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• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Smile Worth 1,550 Words guest post by Mariam D. '20

  

  instinctively stop you in your tracks because it doesn’t make sense for that ... thought it would be only reasonable for them to lose their hope too ... recited a part of it to us with a voice uniquely both delicate and strong

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  i was sick when i wrote this :( a largely unedited post where i ramble about getting covid

  

  It finally happened. I got Covid. Right at the last week of ... on the spot and then schedule it to get published right after. I ... roommate Fatima that it felt sus and that we should probably put on masks. I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  living the sloth life regressing to my feral weeb childhood self

  

  juniors experienced less than a year of it. that's why being on campus this ... it didn't interfere with my academics too much. i spent very little time alone, which is why when all my friends left for the holidays, it

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  A Recycled-Material Selfie Stick Engineering and problem solving in developing nations (the most important problems only, of course....)

  

  free time (and maybe that’s why you clicked on this article)~ And it is ... Addis Ababa, where Gedion lives. It is also where my grandmother (who is ... managed to make his own! Everyone was pretty excited about it.  

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2016
• Blog / Hacks

  The Stars Look Very Different Today Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing we can do

  

  entire song as loudly as they could – except me, having never heard it before because... eh, who cares why? It's not central to this story. I listened and watched as this happened, amazed at how well a single song had

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Finding Balance May I have this dance?

  

  . Your enthusiasm comes from outside, so it is only momentary. Internal ... is, right? Mine is now on top of my roommate's whiteboard, where it ... you. That's how you have real fun. You. Must. Find. Balance." Balance

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  World Suicide Prevention Day Write love on your arms to show support

  

  .  Still, I love it here.  This weekend, I played with cats, took a trip to ... work gets to be overwhelming at times, and it's important to know that we ... to help students in need of support, but I think it's important to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  End-of-Summer Camping Temporary escape from my “cruel, insufficiently damp world"

  

  first time. Its electric motor lasted exactly the entire hour we rented it ... tell me what the bug in the upper right corner is (and how much of a bad idea it was to get that close).   The world often gives us a gentle

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time Because that really is what we are here for

  

  are others. It is basically an introduction to programming in Java. I’m enjoying it so far, and I have to admit that it is a good feeling when your ... quite right. I’m not sure I will use Java in my future, but I suppose it

  • by Becca H. '12
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  This Entry is About (A) Lady Gaga (B) my MIT ID card (C) all of the above

  

  Polaroid artifacts, of Polaroid's future plans to publicize its digital images and digitize its public image. (Grapevines for the curious: Polaroid ... someone had stolen my pillow and replaced it with a laptop. Except the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  If strangers meet life begins you shall above all things be glad and young

  

  River and the bay glittered like uncut gems in the light. It took me but a ... . It was so beautiful I didn't want the plane to land. II. Almost ... -blowingly beautiful. But it's not the same. Is everything just a matter of perspective

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: Baker House A tour of Baker House.

  

  : do you know anything about that? Diana: definitely...it was a smash ... every year Diana: they'd throw it onto amhearst alley Diana: then they ... good friends of mine got it all started again and threw one off the

  • by Bryan
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dancing Days Nerd love, as the summer evening grows.

  

  how to dance. You know what that means? When you go to a party and there's dancing, you can shake it, much like one might shake a Polaroid picture, however you want to shake it, and nobody's going to care or judge you or

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  This was meant to be written a week and a half ago

  

  ring around the barrel. Of course, it was not going to stay forever, and I'd heard rumors of Caltech coming to claim it. The Monday after CPW ... . Because it was 6:45 in the morning. And I'd gone to bed sort of later than I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A lot about course 9

  

  space in the gorgeous new building, but it's taking longer to get the lab up and running than everyone thought it would, so I decided to come ... -D humanities class, so lots of people take it, course 9 or not. In the student

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s "Do we start and end at the same place on the river?"

  

  ! Mitra was all, "oh, let's run 8 miles, Spammy" and I haven't learned how ... , and then I came home and passed out on my floor for two hours. Ah, it ... to Harvard, which of course takes its name from the fantastic Harvard

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining Hall Alchemy The art of turning cereal and chicken tenders into slightly tastier cereal and chicken tenders

  

  a rush, I find it helpful to do a quick scan of the entire dining hall ... . In doing so, I'm often surprised by how much the salad bar has to offer ... 've fixed it now, but I still sometimes manually make pink water out of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MEng (Masters of Engineering) Learn about the masters plans of Phil '05 and Laura '06.

  

  really apply for it (you automatically get in if you have above a certain ... .), which is why it's called a Master of Engineering degree and not a Master ... about repetitive stress injuries (RSI), so you know TAing it has to be a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 13, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Middle School To those who are having or have had a bad experience

  

  it. We think it would have helped middle school Allan and Danny to read ... want to write today.  It started when we moved from Brooklyn, New York ... public elementary school, lets call it school A. In school A, we made

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Scholarship Opportunity: Davidson Fellows A look at a scholarship worth up to $50,000, and some past MIT winners.

  

  Having read MIT applications for a long time now, I know that MIT ... wanted to share it with you ... it must have the potential to make a positive contribution to society

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2008