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• Blog / Challenges

  head above the water (intro post) an inner dialogue about my first month of classes

  

  mess (me). One benefit of having to walk a long way from Next House to ... being suspended in this void for a few seconds, my legs swaying back and ... onto a lane divider, gasping for breath as chlorine stung the back of my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Tier Listing My Classes i may have got this idea from tiktok

  

  up a post every day from today until Friday, totaling 7 days in honor ... no longer be a student blogger, and will have graduated to the nebulous ... the last 3.5 years, and perhaps a few forward facing posts as well

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 23, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Non-Stop a completely stacked google calendar? in THIS economy?

  

  lyrics to non-stop from hamilton in this post. nothing else just that"]A ... "urban" that over-generalize a plethora of dance styles. Takeaways from ... tutoring organization I'm a part of to discuss my lessons for a student. I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 25, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  mit: it’s complicated confliCTING FEELINGS

  

  sophomore year and i instantly felt a connection, like love at first sight ... philosophy -- it was everything i ever wanted in a university. but i kind of ... myself to hate mit. "the flight's are too far from cali." "cambridge is

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT how we practice and pursue it here

  

  from a couple students is now a fully functional an operating club that ... provides a vast variety of visual art classes ranging from drawing to ... expect from a theater department like acting and script-writing classes, it

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Around the world in 30 days ...ok, maybe more like I'm Traveling a Lot this IAP

  

  mattress pad, cooking utensils, etc.), and the rest to bring with me on a journey around the world. With a 50-lb suitcase maxed out on the weight ... compete at the 2018 US Championships. I came in with a nagging hip injury

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Reasons I haven’t blagged… hint: "I'm Busy" isn't one of them

  

  Like all great creative people, from Claude Monet to Steve Jobs to Franz Kafka, we bloggers too suffer from “writers’ block” or creative ... a modern twist. This post is a very meta post about why I haven’t been

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 29, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Fears and Hopes how to move forward

  

  confused. Many are saying, where do we go from here? I forced myself to go ... the blue skies above. I bump into a stranger after scrolling through my ... is the same. With a sigh, I walk into 10-250 and try not to think about

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • November 9, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Who You Vote for May Not Matter that you vote most certainly does!

  

  That you vote most certainly does! The following is a guest entry ... I have heard almost exclusively from fellow members of the MIT ... so low that casting a vote is a waste of my time. But what if the value

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  10 Lessons #IAP #Italy #LearningByTeaching #wow #Pi(e)DayCountdown

  

  (a standard unit of measurement), and I come from a strong public ... cancelled and rescheduled for a full 2 days later. Arriving late to my job wasn't a problem because I made up the missing hours by teaching a few

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Waste Daylight; Don’t Lose Sleep I've almost survived a whole semester.

  

  suite on the fourth floor of Burton Conner shedding a trail of water from ... gulped down the wetness in the air like I imagine a fish would if it, and ... to my roommate, "It's so... gray!" She's from the northwest corner of

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest Post: Rush & Recruitment 2012 Evan and Denzil weigh in on this hectic week

  

  ways I couldn't have imagined as a freshman, so I'm happy to share their words: "Fraternities and sororities mean having a great outlet away from the stress of life and academics, the chance to have unforgettable

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Way We Live Saunas make me think

  

  summer on jimjilbangs, and for visual reference, here's a photo from that ... Do you ever feel like you can't do just one thing at a time? These days, I can't watch TV (a real TV) without internet on my lap. I can

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Diary of an All-nighter 9-5 is so out! Try um, 5 to 9...AM!

  

  home away from home away from home, it is pretty isolating in a way. I ... case, reviews (as you will see...), etc. Apparently, there is a ... freshman year due to a lack of motivation…or something. But I don’t think it

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 30, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  LET’S PLAY Dodgeball!

  

  not an athletic giant – for one, Briggs Field conspicuously lacks a ... advising seminars. The general scheduling rule here is classes from 9-5, sports from 5-7, and other activities from 7-later. Students are dedicated

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Fall Formal My Saturday evening.

  

  cancer, and otherwise having no fun at all. I know this is a common ... same thing. Fortunately for all of us, MIT has a remarkably strong ... Fall Formal, which is pretty much exactly what it sounds like: a chance

  • by Paul B. '11
  • September 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Past, present, and future

  

  of the recommendations will probably start being implemented a few years from now, so some of you might have a vested interest in knowing ... TFUEC has been working for two and a half years to redesign MIT's GIRs

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our friends

  

  this time, it was my 21st birthday and I was just getting back from a ... and Senior House. Big Jimmy was a legendary figure, someone I only met briefly but who many of my friends counted as a confidant and friend. I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  History of the Brass Rat with pictures of the bezel design from 1930 to today

  

  member from each of the Classes of 1930, 1931, and 1932 to design a ring ... , patient, strong, hardworking, and, like all who graduate from Tech, has a ... Rat photos are from webmuseum.mit.edu. If you're an alum and you have a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 23, 2015
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Guest Post] Designing the 2025 East Campus Rollercoaster by Zack I. ‘27

  

  about my design from a top-down approach, attempting to fill in the ... began from the ground up instead and that yielded a much better result ... Intro Every year, my dorm (East Campus) constructs a large

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • June 18, 2026