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• Blog / MIT Life

  A Home, not just a Haus fighting the good fight

  

  winter-me. I’m on the train heading into the depths of New York City, about to venture into the Museum of Modern Art with a friend from Senior Haus. Despite being a New York native all my life, this is the first time I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 12, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Spotted: A Brass Rat in the Wild? Is this an alumnus hacking McDonald's, or McDonald's hacking MIT? I can't tell

  

  most famously, as Matt once blogged, in the case of Tony Stark '87. This is the first rat I've seen in a commercial, though. And it leaves me ... Suction Tube for Reverse Axial Withdrawal, or STRAW. It's a clear send-up of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedilemmas Schedule + dilemma = most incompetent-sounding portmanteau ever

  

  , pika rush* coincides with the first week of school, injecting sunbursts ... marathon? Nobody, that's Who. *At MIT, the first week of school is reserved ... , discovered three new species of granola in an unexplored section of the pantry

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 7, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Clinging to the Coattails of Identity Who am I now?

  

  also a tricky one. My first reaction to reading this part of the prompt ... The summer before you come to MIT, there’s a bunch of forms to fill ... ’s smoked barbecue brisket, or the smell of fresh mulch in spring. Some of my

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 29, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  avatar a weird metaphor for careers

  

  said something along the lines of:  look at the sandwich you’re eating ... ingredients to the restaurant, and you didn’t cook any of them yourself. you ... work of all the people who came before me, and how other humans were

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Blogger Retreat 2023 adventures in liveblogging

  

  month ago, in the middle of one of our blogger check-ins, Kano asked the ... and then over the rest of the weekend to catch the latest updates! The Journey Begins Why the commuter rail? Well as it turns out, many of us going

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 2, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  Boys like cars and money $1 billion is not enough for thefacebook, but $9 an hour is good enough for…

  

  going to the end of this block." MAN: "It's actually free!" ME: "No ... with strangers. But as the man sped off in search of another victim, I ... had now somehow come out of my computer and invaded the real, physical

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our Room (formerly, THE Sal Khan’s Room) is Being Converted into WiFi! we made this post just for the title

  

  email got sent out to the both of us and to two others who live in a double on the third floor of Next House, specifically in Safety Third (the counterpart to our wing, Danger Third Rail). One of the two in the Safety Third

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 29, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hello, Layover I'm stuck in an airport. Ask me things.

  

  /Douglas International Airport has a scale model of the Wright Brothers plane hanging from the ceiling of its main terminal. At least, I think that's what it is ... that just seemed like gross misuse of the Internet.) This is about how I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 25, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  We’re Only Getting Older

  

  this happens; It’s probably some combination of the pressure to be happy ... around the end of January. Unfortunately, this year hasn’t been any ... . For the first time in a long time, I let a friend see me cry - not

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 5, 2024
• Blog / How to MIT

  Deadlines and Habits Staying sane

  

  and make it past the first round of applications, you go through one or ... , and the possibility of a full-time job; occasionally, it comes up for ... somewhere like the NRAO. Alternatively, you could switch out of professional

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 19, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  [live blogging] astronomy field camp sky stalking in tenerife

  

  requirement for course 12 (earth and planetary science) majors. as part of the ... the data they need as part of a larger project. the class ends with ... optical infrared telescope part of the SPECULOOS (Search for habitable

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  places at mit (favorite) places (to work/study)

  

  the buildings are numbered, and at first glance, the ordering of the ... and 4. This is one of the small things I love about MIT: its building ... see the magic of this place going away for me. This is the place I

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 27, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Ended Up Working for a Reality TV Show

  

  always liked the idea of reality TV - capturing real moments with real ... something different. We want to take over the medium of reality TV and use it ... I met David France, one of the other founders of the campaign. At some

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 5, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  plastic knives spraypainted silver and other poems from 21W.762

  

  the whirr of the office microwave drown out the thought that he ... rest of the day off,  because I have a bad stomach ache, or so i say “i ... repetition, in which the first and third lines are repeated throughout

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The After

  

  taking those first steps through Lobby 7 as a prefrosh. The inevitable soul ... amount of time spent in CAD. I’m still hacking it out here in the world of ... world, and the feeling of making something that gets used around the world

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  February(ish) Updates and Notes aka my life in photos and haikus

  

  bus to Rochester, NY for the first round of the NCAA tournament. If you ... photos that accurately summarize my current state of existence: The ... -students. The top photo is a week in the life of Junior spring. I’m currently in 5

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • March 1, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  A thousand million questions An evening with Gaelic quesadillas and Farrokh Bulsara.

  

  , probably because of the massive quantities of air pollution from the city ... be on the other side of me, but then I realized that in order to that I'd have to run faster than the rotation of the earth. I spent the rest of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 2: DINEPA and mosquito bites

  

  lot of health campaigns as well as water testing at the source, although most of the distribution is done by NGOs. Our first, rather impromptu meeting was with a man named Jean Francois, who was in charge of the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 27, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  22 Hiatus Adventures stories from my time away and my first semester back!

  

  . For the first five months of 2021, I lived right next to the Museum of ... Cambridge in January of 2021, it was the first time since I left for college ... my blog where I left off — the version of me typing up this blog post

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 2, 2022