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• Blog / Residential Life

  memorial for a dorm goodbye east campus (for now)

  

  suzume, i guess, in how you have to think about how this place was used ... 'll miss this and i'm very sad about graduating, and i don't know how to ... pieces to fill them with because that's how it's been it feels like i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 6, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Musings of My High School Senior Self bring your best cringe face

  

  .  And it feels just as surreal as it felt when I got to campus for the ... the air. I didn't know how to get around campus, I didn't understand the ... . Welp I never got to take senior portraits for the MIT yearbook. But to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 16, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Musings on Colorful Balls (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ramya '14!

  

  to make contact with the balls represents how much I was overwhelmed by ... approach and know how to have a good time. It's worth it." I finally realized that getting into MIT was for real, and not an accident. I didn't want to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Burning questions A lot of people had questions!

  

  mythical. Darn, there needs to be a Snopes for MIT urban legends. One day I ... . At some dorms it's even normal for freshmen to have singles (most ... (This was originally going to be one entry with the grad school

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  i am overwhelmed. what happens when a pandemic, recession, racial reckoning and recruitment season join forces?

  

  the World), where I got to present a piece from my current most favorite ... to make life for international students even more difficult. Great. My ... ’t know how she’s going to survive any further north, but ok). The other

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 29, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  difficult difficult lemon difficult the end of senior fall

  

  an email on my radar as something to send, and then forget about it for ... having to work out a plan for me to do the requisite work during IAP. Despite having been given three weeks to produce the final paper for my

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  capabilities. If you're new to how MIT shows off your grades, then I should tell ... year old - a concern for my future prospects of going to med school, and ... the sophomore version of pass/no record. More specifically, you get to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Blog Projects

  i made a dress out of target bags i also edited a video about it

  

  -sewing with, which I pilfered from Math Prize for Girls 2024. Shout out to Tor ... . Thank you to Ceri for believing in me always. Thank you to Trader Joe ... I have big psets. For the past two Tuesdays, the 10pm-11pm time slot

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why I’m not a double major anymore Because four years of insanity would totally cramp my style?

  

  (now five) classes I needed to add for the degree. I still don't want to ... use for the photography class I'll get to take next term because I'm not ... guinea pig for Course 5's lab restructuring, since my year is the first to

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fig. 3: La dolce vita snaps from an extended spring break

  

  streets. Add to the stunning views the experiences I had while exploring ... embarked on a journey to warmer, sunnier lands down south. Two weeks before ... Amsterdam, to an even colder city up north. I guess I'll count that as part of

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 23, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One more baby blogger Or blogger baby? I don’t know, is it the same?

  

  me to do interviews for my first season as an EC (I mean, like, inside ... EC! EDIT: Also, Chris wants me to add that the my husband is engaging ... one more to bring you. She doesn’t actually have a name, and she

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 3, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science is apparently not for the easily-frustrated Stories of woe from the lab

  

  doesn't love me back. Yesterday, for example, I was trying to get a ... a slightly different permutation in order to get a nice figure for our ... get it over with. The gel ran for about two hours, then I set it up to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Skating or School? Why not both?

  

  -time. Exams and psets I don't have enough time to study for or complete. Classes ... need to do. Some days I'm only on the ice for 40 minutes and rushing back ... . Each trip to the rink not only is a 25 min commute, but add in the cost

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Monologuing a mock-up for the MITMonologues

  

  , is that at MIT I've been able to feel seen. Most times for the better ... this blogpost is meant to be a mock-up of my monologue for the MIT ... wanted for this blog at least. I've included annotations to provide some

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 13, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  how i handle canker sores not professional medical advice

  

  the years, I've tried a lot of remedies to ease the pain. Here is how they've worked for me: Ice. I figured I could use ice to numb the pain ... expensive to purchase online ($25 for two swabs). Also, it is very very

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  how not to be a mathematician on taking time & not running away

  

  how hard I tried. Although for many people, MIT convinces them that ... math UROP for the first 2.5 years of MIT, I went to office hours less ... .  In the summer, I went back to Chicago, where I had been for the summer

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 15, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing Two New MIT Students… ...classes of 2026 and 2028 respectively.

  

  ecstatic to hear, "Your Epidural is in." Upon seeing Miles for the first time ... you know I recently added a new member to our family. Miles Nathaniel Nance made his way to the world on January 11, 2006 at 10:40 pm. My wife

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking in with EA Applicants because I just saw Chris' post, and you probably did, too

  

  . Sometimes, students here live for weeks on a deadline-to-deadline schedule, so ... archives to the posts from mid-December. There's a post every year for EA ... disconnected myself from the human component of it. It's my job to present

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 8, 2016
• Blog / Events

  RecomMITted On Ring Delivery and the halfway mark

  

  I — all of Class of 2019 — had been looking forward to this day all ... 's motivated me to get through some hard weeks — "It's almost time," they said ... headed over to the State Room. Luckily, groups of people were still

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 2, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bit About Me Growing up on a healthy diet of prime time television and MMORPGs

  

  kitchen to make some food before hopping on the computer for what little ... song before I knew how to multiply. So my view of the United States was ... for free so I figured  that was the perfect path to my cubicle. It was

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 22, 2013