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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Campos on Campus A True Westside Story

  

  to think of myself as someone who asks the tough questions and is not ... , James Lipton, and Bernard Shaw, I present to you my attempt at journalism ... incredible. They are some of the most talented, accomplished, interesting, and

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  things work out following up on confusion

  

  to decide whether to stay in our current major, 21E Humanities and ... , specifically in terms of a course 6 class we ended up taking last semester, the ... math, we’d most likely spend close to 40 hours on 031. And spend close

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 9, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Remaking MITadmissions.org we are psychic vampires, please give us your ideas

  

  We're closing in on Pi Day and still in the midst of making decisions ... you're here, and we have your attention, I would like to ask for your ... complete overhaul, probably exceeding in terms of potential transformation

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Island Paradise That's where I live. No, seriously.

  

  in the same room forever, I have lived in a different room (and a ... (my roommate) and I painted our room a very pretty blue. A few months ... 's miniCooper, and installed it in our room. (I am unfortunately not kidding

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Events

  MIT Can Talk! Bon appétit!

  

  I've talked about how humor, networking, and great ideas are all ... comfortable standing in front of an audience and trying to convince them of ... event at Harvard, and decided that MIT would be the perfect setting to

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Nerd Camp tales from TDI

  

  "talented and gifted children." Other than being REAL GOOD at reading, I didn ... glasses cleaner and wax for my braces. While other kids did their fifth ... birds, took my first creative writing class, and learned how to make a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  goodbye after so long and with so much love

  

  very limited unsupervised screen time, but I did, and I fell totally in ... , after Harry Potter but before any other book series, fanfiction, and the newspaper. Sam and Mitra and Mollie, the earliest bloggers, were MIT to me

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

  at a distance staying in contact with friends from home

  

  balloon spelling "21." Her birthday was about a month ago and I completely ... senior in high school applying to college. After 17 years (and soon to be 18) in my hometown, I was growing anxious, antsy, and impatient. I

  • by Victor D. '27
  • November 20, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Livin’ La Vida PRoCa I take my clothes off and go dancing in the rain... with Clay Aiken.

  

  entering, sitting down, then standing up again and screaming for two and a ... your own risk. And, believe me, this is gonna be a long one. Still, I ... nametag, and I was really, really upset. Like, I was despondent. Utterly

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  the summer before senior year you've changed...

  

  Want" could not possibly be any real person who has ever existed. That ... between good and bad music. In keeping with the theme of nostalgia and high school and growing up, I thought I should write a bit about how different

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 9, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  …and other things you can do with your four-day weekend context around the marathon

  

  surely, and made some halting progress on the long-term projects. lt didn ... that I cannot quite recall, and in any case, it didn't linger, not in the ... into the upper echelons of campus administration, and in the week before

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  faith in the future

  

  itself and (2) the interpretation of that arousal. Obviously this theory is ... wading in a sea of big thoughts and feelings, but I can't individually ... that the chains are tangled too deeply and I ultimately give up until I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  present tense “you've got to let go of the fear”

  

  . "you're in the water and your body tenses up. why? it's because of the ... fear." the first day of beginner swimming was last tuesday, and i ... o'clock to hit before stepping into the pool area and heading to the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Events

  2022 Ring Premiere! ring alert: it SHINY

  

  stainless steel. It has a beaver on it. And a dog. And an owl. So... there are no rats, and no brass. Nevertheless, we've been calling them Brass Rats for ninety years, and they're a hugely important part of MIT

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 3, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Kindred Spirits or, "Making Friends"

  

  people In Real Life has always kind of freaked me out to some (albeit small, and rapidly decreasing) degree, and my composure will vary drastically ... topic of conversation, and how much sleep I got the previous night. Not

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 19, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Brief Retreat How a short trip to Block Island left me revitalized

  

  barriers between me and the real world. After this, there's a good chance ... Freshman year has come and gone; three more years of MIT separate me from the future. I got a crash course in not burning out - and my mentor

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 31, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Sacred Space and why it matters to unplug once in awhile

  

  in the long awaited spring sun streaming through the windshield and ... and listening to one of my favorite programs on public radio and the guest was Sherry Turkle who directs the MIT Initiative on Technology and

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 11, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  First Post A little about myself.

  Hi there, I’m Jenny Rifken and I am the new Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions at MIT. I’m so glad you’re joining us on this blog. Marilee, Stu, I, and the other guests hope to each

  • by mitblogs
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  AARRRGHHHHH!!!!🏴‍☠️ (Pirate Post) A Review of 21M.299 - Pirate Songs and Whaling Chanteys

  

  , and if you are down about Disney pirates not being real, this book will ... called 21M.299: World Music Studies - Pirate Songs and Whaling Chanteys. I wanted to take a music class and this seemed like the most bizarre and

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 2, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  at least i’m not as sad as i used to be i don’t keep friends, i keep acquainted

  

  from them as well. i feel like nothing i do right now is real, and that ... you, without you. and it makes this weird kind of sense. maybe the real ... people graduated a couple weeks ago and i didn’t feel as sad i was supposed

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 14, 2020