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• Blog / MIT Life

  being bad at ice skating and learning to try anyway

  

  those few days when I’d wake up to frosty dewdrops on the grass at home ... and beanies to protect your extremities, watch your step, and MAKE SNOW ... 'famline' structures. hackmit, the club i used to run, had our own set of

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 15, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  passionless had a crisis, got a tattoo

  

  treating New Year's Eve as a reason to make a charcuterie board and talk to ... believe in what Lorde has said about how people don't change day-to-day or even year-to-year, but instead every four years. That a year ago will

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 7, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  HAPPY THANKSGIVING!! 🦃 Yara has a peath sign on her head!

  

  , and she wanted a cute video to send to the family group chat. So, I put ... brace myself for the number of times I plan to hear it on Thanksgiving day - my family’s unofficial holiday greeting. So, to officially kick off

  • by Hala K. '29
  • November 27, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  shifting seasons something reflective

  

  memories have been left to gather dust over the years. after i burned through my high-speed data for canada, there wasn't much to do on my phone so i ... eaten or lost to the tides of time. one item in particular stuck with me

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  can’t stop smiling a time capsule for freshman fall

  

  now it’s February... But this one is pretty close to my heart, and I ... ate a breakfast of cheese & crackers. I walked to my first class of ... to my second class. I grabbed lunch with some friends, and then trekked

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  in this coming year we run and rest and make and keep up the relentless pace

  

  parts. I loved the camaraderie of people all grinding to finish their part ... deeply. I’ve been wanting to have this group project experience at MIT for ... least two hours."]preparation.[/annotation] I used to have a fair bit of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s getting colder and i’m getting older on fall, friendship, and growing up

  

  has abruptly given way to winter. It’s the cold air stinging my airway ... ="course 6 (EECS) has a nice program that allows you to work towards your ... want to do. In a way, things do feel a bit lighter though. I’m only

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Attack of the Acronyms and the space between the letters

  

  websites and documentation are more likely to use “MIT”—so much so that the ... Chance"]CXC[/annotation]… the list goes on. Trying to decipher these ... won’t have to search my email inbox every time I need to translate

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10,000 Ways That Won’t Work

  

  . Was your research output impactful enough to lead to a start-up?” I ... – I would’ve loved to have either of those things, but my semester just ... conference or to the EECS department at large.” What would I have told them

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 27, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 1 MITWE (+ FJE and VJE) go to Brazil

  

  rehearsal, “We’re going to Brazil!” Suddenly, samba music began blasting from ... works for several years. In fact, the trip to Brazil would likely have happened in 2020 if COVID hadn’t appeared and disrupted everything. Thanks to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Growing Pains And Every Other Type of Ache

  

  arrived at the level of hunger where your sides begin to tingle as if they ... entirely sure how to go about tackling the last one. The motivation to write, though, is a precious commodity, and I’d like not to squander it, now that

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • December 6, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Pigeonholing boxes = semesters, pigeons = classes

  

  class. This is due to a few reasons: Firstly, I have never had a semester at MIT where I didn’t want to be taking the classes I was taking. This is a somewhat privileged position to be in (and given some of those

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on the question “where are you from?” and the answer: neither here nor there. alternatively, about being a missourian.

  

  .) At CPW this April, every time I met someone new, I had to be prepared to answer and ask the same set of questions: what’s your name? where are you from? what are you thinking of majoring in? It got to the point

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  dancing at MIT (and beyond) continuity vs. fulfillment and the perils of stagnation

  

  have to bike to Northeastern three times a week. so far, it's been a pretty doable bike ride, but it's about to get brutally cold... I still dance on Mocha Moves, but come to at most one practice a week. I spend

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i learned from classes spoiler: not what i expected

  

  much more than the material that is directly taught to you. If you’re a ... whole point of college to take classes and learn things? At MIT, I ... what the club actually does) UROPs (to try different areas of research

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 27, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  Exploring Classes a guide

  

  factors to consider: staying on track with HASS classes, completing major requirements, finishing up the GIRs, avoiding schedule conflicts, and trying to ... a number of different course planning websites (and apps!) to choose

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 29, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  many thoughts head full

  

  I've been hesitant to write things since my mind has been a bit of a ... have things to do, I feel happy and fulfilled. IAP is truly what I make ... breakfast, mess around for a bit, and embark on my journey to 6-120, my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  [Guest Post] One Year Later Some things changed, some things didn’t

  

  out to his family. Here's his story.   A little over one year ago, I came out to my mom and my dad. Since then, things have settled into a new ... takes a long time for sediment to collect at the bottom of a liquid

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  the summer before senior year you've changed...

  

  up, so I amplified the sadness by listening to more Bowling for Soup ... wanted to be a [annotation note="At this point, I was pretty sure I was going to go to school for chemical engineering, since I was ~good at

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 9, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  e3 2k19 at long last, i got to go to gamer christmas

  

  immediately rushed to the website to buy a pass. i then realized that the ... closed, and i would have to purchase a gamer pass, which is a whopping $350 a day. i was too broke at the time to even think of purchasing that

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 14, 2019