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• Blog / Athletics

  How to jump out of an airplane and live We have football, pistol, fencing, and TKD. . . but did you know we also…

  

  did my first tandem skydive while I was back home in Oregon.  I didn't tell my parents, I just went with a bunch of friends, shelled out the ... on sensory overload :)  My parents weren't really excited that I'd gone

  • by Snively '11
  • July 31, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  i saw twenty one pilots at td garden in boston live music is very much alive and here to stay

  

  alive. Now, I'm 19 and at the school of my dreams with friends and a ... in the 8th grade, my first one being a free general admissions concert with All Time Low at The Grove. The moment my hands gripped those

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  Yesterday, my mom had some “silk” scarves shipped to me so I could ... , telling me how happy all her friends would be when she gave them these “100 ... . Plus, my mom ordered them on the internet, where anyone can say whatever

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  Liminal Activities Period IAP is a mindset and you can keep it forever

  

  , my friend Kevin Kwok and I got a batch of custom frisbees printed with ... in school, but not long enough that my body has totally disconnected ... deceptively bland name for what is in my opinion MIT's greatest invention. It is

  • by Joel G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  Welcome to CPW! 'twas the night before cpw...

  

   really tired. This isn't a universal experience—a lot of my friends spent every moment ... Last week, my photo gallery reminded me that roughly one year ago was my CPW! Interspaced between pictures of Boston and campus were other

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • April 10, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2023 For all of the Blogger/Spotify Data Junkies

  

  being top .5% for The Beths, but as my friend put it, “I got a late start ... among MIT Bloggers. I showed my brother and he said “Well now you have to ... .    Now it’s my turn to inspire you with our random music tastes

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 10, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  We Really Aren’t Kids Anymore avoiding the part where it all has to end

  

  get to redo my first year at MIT. Whether I liked it or not, whether I ... year....] but that's besides the point. I'm entering my senior year-- and it's already beginning to have an (albeit mild) affect on my life. For

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 9, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  falling in love with october swooning over foLiAGe

  

  take on the color of sunlight and fire, blue skies blow friendly breezes ... patterns, midterm season, is also upon us. But only one of my classes this semester has midterms or even just tests of any kind. My single midterm came

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  speculation also a post about touching grass

  

  i’ve known for a while that i’m a pretty awful conversationalist. my ... more, but i hope you can bear with me for a bit), as are many of my friends. there are a variety of reasons for this: for one, theorizing is a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Out of Context Quoteboard SFW for the blogs, unfortunately

  

  . I hope that when I reunite with many of my friends post-graduation, we ... emails in my inbox that were sent to this mailing list and pick out some of ... straight?" "Being a girl is great. I'm going to braid my hair and wear

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 25, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  first impressions of LA the struggles of moving cross-country for an internship

  

  three days ago, after i finished squeezing all my summer clothes and ... discounts woooo"]start my internship at PlayStation's Santa Monica Studio on the God of War team.[/annotation] after dropping all of my stuff at my

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Siete Ciudades de España A very busy IAP

  

  whole new friend group that is going to stay with me throughout my time at ... . My friends and I did a lot of organizing on this trip, and we made a ... This IAP was my first time ever outside of the United States! El

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Wide-Eyed meet the therapist hanging above my bed.

  

  of my friends. Even though I sometimes only have two hours of class on ... week goes a little bit like this: It all started when I checked my grade ... pass/no record. This has become my new mantra; instead of #yolo for all

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 4, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Short Answers to Big Questions Stolen from the MIT Housing Panel.

  

  weekend remains one of my best friends. I also remember perceiving a lack of ... : 1) Google's homepage. 2) My favorite constellation is the APOD ... Atlas and Pleione. To the best of my knowledge, no one really knows where

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 18, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  A Letter to CPW Prefrosh let the onslaught of CPW-related posts continue

  

  My family is here! Yesterday and today, my parents and my little sister Lisa sat in on my classes - they got a crash course on galaxy classification (my dad will remember that "spheres=hot gas" and "disks=cold gas

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / How to MIT

  Forget your plan for a minute The beauty of collage

  

  This morning at breakfast, I gave my son (the high school junior ... -type figure” and maybe not someone you want giving you advice. My 18-yr-old just ... how I don’t understand him and this is usually my cue to calmly stop

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Events

  The Blogger’s Cut, Year One Some other first year memories captured in photos

  

  ;marquee> tags, but I'm afraid that if I did, my boss would laugh me out of the ... check out by noon on May 21st. Conveniently, this was the day after my final exam in psychology. Even more conveniently, my room had a lot to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Let the games begin! Last minute advice for your CPW.

  

  you aren't sure what to do yet with your CPW, here are some tips from my experience last year / my observations of other peoples' experiences. In no ... especially often feel too pressured to spend time with their hosts; "sorry, my

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Potpourri Blog Post food... etc.

  

  is my best friend. Have it on hold, you’re ready to go! Swipe, swipe ... . MONDAY 7:10 PM If food were traditional art, this would be my ... . Despite my honest efforts, this is still a very pathetic attempt at making a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 21, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard Yes, yes I am.

  

  reading. Even then, that's nothing compared to some of my friends' schedules ... . Last year I thought it was hilarious because each of my classes had a ... , wait, reviewing my notes, there was also something called a "Similarity

  • by Snively '11
  • October 18, 2008