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• Blog / Class Projects

  The Year of the HASS thoughts on single-tasking, cheese slicers, and the tyranny of the mind

  

  in mind. It was magical. It’s not that I don’t enjoy the technical classes. I do, but in moderation. In fact, I’m a huge fan of my one ... because when I devote time to one thing, it seems like I’m losing ground in

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 23, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We were worried An insider's look at a February tradition

  

  beautiful piece captured everything I pictured in a blog about the Vagina Monologues, but couldn't express in words.  I never thought I’d be performing ... thought of talking about vaginas in front of an audience made me blush; I

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Building, building, building, building This one goes out to the one I've left behind.

  

  inside is vibrant, if not necessarily practical. I take pride in biking ... there. But I don't have to live there. And even if I would have drawn it in the housing lottery, REX would have given me the chance to change my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer begins And I get a brief vacation.

  

  back where I started - at the check-in counters. Turns out that my gate ... ! Me: I...yesss? I...I guess so? (I guess I have DNA in all parts of me ... 'm playing sine waves in the shower. i sincerely apologize and if you need me

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 25, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  O hai A reintroduction

  

  saying that I hoped and suspected our paths would cross again someday. Well. I got a JOB here, people! In Admissions. Me. An adult thing. Here! The ... - I majored in Course 20 (Biological Engineering) and lived in Simmons

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Some comments on topics of interest

  

  ). What would I like to see: inasmuch as Stanford says their students ... AP tests. I am, however, disturbed that anyone would advocate ... ) California kid who was told in 8th grade that I needed to take five million AP

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 7, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Going Home ... but where exactly is that?

  

  I'm currently sitting in the SeaTac airport, waiting for my flight ... would say Kirkland, Washington. It's where I've spent most of my life ... safe in the world, I've never been that afraid of uprooting my life and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 6, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life during finals season It's always darkest before the holidays.

  

  brain cells. (*In the past two days, I've been taking study breaks to the ... . Tonight, my subconscious is in a recursive mood. I dream that I fell asleep ... this stage in the dream, I immediately wake up in real life, clutching a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 13, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  notes on hope despite despite despite

  

  today it is warmer than it has been in a while, and i'm back in the ... the tip of my tongue, and i can see it in the smiles that come more ... of your body love what it loves. i emailed him a few weeks ago in a

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 25, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  layer of masking tape. When I come home from classes I linger in the ... love for soy milk. It’s sort of how I imagined my freshman year would go ... simple narrative: friends, food, firehose. That’s what I expected coming in

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Unity

  

  consistently interesting times. At the same time I was in school, Boko Haram, a ... in the acknowledgement of lessons and truths I wished were axioms ... psychological ones. In my second blogpost on MIT Admissions, I talked about a grad

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 30, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  This is where my decisions have taken me perspectives from grad school

  

  the good I could do for the world) and would maximize, if I could only ... solved for, I could plan my future by laying these decisions out in front of me; once in place, I could follow them where I wanted to go. So

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT women Rockin' the two X chromosomes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  

  why a girl would be interested in majoring in science. I'm going to ... I've noticed, in my travels around the country and the internet, that people are really interested in the experience of female students at MIT. I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 20, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  't belong here, or like I was just in the cosmically wrong place. I didn ... about my choice to come here was that sometimes I would visit my friends ... story still sticks in my mind. I've told it over, and over, in a way such

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC’s Q&A with Dean Kelley of Pixar’s Coco (he also worked on Avatar: The Last Airbender, Monsters University, and The Incredibles 2)

  

  canonically they did meet in college?”] Yes. [laughing continues] But I would ... would say those big moments that I don’t think you see in western ... A couple of Fridays ago I had the opportunity to sit in on an LSC

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 8, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  The Five Stages of Grief (Jonathan’s Version) on a journey from New Hampshire to Next House [guest post]

  

  would look like in the summer. At some point on the trail, I cross back ... home] I thought that I would like North Reading and the cities in ... option. On any other day, I would have found the food just okay, but in the

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 4, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Enterlude Brought to you by the letter "L", for Late, Lame, and real Life. Or something…

  

  -TAWN-Yuh (like “Tanya” with a “Na” in front! Or so I tell people so they don’t call ... skilled in the art of hip-hop dancing; math is my absolute worst subject; I ... thought I’d be now, MIT would be the last place I would have said—if I

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Whirlwind Weekend highlights of the weekend (UPDATED!)

  

  auction to benefit a scholarship fund in Louisiana. One of my friends, Mike '07, asked me if I wouldn't mind going up for auction, and I obliged kindly. However, soon after, I began to worry about what my auction price

  • by Bryan
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Residential Life

  [guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes notes from a hall exchange in 2017

  

  general rituals of the clan in 5W. I am to expect four-legged beasts roaming ... players in the night), but I look forward to exploring more tomorrow ... distance s starting from rest in a vertically oriented electric dipole. i

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2019
• Blog / Hacks

  A Hack and Advice Two entries smashed into one.

  

  would be there, and what I needed to take to my dorm. I was discussing ... live in Boston you need to listen to Tessie and I'm Shipping Up to Boston ... 'm Shipping up to Boston." A lot. I've included some YouTube videos in case you

  • by Snively '11
  • February 29, 2008