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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Guest Post] A Day in the Life of a Clown College Student by Joy X. Clown College ‘29

  

  I wake up at 6:07am to my alarm clock, which squirts water at me ... .  I initially was skeptical—after all, I didn’t recall submitting any application to a “Clown College” on CommonApp. Perhaps those car insurance

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 1, 2026
• Blog / Personal Travel

  New York A break from Cambridge.

  

  in Internet Explorer. I'll try to fix this soon, but in the meantime, I suggest converting to Firefox.] [EDIT RELOADED: Manually fixed. My ... *, I suggest hauling your personal belongings over to the South Station

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Prefrosh: My ‘Year On’ ...and why you should listen to Matt McGann. [by Vicky Thomas '12]

  initiative to foster invention and innovation in high school students. I was on ... "On taking a 'Gap Year'", I remembered that I've been meaning to write ... follow-up stalking (I like to think of this as "scanning for comments by my

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring in hindsight reviewing my journal

  

  experiences that stand out to me. I present to you a brief highlight of the ... ombre color that matched my winter jacket. It was also a relief to have my hair in a protective style for a few weeks and not have to think about it

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 28, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Interning Remotely my verdict is that it definitely could be worse

  

  study/work abroad programs are definitively cancelled. I want to preface this post by saying that I am extremely lucky to have an internship in ... months ago, when I was struggling to the end of the jobs season without an

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] Down the River Sharon L. '21 talks Harvard and life paths

  

  about the H-word, Harvard University. I’ve found myself going to Harvard ... -enrolling in a class, I did have the chance to take a class (D-Lab: Development ... initial reactions I had: Harvard academic interests are FAR more diverse

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 8, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  If you go to MIT, the odds are good that you'll get a B at some point ... . Let me be frank: If you were to look at my external transcript, you'd see a B next to 8.02 (Electricity and Magnetism), and a B next to 5

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Springtime I actually had no time to write this entry, which is why I cannot explain…

  

  Boston weather reminds me that springtime is about to melt over this ... renewal and other synonyms for “change” that I don't have time to look up in a thesaurus. Anyway, the same part of my brain happens to be writing

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Stomp the Yard, MIT style The Divine 9 and NALFO organizations on campus

  

  -Hellenic Council, Inc. ( NPHC also referred to as "The Divine 9") and the National ... research endeavoring to save lives. The AKAs & Deltas participate in Boston”s annual Walk for Hunger to combat the hunger pervasive in many of

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • January 26, 2009
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  initial concern about how much to get, but my advisor does his marvelous job ... coming if it thinks giving me four days off will be sufficient bribe to ... to rise and after mumbling a couple of sleepy words no doubt filled

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Pink Hair Problem What do you do for your college interview if you have dyed hair and a…

  

  ring and bright black and pink hair. i'm applying EA to MIT and i was ... ! Here are some of my thoughts. We want you to be yourself throughout this process, and want to learn about the important things that make you you. As

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  impossible to think, or to make any useful decisions at all. I wake up and feel ... activity I’ve done in the past day. This unshakable exhaustion is not new to ... I have observed, is to genuinely care for each other. — "IHTFParadise

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give MIT Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance Yultide Day 5

  

  Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day ... Economics, and #9 in Political Science—these are numbers you can show off to ... had to give up my interest in mathematics. I simply applied it to other

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  highlights: high points of a virtual fall Part 1 of a fall semester recap

  

  After about **checks watch** 47 days of not blogging, returning to ... head, so many things I want to blog about, but I have seemingly struggled to get them out in any tangible way. So I continually pushed blogs

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 2, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Life Changing Classes at MIT ft. ec-discuss

  

  over IAP and talking about what classes we're excited/not excited to take ... for being somewhat spammy and prone to flame wars) thread that got ... thought that you guys might like to see the responses and maybe think about

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 20, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  when the world gets too heavy put it on my back

  

  't going to feel the same, have the initial weight it did seven years ago ... this blogpost was meant to be something else since i've been frankly living in my thoughts a lot and i'm not sure how to write about it in a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  GELcamp project management… in the woods?

  

  coordinate the GEL1s. Check out their website to learn more! Our journey to GELcamp started with a two-hour bus-ride from campus to New Hampshire, where ... much, so I was surprised to be greeted by a cozy summer camp with dozens

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 6, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  last fall / last fall it's senior year and i still haven't learned anything

  

  to make the exact same set of mistakes as last year. I landed in Boston at 11:59 PM on Saturday, and I was up the next morning at 10:30 AM to ... .']their internal move,[/annotation]I immediately shifted over to audition planning

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics and Alumna-hood I miss my team.

  

  School. It was a huge part of my life. I initially joined FIRST because my ... now at MIT - encouraged me to. From what I remember, there were about ten students on the team that season; we traveled to New York for the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  clay crash course one month of wheelthrowing later…

  

  scarf wrapped tightly around my ears, listening to an audiobook or music ... , sat right next to St. Mary’s stop on the green line, across the street ... ; and pulling, with trembling fingers, timid, slippery walls up to the sky

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • February 10, 2025