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• Blog / MIT Life

  New Kid on the Blogs Claim your place. Make your mark. Live your dreams.

  

  name's Paul Baranay, and I guess you can call me the new kid on the blogs ... nestled in the very heart of the Midwest, most famous these days as the home ... the halls of the Infinite, inside the lecture halls and the labs, into

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  the sun sets on another summer only one left yikes

  

  head on since last thursday. i'll miss the satisfaction of getting my ... a friend who's an LA native about this feeling and he said that it ... and it's like you're caught in a time loop. i don't know if i like that

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 17, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Sleep is Overrated (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ann '14!

  

  moment on campus… and I’m pretty sure that it’s safe to say: Mission ... two themes that I noticed: free food and discouragement of sleeping ... -Harry-Potter-related all-nighter (whoa that was a lot of hyphens!) Free sodas and coffees

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The home of cool toys the best way to spend a Monday

  

  without the coating of dirt (note to future Coure 16ers: that downwash is no joke). MV-22 Osprey on display on Briggs Field Simmons Hall patio ... ... fortuitous signage come back soon! One of my colleagues had a much

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 4, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Scratches On My Mind A brief introduction, so you'll know why I see MIT the way I do.

  

  't remember any of it. My earliest memory is from 1987. I'm 10 months old, looking at the display on the microwave, while my mother holds me and gives ... science team, and incredibly sure of myself. I had no idea I'd be where I

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Ask Me Anything or discuss anything. or whatever really. what i'm trying to say is: open thread.

  

  various excuses and instead try to make it up to you. I'm sitting at home in ... , or watched. It's a holiday weekend, and I think most of our American ... This summer I wrote a bloggerGuilt script to help me keep track of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 30, 2013
• Blog / Community Projects

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

  

  carried home a piece of vanadinite made it worth it [annotation note="and I ... HUSO-India and getting to compare and contrast the inner workings of ... post, I’ll first cover some of the things I did and then present some

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 13, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring cleaning and miscellany The Brass Rat club, sending 4-inch heels to Goodwill, and picking a new food-providing graduate…

  

  lived in Burton-Conner (home of many current bloggers), and one who lived in Baker... nobody from my home, though. Today I was home and doing ... you, and where did you live? Most of the professors were, of course

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life Coming Full Circle C’mon & zoom, c’mon & zoom, c’mon & zooma zooma zooma zoom.

  

  , read all of the Arthur books, and played Arthur’s Reading Games on the PC ... the Internet is the mother of all distractions and working-from-home is excellent at blurring the line between "work" and "home". In any case, as

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  episode is 15 minutes long and focuses on some aspect of making up stories ... on my thesis, but last year I stayed home for IAP. At the start of ... ’s raining gently, so I am marooned on a bench under the roof of the laundry

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / Residential Life

  Siblings, Scrabble, and Boredom we're bored in the house, and we're in the house bored

  

  any grand claims on what strategies worked best, and at this point, Jen ... my dorm in a rented Penske truck. We piled all of my boxes and bags ... , some kitchen equipment, and a new pack of paper towel rolls from Costco

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Way We Live Saunas make me think

  

  tripped a little on the way out and brushed my forearm against the inner ... summer on jimjilbangs, and for visual reference, here's a photo from that ... and old, to escape the fast-paced demands of modern life. That night in

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 7, 2012
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT’s COVID-19 precautions and their impact on admissions relevant news and next steps (updated 4/14); new blog posts below 👇🏼

  

  , cancellations of activities and exams, and more, because of COVID or any other ... focus right now should be on your health, and the health of your community ... April 14th, 2020 Admitted students Below, on April 3rd and March 23rd

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 6, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  MITiplication This entry contains one multiplication problem.

  

  yourself a cup of coffee, and commented “FIRST!” on my blog already. Great ... -cooker minutes before the curtains fell on our loose-spined textbooks and leafed ... .Imagine a piece of paper, do cross-multiplication on your imaginary piece of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  On Greatness

  

  can I fit in?" It's a question that's been on the forefront of my mind ... important thing is to find what you love and do it to the utmost of your ... sense will naturally follow. Some of you will take in math and science and

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 11, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  There’s No “I” in Team There's also no "Tennis" or "Senior Day", but that won't stop me from writing about…

  

  ’s last home game of the year and, consequently, Senior Day, a day to ... home match of the season. I think there might also be a sandwich on the ... for eleven years now and I don’t plan on stopping any time soon. In the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 1, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how i feel about ai-generated art from an artist's perspective

  

  rely on writing as a steady source of income, and if everything goes as ... people can just enter these trivial prompts and then pass this work off on ... software engineers, data analysts, executive assistants, and a menagerie of

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 11, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Before You Arrive on Campus: Orientation Edition On REX, safety, free stuff, and making the most out of it all!

  

  and Chris Peterson here -- On the Conservation of Frosh by Rachel D. ‘16 here -- On MIT culture by the hilarious Snively ‘11 here A list of ... friend. Ask the names and experiences of older students and peers. No

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  so i guess fall is happening kinda hard to believe, huh?

  

  home situation and fast wifi, there was no way i would make it on ... stuck on a meal plan anyway. i just would stay home! i like my parents, i ... semester of "real" mit, and taking way more classes than normal so that i

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 23, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  weather and stuff a Californian’s first experience of fall and also other things on my mind

  

  Wisconsin, and the other, Abby, is from San Diego. Last week I get home from ... of my classes. With rain and cold spitting in your face, this walk ... campus. I see it everywhere, and therefore I need to think of a good way to

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • October 2, 2016