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• Blog / MIT Life

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 1 Zumba and putting pants on in lecture

  

  continuing to move her hips, began tapping her feet in a rhythm that magically ... original story, so I decided to write a post with both stories and hold off ... pulled on a pair of sweatpants (to protect my legs against the sub

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Eating Disorder Awareness Week – The Secret I Kept by julia p. '24

  

  welcomed in robotics. 10th grade on the other hand led me to a particularly ... . It took me a while to realize, but I am not the only one in my family ... it took me a long time to realize that a lot of these problems run in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  EAPS Field Trip In which I pretend to be Course 12 for a weekend

  

  involve a brief introduction to the geology of Massachusetts and visits to ... want to camp Saturday night, a van may be able to return to MIT by 7 PM ... that they are welcome. It is a great opportunity to meet new people and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Jonte ‘13 The fourth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  ) was able to immerse himself wholeheartedly in a research curriculum; early on, the perspectives he gained convinced him to consider a career in ... university located in Cambridge, Mass. Craighead said he is looking forward to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why Apply? Putting your hat in the ring if you're not so sure

  

  bio as well. I used to think that if you wanted to have a variety of ... their ideas well to people outside of their fields and instituted a ... are over 450 clubs to join that are sure to make MIT a little more like

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 9, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Designing dead ends A look into the "misc." folder on my desktop

  

  place. With the move from in-person to online, I introduced a Limited ... applications, sitting on the admissions committee, or [annotation note="In a ... you think about it, this blog is a way to reincarnate them. Perhaps this

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language What Learning Chinese at MIT has meant to me

  

  language, and to a larger extent culture. For many of my friends, language is the key to their culture; there was a big difference between my General ... country in Africa they are actually from. None of us knew what it means to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 26, 2017
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  waterproof seal) in the event we need to replace one. And a few more details I ... Marathon, Earth Day, and Officer Sean Collier’s ribbon, in a callback to a ... ="Campus Preview Weekend"]CPW,[/annotation] and a crowd is gathering in front of the

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 3, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  And so it is… Just like the blogosphere said it would be.

  

  . The next day, we slept in, and went to a late brunch at one of my ... , with some "day in the life"s, similar to others that have been done in ... part of the lower peninsula, going "up north" usually refers to either a

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 14, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Hydranting My Spring Semester 5 stages of courseroad grief

  

  essentially went in a giant loop back to Course 20 :^) If you know me ... myself to do a coding class in high school. Somewhere along the lines ... did in a desperate attempt to solve my STS.034/6.100B conflict (in

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 5, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  elephants what I've been up to

  

  : elephants outside my room). In an effort to not get so over-burdened with ... 've taken to working on a little mural on my door whenever a pset makes my ... to dumb it down make it my own. Here's the week-long process, in photos

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 27, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Presenting…My Prefrosh! ‚ô•

  

  'm Abir, a prefrosh, and I was fortunate enough to have the BEST host ever ... asked me to guest blog about CPW and I am going to try to give a glimpse ... beaver I am, I decided to book my flight to CPW EARLY in the morning; 6

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for the Applicants I was in those stressed and anxious shoes last year.

  

  love like reading and playing piano. As a message to the people in the ... incomplete, so that decision turned out to be a blessing in disguise for me. In ... ), and I started my day. After school, I would normally go to a club or

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 24, 2017
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  On election day Practicing an applied civic education

  

  live and vote in Cambridge, there is a [annotation note="MIT is, to my knowledge, the only college in Cambridge with a polling location on its campus, the result of student activism in the 1990s to demand better access to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s like I go to class or something. Or whatever.

  

  important stuff. Filing that one away in my list of Things To Refer To When ... 'm actually learning a lot of things in this class called 20.330 Forces, Fields ... -flow-transport-electrokinetics-booty-kicker. I'm looking forward to it! See? I'm a quarter of the way there

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 2, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Get Home from the Airport for Free For prefrosh who are like me and terrified of entering dank underground tunnels they haven’t…

  

  to Boston from a family vacation in Toronto, I took the T back to MIT ... .)   Wait under the big cement Silver Line T posts. Bring a book.   To your ... to read anything in the picture above. You can see the map online here

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 18, 2014
• Blog / People & Identities

  the pieces scattered behind you

  

  pliers to Boston. In my room, there’s a shelf of books taller than a man ... ones I once aspired to read. Not far away, there’s a path by the river ... five-something am to squeeze an hour of writing in before school. I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 28, 2023
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  ¡Es-pa-ña! ¡Campeones!

  

  . =) Keep in mind this is all after 11 PM on a Sunday! I got back to my ... real reason, despite their hangovers. I picked a good summer to live in ... resembling a normally shaped ball. But, to the rest of the world, football is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  fake it ’til you make it what is a healthy way to be happy?

  

  ’s wrong?” “I’m not in a good mood,” she said. She didn’t need to say why ... I’ve been hesitant to write a blog -- especially one that pertains to ... that would decrease one’s happiness (think living in a pandemic, taking

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 7, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  10:31 I wrote this entry on my iPhone about two minutes after boarding the 11:10 train…

  

  leg room; plus, I'll get to sleep in a little later than people on the ... The guy in the row next to mine just asked the lady behind him if he wouldn't mind if maybe he reclined his chair in her space just a little bit

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 29, 2009