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• Blog / MIT Life

  Hometown Heroes The first of articles about awesome MIT '09s.

  

  have to cure cancer and save a child from a burning orphanage?"). Anyway ... introducing me to African culture and recognizing where we as a people are from ... 'll highlight it in a future entry! A little background: back in the summer of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Rediscovering en Plein Air Painting by Elisa X. '26, MEng '26

  

  away from this hobby. Now as I am starting my fourth year at MIT as a ... plein air painting was such a stark contrast from my MIT experience. At ... experience and move on. Reflections from my Summer Painting Journey I set a

  • by Allison E. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  clay crash course one month of wheelthrowing later…

  

  from Japonaise Bakery; it was a squat, proud building with a large yard and wrought-iron gates, with a high square window on the facade. Then it ... hours a week. Every weekend, I would walk 35 minutes or so past Fenway, a

  • by Gloria Z. '26 MEng '27
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivered celebrating halfway at the finish line

  

  id="attachment_72811" align="aligncenter" width="480"] image from a ... " align="aligncenter" width="500"] excerpt from a RingComm email announcing ... Delivery, from its initial conception to its pandemic cancellation to its

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of My Junior Fall stream of consciousness

  

  successful MIT semester I've had to date. I've gone through a series of ups and downs this semester, but I think it's been overall a net positive and I ... . (Because, honestly, I've learned A LOT.) academics This semester I took 6

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 31, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  everything i am, anything i’m not (rush, part 3) and finding out that i'm both

  

  surprise at having received a text at four in the morning from Jonathan ... : I wasn’t going to let being in a frat take away from the time I ... dinner in a brownstone across the river, I received another message from

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • July 15, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  recently, reflecting on his own Early Action rejection from a "dream" school ... may be a difficult time for you, as that is the spirit of these blogs and our whole process. I said I deserve it all I'm wakin' up at 6 a

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  SnowDays while you're waiting for decisions

  

  SnowDays is a snowflake maker, and I think by far the best one. I ... between, and it's still an awesome website. Here's one of my snowflakes from ... work. Here's a link to that snowflake. If you view the snowflake on the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  first impressions of LA the struggles of moving cross-country for an internship

  

  there always seems to be a nice breeze coming from somewhere.i love being ... a swimsuit. but now, the beach is 2 miles from my work and i ... important possessions into a suitcase weighing a little over 50 pounds, a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 31, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other Side from prefrosh to cpw chair

  

  Cormick has a series of date rooms from the golden days that we’re converting ... This was me about a year ago: Even now, I remember what it felt ... hustle and bustle of the street had a certain magic to it. The cars were

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: “Nerd Epistemology” with Woodie Flowers from the co-founder of the FIRST robotics competition

  

  are able make inferences from facts. Wayne Gretzky, a famous hockey ... teams invent and build an alpha prototype starting from a vague topic ... . This post is the first of a series of three posts about the Festival. It

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Matt Damon’s Commencement Speech to the Class of 2016 Turn towards the problems you see

  

  from The Martian. But he also thinks about the world's problems a lot ... the advice he got from Bill Clinton a decade ago: “turn toward the problems you see.” Matt Damon would travel far away from Boston get a look at

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 6, 2016
• Blog / Hacks

  Toy Story Hack! And Other Hacks from Fall 2015

  

  Anniversary. So did students at MIT. On November 22, 2015, a Toy Story ... some photographs of the hack on a sunny autumn day. (also below is a chronology of other awesome hacks from fall 2015)   The MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 4, 2015
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Why I’m Leaving the MIT Admissions Blogs it's been a good run.

  

  , after working on a serious blog post for a few hours, I realized what day ... came from my friend and fellow blogger Vincent's My Final Blogpost. He ... Admitted Student Gathering with a nonexistent limited edition 1930 brass rat

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Candies and Costumes and Pumpkins and CATS Princess Leia and Orphan Annie ran around with laser guns and threw candy at people.…

  

  . I have a fuzzy kitty, and I got a lot of candy from the various ... A typical day in East Campus. Okay, it was not quite typical. It was a little abnormal. It was Halloween. I was surprised to see the lack

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Day of Classes Published exactly 4 weeks after the first day of classes. My bad.

  

  mathematics (from Oxford, on a Rhodes scholarship) and has never in his entire ... quickly (she was slow.) Having handwriting that you enjoy looking at is a ... class notebooks. I've also found that it's a lot more fun when there are

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT honors Officer Sean Collier (photoblog) photos from today's memorial service

  

  Police officers from across the country as well as other mourners turned out by the thousands today for a memorial service to honor fallen ... Briggs Field on a beautiful sunny day: Students who couldn't make the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 24, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Jellyfishing and other ways to recruit people to your organizations

  

  . Feedback – It’s nice to get honest feedback from a peer about how ... a trip to New Hampshire – to a camp not far from the mountains ... Innovation and Design, a class that all GEL1s take). This week was pretty long

  • by Stanley G.
  • March 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Champagne, pistols, and my new UROP blogging in a power outage. that's hardcore. though anna beat me to it.

  

  you may know, legend says there is always a light on in the Green ... working.  And if there ever comes a time when there are no lights on in the ... the face of a massive power outage, keeping that one light on, is the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Stephen, I’m Putting You On Notice!

  

  , Stephen Colbert interviewed Richard Hersh, a former university president who recently coauthored a book on how higher education is failing in America ... about MIT. (Thanks Richard. The check from Tim Beaver is in the mail

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 30, 2012