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• 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…

  

  storyline, in case you're curious - a freshman comes to MIT, keen to get involved in the hacking community. All he wants to be is hardcore (there is ... to 4-6 shows for each production period. Anyone who has been in an MTG

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 9, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t forget to check in with yourself On living with intention

  

  yourself?” The contrast in the title is a catchy way to describe the ... like a simple question but it can get harder to answer over time because ... feels like just yesterday (I graduated in 2013). Last year, I had the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  I went to the Arnold Arboretum!!! i become one with nature

  

  in me was hyped to hear that. The arboretum is a good ~5 miles away ... kicked in; I'm allergic to pretty much every type of tree you can think of ... seen myself as the "frolicking in nature" type (due to my allergies, for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prizes in your pocket Computers are so cool omg this is why I’m a course 6

  

  flexibility. In addition to conducting electricity, they can become transparent ... properties has led to conductive polymers being used in OLED (organic LED ... was just because I didn’t want this blog post to get uncontrollably long

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 9, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  what I did this summer unoriginal title, original experiences!

  

  another one in actually seeing those places. I did try to get out when I ... instead of drowning in it. On not being afraid to make mistakes and get ... In third grade, my parents sent me away to sleepaway camp for two

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 24, 2021
• Blog / Events

  beautiful moments i think too much

  

  check in, watching older students smiling widely when they get to put pronoun stickers on their nametags, sitting in help desk and trying to let ... 's been harder to notice the nice and pretty things in life: sailing on the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2020 if you read even one of these i will be happy

  

  is down, thanks in large part to their parents' concern for their ... value leadership in the same way? Will the ASA continue to understand just ... ] to act in the best interest of the MIT Community and of the Student

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 23, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

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

  

  dictated by the circumstances of one's birth. ????? You don't get to choose if you're black, white, or somewhere in between. You don't get to ... adjust to life at an institution like MIT. I regret that I didn't get to go

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to MIT! blogging guilt eased...

  

  semester, MIT students tend to hide themselves in their rooms/lounges/libraries/other favorite study spot to ready themselves for the barrage of final projects and ... from Chris P.) for a few minutes to welcome all the new pre-frosh to MIT

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to Senior Haus According to Joel '10 from New House, we eat your babies.

  

  over the next couple of days. Moving on to rooms: I've been living in a ... corner of a wall. I know. Neha '10 wants me to write "ON PURPOSE" in ... decided to do you one better and give you a bit of a dorm tour! So here are

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Taste of the Real World an adventure in life

  

  When you are at school, the whole world seems to exist in its own ... on in the world, only able to scan the New York Times every couple of ... /reforms/goings-on in the Middle East, a Japanese student group to hear about the

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 22, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  “Learning To Learn At MIT” guest post by the plaz

  

  to Learn at MIT. It's about - surprise! - learning to learn in the MIT ... - are general to all those interested in enhancing their education ... problems on the test. I had to step it up and give it my all in order to pass

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  i saw twenty one pilots at td garden in boston live music is very much alive and here to stay

  

  overwhelmed by work and school and the thought of having to get good grades for ... that I cried to during some of my shittiest moments in high school, and ... comfortable enough in Boston to buy tickets for Rex Orange County for February

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Flu shots optimizing literally everything

  

  the past. A bunch of people in our hall told me to get the shot. It ... in the above diagram, where you get sent to line up in front of one of ... community members could walk in and get a flu shot. I was initially a bit

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting en route to North Carolina Sectionals vs. Midterms

  

  arena in Indian Trail. Lucikly, I was able to get there just in time for ... myself mentally and physically fit to compete was one giant monster in and ... might be more fun to show you my week in pictures (mostly taken from my

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 13, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Coffee in the Pagi-nation [joint post] breaking cruel rituals

  

  them. I had turned in what I needed to. My essays were some semblance of ... them in even if I wanted to. [annotation note="arguably much shorter ... was going to start moving in next. A few months later, in a [annotation

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  dress your wounds and stay in bed self care!

  

    I learned some valuable life skills in Denmark, from how to turn on an induction stove to how to balance on a bicycle in unfavorable ... summer, a slow period in countries where people get sizable vacations and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Round here we stay up very, very late Vignettes on my last day at lab, the Counting Crows, grad school, and pets.

  

  that stuff, but it means he doesn't really have to worry about getting in ... crying in front of people. On Thursday, my postdoc took me out to lunch ... picking Harvard for grad school effectively meant he'd have to get into MIT

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Sophomore Slump Last semester was not so great

  

  definitely reinforced what I learned in 3.012. I am excited, however, to get ... out to get ice cream with us one night!  MIT also beat West Point in the ... seniors and juniors, so my sophomore friend and I did not get in. So I was

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 12, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  avoiding responsibility writing this blog to procrastinate on stuff

  

  nothing in particular except think about all the things I need to do. They ... of being reasonable and going to sleep, I’m going to write this in one ... do, to get there. When you sleep 3 hours a night for a week and

  • by Anika H. '26
  • April 6, 2023