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• Blog / Academics & Research

  one weekend in March a play-by-play

  

  trips to Denmark and the UK, when she encountered lots of people who made cold plunges a habit for the serotonin boost that followed. When we get to the lake shore, it’s just us and the geese under a cloudy sky. We

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  what I’m doing this IAP mostly physics and musical theater

  

  the month of January: some people treat it as a four-week extension on ... . It’s cold and dark and quiet outside; the river has frozen over; some mornings, any inch of skin exposed to the air goes numb in minutes. But this

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  By the end of my freshman year, I was convinced that I had not learned anything in my classes at MIT. By the end of my sophomore year, the ... thoroughly believed that I just could not learn the content deeply, no matter

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

  What Your Campus Wheels Say About You skrt skrt

  

  campus is deceivingly large. Freshman year, I made the unfortunate decision to attend the 9 am option for my physics lectures – which was admittedly a bit optimistic on my part. The mornings I had physics, I would

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  “So what’s being a blogger like?” i spill the (lukewarm) tea

  

  expressly intended to be published on the internet for thousands of people to ... what blogging is like, how the job works, and how it feels to be famous ... that famous.) The process of becoming a blogger starts, of course, with

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  social groups a different angle on the 'i found my people in college' trope

  

  the notion of squad wealth has been increasing in popularity recently and it’s something i struggle to understand. the claim is something like ... of due to the inevitability of group conflict and breakup, and because

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 27, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  my summer! a belated blog

  

  of balance, at least the attempt of finding one. This summer was a ... styles, cultures, etc. suit me best. I had the least amount of imposter syndrome this summer, and I can’t tell if it’s because of the team I worked

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 18, 2021
• Blog / Events

  science bowl we ran! a competition! virtually!

  

  competition where two teams try to answer science trivia before the other team ... died 1 week ago :(']buzzing in[/annotation] as soon as they know the answer. The rules are a bit more complicated than that, and are best

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • November 16, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope My reflections on the death of Amaud Arbery

  

  I spent the last few days thinking about how I felt about the murder of Amaud Arbery. After seeing the news a few days ago, I quickly went ... in Google with the same intention, Atatiana Jefferson, Alton Sterling

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Second Semester Schedule + Thoughts A mind-dump of excellent quality

  

  stone before I regale y’all with all the details. I officially got off the ... -recorded) the two classes I was taking in January. The [annotation note="The attitude that your grades don't really matter and you should do the bare

  • by Powers '23
  • February 19, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Seven Early Evenings it was a good week

  

  impressive the New York skyline was until I was looking at it again. The pizza ... the train, I took an Uber [annotation note="I could have taken the T ... clothes. Fun fact: MIT student ID cards double as 'Charlie Cards' – the pass

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • December 3, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  7 Reasons MIT Is Special reflecting on the Institute at the end of four years

  

  Final year at MIT is done! I don’t miss it… yet. But the realization hits all seniors at different times: seeing friends for maybe the last time, checking out of the room, walking the stage to shake hands with

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 15, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I Never Thought I Would Join a Sorority ...but here I am?

  

  To all of you who are wondering how in the world you will navigate the social aspects of college, first of all, chill. I have received so ... by joining a student community, most notably greek life, the entire

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Growing Up bringing it back to 2007

  

  blog, right? Okay. Now we've got that out of the way, allow me to ... -some days into the future. Pretty cool, huh? Well -- I guess you know ... few things about the future that you might want to know, now that the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask A VC Boston 2016 networking with over 20 venture capitalists all over the startup scene

  

  invests money from the venture capital firm they work for into those ... learning from their insight could be the difference between life and death ... Boston, right in the Microsoft Nerd Center. Venture capitalists from all

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I never want to finish my P.E. requirement MIT PE might be the best thing that's happened in my whole (short) athletic history

  

  they center around “fitness testing”, like running the mile or doing ... class by “stretching”—aka sitting on the floor pointing at your feet, or ... our “daily walk” around the track, followed by a vigorous round of

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  More on balance Some parameters for self-improvement

  

  I've spent the past few days untangling my personal life, which has ... then I finished reading The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri. It's a novel about balancing family and American culture; I identify strongly with the main

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 7, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  Guest Post: Where to Buy Food: MIT Groceries Guide Because eating textbooks gets expensive.

  

  Image courtesy of greggavedon.com   The following is a guest ... step, I always end up squishing all of the bananas, and it’s very sad ... can save time and money in the grocery store. Know how much food costs

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

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

  

  This summer we (Matt, Kris, Chris, the ‘15s, and I), after a rigorous ... Snively). In addition, we are welcoming a new guest blogger from GEL, the ... . Reading your applications was a huge joy to all of us, and the final

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Milk, Cookies and Dangerous Secrets Somewhere at the cloying helm of exponential senselessness (weird post incoming)

  

  Picture this. A pavement somewhere along the infinitely stretching ... partially cut through. It’s 1994, Spring, chilly. The wind is silently whistling through the air, striking fast-paced pedestrians clad in sweatshirts

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 29, 2013