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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I Never Thought I Would Join a Sorority ...but here I am?

  

  by joining a student community, most notably greek life, the entire ... anything remotely close to "greek life", or in my case, a sorority, in college. If you are like me, then you thought “greek life” had a bad

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  November summary: books, playlist, gratitude

  

  life--SZA, Solange Knowles, Sappho, my mother. Schoolwork saturated the ... and not doing many student-life related things because of the time constraints imposed by the rest of my life. Welp.) Sappho At some point in

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 25, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  “There is No Place Like Home” ...especially when you are a long way from home

  

  ’t sure if I knew the whole story. Understanding how life might be different ... view of what life was like for our students, especially our women, at MIT. Has life been perfect in the Alpha Phi House? Of course not and to say

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • July 12, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  small fortune and a new life narrative. All of a sudden people were ... want to achieve anything in life, you need to both work hard and be fortunate. This is the point I tried to make in my blog post Life is Improv

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Making Tracks

  

  the rest of my life is meeting an anxious end. I'm still in the same room, still know where I want my life to go, inching away from ... accolades with school firmly planted in the back seat, if your life and your

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Breathless Why it's so hard to tell college students to ease up a bit.

  

  . I ask him how his life’s been lately. He pulls out his cellphone, and explains his life to me in terms of his calendar schedule, which has ... with friends. His whole life is parsed out into little hour and half

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  unicorns big confusion

  

  that when my friend looks at my life they conclude that i can do anything, yet when i look at my life i genuinely feel like i’m able to do nothing ... that i only get one life, so i will never have enough statistical

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 18, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Moms We stand on the shoulders of giants....!!

  

  Today I wanted to thank a very special person in my life, someone who ... importance in my life and at MIT. We all talk about a lot of stuff happening ... , nuances, and vibrant culture of MIT life through my phone calls. My mom has

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Ode From A Science Fair Junkie in honor of intel isef 2018

  

  There’s this idea that every moment in your life, every experience ... become a mosaic of all that life gives you. Your high points lay the ... than others. If there is any such life experience that’s had a lasting

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 13, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  infinite corridors can’t believe there are no posts with this title yet

  

  strike at a high level my life is not so different from what it was like ... i’d been caught completely off-guard by life after school and often ... future problems. by contrast 2024 was the best year of my life so far - i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / CPW

  From First Visit to First Week A Reflection on Independence and Making Decisions

  

  preparedness for this next stage of my life. More specifically, the independence ... more importantly in the fact that I had reached a point in my life where I truly had a sense of autonomy in my life decisions. Neither of my

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  faith in the future

  

  far into my life because I am doing the scary thing. I am walking away ... was 14. I haven't been alone in life for longer than three months in ... . Untethered by the wants of anyone else except for myself. I imagined a life of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving yet another senior writing about their last semester

  

  student to the structure of regular adult life? one answer is to avoid ... “college is the best four years of your life” and i think that’s an extremely ... ago i would’ve said something like adult life sucks and you should just

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 20, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  love people. cook them. tasty food. meet pecker!

  

  -flavored nuclear engineering, and biochemistry major together, the life sciences can ... ’re fighting for your life or for the jungle-speed-tube   murals,  where ... surprisingly profound observations about life with enough melancholically

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 27, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  Crocheting With the Firehose Gauge your stitches, gauge your life

  

  've successfully woven in my crocheting with my life at MIT. But why do I spend so ... a less appealing piece. But what does that have to do with life? If an important aspect of living is to make life as appealing as possible

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 13, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  i’ve joined a sorority and what that means to me

  

  You'll recall in this blogpost I talk about joining Greek life and dorm life and all of that. TLDR: I did continuous open recruitment for ... said, I didn't join DPhiE for the sake of the title of Greek life; I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 21, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other Side from prefrosh to cpw chair

  

  dreams come to life day by day, we’re so hyped to be building new

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  [GUEST POST] CPWgCPWaCPWyCPW huh...there are some lowercase letters in the title. that's odd.

  

  ! Queer Life @MIT Panel Come listen to queer MIT students talk about their

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 11, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Thanksgiving Nostalgia if MIT == home

  

  literally moved my whole life to Boston T H E  R O U T E  H O M E Before ... my perceived happiness? What do I even want to do with my life? What do ... question myself, and I’m so thankful for keeping them in my life. Here’s to

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  friday was a good day

  

  ~written last friday about last friday~ Today was a really happy day. It’s days like these that make us remember why we love it here so much. (The first part…

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 21, 2017