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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Stories That Made Me My identity in books

  

  train to the end of the line, light strangers' cigarettes, or speak ... in the face. Always to look life in the face and know it for what it is ... references Eliot makes "Gentile or Jew. O you who turn the wheel and look to

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 19, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  The First-Year Application for the MIT Class of 2025 is now live

  

  can describe, in 250 words or fewer, any extenuating circumstances that ... magic words that get you in (or keep you out) of MIT. If you approach this ... I'm writing to announce that the application for first

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pluto replies ThinkGeek.com rocks my effing socks.

  

  applying to MIT or what? Just curious. The hours between 5 and 7 are reserved ... interested in a varsity sport, but I definitely didn't speak to the coach until CPW. Trust me, athletics won't make or break your acceptance to MIT

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Let There Be Prefrosh! And let them build ALL the things!

  

  Just one year ago, I had arrived at MIT as a prefrosh, ready to start my new life in Massachusetts.  I came here early to do a pre-orientation program (FPOP) known as FUP, where I got to do all sorts of cool community

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 22, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Angular Velocity Saved My Life bikes and bullet time

  

  the way where I have to cross a side street, or switch sides of the road ... 're trying to hit is only a foot in front of you. So as the car kept driving ... of trauma will talk about everything slowing down and going in to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  friendful life recently

  

  in kendall square or come to the whitehead institute (where i work) and ... more things in my emotional toolbox to pull from when i'm faced with ... people being willing to help me do timed transfers in my experiments so

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

  Siblings, Scrabble, and Boredom we're bored in the house, and we're in the house bored

  

  where it would be kept and for how long) or a storage facility in Boston ... everything in a box. No need to partition items into "do I need this at home ... Cambridge, on foot or on bike, go to class and cafés, talk to friends and

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mikey’s Meta TV Post ...In which you find out about the good, bad, and really bad shows I love…

  

  lot of TV. So, in the spirit of Advent calendars*, I'm going to ... .) Now, in all honesty, I don't have enough time to keep up with every ... mine: Shows I Used to Watch, but Am No Longer Watching (in no particular

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: It’s Coming Home (by it, I mean me) guest post by Rukia. H '21

  

  knows that if you sit me in front of a TV and give me a game to watch, I ... in my seat as I urge players to run faster, jump higher, and save the ... unconvincing win in the group stage and how disappointing it was to see that, but

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 18, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Brass Rat The Brass Rat is not a subtle thing.

  

  " in the river. He represents the idea that no one at MIT succeeds due to ... Brief note: I am currently in Ohio, shopping for wedding dresses. And yet I bring you this bonus blog entry. Do I love you, or do I love you

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving season blue blue blue

  

  into the homeliness that seems impossible to find in ten days. a few ... the same. and the yearning to be in-place will forever stay. i will ... watching it because in addition to the plot, the writing was really good, but

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 21, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Fall Sports at MIT Roll Tech!

  

  comes to mind might be math competitions, chess matches, or some form of ... though we lost 0-8 (cry), it was so fun to go on a road trip and stay in a ... regulation time, the first team to score in the next 30 minutes of extra time

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 15, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Spirited Away Guest Post By Freshly Alum'ed Wasay A. '19

  

  one day - maybe out in the street, at a conference, or perhaps on campus ... *to set the mood* [playlist ids="44803"] The floor of my room is a ... hell if I know what’s actually in any of them. While I finish packing the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Delayed Reaction A day in the life.

  

  ’d be the person who answers your frantic phone call and then tells you to check if your computer is plugged in. It turned out that I wasn’t able to ... have some block on an inclined plane or something, and you’ve got to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Pictures of what Could Have Been drawings i made for blog posts that i didn't end up posting

  

  ) on the cover. In my dismay, I decided to make a sequel to my ... thought it would be fun to draw moments that I thought were funny or ... I've been cleaning up my collection of drawings in Procreate, and I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 8, 2024
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What MIT Is Like for Non-Technology Majors a quirk of the institvte

  

  Since its founding in 1861, MIT has been a special place for [annotation note="In fact, MIT in the early twentieth century was often referred to as simply 'Technology.' "]Technology[/annotation] to flourish

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 1, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Snot, Livers, and Fractals What a world.

  

  essentially figuring out ways to coat drugs to sneak past the mucus in your body ... , essentially, that you could use in place of antiseptics/antibiotics to prevent ... -generational bloggerfest. If you come back to this post in a week, you'll get to learn why

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 25, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Blogger Pets some serotonin for your noggin

  

  . She also really likes to lie in the sun, which I do as well, so when I ... boy because swims in his own poop water and then likes to get too ... dramatically if you a) talk while he's trying to sleep or b) are ignoring him and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 13, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  4 Jack Bauer, eat your heart out.

  

  three-day weekend. In the meantime, I'm going to be your very own Kiefer ... fellow, I decided to open it up and look in side as per deskworker rules ... ANTS. What is even edible in a DVD box? Do I even want to know? Mike just

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT: Progressions what the students thought of the place in 1969

  

  , professors describing the goal of the MIT education as to "combine, in perhaps ... reel across the country to help prospectives understand the place. But what's amazing to me is the salience and relevance of this film. The

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 18, 2017