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• 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 / Challenges

  social groups a different angle on the 'i found my people in college' trope

  

  ’t know if i want to change or in what directions i would. what i do know is ... for help or participate in groups; when i happen to be in the midst of communities that i respect, like the group houses i lived in or the relevant

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 27, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Some Art About Other Art it's super meta

  

  mentally envision how I would paint everything currently in my line of sight ... ’t splattered with color. My mom would to unfailingly chide me when I’d graffiti ... yesterday afternoon, as I thumbed a hole in the last of my familiar, paint

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Evolution of Physics Physics gets harder as you get older, go figure.

  

  during sophomore year I'm noticing a trend in physics problems: they get ... in his class. Needless to say things got different when I got to MIT ... think it really struck me that physics was hard when I got this problem in

  • by Snively '11
  • November 14, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  yet i maintain composure manu tenere “i hold by hand”

  

  , lifting my left, as my partner nudges me in front of him. i shuffle my feet ... happen. by the time i’m back in my room, i have twenty unread emails, all ... felt, at least, to me. i’ve seen members of the esp team put in hours

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  Jill Biden waved at me D.C. during inauguration

  

  I noticed that I would be in town for [annotation note ... democratic leader? Am I nothing more than a hypocrite who would be in the ... finished, so I decided with the extra time that I would go visit my

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  summertime! and the livin's easy?

  

  've been in a bit of writing rut but, as I was reading through an email I sent out to my friends, I thought: oh! this would be a cute blog so that ... , and domestic comfort in Austin   anyways   Things I

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • July 15, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  how i handle canker sores not professional medical advice

  

  it was in high school or college. I get them several times a year. Over ... injured, but sometimes, they would occur even without an injury. I decided ... For the last several years, I've been getting canker sores around the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tetazoo is not a Hivemind Haha... just kidding... unless?

  

  I finish performing in my first MTG production (post about that coming ... where I’m from, all I’m allowed to say is “I used to live in Simmons ... and writing in the middle of it all, that I realize how much I love

  • by Powers '23
  • November 24, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  culture within culture i moved to east campus

  

  residents were interested in New House, so i wasn't sure how easy it would be ... as a former Burton Conner resident, i had a two options in dealing ... wanted to meet new people; i was deprived of doing so in a pandemic and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 15, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 3) Thailand and Israel and Columbia, oh my!

  

  one of those rare UROPs in the humanities. I am helping design a new ... will take someday. In addition, I am coding the website and software ... server). In my spare time, I work front desk at Random Hall and am a Summer

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 8, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  (another) postcard from GTL spain and an unexpected crossover with the Edgerton Center

  

  . Learning this, I should've known that showing up in my MIT MechE merch would ... Layla, for sending it to me and knowing i would love it ... I harp on in English about topics they’ve only ever found the words

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 1, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Am Excited a day in life of a student

  

  realities of college. I will contemplate the practice in the end, and a color ... my hall, and I expect to be detained by people. In the evenings, they ... irresistible, and normally I give in to temptation. After a day of important

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans + Peanuts + Crackerjacks i practically pulled another all-nighter, and again, for a non-academic reason.

  

  read." Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince would soon be released. I ... . Even the dome was in the mood to celebrate the release of book 6. I ... instead of in my room, I spent my evening reading the book sitting on the

  • by Bryan
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  To the 2024s: Wishing You the Most don't be scared of growth

  

  would be an amazing experience. In some ways, the fall was was amazing ... why I expected the process of finding my place in a completely foreign ... feel like I belonged at MIT? My freshman fall made me change in some

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT or Bust Our story begins here...

  

  So I guess telling you my name would be a good place to start: Bryan. I'm a member of the Class of 2007. I was born here in Massachusetts, but most recently I'm from Houston, Texas. I'm *definitely* majoring in

  • by Bryan
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  winning embracing positive-sum

  

  because of the academic environment i was raised in - other people doing well on math contests meant i would have a worse rank, other people getting into top colleges meant i would have a harder time doing so myself

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Re-introduction A summary, for those of you just tuning in.

  

  rough draft of my paper. This is my last week in the lab, and I'm trying ... around in Excel so much that my hands hurt, and when I close my eyes I see ... full name in it like I did last time, thus enabling every internet

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Decisions “I don’t know”

  

  class. So I proposed the plan to stay in the class until we take the third ... should stay in the class or not. Allan: I was initially very opposed to ... exam, and doing so well that I’d be confident enough with my standing in

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Maiden Voyages First years, welcome to MIT

  

  (my roommate would arrive in about a week). I gave up when I got onto ... boxes in Saran Wrap. Inside the boxes, I carefully loaded all of my ... , which I framed and padded with my winter coat. Then, in a thick black

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 15, 2022