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• Blog / Community Projects

  Mystery Hunt mile markers portrait of the blogger as a young puzzler

  

  Not only the blogs' birthday—in trying to decide what to write, I ... just got a lovely writeup in Technology Review. When I started that draft, though, I didn't have a grasp of how important Hunt would be in my life

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A World of Pure Curation an interview with holly h. 18'

  

  In February, I interviewed Holly H. ’18, about her art gallery in the ... feels really powerful; it’s something that I’ve been trying to do more, in ... constantly be making things, and after a while I just had too many things in my

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 5, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! (2010 Edition!) yay pictures!

  

  now back at MIT. I took a long nap in the library today. I can feel MIT ... Dear Internet, No, I am not dead yet. I had a lot of great food in ... !!!!!! ----- So guys, sorry for the hiatus in posting the photo contest results. I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science is apparently not for the easily-frustrated Stories of woe from the lab

  

  Although most of the time I coast through my days in lab in a whirlwind of science glee, I have to admit that every once in a while, the lab ... away in the other direction shouting "Freeeedommmmm". I don't know. It

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  it’s ok that it’s not ok sometimes things will happen, and you have to just let yourself be.

  

  how can you possibly go on. I think, in contrast to Kate, my self ... going. She passed away, finally, in our house on a hill in Kafa. I can ... anxiety.   In Infinite Jest, which I’ve been reading with a group

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 4, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  First Blogiversary One year ago today, "McGann's Factors" began.

  

  criticism, or any other helpful comments about how I can be a better blogger ... being published, I'm enjoying some down time in Taiwan. But today I do ... One year ago tomorrow -- August 6, 2004 -- I started the first of six

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Ranking Every Class I Took at MIT it's that time

  

  at MIT where I can genuinely say I’ve had a positive experience in it ... 'm leaving! So I can say whatever I want! Raaaraaaaa nothing matters rAaaaaaaa **class that I cried in/cried over/broke down over S Tier (Favorite Classes

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkeys and babies But no baby turkeys.

  

  . Nothing says epic like "ESTA - ES - SPARTAAA!") I suppose you can be ... 'undeclared' at some point in the middle of the semester (which just means I ... lately is going to make some monumental difference upon where I end up in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 25, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  how to draw dotted lines on chalkboards, mit style dotted lines go brrrrr

  

  over the summer that I lived in Evan T. 19's room, where he installed chalkboards on one of his walls. (I talk about this more in the whiteboard post.) If we were in the same room, I would tell you that I could teach you

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 20, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge, CPW, and YOU! A welcome from a couple of MIT Quest Scholars to our newly admitted Quest Scholars

  

  and I’m thrilled to share my story with you. I was born in Vietnam ... which I’ve called home the past 12 years. Growing up in California, I always thought I’d end up going to a UC; in fact, up until my sophomore

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • April 2, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Joint Post] DesignPlus A super cool and awesome first-year learning community ft. Gloria and Teresa (we're not biased)

  

  addicting. I never built anything technical in high school, but in my senior ... knowledge to fit in, I was completely thrilled to join the community. In the ... while we ate. Afterwards, I’d spend a free hour relaxing in the lounge

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 26, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Wide-Eyed meet the therapist hanging above my bed.

  

  Giuliano, published in 2007. I first saw Dennis in a pile of four art pieces ... girl scowling at the camera in a dress, I figured Dennis at least looked like he was as weirded out as I was by all the other ones. I know I can

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 4, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ruminations and room-inations Written on the anniversary of one year ago.

  

  and now, where I sit in my cardboard box-strewn dorm room typing in ... without legs. It has no legs because I found it one year ago in a dark alley ... , furthermore, I strongly believe that there is wasabi powder in my eye. The

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 30, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Terrascope Save the world. Go. (:

  

  semester, and I can't wait to experience what it has in store! If you have ... , you could answer in a multitude of ways and I wouldn’t be able to say ... . ,                                             How can I be so sure, you ask? The images you see above are

  • by Ana V. '15
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Chose To Spend My First Weekend Away From MIT 132 miles north to be exact

  

  in the moment. And even though I thought I new my friends well, there ... biking and cave hiking, I found myself sitting in a Gondola on my way back ... forward to exercising in, I've realized how important it is to take a break

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 16, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  one with nothing making peace with unproductivity

  

  means "i shouldn't be procrastinating on my work". i mean it in the ... like that. it's more of a, if i don't write anything in a week then that ... about it than in a usual semester, then so be it! my theory is that i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 5, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Flipping Failure an IAP update

  

  This IAP, I took part in a writing workshop at MIT known as Flipping Failure. In this workshop, I and other participants worked on developing a ... MIT. After debating between a couple of topics, I chose to tell a story

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 28, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catching up What's new? Lots of things. I just haven't told you about them yet, because finals…

  

  's pretty cool to look at a page I created and take pride in its...artistic...nature. Right. In other news, I chose a major! It's an awesome choice that doesn ... . The truth is that I never REALLY knew what I wanted to major in. I knew

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  yeeting classes bye

  

  ! fanfic. in other words, I was incredibly unpopular in middle school ... and confusing, a deadly combination. in fact, I was so stressed about ... : the two psets stashed in my purse :([/caption] the next day, I dropped

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 12, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Weeks of Freedom What I'm doing for my last 4 weeks in the US!

  

  music I listened to was painfully narrow and my goal in these four weeks ... the first show I've binge watched in a while and it was absolutely ... bookworm who absolutely loved Medieval High Fantasy. In the last two years I

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • September 2, 2013