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• Blog / MIT Life

  preserving student community what does it take?

  

  Conner is seeing a few changes that have implications for its ability to ... to a global pandemic, our dorm is being renovated for two years, and we ... discussed quite a bit. It was first posed to me on a call with someone on

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 20, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  There is no solving for x thoughts on moving to and away from Maine

  

  Context: I wrote a post in March called "I Moved to Maine" . You can ... in with my parents. About a month ago I decided to go back home for the ... a female friend, which forced me to come out to myself. It ate me

  • by Powers '23
  • June 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What’s happening with Senior House The thing that happened, why the thing is upsetting, and what can hopefully be done

  

  e-mailed her too, as they did to every parent of a Senior House ... statistical methods to diagnose a problem, we will first want to control for ... , Senior House is one of the most inexpensive dorms to live in and has a

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • June 13, 2016
• Blog / Summer

  SSP aka summer science program aka summer sleep program aka silly science people aka summer solstice…

  

  collaborate to complete a meaningful scientific research project, learning the ... challenges. My SSP application, then, was a plea for connection, a desire to ... . I went downstairs to find one, and instead found myself chatting with

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Integration no, not the math one

  

  weeks, the fact that such a renowned place as MIT decided to fling open ... them to receive an amazing education in such a conducive environment has ... world-view shifted, to force me to see things from a different perspective

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • November 8, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House Showers Bring No Flowers They're just really, REALLY bad showers. Like really, REALLY bad.

  

  It's hard to remember a time during my senior year of high school ... . This is a bad attitude to have in all regards, because while it's great ... 's likeness to recycled cardboard; a girl I know at Berkeley calls me to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 3, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  It’s been a long road… ...gettin from there to here

  

  Linktree has a few links to my different donation incentives. It’s the first ... a famous photo of me in the news. I don’t want to post it directly ... /injury, but you can find it at the top of a WDTV (CONTENT NOTE) article from

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Cacophony of Coats Also, my courseload for this term!

  

  most awkward conversations I'd ever been...well, witness to. There's a ... ; Computational Photography a.k.a. How To Make Photoshop) - The second lecture ... 'S STARTING TO LOOK LIKE A TRIPLE RAINBOW Prof. Durand: By the way, human color

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW is for Parents Too… ...enjoy your visit!

  

  more. I was fortunate that my family decided to take a vacation in New ... Counselor on-hand or schedule a 20-minute appointment to speak one-on-one with ... :30 am A panel of current MIT parents will be on hand to share their

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Mikey Yang ‘05 Name: Mikey Yang; Job title: Admissions Counselor; Hometown: Troy, MI

  

  to be at all! Everyone works hard and studies, but they hang out, party, have fun...the people here are so down to earth. Everyone's got a nerdy side, and we embrace and accept that. Someone can tell a nerdy joke and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things That Happened! Since I've been gone~

  

  , I’m being given a lot more path-critical items to do, and as I ... -Eritrean Students’ Association, and we had our first transition of power to a new ... important to the health of the club that we had a change in leadership. The

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Blog Projects

  MIT for Book Lovers Yultide Day 4

  

  Engineering professor. I can’t express how grateful I was to be a student at the ... . I even had a conversation with Marc Abrahams. He told me to look out ... -researched but also ridiculous (e.g. a paper on the best way to slice a ham

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 29, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  head down, marching on highlights of spring semester

  

  ."]dreams.[/annotation] # For about a month I managed to write on the weekends, but classes expand ... trying to run after spending three and a half months in one room. Then ... choose to find the time, even if it’s at midnight. Some of them are long

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 21, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  hold me (but not too close) on writing the full-length play

  

  act I: prologue When I was a kid, I used to dread going to sleep. I ... , where I suddenly had an infinite amount of time to respond in a way that ... in a while, I’d open my eyes and check the clock, just to see that only

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  some point, I felt a presence, and looked up to find Frank Wilczek ... A niche on the third floor of MIT’s Building 8 leads to two glass ... between their heads: a ~ sign, which means “is approximately equal to." The

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What did YOU do this weekend? Laura's jam-packed-action-filled adventurous fin de semana.

  

  out... Friday night Sam and Becky and I walked into Boston to have a ... , Becky did find a random piece of metal in her food...yikes. But Becky ... 're really concerned about your scores, you may want to address a more specific

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  After the Storm Thoughts about decisions from someone who's been there.

  

  able to help you get to know MIT a little better than you may have ... sure there is a single "right" answer to that question. I wish I could ... For the past six months, I have been truly privileged to share my MIT

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  liquid nitrogen and everything else 🐸

  

  many calls that I ended up making a spreadsheet to rank all the hold ... speak to a human.  [caption id="attachment_118904" align ... offer a view of Mt. Hood. I was excited to go to Portland for a totally

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 9, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  .  also, you tend to find people at Harvard who have chosen to dedicate a ... Latinx studies, to a literature class on dystopian novels. However, looking ... writing seminar with a focus on re-telling fairy tales. Want to cross

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  OUTRAGED. #ican'tbreathe

  

  wake up every morning to reminders that you once had less rights than a ... , in broad daylight, when a policeman chokes an unarmed black man to ... country as racially traumatized as this to heal with a president who is only

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 31, 2020