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• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  overwhelming amount of exhaustion. I am doing much less than I ever have in a ... takes me a million times longer. I think that this is partially a symptom ... classes is that in an environment where you're supposed to be learning

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  g e m i n i j u i c e a saga of screenshots

  

  . never in my life have i seen fruits + cilantro. also celery is just a disgusting vegetable “calcium, limes, jalapeños” JALAPEÑOS?!? IN A JUICE ... filled with [annotation note="google notably is not a juice company

  • by Allison E. '27
  • May 5, 2026
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  friendful life recently

  

  've mellowed out, in a sense -- the furious emotional ups and downs of my late ... than get stuck in a self-destructive loop. i think younger mel would be ... from a concert he went to in the 2000s talking about birding with my pi

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy November 1st! Halloween was yesterday. My costume was/is an embarassment. You should read about it!

  

  to tell. In fact, I'm embarassed just thinking about it. The thing is ... . Matt suggested that I dress up as an iPod, which was cool in a way, but ... , just in case anyone gave me a hard time about not dressing up. Ready for

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let the Rush Begin On Greek Life at MIT.

  

  . A free meal or an outing to go paintballing is always also fun as well ... LAN party. Wednesday, we went off to mini-golf. Rush is always a ... and help bring in a new awesome class to share the house with. It's also

  • by Bryan
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  senior appreciation post in which i rant about my idol

  

  , and still be so ready and willing to take in a lost, naive freshman with ... niche in the giant machine of moving parts that is college? I was sure ... I showed up, she took me under her wing in a heartbeat. She taught me

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my semesterly planner mentally preparing for the trials ahead

  

  [annotation note="is this okay to say in a blog? let's hope so ... In less than a week I'll be hopping on my flight back to Boston, and ... -journaling-sleeper-agent in my brain kicked in orientation week freshman year, deciding that a

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • August 18, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Cool Data Stuff, ft. Immersion I just really like data visualizations, plz don't judge

  

  person in a given time period, and also the people who they’ve introduced you to via email. For a data nerd like me, this is basically the best ... your emails. Guess I’m just a sucker for Cool Data Things. In general

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 5, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Visualize whirled peas

  

  film is primarily a love story, but there are major themes of justice and ... the Indian subcontinent in the film. Peace has been on my mind a lot ... Falluja (a conservative radio commentator in Boston has been advocating

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2004
• Blog / Events

  The end, my friend Pictures from my graduation :(

  

  ask for. Also, my cousin (who is a musician in New York City) wrote me ... a well-organized system where we reported to a station in order to be ... to get good seats, but we just waltzed right in. A view from my seat

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus, Part One Photos and commentary of a sample floor of the East Campus dormitory.

  

  The blogfathers in the admissions office requested a while back that ... is similar in architecture, layout, and structure. I haven't counted ... few times, but still is no match in cleanliness or plushness to shiny

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 26, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Even More for Admitted Students: Share Your Story Another open thread for '11s.

  

  found out online this year, which in my opinion is far less exciting than ... high school. Man, the passage of time is a scary thing). ... So you got into MIT. Congratulations!! Today is December 13, which

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 13, 2006
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The Holy Grail of Hacks Returns and everything it took to get there

  

  ="Campus Preview Weekend"]CPW,[/annotation] and a crowd is gathering in front of the ... course remain anonymous, lead the masses in a countdown. When they hit zero, the entire building lights up in a bright white as the opening of Bad

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 3, 2026
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Brass Rat

  

  students will purchase the ring in a typical year; one company actually shuts ... , a very large number of them proudly wear an MIT class ring, which is ... a massive bezel bearing an image of a beaver. Its official name is the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eleven "And the award for 'least creative entry title ever' goes to..."

  

  advocate of eating healthily and a strong believer in the fact that Food is ... effective, and Bike and Build is a service trip as well as a bike trip - in ... I know, I know, I haven't written in forever and a week. Um, yeah

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 20, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  No Ceilings next steps

  

  for them, and off I went. Because I had attended a community college in high school, it didn't really feel all that different; there is a goal in ... Part 1: (literal) There are no ceilings. For some reason, in a lot

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 12, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] 10 Reasons I Joined Rocket Team

  

  ) involves a wide range of skills and is in charge of the majority of non ... one of my best friends, Emma S. '23. She is a huge part of rocket team ... I’m still learning in college is how to spend my limited time and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 11, 2021
• Blog / Hacks

  MacG 50ish years ago an email from an alumnus

  

  I asked in a rambly 10-minute-long video tour of my MacGregor single ... is a qualified lightly"]lightly[/annotation] annotated version of his ... completed in September 1970.  I was a young 18 years old then.  I'm 67 now, a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 6, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  dance dance dance! a weekend of trying to try everything

  

  ! Having not tapped in half a decade (!!), I was definitely pretty ... serendipitous run-in with Jorge, a current sophomore who taught our friends and I ... Bhangra! Bhangra is a style of dance from the Punjab area of India, and it

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Wisdom of Khan revealed the MIT secret

  

  it here, or let you read the full text below: It is truly a deep ... working at a startup in San Francisco when the announcement came out in 2001 ... Corridor may be, begs some introspection. In fact, so extreme is the coupling

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2012