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• Blog / Events

  Why Leadership? (guest post) Inclusive leadership and vision-building at LeaderShape 2018.

  

  from my face. Overwhelmed at my desire for his dream to be the world ... committed to learn with us together as he shared his hope for MIT to be ... only one responsible for my own growth as a leader, and I need to seek

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Done (this summer) or Why I Haven't Blogged in a Month

  

  to have many easily accessible resources for academic, personal, and ... Working for Veterans Affairs It’s 7am on a Tuesday, and I need to get ... “punky,” and I felt welcomed. I never expected to work for the U

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  friendful life recently

  

  is a hotspot for birders!) joanna always being willing to grab lunch ... no different. i’d like to think that i’m an optimistic person. i hope ... me it was really sweet how that person described their experience in

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Events, Food, and Awesomeness: CPW A story about how CPW is more awesome than lobsters

  

  memory. This spring break, I went to Chicago with my family for a weekend ... . Campus Preview Weekend for me was a chance to create a real first ... really is just for the fun of it. But it’s a great opportunity to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining, Dig-Ins and Dives Lady Afeefah travels across campus in search of the best eateries

  

  for now folks! Next time, we might just venture off campus to explore ... Disclaimer: This post was supposed to be written a whole 6 months ago ... down my to-do list. But here it finally is! Hey everybody! I'm Lady

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  TLM The Land of MIT. It's a planet.

  

  traveling to different planets, perhaps living in a ship for years until ... 't have time to breathe." Night only falls for 4-8 hours a day, depending on ... hard, this is the perfect place for you to build more and bigger rockets

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling grown up walking in adult clothing

  

  person in a room. explaining to a nine-year-old what an fmri is. seeing ... one of the prompts i answered, when i applied to be a blogger (and ... myself i'm not tired all the time. offices. having a desk to myself

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  FourFiveUnits all you could ever want to know about my semester schedule

  

  's healthy for my brain and GPA to have a little bit more "free" time in the ... addition to all of the above, I will be... Cooking food for myself instead ... editing News and Career features for JYI (~2 hrs/week) Going to dinner

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  An Adventure on the Charles In which Kate fails spectacularly, except at storytelling.

  

  (which might seem weird to some of you, but for me it’s actually really ... . The idea for today was to push off the dock, sail about halfway across ... , I decided there was nothing for it: I was going to have to try a Hard

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Beantown, H-Town, Blue Hills, House of Blues With cameos by home, beatboxing, and happiness

  

  Beantown)) One of my resolutions for this semester is to spend more time ... riding a bike. October 09-10 (H-Town) I was in Houston for a conference that turned out to consist mostly of resume workshops and recruiters from

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 5, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  good morning, MIT Guest post by Piper L. '17

  

  -class problems, because i didn’t want to start crying at one in the afternoon for ... All words beyond this introduction belong to Piper L. '17 (who is no stranger to the blogs), and she has kindly allowed me to share them. I think

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for transgender students in light of the military ban and our ROTC program(s)

  

  support for transgender students, particularly those who may wish to ... Insitute, "in addition to other objects set forth, shall provide for ... commitment to national service, and our commitment to strive for fairness and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 3, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  when apocalypse strikes… on being preemptively torn from my home, living group, and nearly everything i love at…

  

  impromptu schedule for the next few days that would enable us to spend as much ... ; I decided to paint mine for the senior who had comforted me when the ... ; But saying goodbye to the first person to leave broke all of our hearts

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 16, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 3) notes from the third day

  

  ’m excited for today; it’s going to be a wonder of a trip. Hour 47: 10:16 AM ... there is plenty of time for me to keep writing and looking around. I leave ... , went back to my seat and napped for an hour or two. Perhaps six and a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 13, 2023
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  tunes of interphase! or, how to leave home and look cool doing it

  

  to spend my summer playing catchup. I asked my parents for permission ... Center and runs across Killian Court just for the heck of it. I listened to ... , and even more I couldn’t wait for them to share back. On that bridge

  • by Angie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  linear in any way or form and I don’t expect for it to be linear as I ... was no crash course for how to apply and make a strong application. I ... , it’s terrifying that I was able to keep myself in this bad place for so

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  since i’ve been home

  

  it gets for basslines and for joe dart. now i'm trying to learn beastly ... [/annotation] lecture for five minutes before i decided to shut my laptop, grab the car ... other. i had plans to talk with eran for life advice, but that was before

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 3, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  Schedules and expectations The do's and dont's of freshman scheduling, and what to brace yourself for.

  

  the list of subjects we were already supposed to know for 5.111, I ... leads me to my next point: MY BIGGEST TIP FOR SUCCESS in your freshman ... the end I think they like me more for it. It's better for them to have a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  food diaries pt. 3 amazing restaurants around MIT

  

  restaurants. When I tried to go in person last year, I gave up after waiting for ... [/caption] This place. Oh man, this place. Would it be presumptuous for me to call ... Central for two months during the pandemic than I did during my ~6 months at

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 8, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  a fun bet spicing up the admissions process

  

  , gesturing for me to hand the money over. Unfortunately, mom knew of the bet ... just paid my sister dwarfed in comparison to what would be my tuition for ... going anywhere at all. I wanted to go to college, but how would I possibly

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 3, 2023