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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Belonging Who belongs at MIT?

  

  going to be brief -- the new freshmen remind me of bouncy balls and are all excited and happy to be at MIT... and they are full of questions, so ... into a discussion about the kind of person who's happy at MIT. It

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  ode to grocery stores the loneliest sweet potato

  

  instead of someone who's lost and drifting at sea, trying to find a way back ... stressed that I can barely quiet the buzz of all the bees in my head--I go ... at making actual food. It usually ends up being a lot more [annotation

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Year; New Me! (Two Months Late Oops) I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to do in my last semester…

  

  been recently. Also, a full text description of the images is at the ... anything at all. All of these are well-crafted excuses that I’ve made though ... something sickeningly sour at the base of my stomach if I think too hard about

  • by ana~
  • March 5, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updates i'm still here.

  

  means for me; trying to get seven hours of sleep, eat at least two healthy ... precise. There are all sorts of random reasons I could give for my disappearance, drawn from the same set of valid reasons I give to my friends or

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • January 20, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Chasing Success idk what that means anymore.

  

  seemed to be simple. It was easy to identify what was at the top of the ... 's waiting at the top of them. The ladders seem infinite, and my path through ... Heads up: I'm not sure if any of this makes actual sense. This is

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 5, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  hello, again it me

  

  talk at length about my personal life online because a lot of the greater ... ) peace with femininity, or at least I understand better why expressions of ... . Despite my best intentions, a lot of things went off-course this semester

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 23, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Lounges: An Interactive Experience It's almost like you were here!

  

  . Dancing on tables permitted. At the start of the semester, lounge ... to turn in psets. Leaving the lounge at bedtime is the hardest part of ... really in front of you. Munch on some (free) lukewarm fried plantains. For

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Integration Bee If this were televised, nobody would watch the Superbowl.

  

  become terrible at completing this paragraph and start to wax poetic (instead of waxing my windows, which seriously need more waxing than whatever ... pressing tongue of February into a sticky-sweet memory, bequeathing cavities

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where have I been for so long?

  

  balls to carry to goals with a "ball gobbler" of two wheels at the front ... Electric Mayhem. But the biggest time sink of all of these is MASLab, the ... with that name after Brian '08, one of my teammates, said that on the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yay for cheap stuff Inexpensive books make me happy.

  

  finer points of life at MIT, we sat him down and had him help us with our ... freshmen dorms. At most other schools, all/most of the freshmen live together ... . Basically, they try to get rid of all of the overstock and damaged books, so

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prize Week An exciting time for research, both noble and ignoble.

  

  the folks at the Annals of Improbable Research and hosted by Harvard and ... years of experience at MIT during Nobel week, I recommend getting there ... (Also see Bryan's entry) The first full week of October is always an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  A Snively CPW By: Snively' 11

  

  night of sleep for a long time. The next morning I met Sara '11 at South ... is probably impossible any time of day during any time of the week at ... were no longer little pictures at the top of a web page. They're real

  • by Bryan
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2023 For all of the Blogger/Spotify Data Junkies

  

  first time I even considered applying to MIT was in January of 2022, when I received a January MIT Newsletter and saw a summary of Ankita D. ‘23 ... anymore so! i am simply not an active-music-listening kind of guy" This

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 10, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s a puzzlement… ...or why I really love reading your applications!

  

  So, it's the middle of January and although it was an unseasonably ... take breaks from reading so I used one of them to take a quick walk around campus mid-afternoon today. I went by some of my favorite spots, the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 16, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Day Cats cats cats cats cats cats cats....

  

  care of myself. I went to mental health & counseling at 10am, and I ... would have a class at 2:30pm, Industrial Ecology of Materials, which is a really cool class that lets us look at the life cycle of materials and the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Starting Over it feels like this every time but this time it's different

  

  first at Head of the Charles and I want one more shot at the national ... lounge windows and play Smash and eat truly disgusting amounts of sushi at ... Every fall at MIT has felt like a new beginning. My freshman fall

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Answer these 13 questions and we’ll reveal the perfect dorm for you! What does your favorite dorm animal say about where you should live?

  

  studying for finals, of course). Turns out I'm bad at spreadsheets, so I just ... Baker respondents chose to eat at Maseeh, compared to only 31.3% of Maseeh ... -turned-blog-idea on the MIT class of 2029 Discord Server, where I was helping out

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Drawing from Life "is that the boldest stroke you can make?"

  

  since starting college. I've made a ton of art for my clubs at MIT and for ... I found one of my old sketchbooks the other day. I'm ashamed that ... [/annotation] major at Tufts and invites me to a life drawing session the other day in a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 28, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Accepting criticism please criticize this blog post

  

  my work to my lack of self-esteem, because at least that, I know how to ... this Juanita of an open position, a medical technician or a nurse, at Allston or at Boston. I get maybe three or four of these calls per day. I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you want to be when you grow up? Worst. Question. Ever.

  

  how much enjoyment I get out of yelling at the television during ... know, good schools and stuff and i have to get out of mit), internship at ... world. Hopefully, after four years of TFP, this hypothetical job will not

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 2, 2008