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• Blog / MIT Life

  Life Tokens the currency of joy

  

  , chasing the aurora at Tufts on a random Thursday. Each of these memories is worth more to me than most of the objects I own, but we don’t have a good ... When I was younger, one of my favorite board games to play with my

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

  you can’t be everything to everyone you just can't

  

  on puzzles for a while that night, and there were good puzzles! great ... good. but maybe it would've been better if i spent that time working on ... happened, and it was okay, and there were a lot of new players and it was

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Terrascope Save the world. Go. (:

  

  , and a rhetorical question. If I asked you what the meaning of life was, you could answer in a multitude of ways and I wouldn’t be able to say ... the picture on the left for 70% of the semester, and like the one on the

  • by Ana V. '15
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Highlight Reel Parents! A cappella! Thesis! Superheroes! Film class! And generally hanging in there @ MIT

  

  post detailing how and why I went on leave from MIT, in honor of my three-year anniversary of going on leave (November 1!) A six-page autobiographical comic ... because I wanted to capture all of my experiences, good and bad, and as it

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Español Foreign Languages at MIT

  

  with Quizlet flashcards on a whim. Perhaps one of my more useless whims), retaining the grammatical flow of a new language is something that has been ... , the bulk of the time is spent discussing our opinions on the story as a

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  You always have been hi everybody!

  

  sake of the blogposts. I was known on the blogs for having a lot of ... MIT people live in New York and there's always something going on! This ... to be starring in a Picture of Dorian Gray play here on Broadway. I am

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Personal Projects

  How to Build an LED Acrylic Sign Your Complete Beginners Guide

  

  jumped at the idea of creating a new sign for our wall.   For ... versions of the sign on top of the pictures to see what people thought ... arrangements of the wording we could make on different-sized acrylic sheets that

  • by Richard O. '28
  • November 30, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  difficult difficult lemon difficult the end of senior fall

  

  -related justifications: the first, a class on the fundamentals of computer security, was ... ; and the second, a class on musicals, did not have a quality of ... were weeks where I was working twenty hours on top of classes and

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  bursting the MIT Bubble when 🅱️ig 🅱️ome Energy gets too real

  

  experience, and pretty much every step of the way i’d turn to him and say “oh ... ; alright. MIT might consume your entire existence in ways both good and bad ... lot of us tend to let ourselves be absorbed in our own lives. keeping up

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wordle, french toast, and copyright law fun mit storytime

  

  particularly good for me, but was definitely more of an exception than a rule ... are on a scale of 0-100. Very roughly, a score above 30 means you ... example from the other day, for Semantle #13 (on 2/11), some of my guesses

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Our nation’s greatest injustice I didn't exactly grow up in poverty, but socioeconomic inequalities have featured heavily in my…

  

  life from the ages of 11-14, in my mind not good or bad, just the way ... Middletown, NJ, the residents on the south side of Highway 35 look down on the ... tired of getting looked down on, so they turn further north and deride the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  I moved to Maine just a wisconsin girl in an east coast world

  

  Tried to establish a new normal in the middle of the woods I’ve been here ... . She’s a good mom; she understood. But then it was just me and a group of ... embarking on the ridiculous quest of acquiring these resources. First, we

  • by Powers '23
  • March 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  On abnormality

  

  biology research is one of the loves of my life). So I decided to devote this entry to a small subset of the ways in which I am either unique (if you're my mother) or weird (if you're the rest of the general public

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Exciting potential UROP: the cancer genome

  

  Great front page article in today's New York Times on the proposed ... , would provide invaluable clues for developing new ways to diagnose, treat ... determine the DNA sequence of thousands of tumor samples, looking for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions process reflections from a crusty Junior Try not to bite all of your fingernails off.

  

  a list of 14 colleges that I was planning on applying to, but I had ... on his mailbox that had some sort of complicated mechanism that I no ... onto his website to watch his mailbox for the arrival of a big, beautiful

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Two households, totally unalike in dignity…” On picking majors and following your dreams, Romeo and Juliet, Twitter, Sherlock, and the future…

  

  schedule but we’re working on it still. Because the new season of Sherlock ... portion of the class focused on projecting an image out into the Internet ... made one focusing more on my goals of eating healthy and keeping fit

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 21, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  CMU / Parallel Universe i am not a clown

  

  were in the parking lot, neither of them could get any data on their ... based on the size of the track. The buildings in CMU's campus have ... ceremonies. On the way, I finally meet up with Daniel N. CMU '24 and Eric O

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  soulsearching / coding in which i ramble about careers

  

  : That's good. CJ: But I've also been thinking about a lot of questions ... a good company, or because things are in-person and I'm in a new city ... , but I only worked on a side project with a research team, of about ten

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 26, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Venturing to far living groups

  

  th West 2nd East 4th East And on to the point of the entry... One ... hands-on things in general, as shown by this picture of the back of their ... "smoking" doesn't mean that you'll be submerged in clouds of smoke. People

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest blog] y(I)APping nothing crazy just another IAP blog

  

  hands-on workshops. As the resident earth scientist of the group, I wrote ... This is a guest post by one of my friends, Heidi Z. '27, one of the ... massachusettsian". (shoutout DEAPS '23!) As stated in this post, IAP is one of the

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 13, 2025