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• Blog / Admissions

  On Mens et Manus The realizations one has whilst building improvised flotation devices.

  

  “hands-on”. Before I got here I would've listed, off the top of my head ... around with computers, and circuits, and microchips (oh my!). Yeah, I ... ever particularly interested in doing so, with the exception of my

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life Tokens the currency of joy

  

  When I was younger, one of my favorite board games to play with my ... WRONG NAME for the last YEAR. apparently it’s actually called a life TILE ... cash out at the end of the game in exchange for money–$10,000, $20

  • by Allison E. '27
  • July 6, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

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

  

  supposed to just know where the lounge for our newly declared majors was, and ... felt like it or not, I was a sophomore. But of course, with the speed at ... it's already beginning to have an (albeit mild) affect on my life. For

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 9, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Case of the Considerate Robbers and other winter adventures

  

  like completos italianos (hot dogs with tomato, mayonnaise, and avocado) and the traditional empanadas, stuffed with meat, egg, and a singular ... . They trekked down the icy path into a reservoir filled with glassy

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • August 3, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January Book List Oaks & Poems & Baldwin & Biss

  

  . This is not a best-of-the-year list. It's not a syllabus for literary ... during this month, January 2015, while I lived with my family (brother ... with it and assented to its claims. 5. Notes of a Native Son by James

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  doing those things for fun on my own time. I've always felt like I ... I've sort of been implying this on the blogs for a while now, but I ... world. I struggled and flailed and had no idea what I was doing for most

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Way We Live Saunas make me think

  

  signs specify that you can only stay for 12 continuous hours each visit ... workaholics - we get 10 vacation days with an additional 10-15 days for full ... while on the toilet. Blame it on all those apps for everything you can

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 7, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In which I “get a life” again reclaiming my childhood hobbies

  

  . Sewing? Not consistent enough. Running? Not something I did for fun ... NECESSARY for being an Interesting Person™. But they’re definitely fun, and ... for myself. I can enjoy my YouTube videos and talk for hours with my

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 12, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  bloggers.addAll( newBloggers); System.out.println("Hello, World!");

  

  . ‘18’s mind palace is his living room floor. He plays by his own rules ... uncommon perspective in and enthusiasm for mathematics; appropriately, she is ... written several novels, and is currently working on another one for her

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Announcements

  New bloggers? New bloggers! [cue fanfare]

  

  shared your writing with us. It was fun to read through your talented work ... , who grew up without internet and turned to books for entertainment like ... week last year and organized the “[REDACTED] Family Dinner” for all MIT

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 7, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Picked My First Apple apples, part 1

  

  MIT sponsors an annual trip to an apple orchard in Stow, MA for undergraduates living in the dorms. I went on that trip for the first time today, and now I have enough apples that it would be wasteful for me not to eat

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 16, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Year in Review blogs, bhangra, and a baby monkey

  

  ’s application for fun and it became a theme song for the winter (at least in my ... I love the holiday season, but not for its parties and food, its ... for its signal of the year coming to an end and the promise of the new

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bridge Building: In Progress The culmination of what I've learned in civil engineering

  

  .013 (Senior Civil and Environmental Engineering Design, for those not yet versed ... the most fun is building, well, a bridge. It is pretty much what it ... has to be 10 ft long, with a 2 ft wide deck and 2-3 ft clearance above

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 4, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In Japan, the Elevators Don’t Care - Sort of trying to fit in as an American in Japan - 

  

  the top presses down like seram wrap blades for a clean rip at whatever ... . Until someone shouts at you with concern as you've walked into a dressing room with shoes on. So I try to adjust. I remember to not walk and eat

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  day one welcome back

  

  -majoring. They ask me to sign up for an appointment online. Then I find my other ... other courses I want for the remainder of the day. Today, in artificial ... counselor for. I find it amusing that I'm in the same math class as them. In

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Random notes A mystery solved, an updated blog list, and a handful of questions answers.

  

  way down the linked page). I wanted to identify the cosplay roles played ... a new character from the video game Dynasty Warriors 5 for PS2. Her ... -armored person is Shadow Moon for Kamen Rider. See this link. I believe that solves

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  A last-minute barbecue for hundreds of people New House: mobilize.

  

  her living group, and returned with a gigantic water dispenser for us to ... . Rhythms were broken, routine thrown for a loop (or many loops), and I spent ... scheduled for Wednesday, and classes were cancelled in anticipation of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 11, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My Disappointment Is Immeasurable And My Day Is Ruined A story about cream soda

  

  consumed so much American media that I felt more than ready for this transition. However, nothing could have truly prepared me for the absolute ... atrocity of the American version for about a month. That all changed one

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Using Fireflies.ai to Write a Post About Fireflies.ai behind the scenes: it's pretty meta

  

  The writing process is different for every one of your favorite bloggers. I usually have to wait for inspiration to hit before I'm able to sit at a computer for hours writing out an entire post in one sitting. I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventures in Math Conversations in the world of math.

  

  forum (merged with MathLinks) for discussions of math and math problems ... I've had some great conversations over the past few weeks with folks ... sit down with Richard Rusczyk and Dave Patrick PhD '97, two of the folks

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2005