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• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Rush and Hall Rush

  

  version of which happens every year, has a freshman in it: "Do you think ... Early Warning", which I think is a great name for a party. At the East Campus/West Campus Water War (which annoyed me a little this year because

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  in Black Valley Hostel journal of my third day in Ireland

  

  , so I’m not complaining.   I’m in Black Valley Hostel, a beautiful, cold little hostel about 21km south of Killarney, a town in County Kerry, Ireland. It’s the launching point to walk the Kerry Way, a nine

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2009 Oh hey, I'm an alum.

  

  impossible, because no matter what you do, someone else thinks they can do it a ... the details of the day explained to us. No such luck. We checked in at a ... for a few hours before starting the procession. Throughout the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Happy May! Everything I owed you...

  

  How NOT to be a MIT Student (aka. my daily dose of stupidity) *sets ... out, is National Reply Date. It had been a pleasure sharing what I know ... over a month!) Well, here it is: Starting from pretty much the first

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exodus from Cambridge in which MIT evicts us due to the COVID-19 pandemic

  

  This is a (long) post detailing the week in which both MIT and ... value in a detailed account of the exodus from MIT from the perspective of ... -19 policy briefs as part of a class assignment"]political science class

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 22, 2020
• Blog / Events

  dtyd weekend all party, no planning (for once)

  

  months to do so. something as simple as a "hallway party," aka a bunch of ... non-senior a funny award for something they're known for doing. for ... doing so, so there's a clear sense of finality. the realization that I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  glassblowing & me a series of memories

  

  The other day, I had a little epiphany that came to me in the shape of a glassblowing metaphor. When I thought about it more, I realized that although I haven't done a lot of glassblowing, it's played a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 18, 2022
• Blog / CPW

  how to tackle CPW ...i totally have the authority to write this

  

  school were impacted so much by the pandemic. I hosted a mini virtual CPW ... . valid! I'm a member of one of the two classes that experienced an in ... virtual events as part of CP*! one time, not a single prefrosh showed up :D

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains, Voltaire’s Son, and Other MIT Things Notes from the Start of Junior Year

  

  for that. What do I really want to do? Shhhhhh I have two more years. A ... the first posts by our first-year bloggers. There’s a common theme: MIT ... ’ theme last year too, same as the year before. I've only been here for a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2016
• Blog / Summer

  five things I love about New York welcome to New York, everybody walks in New York

  

  Swift, with which I have been annoying my family for almost a decade now.) I spent the summer doing a software internship in New York. I lived alone and spent a lot of time with myself, and as others have mentioned

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 28, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  field notes on all the fruit tending to plants, self, others

  

  housemate Kevin brought home a Meyer lemon and put it in our sunny living room ... , to become a resident tutor at Harvard, I missed the lemon, so I got another one, and a monstera and a fiddle leaf fig and bamboo and some

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  *witty title here* (Guest Entry) You want awesome? I'll show you awesome!

  

  By Chris Mills '12 It's 3:30 a.m. I have to leave to get to the airport in approximately 30 minutes. In a moment I'm all too familiar with ... insisting we take a picture: far more chipper than I   The rest of

  • by Snively '11
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  zero knowledge ^ not you after reading this post!

  

  one of the things i’m working on outside of class this semester is a zero-knowledge cryptography project with 0xparc, a crypto research ... to produce a zk-snark implementation of an elliptic curve pairing

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  9 / Headache 68 days to go

  

  ; What a headache Where does the time go?! We're somehow halfway through ... next. Through out all this switching around, I also started a new UROP ... 've been rushing to finish prototypes for a project to be submitted to the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 31, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

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

  

  that the doors might not stop. Suddenly a very heavy, unpleasant pressure jolts you from both sides and you realize again, that this is not a place ... the top presses down like seram wrap blades for a clean rip at whatever

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

  Discover Exercise and Wellness FPOP a wholesome college experience

  

  not for anyone who participated. That hurt for a couple of days—"If I ... that I got accepted as a blogger while packing). The 3.5 days of DEW ... toddler doors for mini-golf remains a mystery. The long-term benefit of DEW

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 21, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  2 More MIT Students Become Rhodes Scholars ...but no bloggers this year.

  

  last year when one of our then-senior bloggers, Melis, was named a Rhodes ... December, majoring in civil and environmental engineering. A Truman Scholar ... 2007. In 2005, Alia founded a nonprofit business, Emerge Global, which

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Radia Perlman ‘73, Mother of the Internet Radia Perlman has three MIT degrees and more than 80 patents.

  

  is posing as a "spanning tree") The "Mother Of The Internet' Puzzle Solver: Radia Perlman's determination helped make Web surfing a reality ... Barlas Radia Perlman had a solution for an information routing problem

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Liveblog] MARC 2025 A sciencey science conference, feature Anika '26 and me

  

  Pitch time! Here are some people's projects (most people opted not to do a ... to help you succeed. Do a lot of market research and think deeply ... 'm surprised that a robot can do this.) S1.08: A technique for synthesizing

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  “i can only draw stick figures” musings on learning to draw

  

  do 1-on-1 consultations with Professor Sharon Lacey, who is a ... the horizon, I’d embark on a long bike ride over to the complete ... pieces), and Danny and Allan (who commented on the art class scene as a

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • June 4, 2023