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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Good Luck Jo-Jo!

  

  There's a story from the MIT News Office today about my friend Joanne (Jo-Jo) Chang '03. I first met Jo-Jo my senior year at MIT, when I was ... -up. Another MIT alumna, Erika Ebbel, won last year's Miss Massachusetts

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Vive la France!

  

  I'm about to head off for a two week in vacation in Paris, Rennes, and Bordeaux. In the meantime, you can check out the MIT France Program, one of MIT's awesome international programs. Current music: A.R. Rahman

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 15, 2004
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Who was the first woman graduate?

  In 1873, shortly after MIT's opening in 1865, Ellen Swallow Richards became MIT's first woman graduate (and later its first woman instructor). Richards' work testing drinking water supplies and water contaminants made
• Blog / MIT Life

  sk8 jebby on a skateboard

  

  mental struggle. Rationally, you know that the board is going to move when ... skateboarding probably is that anywhere (that isn't explicitly prohibiting ... a place is; as long as it's relatively smooth ground, it works. The

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 29, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  the last twenty days burning out before the semester even starts

  

  party and various [annotation note="Next House is divided into eight wings ... House housing lottery. Some dorms at MIT find that their sub ... hundred students to new rooms is a fairly difficult process, and takes quite

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  what the f*** am i doing this summer still don't know if i'm going abroad or not lol

  

  'm EXHAUSTED. I was supposed to do [annotation note="a program where MIT ... a startup and 2. think Israel's start up scene is sick. around ... application forms, and a copy of our vaccination cards to MIT campus the next

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 12, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Strands literal and metaphorical >:)

  

  a/n: this post is a little outdated - my hair is currently a faded ... of care for my hair was pretty ironic, since my hair is incredibly ... it, my hair is important to me, so I think it ought to reflect who I am

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 10, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  frosh thingies i couldn’t decide what to write so i’m writing about everything

  

  a lobotomized goldfish, people are really nice about it, which is why ... sofas, but such is frosh tea time. Making friends in college is ... (I’ve made salty pancakes before so this is a huge improvement) going

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Travel

  Rejection Therapy and my insatiable urge to collect trading cards

  

  applying to MIT. 'proto-' meaning 'earliest form of'. "]prefrosh ... thing is, though, that in this video, he isn't rejected, and they do let ... TRADING CARD IS. Maybe I'll try doing things that are awkward more now. I

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 16, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  [Joint Post] THE WORLD’S gREATEsT CROSSOVER EPISODE Jebby '25 is my flatmate

  

  .   Everything is jarringly British in Bristol (wow what a shock). I ... and get an ad for body wash where everyone is talking with a British ... see an ant crawling around the kitchen, but I am glad that it is normal

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 4, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the luxury of bad art nothing but the truth

  

  long time, with my writing, with my fiction, with this blog. Life is less ... dried that I realized being a professional writer is very different from ... me—this is a waste of time since I have no real musical aspirations, I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 11, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  what your favorite study spot says about you badly stereotyping places to work on campus

  

  with all your different friend groups. your room is probably aesthetic as ... options, which is both a blessing and a curse. you either listen to ... 're impulsive, have a poor attention span, and are terminally on TikTok, which is

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Entrepreneurship & Innovation

  soul searching at CES 2019 a non-journalist's take

  

  a quarter of the displays. The Las Vegas Convention Center is huge ... future employment. I've often thought that grad school is the only possible ... more intriguing to me than my bio classes. I don't know if grad school is

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 15, 2019
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Semester I Played With Chocolate and Ants for a Technical Class Inflatable Chocolate Balloons + Ants as Architects

  

  There is a class here at MIT called How to Design (Almost) Anything ... balloon when the chocolate is set, but I wanted to somehow constrain the ... syrup, which is way hotter than melted chocolate. The trick to keeping the

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Needles That was anticlimactic.

  

  ’t decide between studs and danglies in the morning and all I could say is yes, that is precisely why I paid money to have holes put in my body. And then ... up. “Is this going to hurt?” I said. “No,” he said, “it’s a marker.” He

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reference Frames Vision - of the present and for the future - is powerful

  

  than others. If your work is getting frustrating, sometimes all you have to do is shift your point of view, and things will feel much better ... stop drawing free body diagrams; this is an exercise in introspection. No

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 19, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Alaska, part I There...

  

  .mitadmissions.org/topics/life/student_life_culture/blogger_application_2010.shtml">Blogger Application 2010 is due to me by email by Monday ... 'll save you the story of my (entirely satisfactory, as always) visit to MIT ... have to say, though, a neck brace is THE way to travel. Know those

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Hello from Palo Alto My California not-so-vacation.

  

  program. It's gone/is going a little something like this. Saturday, Feb 25 ... a shuttle across the bay to Berkeley. Dinner is pizza and beer at the ... of campus (it's very woody). Brunch is at Berkeley, where several grad

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 1, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Home(sick) for the Holidays winter break was weird: time capsule 2

  

  small talk, which is something that I thought I’d gotten better at, and I ... why that is. Maybe it’s the environmental contrast. Maybe it’s force of ... note="Independent Activities Period, in which MIT students spend the

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 24, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  Beat It, Bump It, Spike It MIT + NCAA: Two acronyms people don't normally expect in the same sentence.

  

  hardcore sports universities, then I had the chance to get it at MIT. Last night, the MIT women's volleyball team defeated Bridgewater State College ... here at MIT, but I've never seen Rockwell Cage that packed. People with

  • by Bryan
  • November 10, 2006