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• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  Yesterday (October 14, 2025) I returned home from Boston after 28 hours of driving, four nights in hotels (the cost of hotels in Cambridge is outrageous and is borderline criminal),…

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

  my MIT admissions essays a retrospective

  

  themes appear in some way here. We know you lead a busy life, full of ... challenges" really scared me at first. I had not at that point in my life

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 14, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  liquid nitrogen and everything else 🐸

  

  see LEGO sculptures and give life to horrible creatures. [carousel

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 9, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  3 Simple Steps for Making New Friends Guide to Meeting People

  

  life experience impacts our perspective. Her walk with illustrator Maria

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  for change in (expected + unexpected): print(change.get_thoughts())

  

  ! There’s been a lot of the ways my life has changed, both expected and

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 19, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Hydranting My Spring Semester 5 stages of courseroad grief

  

  [annotation note="Engineering Life: Biotechnology and Society"]STS.011 ... cannot code for the life of me, BUT I'm going to listener one class 7

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 5, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what makes fear worth it musical theater and anxiety

  

  Despite being a brief and shallow fan of Hamilton in middle school, I didn’t fully grasp the concept of musical theater until college. Hamilton, to me, existed as a series…

  • by Kai V. '25
  • February 27, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prettylatebuthere’sanIAPpost on MIT's independent activities period (ft. friends!!)

  

  if you’ve hung around the blogs these past few weeks, chances are you’ve heard of IAP, or Independent Activities Period, MIT’s January term in which students can do, well, whatever…

  • by Angie F. '28
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  clay crash course one month of wheelthrowing later…

  

  This IAP, I took pottery classes! Between class time, open studio, and one-time workshops, I threw on the wheel for an average of eight hours a week. Every weekend, I…

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  chances the point is to let yourself be helped

  

  in my life that made me fall behind on the lab and I dropped the class

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 26, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mathisms and other linguistic quirks of the nerd incubator

  

  There exists a nontrivial subset of the MIT population for whom the intersection of their everyday language and mathematical jargon is non-empty. In other words, MIT is overrun with math…

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 15, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  LET ME COOOOOOOK 🍳🍳🍳 I am stupidly excited about learning this Basic Life Skill, and not ashamed to admit…

  

  “On a scale from one to ten, where one is ‘Eat to Live,’ and ten is ‘Live to Eat,’ where would you rate yourself?” The question was asked at a…

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 16, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Social Engineering no no wait not like that–

  

  Alternatively, how to build a cult! Only it’s not a cult, it’s just a group of friends, I swear! Alternatively, mansplain manipulate man…ufacture mischief? In which I mansplain how my…

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 24, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  AARRRGHHHHH!!!!🏴‍☠️ (Pirate Post) A Review of 21M.299 - Pirate Songs and Whaling Chanteys

  

  Robert Cusick the strength to save his life after his boat sank and left

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 2, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [Live Writing] MARC 2024 A big meeting about small things

  

  about these ideas, but such is life when I can only use the top ten

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  learning about Things!! cool classes explained in easy words

  

  real life thing moves. Sometimes not being perfect doesn't matter, but ... does matter for your computer's understanding of the real life thing to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 16, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what I did this semester in broad strokes!

  

  aspect of my life. I think I have always considered myself an artist first

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  close your eyes and put your finger on the map and other ways to make grad school decisions

  

  's are only 1-2 years and happen at a much less formative period of life ... , I looked for other insights into student life — like admissions blogs

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 22, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  6.115 Microcomputer Lab! literally the coolest class i've taken so far

  

  schedule, sleeping schedule, my life around the lab hours. Basically whenever ... approaches for engineering design have a life that spans many iterations of a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 16, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it’s been thirteen days since the Eras Tour began

  

  haven’t watched the 2011 Live version of Haunted, it is LIFE CHANGING

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 30, 2023