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• Blog / Challenges

  regrets about college and the pandemic

  

  than gratitude” is a refrain commonly attributed to anne frank, but ... while i could. if i knew a certain type of person would stop talking to me ... given information i never had access to. it took a while for me to realize

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 30, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  hike the desert pretend i am a lifestyle blogger

  

  I have a car. I had some daring plans to go hiking every other day ... feel the urge to push through, keep hiking. I called for a stop about an ... ’d prolong being sick by at least a day. Finally I got myself to say, “Actually

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains, Voltaire’s Son, and Other MIT Things Notes from the Start of Junior Year

  

  ’m already in love with and in a place I’m so proud to call home. (Alexa J. ‘20 ... for that. What do I really want to do? Shhhhhh I have two more years. A new half means a feeling of freshness added to old experiences. I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2022 (ok, i didn't enjoy all of it)

  

  drinking a beer at about the same time that he began to think about going ... -based interactive fiction: type a command to execute it. There's hundreds of commands ... . Also good is 99 Ways to Tell a Story. Some of us were travelling together

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Birthday Boy Ben Birthday explosion inside.

  

  's around! He's a busy guy, after all), whether it's to chat, to get advice or an ego-boost, or even to crash on his couch. And so a few of my friends and I decided to repay Ben for all his awesomeness by throwing a mini

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  one hour of musings we're so back

  

  a funny little thing. As the days go on, it becomes harder to return. Subsequently, in effort to break that spell, I've set a one hour timer to write ... subsided, at least for a wee bit, and I'm excited to be back. — Is this

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 10, 2025
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  A lot of students applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately, we just couldn’t accept them all. We have placed a small number of students on the waitlist. If you would like to be considered for the waitlist

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  amongst the stars a comic

  

  , inspired me to draw the comic above. There are a lot of nebulous feelings I ... in NYC.  In an attempt to get back part of my soul after what's honestly been a soulsucking semester so far, I went full-on retail therapy at

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Invasion of the Stikmen Another invasion of MIT?

  

  MIT! There's a couple more of them around campus, but I didn't want to ... around finals time, MIT had an invasion... Well as I walked to lab last week, I noticed something interesting on a crosswalk on Memorial Drive

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • August 14, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Pics or it didn’t happen? It happened!

  

  “Proving Them Wrong” theme, and I got a request to share more videos from the ... As I mentioned last week, MIT is a place for talkin’. Looking at the ... in our stories. The contestants, from top to bottom, left to

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We now interrupt our regularly-scheduled programming… I tried getting ahead on my reading assignments but that only lasted so long.

  

  Just so you all know, I'm working on a new Q&A video. Thanks for your questions, I feel loved. Special shout-out to my midwest friends. Hope you're surviving the snow! Speaking of snow, we've gotten a ton of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  So How Does It Feel? Now all you have to do is wait.

  

  I couldn't help but think that compared to them, I didn't stand a ... asking others for advice. It got to the point where I nearly had my writing ... pushed submit. A week before the EA deadline. It felt good. But then, I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Got Questions? I have answers.

  

  where to spend the next four years of your life. It's a huge decision, and ... Hey guys - sorry for not blogging in so long! I've been up to all ... . Specifically: finding a UROP for the summer (I'll be working in the Lang Lab

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 23, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Meetings with Brown & Yale in Texas and Arizona Learn about three great schools at once in the American Southwest.

  

  Beginning a week from Saturday, MIT will be going on the road with ... can be found here: brownmityale.org These meetings will be a great ... seniors) to hear from three great universities all in one place. Each school

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 1, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Devoid of Content Well, mostly.

  

  This post is almost entirely devoid of content except to point out a particularly funny exchange in the comments of a recent post. It's a constant struggle between bloggers and prefrosh over whether the "FIRST!" approach to

  • by Snively '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick hello from Albuquerque I'm in New Mexico for ISEF.

  

  A quick shout out from Albuquerque, New Mexico, where I am attending ... talked of making a "left turn at Albuquerque") (No sign of the High School Musical kids yet, either) Tomorrow, I will get to have breakfast with the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2007: I Got Served, and It Felt Grrreat!! By: Seleeke, '11

  

  met, to the numerous fraternities I visited, to the awesome trips to a ... to trek over to Tufts University and catch a sweet breakdancing ... Chinatown. On only my second trip on a subway EVER (my first was to the

  • by Bryan
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Megaphone, Pressed Against An Insect’s Brain That is what this blog entry resembles.

  

  major--she's just a minor! My own connection to political science is even more tenuous (I was pretending to be Ruth's date and she's a minor) but ... that posting them here would be a little gratuitous. Suffice to say that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  FREE FOOD! FREE FOOD! EVERYWHERE!! AM I YELLING??

  

  itself), which included a night out to Bartley's. On the first day of ... ." Orientation lasts around a week, during which you go to events to (for lack of a ... 's pretty easy to have a great time, since classes haven't started yet. More

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  I Am Not As Lame As I Appear I've just been feverishly at work on the new website...

  

  Mollie starts tomorrow and I needed to get things to a certain point so that she'll be able to do the work that I've hired her to do. So ... applications (thanks!) and I have a file with all of your questions which I

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 31, 2006