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• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  to a need with which many other bloggers past and present concurred ... way to blog? Maybe like creating a profile that any blogger can use when they want to write but can’t have the blog be associated with them. I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Books I did read this semester I am literate if not literary

  

  Previous me wrote in a blogpost that I "did not want to write about ... but even more so now. Sometimes we have to dip into other worlds to make our way through this one. I used to be that kid who read during lunch

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 21, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  After Graduation, I now have a lot of time to "reflect upon my MIT ... of the summer, so I hope to continue writing a few blogs discussing various aspects that I've come to gain a better understanding of after my

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 3

  

  action would be if you don't meet the criteria to apply as a freshman -- e ... making a decision. random person, "Hrm, not sure if this is the place to ... . AES wrote, "At my school, around 12 females were admitted to MIT and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  [LIVEBLOG 🔴] Making My ENTIRE Comic Portfolio BEFORE THURSDAY AND ALSO EVERY OTHER PROJECT IS ALSO DUE THIS WEEK AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH...

  

  comics. I wanted to make a blog where I talked about the class and the ... doing Thermodynamics homework that I have to do for my major, or drawing ... choosing thermo on most days. So to no one's surprise, I find myself with a

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • May 4, 2026
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Boston, through the lens of my children Visiting Boston at 37 years of age was ...

  

  . For those counting at home, that means I was admitted to MIT nearly 20 ... I was when I was admitted to MIT. Ok, we're going to stop this now ... , I cannot believe I chose to backstitch numbers that are only 1 stitch

  • by Snively '11
  • October 19, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  my MIT admissions essays a retrospective

  

  I applied to MIT three years ago (shudders). I was originally ... find it difficult to put myself in that person's shoes, especially since ... . (We'll circle back to this thread eventually...) Anyhow, here are (most

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 14, 2025
• Blog / Travel

  [liveblog] morbing at the airport the flight is delayed for several hours because of toilet issues

  

  airport to fly out. I have been stuck in purgatory (aka. boston logan ... :35pm) i get to the airport with jebby. we're planning on rooming ... ) the flight was supposed to takeoff. we get an announcement from the

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • June 1, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  CPW: ASA Midway, B1 B1athalon, and Cutting Crafts with Contour not to mention meet the bloggers

  

  CPW was so much fun! I meant to get this blog up and running ... with! Here's how they went. Contour My team and I held several events to ... out how much of our name to capitalize. We’re digging into market

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 25, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology a non-comprehensive analysis of the 95 tabs I have open on my phone

  

  a few tabs I keep around permanently because I am likely to refer back to them often. Most things, however, are ephemeral, because I can ... hours of inactivity,[/annotation]which tends to keep things pretty clean

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 27, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  me, existing one day at a time

  

  , because to be honest, I’d been feeling weird about UROPing at all. I didn ... -seated anxiety and a general feeling of not knowing what to do. All the buzzwords ... overcame some of my fears. I'd been meaning to start the UROP search earlier

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 2, 2021
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Choosing a Major there are so many

  

  , some have less, but you do kinda have to map out a courseroad if you ... majors here, and it’s hard to choose. # “What course are you?” a tour guide ... anyone who goes to MIT,” a bearded farmer told me when I worked on a farm

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 20, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  four weeks in the life a google calendar time capsule

  

  something fun to do — go through (approximately) the same week every year that ... commentary about the things that I am (or was) up to. Without further ado ... : we have a weekly meeting on Sundays to help plan our competitions! With

  • by Phi A. '21
  • February 4, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  The Fringe that Stole Christmas hair @ MIT, and several hair-raising puns

  

  stories from anyone willing to share them. Cheers to everyone who collaborated to make this post a reality- hair’s to you! (ha, ha) [intro ... , often compared to a baby duck. Here I am on my first day of school some

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 25, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Unity

  

  simplicity of daily routine, implicit enough to be anything but noteworthy. Grades seven to twelve of my education in Nigeria were spent in a boarding ... . Early morning wakeups led to grumbling sounds and shuffling feet; a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 30, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some virtuosos play $4 million violins, and some Trojan heros wear brass rats $4 million violins, not 4 million violins. Joshua Bell isn't *that* intense.

  

  the great fortune to be an MIT Arts Scholar I attended four EXCELLENT ... I cry. When my kids perform in the 2030s/40s they're going to hear ... walked to Killian Hall and was totally astonished when the ticket collector

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Alpha Delta Phi To Be The Best of Men

  

  -lost enough to tread memory lane, at least two events stand out in my mind ... -generation... If both your parents went to MIT... If you intend to major in the ... to political identities, from cultural backgrounds to academic

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo and physics and math, oh my 57 units of academic fun fun fun. Now with humanities!

  

  general excitement to begin my second semester at MIT (keep in mind this was back during IAP, before I'd started having to actually do any work for these classes), and you can hopefully understand why I was so excited to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  Welcome to the scary world of College Shopping. Who knows what you ... what you should wait to buy in Cambridge? Who comes from far away and knows what's absolutely necessary to be brought from home and what can be

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Collective Apprehension Seems like my last entry freaked everyone out. No worries guys! You can do it!…

  

  So, a quick recap of my week before I launch into repsonses to the ... , people kind of freak out. So they want us EMTs to be familiar with the facility and to be able to properly deal with radioactive contamination

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 23, 2006