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• Blog / MIT Life

  A Supposedly Fun Thing That I’ll Probably Do Again On July 4th, I reenacted The Old Man and the Sea, minus the old man…

  

  My first Fourth of July in Boston was spent on an inflatable 61-inch ... illustration of my less-than-seaworthy vessel? Crafted from “heavy duty” vinyl ... visage. I duct taped a garbage bag around the hole because I didn't want my

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 7, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Happy May! Everything I owed you...

  

  How NOT to be a MIT Student (aka. my daily dose of stupidity) *sets ... precious 60 minute exam time* Yeah. That's me. My life consists of running ... my pile of freshly-printed 18.02 notes, oblivious to exams, psets

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Long-Overdue Responses Questions answered.

  

  of my friends died in a car accident. I remember how my class came ... this... I'd just like to remind folks that blogging is not in my job ... attempting to refute that - my blog is what it is, and the folks who "get it

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2004
• Blog / Events

  Random Hall REX! Residence Exploration events at Random Hall. Your orientation booklet is WRONG. :D

  

  haven’t felt since the last time we did p-sets, and one fourth of my ... friends! Please come visit us at Random Hall, and come live or hang out here ... Singalong It's hard to overstate my satisfaction with how much this event is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 26, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Scott ‘13, Cory ‘13, Edner ‘13, Jeremy ‘13, and Bee ‘13 The penultimate in a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  and high school students and teachers, became friends and will be ... are both good-natured, friendly, helpful, smart, talented, mature ... a poem titled "My Angel." "People think it's about a lady," he said

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lost in the Pages of the Institute are we out of the woods yet, are we in the clear yet

  

  . There’s been getting to know the new friends in my life, both at the dorm ... remember that in the few moments of time I tried my hand at creating music, there was always a sort of merry, thoughtless deliberateness to my efforts

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  How Albatross Fly Without Flapping Their Wings, And other Lore™️ I learned this semester.

  

  squirrels but not a single black one. My friends don’t let me forget this, and ... , but my source is my professor telling me and like a quick google search ... my time in [annotation note="Physics 1"]8.01[/annotation]I was failing

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 10, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  few friends.  Then my high school held a poetry slam. I’d never read a ... about my relationship with poetry over the years. Here’s the earliest poem of mine I could find in Google Drive. It was my first-ever high

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Mathematics of People Guest post on Economics

  

  wanted to become an economist. That one actually stuck. My parents come from two very different ways-of-thinking. My dad is a nerdy engineer with ... spirtuality, and lives in his head. My mom is a former bartender and studied at

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  my "college friends," and if/when I get married they will likely be at ... what happens when i don't. The week before my freshman year of college started, I went to Amsterdam and Vienna with my brother and aunt. It was a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Watching Birdwatchers And getting into summer programs.

  

  to look at things. --- A couple of weeks ago, my dear friend Davie ... 1, dove off my bed, and flung my laptop open. Gmail couldn't load fast ... through the Student Art Association, my wisdom teeth rebelled against me and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  I’M BACK!!!!! (and MIT is hard)

  

  when my friends at other schools were out partying, but I cannot ... first this is no big deal, but then the Friday after Christmas, I find my ... long hold times on tech support, arguing, and TWO reformats of my

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 11, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Library Battle: Harvard vs. MIT Harvard and MIT Libraries are given a theme topic and each an afternoon to compile…

  

  Hey again world, it's me, Ruth, friend of Sam. Regardless of Sam ... . I'm such a humanities geek, I'm writing this entry from my desk as ... comfiest (sp?) chairs on campus are in my very own place of employment. The

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  getting back in the groove 🎵groovy groovy🎵

  

  excitement is just first-week delusion or the start of a new chapter in my MIT ... teenager on the phone with their first crush: sitting in the back, kicking my feet, smiling and blushing trying to hide my excitement. I have ALWAYS

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 3, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2024 Episode 7: The Apple Music Awakens

  

  't find out which random European town matches my music taste 😔). But Gangnam Style is finally not one of my top five songs this year, so I'm at ... two non-Spotify bloggers who filled out this part of my survey) with 13

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 14, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Learning about the ABCs Apple Bake Competition, At Burton Conner

  

  the delicious dishes that people have cooked up. For Conner 2, my floor ... clear the M does not stand for anything else, contrary to what my floor ... "]Mentor[/annotation] for my floor this year. I also happen to be a little obsessed with

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 29, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  WMBR: College Radio at MIT will anyone watch the entire 36 minute video? probably not

  

  even made a playlist before, and my voice isn't really the best for ... since, hosting my own show and eventually joining student management as ... version of history. My [annotation note="Though the station is now operating

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Three Tales of Junior Year Accidental Harvard Class, UROPs, Experimenting in College

  

  seemed ideal—an elective for my Philosophy (Course 24-1) major and the final class for my Education (Course 11) concentration. Just in case, I ... fulfilled a pre-thesis requirement). On the first day of class, my classmates

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask A VC Boston 2016 networking with over 20 venture capitalists all over the startup scene

  

  from them as I could before I started my own venture. Then on late Thursday night, my friend told me "Hey Erick, tomorrow morning is Ask A VC ... ; Reasons not go: The event starts at 8am. My sleep schedule has been

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  's false humility with a point. My case illustrates how success is always ... talking to my dad about my job - this job - and how much I loved it. I told him how lucky I felt to had the opportunity to do it. My dad, in his

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012