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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a penny for your thoughts? and what it is, and could be, worth

  

  sodainly say to them ‘a penny for your thought.’" Sir More was an English lawyer, judge, social philosopher, and author as well as Lord Chancellor to King Henry VIII. After refusing to recognize Henry as the Supreme Head of

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • February 20, 2026
• Blog / Classes

  The Classes I’m Taking This Semester [in order from least-to-most edible] 🪀🚑🔥📚♟️

  

  using the most dangerous writing app, where you are forced to write in ... when I don't post. Whoops. [I'm also too tired to do all of the footnotes. If I get one [1] ONE comment asking me to, I will.] These are the

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 8, 2026
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in BRASIL! my summer in january

  

  cities and landscapes by learning to decode what lies beneath the ... and what my life looked like here :). Prior to arriving in Brazil, we were asked to read 2.5 books, several essays and poems, and watched a few

  • by Victor D. '27
  • February 5, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Joint Post] DesignPlus A super cool and awesome first-year learning community ft. Gloria and Teresa (we're not biased)

  

  , Concourse, Experimental Study Group, and DesignPlus. We’re here today to talk ... time to rank my choices for first-year advising, I kept hesitating. What ... knowledge to fit in, I was completely thrilled to join the community. In the

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 26, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  I asked people at MIT what they were doing for Pi Day 2025 something is rising... 3/14/25 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  the "nerd culture" that MIT is known for, but it’s also tradition to ... 't know about. So, I went around campus to get the scoop on how students and ... admissions decisions to applicants, but I was wondering if students on campus

  • by Jebby B. '25
  • March 7, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  the world is blooming! and so am i?

  

  with the colors of a tree: from green, to orange, to white, to pink, and back to green. Even past elementary school, in fact--my high school ... -bordered (cut) and taped together–definitely a lesson in patience and attention to

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 17, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  classes i’m taking this spring study abroad edition

  

  choice to take one class outside my major but decided to stick to math ... look like problem sets, but we do not have to turn them in every week. instead, there are only one or two courseworks you actually have to submit

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 22, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  existential cubes a daily encounter with Ernő Rubik

  

  scootered over to Walmart with one goal in mind: acquire a Rubik’s cube. We had nothing else planned for the day, and decided to try something new ... hard as we made it out to be in our heads—we just patiently followed the

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 14, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  difficult difficult lemon difficult the end of senior fall

  

  more typical 5.5 to the exceptional 7.5 of sophomore fall. So, once again ... of my life—the SuperUROP corresponding to 6.UAR, a year-long class ... different folks to help make residential life at MIT better; my ongoing and

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Caring for the body health, am i right?

  

  Content warning: overt sexual content, reference to suicide. Last ... much I related to many of the topics discussed, like exploring sexuality ... ? But also, I'm not sure how much I actually want to change this. Back

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  people keep leaving their things in my room and other stories from sophomore fall

  

  back home to New York. I took my last final exam, for [annotation note ... details as to why or how and what lessons I'm taking away from that, but I don't want to write yet another blog about [annotation note="though I

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  eternal dissatisfaction wish i could write more, care less

  

  , of course, one thing to know and another to believe. it is the ... programs with esp again, i'm on the gph writing team, i'm trying to keep a regular schedule blogging, i'm working on personal projects, i'm trying to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 12, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Celeste the best video game i've played in months

  

  I have run out of things to write about because nothing is happening ... convinced me to play it. I've had a copy for a while now from one of those ... game, and I'm glad that I played it, and now I'm going to shower praise

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 13, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  the classes among us reflections and too many flashbacks on classes ft. ESG

  

  , taking a class surrounded by countless other students. Similar to the ... need some time to get accustomed to a new atmosphere, but over time, I ... , I start the year planning to participate, but those plans go haywire

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a ranking of building 68 thesis defense posters graphic design is our passion

  

  that are going to happen, see below. Those posters are eye ... upcoming thesis defenses. Those posters have a kind of soul to them ... a computer moving text boxes around and sending things to front

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It Ends My last last day of school

  

  moment I finally decide to roll out of bed? As a college student with a ... regimented to be useful when attempting to frame my life in increments of “days ... middle of May. As an aside, it may or may not be of interest to note that

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skipping Class and Failing Bio A practical guide to poor life choices

  

  to become the model student I felt pressure to be, but my plans never ... bottom of my locker. But this year was going to be different. This was MIT ... enjoyed. I would have to be rigorous, I told myself, and I would be forced

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 29, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Events, Food, and Awesomeness: CPW A story about how CPW is more awesome than lobsters

  

  parents try to feed me coconuts, but this is of questionable veracity. My family then relocated to Carmel, Indiana, a city just north of Indianapolis ... house. Is it important to this story that I tell you my neighbor Ed used

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  24 Hours From sleeping in a homeless shelter to waltzing in La Sala

  

  10:25pm, Friday. I was sprinting down dorm row from French House to ... ) and together we ran across the street, to pick up another junior named ... Harvard, we scurried out the sliding doors in a frenzy. We made it to the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re stressed. So are we; here's how we deal with it.

  

  decision applications to college, and, for many of my senior friends, applications to graduate schools and fellowships. My stress falls mainly under ... . I wasn't going to blog tonight, actually; earlier this week, I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2011