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• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  knows more about this than I do, but the gist of it is that Simmons has ... my kitchen, which is what happened a couple of weeks ago. I heard an ... MIT thinks that it catches on fire. On more than one occasion I've found

  • by Snively '11
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language What Learning Chinese at MIT has meant to me

  

  culture, a sense of history and background that I simply did not possess or ... undeniably call mine. I feel that for a long time I was okay with this because ... dramatically changed when I began doing biology research my junior year in high

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 26, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Floating On A Whim [by Katharine Chu '09, Guest Blogger] An art UROP carries a curious course 9-er all…

  

  yourself to explore your options. Nine months ago, I was in the middle of a ... realized that maybe it was time to try sometime new. So when I saw a UROP ... in Sweden, I realized what I had to do.  I called the artist, Jane

  • by ARTalk
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  scootin’ and zoomin’ a transportation saga

  

  not-that-long story short, I got Jerry’s Razor A5 Scooter, in its ... ) and 2 (mechanical engineering) double major so that i could have a M.E.M.E. degree. i have enough sayings that you can make a soundboard of me and no

  • by Phi A. '21
  • May 18, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  Quarantine and Social Life trying to maintain some connection

  

  in an activity I really love doing. In addition, we liked that we were ... conversation is less of a distinctive memory if that makes sense. Doing an ... socializing a task I had to complete every day. I recognize that phrasing it

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  lin-manuel miranda scares me my final paper for an MIT class about musicals!

  

  this in a very rigid/prescribed structure that i strongly dislike but i ... / I'm a polymath, a pain in the ass, a massive pain / Madison is Banquo ... , I was never good enough at singing to actually do musical theater in

  • by Allison E. '27
  • May 24, 2026
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Gap Year, Week 1 my plans for a year away from MIT during COVID-19

  

  a close friend. In this post, I'll describe how I made the decision to ... blindsided; with a bit more time to plan, I could have made arrangements that ... nearly six months in a household I had long since outgrown. The next few

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Edmund’s New Toy Guitarring starring eJones

  

  finger board. I got it on ebay from a really nice guy in Spendora Texas ... bass (I read that on the internet so it must be true!) The other style is ... 's freshman year advisor) I ran into him yesterday in Lobby 7, snapped this

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Some Q & A about the waitlist.

  

  , but I do not anticipate that happening this year (though it is always a ... likelihood. I hope that you will have another great choice to fall in love with ... still turn out well for you in the end. What should I do about the May 1

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello deferred applicants, i, again, don’t know what to say, but i can try

  

  is, and as much as i want to look at this paragraph and say that i was ... was deferred myself, i was eventually accepted to mit. such is the ... was to get deferred. i was expecting to get deferred, really. i knew, in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Time Management Reading this article adds +15 to Time Skills

  

  the things you do in a week. You'll see gaping swaths of time that you ... you know that making notecards the night before a test is stupid? I didn ... see how that applies. But it IS possible to balance it all, and in fact

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Books write our life stories Philosophy, astronomy, religion, neurology - and my plans for the future.

  

  medicine, but in all science.” For Sacks, a doctor, the point is that ... underneath my t-shirts. When I shut the book, I cried. That series had been a ... list.) The third category fills a half-shelf that I would gladly haul

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 30, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  Looking For A Good Fantasy." I stood in that entrance hall for a solid ... advisor, stands in front of a blank board; he is grinning, hunched over, and ... place. *The life of having a name that begins with A... I had a nice

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  perfectly fine. The key thing is I would just do whatever felt right that day ... cause. But, what I do know is some combination of factors lead to a ... , I planned to do a meditation program while in Thailand, but the

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread talk amongst yourselves

  

  Decisions come out in 36 hours, and I know a lot of you may be ... about admissions. this is a safe haven from that. you should not be ... can talk about stuff you do that you might have included in your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 13, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  CASE: Identity and Intersectionality and some bunnies if you hate everything else about this post

  

  probably only got in because I'm a girl." This is a toxic mindset that was ... hear about how cool MIT is. In either case, I have something for you ... about it? Well, I got this email earlier in the year. As a first

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Poetics of Place Snippets from my "Critical Writing for Designers" course at school down the street

  

  any other Harvard building I’ve never been in. I sat with a dear friend ... of tea, all that, as it is both a writing class and (kind of) an ... and forth in the woodshop. Arabic music is playing. I have come to an

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  ms paint sidequest by kayode and caleb on a monday night

  

  “The Arm”, and a base I’ll call… well I don’t really have a name for that ... :  Yesterday, I made a comment on Ellie’s Fantastic Blog, in which I quickly ... said that it is most definitely possible, and possible in under an hour

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  oversharing first base what have I been up to for the last 2+ years?

  

  So, hey. I'm Jude - I was hired as a blogger in fall 2017, fell off ... a year, and I've been living in comfortable silence for almost all of ... , for the time being, with being a work in progress; and with doing things

  • by Jude H. '21
  • December 11, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Reuse Poetry Giving things away

  

  Wars mania) Clipboard that is also a box that clips shut with pencil ... "I got it on Reuse," people say, with the emphasis in the word falling on the re-. When I see the word elsewhere and say reuse in my head

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 13, 2015