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• Blog / Residential Life

  A man’s reach should exceed his grasp My roommate and I built a lofty heaven!

  

  Even while I was excited by the thought of MIT, I spent many years being intimidated: as a child, hearing stories of what MIT undergrads got ... are central to the way MIT works. In the right environment (one

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 23, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Conspiracy and intrigue

  

  character part in an Assassins' Guild game. The Guild is an MIT live ... contributor's copy of How to Get Around MIT (frosh should use it, it's a good ... that you can buy a bike at Cambridge Bicycle, which is two blocks up Mass

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  laser-powered happiness 6.UAR showcase, part 1

  

  "][/video] This is also probably the most terrifying 3 minutes of my life to ... spring, I started talking to a postdoc (Binbin) at MIT's ice rink ... which point I started work in the Traverso/Langer Lab. Because Binbin is a

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 5, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meow Yes, you can have cats in some dorms.

  

  commenter asking about cats. East Campus is one of the dorms with "cat floors" -- floors which allow residents to have a cat -- and Third East is one of them ... sleep for a variety of reasons. Dr. Popular is the most skittish

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  the children yearn for the snow quarry 120 bricks, 80 man hours, 3 tons of snow, 2 forts, and a partridge in…

  

  It is 12 am on the second weekend of IAP. Snow has been falling for ... ground... This is generally an important prerequisite. You also generally ... inches deep. At MIT, we’re blessed with Briggs Field, a massive

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  them. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro This is my favorite book I ... that something is wrong, that the narrator’s own model of their world is ... denial, the gaping hole that the reader is forced to reckon with and fill

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  home

  

  feelings. I felt very old. Concretely, this is simply untrue… I’m 19, which, I think, is universally agreed upon to be an age at which you ... differently. Arkansas is many things, the most obvious being beautiful. I forgot

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • November 4, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  kitchen nightmares bugs and toasters and explosions, oh my!

  

  big fan of it. What I am not a fan of is bugs. So naturally, I was very ... mechanic is surprisingly difficult. Also, we had to keep borrowing can ... it's been great for those days when bread is suddenly the most

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 5, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  2.009: the product engineering process the best class at mit

  

  , and ridiculous amounts of confetti, this event is a must-see for any MIT student. The 2.009 Prototype Launch is the final presentation for one of ... homecoming weekends and rivalry football games broadcasted on ESPN. At MIT

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Events

  DATA FOR BLACK LIVES this weekend at the media lab

  

  conference is happening all weekend. check out the livestream at ... citizens can understand how their data is being used. MALIKA SAADA SAAR ... . she also talked about how racism is complex and systematic; it's not a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 18, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Coffee in the Pagi-nation [joint post] breaking cruel rituals

  

  , and human is one of my biggest goals when I’m traveling on behalf of MIT ... ,[/annotation] I was accepted into MIT early action. I cried on the phone with my ... each other, but with MIT upperclassmen, and Institute staff members. We

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Aiden Wrapped a year in review

  

  It's December, which means it is time to (drumroll please)...   ... top-ten everything of the year completely unsolicited. TierMaker is my ... -of-year" rankings, though, is that every major magazine/newspaper always releases them

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 3, 2024
• Blog / Personal Projects

  10 things I learned in 10 projects a run-down of my making misadventures sophomore year

  

  building project is like a sidequest: fully unnecessary and a lot of work, but also what is the point of the game if you do zero sidequests? I do ... [/annotation] as a hectic MIT schedule allows. I learned new things with every

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  The long view days, months, years

  

  ." On Monday I had an appointment with MIT Medical, to get the irregular ... sorts had been before I came to MIT, three years ago. The nurse referred ... upperclassman visited. He graduated two years ago, and is now working remotely at

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Chapter Closes To open another

  

  finally come to an end, and with it, my first year at MIT. For me, the end ... dawning on me with weight, the fact that my freshman year is over. And it ... them. They’re done. Summer is on the way. But I was just thinking. And

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Halloweekend and the 7 weekends prior!

  

  Square. MIT strategically knows that it is around this time that students ... : “Bless you. You know, I’m interested. What does a typical MIT frosh* even ... . Weekend 5 Fun fact: I am a dancing machine. Does MIT offer outlets to my

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 28, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Just A Small Town Girl Blogging in an awesome world.

  

  school, hit deer, etc. I couldn't fall asleep my first night at MIT because ... . Sometimes I think my path to MIT wasn't a very normal one, but I've realized ... 't a "normal path" to MIT. I dreamt of becoming an entomologist and

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the notes i took in a week riveting stuff, i know

  

  -highlighters-bullet-journaling-timelapse-note-taking days (or maybe the better word is recovered?), my appreciation for the ... fifth time since I’ve gotten to MIT).  [carousel image1="105487" image2 ... E, note-taking time is somewhat negligible compared to problem solving time

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 8, 2024
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Moving Across The Pond From One Cambridge to Another

  

  (clubs). One aspect of University that is often over looked is the fact that ... hand at a few things I wish I'd started at MIT. Cambridge University ... nights end with ONE TWO CHA CHA CHA THREE FOUR CHA CHA CHA. This is the

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 6, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  624 Hours: Columbia, MO or, Things I Made While I Was Home

  

  the Show-Me State, Columbia is a lively college town, except for the ... everywhere. It is EXHAUSTING. I love you, Mom!] So anyway, after that moment ... it like a good MIT student: I made some peach pie and I made chicken

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 19, 2012