – In which I decide to write a poem because I don’t feel like writing prose right now Sitting in a Chair (A poem about sitting in a chair in Hayden Library. Although arguably, it’s just a bunch of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 30, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Some questions that I've received from prospectives.

  

  MIT? 2. What does a day in the life of a physicist look like? 3. I ... pursue in math/science. 4. I'm worried that I'm never going to find a ... 't get in, because I'm not a genius. 5. Can I have some life advice? 6

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  In 1965, Jocelyn Bell arrived at Cambridge University to earn her Ph ... built a radio telescope that could fit 57 tennis courts. Bell was put in charge of operating the telescope, and collecting data. Bear in mind that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  ’m currently a junior at MIT majoring in course VI-III. Melis has graciously ... in its infancy but quickly gaining momentum and recognition as a ... interested in, and, now after working for one, I am convinced that it is the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Dorms: Burton Conner House Why is BC awesome? Because three bloggers live there. Plus, lots of other stuff too.…

  

  So I suck at life and haven't blogged in FOREVER. =( But! I'm making ... checks in and out. The front desk is also where you can get your mail, find ... dorm collection, or borrow the pool cues/ping pong paddles/etc to use in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 1

  

  to answer them now... Matt's Helper asked, "What did you major in, when ... ) and Math (Course XVIII), but ultimately I graduated with a degree in ... technical details in the MIT admission form (like my achievements etc.) would

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  on knowing what I’m doing in which I decide to go to grad school

  

  , like I’m in the middle of a field and there used to be a road I was ... sophomore fall. I wasn't really certain in what I wanted to do after college ... it is perhaps the fact that I wouldn't mind staying in academia forever

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 3, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  on friends / minsan in which i ramble about friendship

  

  "]Kalayaan,[/annotation] we bumped into each other Each with their own ambitions in life Under ... , which in practice, is an excuse for Harvard and MIT students to hang out with their friends in Princeton for a weekend while getting travel

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  roots in my father’s nation, Ethiopia, and my mother’s, China. I consider ... !) (and also hands and feet, in case that wasn’t clear). I speak Chinese fluently; I can communicate pretty well in my dad’s regional language, Kafa

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice for the Incoming Froshies You've accepted your offer to MIT! Now what?

  

  the institute once again in the fall! So now you've decided to go to ... entered a randomized lottery to get placed in their basic required classes that everyone else is getting placed in.  MIT is different from other

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 13, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: From the Life and Times of Cam

  

  myself in a mudslide of classwork and undergrad research this January, so ... computer screen in the coming weeks. For the record, it's virtually unheard ... on a personal blog, but also for the admissions blogs in the hopes that

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection-time Questions Omnibus

  

  on here and say harsh things?" Well, as has been noted in the comments ... out of every 6 applicants. In one of the Oscar-nominated short films I ... individual business courses, the Sloan minor in management will serve as a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts from Science Bowl 🥣 a story about now-nostalgic times

  

  your thumb above the buzzer, so you’re always ready to buzz in.” “Okay ... tiny. “Who’s your favorite supervillain?” We buzzed in to give our ... worked. I was in the “captain” spot on my team, a symbolic position that

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 30, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  emails to self & the long goodbye

  

  what a strange feeling it is to be in your last semester at MIT ... strange things that i have collected in the last couple of years. now that i ... , there was solace in having this one place where everyone could return to

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 27, 2025