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• Blog / Residential Life

  I Miss You, Random Hall my love letter to the dorm i got kicked out of too soon

  

  and rambunctious and wild and fun. My heart aches for those 3am nights ... resonated with me on so many levels. And I regret taking it for granted. So ... suspicion that if it were normal times, I'd still have a slight distaste for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 9, 2021
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  cruel summer ok it's actually, like, fine i guess

  

  least one walk every day, and we've been aiming for two: one with our dog ... when I slept for 14 hours a day and came out a mostly different person ... for this, and an MIT committee for that. I have a work standup, a sync

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  you & i will always be back then time is an illusion that helps things make sense

  

  to be too childish for my tastes, as the show is riddled with moments ... ; [warning: contains spoilers for the cartoon show adventure time] lessons ... their adventures through Ooo, a fictional land with crazy creatures and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  chill convo after. We’re excited to be collabing with Simmons for this ... Thanks Yuliya for hosting this blog! I’m not out off-campus, so I ... club that is for LGBTQ+ folk in fraternities and Sororities! They host

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 11, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  for the rest of my life. My relationship with poetry is ever ... an exhibit for the Singapore Writers Festival. So I wanted to write about my relationship with poetry over the years. Here’s the earliest

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  ambition finding direction

  

  then you should move to a city whose message aligns with that ambition ... more about doing specific kinds of good for the world than doing the most ... are many other ambitions - for instance, to be the best possible

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i (kinda) studied for finals brought to you by "a PNR mindset"

  

  utilize PNR, or will my need for academic validation win? As with everything ... haven't really locked in with the full PNR mindset. I did every pset for ... I played Blocks™ to review the ~150 terms I needed for my 17.41 exam

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 22, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  A Day in the Life (of IAP)

  

  applications yesterday to experience 5 fun events. First was the famous MIT Charm ... classes included "How to Accessorize/Dress for Success," "How to Tell Someone Something They'd Rather Not Hear," "Hello, World: Manners for the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  with A LOT of anxiety about whether my writing came across as ... very far removed from the circus that was college applications for me and likely for others. Therefore, I feel a sense of duty in debunking my own

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Straight from the Dean’s mouth Time magazine readers chat with the MIT Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones.

  

  with private school students for some reason. In any given year, 70 ... ? Maybe she is still in that sweet still-playing-with-Barbie-dolls stage ... to pursue interests and ideas. She'll take tough coursework for fun

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The second-to-last first two days of class Having classes 3 days a week rocks.

  

  wherein you now need to find something else to do besides psets. For example, on Thursday, my first day off, I was faced with the conundrum -- or privilege? -- of having too much free time. My running shorts and running

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Recap (Guest Entry) "a perfect introduction to MIT"

  

  screenprinting for so long.Then I played with the scary chairs in Baker, that lean ... .Me playing with a super fancy camera.And afterwards, I headed over to Baker ... evening, I went across the river with Christina to the Alpha Phi house for

  • by Bryan
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Lazy Day Today is one of them

  

  just play it by ear and do whatever you like for a while. So, to the ... to get started with them. Sure, I could do stuff, but today I don ... sunburn, whatever happens to apply to you.)   Catch up with

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Chris inspired me to do dumb things I went to Disney World. It was fun, I guess.

  

  definitely more of a fun run.  I made sure to stop for pictures with characters ... chillax and then it was off to Disney World with Bianca (who registered for ... 't necessarily going to be fun for the rest of the race.  It started to get hard

  • by Snively '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes and Casting and Birthdays, oh my! What are "Things That Wake Me Up at 9am"?

  

  Classes Freshman year is generally filled with GIRs ... known for it's legendary professor Walter Lewin, 8.01 is the crux of freshman year. With a large majority of freshman taking it and it being

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You stay classy, Sam… TA, go! At MIT, I live in a basement and I don't get to watch Desperate Housewives.

  

  Thermodynamics -- Last year, my UROP advisor, Jefferson W. Tester, taught this for ... lab requirement for Course X. It's taught in the sub-basement of ... love about MIT lab classes is the free lab goggles. Today we had a choice

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Events

  SMRT Only at MIT could a wholesome, traditional integration bee end up like this.

  

  . Which makes for 20 minutes of just not too much fun if you ask me. But ... thoroughly as I had hoped. For one thing, the integrals were incredibly ... 'm not smrt enough to do them, but these were even too difficult for some

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a freshman Getting a P+ isn't just for frosh anymore.

  

  dashed gallantly back to the student services center with signed form in ... until November. No no, today I felt I like a freshman, hosed for the very ... this with any two regular classes of your choice during your senior year

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 6, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prettylatebuthere’sanIAPpost on MIT's independent activities period (ft. friends!!)

  

  cool. it was also fun to go to a meet farther away and travel with the ... fun annual traditions, “guys/girls cook” dinner (with this week being ... performing so well that i had to get out bigger poles, so yay! for fun, i

  • by Angie F. '28
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Trashion Show from rubbish to runway

  

  collection. On Friday night, models walked the runway with their were judged by ... compostability. Plot: The room had a purple glow and pulsed with upbeat music, with bright white spotlights shining on the main runway. I felt as if I

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 6, 2016