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• Blog / Athletics

  Alive and Kicking I kick, therefore I am ~taekwondo~

  

  , maybe try and improve at one of the many sports you know how to play in a ... sports to be canceled, and in the weeks before the start of the fall ... ’t attack me. In the fall, I would routinely get spammed by the Sport

  • by Waly N. '24
  • August 3, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  168 Hours and how to spend them

  

  secure in getting my stuff done now that I know I have enough time to do it ... MIT and I get to do things I love and find meaning in all day long ... lot of time eating brunch in Next dining, and proceed to mess around in

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 21, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  a lot of burger places, and it is not. Instead, In-N-Out is to ... we pick which schools to visit on any given trip lies in that strange ... , which has a new digital media magnet program open to all students in LAUSD

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  selecting for obsession

  

  college textbook—and read it cover-to-cover. In seventh grade, he begged and ... —he had to play violin, he had to do worksheets in preschool while all the ... increase the number of commas in our bank accounts. Over-optimized lives—cold

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  .005 is in 15 minutes. I go to the basement to get Raising Steam by Terry ... gets larger in the window, nighttime Boston like a wet spiderweb beneath ... to take notes on and Café 4 for coffee. I find a seat in the back row

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Get Animated A holiday comic.

  

  A random highlight of some holidays is getting emailed the latest comic from my friend and former apartment-mate Jen '01. Here's her comic ... Jennifer's Comics. Jen is also a fantastic baker -- if you want to drool

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 16, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Little Pieces of Living january & february & march & now, april

  

  In January, I came back to campus for IAP and got to do a healthcare ... without. What else? I woke up most days before the sun came up in order to ... Trader Joe's for the first time in my life, and grew to love their chicken

  • by Sara N. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What Is This, a Crossover Episode? Jacob Collier and Yo-Yo Ma come to MIT

  

  Rainforest over spring break. We got to perform in a bright pink opera house in ... never quite know what you’re getting into with Fred. (In case you were ... person who led the effort for him to come to MIT! The residency ended in a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 23, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Q&A I asked current freshmen about the things they wish they knew for their CPW!

  

  lost walking to Pika late at night in the cold, and was unsure how to use ... in order to try and get some sleep.  My advice is to do what feels best ... questions you have in the comments section below, and I will do my best to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Class Projects

  Make a Lamp! and cart the pieces of it from IDM to IDC, the forge, Metropolis, and back…

  

  came in to walk us through CNC machining, and another guest lecturer showed us CAD modeling. I came in to this class expecting to have a good ... base of the lamp in wood, I knew I wanted the body to be metal. My first

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Strands literal and metaphorical >:)

  

  catching a cold), and it’s usually in a state of disarray, since I often can ... enviably shiny. It was one of the few ways in which I felt like I was able to ... just can’t seem to get over the thing with my hair.  My nervous reflex

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 10, 2023
• Blog / Events

  hero’s journey with a splash teaching for ESP

  

  fanfiction of side characters in your own story, to get excited about the world ... they desire. There’s Intro to String Theory, Ballet in the Soviet Union ... at the crack of 7:45 and trudged the long cold route to the Bush room

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  [Guest Post] All About the MIT Panhellenic Association how some MIT students found their "home under the dome"

  

  them again. But in the meantime, I love getting to call people to watch ... Memorial in cold darkness just to host a show that probably less than 3 ... since I was seven years old, the idea of getting to know new people was

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  to classes for a while. maybe some of you are far away from any ... powerless. i wish love was the kind of thing i could package in a box and deliver. if love was the kind of thing i could wrap up in words and send

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 13, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Doesn’t Feel Real getting from one place to another

  

  teachers to get some accommodations. In preparation, I wrote a letter. A ... wouldn’t get where I wanted to be in life by “slowing down.” And maybe I ... for the course is to pick a spot in nature relatively near to Boston, go

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 24, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 2)

  

  I don’t get to make much during the semester, except on slow weeks or ... my mom doesn’t have a timepoint to run catch they get to hang out, my mom gets to learn new recipes, and my dad, my brother, and I get to eat

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  like a freight train a schedule post

  

  hard to figure out, use it in these three ways," and we didn't get a lot ... getting to know more people -- not just my podmates, who are lovely, but ... would say to one another in a different world. I'm hungry for the real

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 19, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I LOVE MUSICALS!!! wicked just dropped and I am LOSING MY MIND

  

  I should go, and I did—completely cold. I went in only knowing that ... seen Wicked, I’ve been inspired to finally get to a blog that I’ve been ... depths of a character and laid bare in the theatre for all to witness. Show

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • November 29, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  psychiatrist staring at me in disbelief and telling me to get new priorities as I ... folding.   To get back to the thermodynamics analogy, I’m a little particle ping-ponging inside of a box. I also want to get out of this box

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  catching up what are you doing over the summer?

  

  to do the coding portions, it felt natural for me to get in the zone ... is from california, and as someone who went to high school in minnesota ... all four seasons (no shade). i flexed my ability to withstand the cold

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • June 2, 2022