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• Blog / MIT Life

  frosh thingies i couldn’t decide what to write so i’m writing about everything

  

  demeanor, to how I dress and how I talk to others. It’s a bit of a vague ... that I graduated from grade school. Ironically, it’s really starting to ... clubs and classes to do, I also have to figure out how to balance that

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Events

  A not-so-typical day in the post-FYRE life Reporting live from ESP's Firestorm

  

  train of thought. Finishing it now. Pretend you are reading this on ... seating and projectors) with ~40 freshmen and ~10 ESP admins. It's Firestorm: ESP admins teach 5-minute-long classes on ANYTHING THEY WANT! Categories

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Karma What goes around comes around.

  

  accepting it. Here's how things played out: I woke up on Sunday morning with ... assumed it was magic. I mean, how can you ground something and still ... , hoping that we had figured out how it worked. He repeated the procedure

  • by Snively '11
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  CMS.621: Fans & Fan Culture the class that changed my career trajectory?

  

  Nisha about it and she raved and raved about how great Professor Schiappa ... of hers. She described to me how it was the first band she remembered ... Direction because I thought it would be interesting to evaluate how being an

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 17, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  concord market is finally here!!!!! feasting at MIT's on-campus grocery store

  

  find was 1999, so who knows how long it had been around before it closed. Maybe it's existed since the beginning of time."][/annotation] Sadly, in ... expectations. While the wait was long, dare I say it was worth it? 8

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 21, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FWACC! and some small thoughts about kindness

  

  [/annotation] in the only way they know how: a group song. The last time FWACC ... [/annotation] and didn't get it. I auditioned for a solo in one of the Asymptones ... took it as a small victory—I would have a solo at my first concert!—but a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Average The benefits of challenging yourself in high school

  

  does it keep your mind sharp, but it actually does prepare you for what ... reflect on my experiences here at MIT. How am I doing in my classes here ... that it's okay to be average (academically) is something that's hard to

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Some Saturday Thoughts a meandering, journal-type blag post

  

  Miller. It's one of The Cut's most read articles, and describes how a ... harder. I think what I hadn’t prepared for was just how dissatisfying it ... potent and more complicated as I’ve grown up. I’m not sure how to solve it

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  packing for the road looking back on nights that last forever

  

  've been thinking about how it's okay to be in different spaces, especially ... you get to MIT. I've seen how this is true for some. But for me, the ... if renovations didn't force it on me? In the end I'll never know. I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Born Under Punches The heat goes on, which is nice, but so does classwork.

  

  WORK SAM HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN WRITING THIS STUPID BLOG ENTRY?! If I ... ." Look out, world. It was a really, oustandingly lovely day today. Just so you know. But it's a busy week in my life, between classes, choir

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 19, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  How to Make a Flashlight MIT-style that is.

  

  ? Well, it's this wonderful machine shop that MIT students can use to make virtually anything their heart desires. It's amazing. In case you're wondering ... presses, and even a 3-D printer! Now that I think about it, I wish I had

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • August 2, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  train of thought on feeling deeply

  

  hurt so bad and I realized how long it’s been since my heart felt ... was told that’s how you know it's working. Why must hurting be the ... Amtrak. One day, it suddenly occurred to me that when I'm on a train, I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 26, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  a week of summer ft. cafes, lab, and assorted thoughts

  

  research, how she structured edits, how she searched for agents. It doesn ... proves that it is possible. And she does have time to go out for ice cream ... writing, and working, and meeting many people. I want to preserve it, like a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 8, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day at the Forge blacksmithing!

  

  helped me understand how the puzzle worked. I took it back and fiddled some ... out, thoroughly impressed.  Here's how it works — if you want to solve ... without knowing it since my first tour of MIT. There are displays of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of My Junior Fall stream of consciousness

  

  the house and outside of it. While I know that sororities do have long ... downs this semester, but I think it's been overall a net positive and I ... , but as greater sociotechnical works and pieces and better understood how

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 31, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  the perfect choice doesn’t exist not the same river, not the same you

  

  same kind of made-up reasons about it being better for me, about how it ... 't know why it feels right. but it does. and sometimes you just gotta trust ... zero. once again you can determine how busy i am by the rate of my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things A collective end-of-the-semester brain dump

  

  thoughts and feelings that exist in the MIT bubble. It's a little long but I wanted to show you it all: the silly, the poignant, the ones that I really ... alone blog. I wanted to do an end-of-the-year reflection but thought it

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • May 20, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Being Sick at the Institute the firth law of therbodydabics *sniff*

  

  started class???? Like what??) (It’s apparent that disease does not know the registrar’s academic calendar) (life has its own messy timeline, which is ... sick. What a joy it has been to experience illness during the first two

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Beaver Nation An intro to athletics at MIT

  

  DIII, so it’s rare that we directly compete with them. As a result, it’s ... comes to mind when think of MIT... I don’t blame you. In some ways, it’s ... be honest, from the outside looking in, it may appear strange that MIT

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • November 12, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Thoughts On The MIT Interview ...from the perspective of an MIT interviewer.

  

  decisions. We are just people who once went to MIT (maybe in a time when it was easier to get into MIT than it is now) and have insights into the Institute (or how it was thirty years ago; in our internet age you might know

  • by John DeTore '80
  • October 19, 2006