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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on the question “where are you from?” and the answer: neither here nor there. alternatively, about being a missourian.

  

  and fill. Other than the small army of teddy bears I had on the left ... to answer and ask the same set of questions: what’s your name? where ... now I've learned to say “I'm thinking 4B and 15-1” so I kind of sound

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  and they were roommates living with "randos"

  

  scoped a few of us on LinkedIn and sent us a Discord invite, and then one ... . And sometimes we take a Lyft to get back home, but most of the time we ... events, but most of the time, we're at home. We're off on our own little

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 6, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Flying ranting and venting

  

  . My flight was the red-eye out of SFO on Friday night at 10:20 PM, and ... Check-In line. As if on cue, the mass of travelers and baggage carts began ... particular city and to also troubleshoot problems on behalf of the main office

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 18, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Deciding to Live on Campus a 4 month long emotional rollercoaster

  

  longer getting any of those things, which is immensely sad and frustrating ... through the Infinite, on Killian Court, and in front of Stata remind me that ... trying to boot out of the country, nor do I have any in-person graduation

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 26, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  in a funk and salvaging hope

  

  its ways of wading in and out of life it never goes away it will always be a part of who you are it just takes on different forms some ... [/annotation] having to miss weeks of classes to recover from both and everything else

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Final Presentation Recap Flashing lights, a live horse, social robots, great music, clouds of steam and lots of…

  

  , each charged with making a new product on a budget of $6500 and a 3-month ... passed and glanced at one or two of these on my way to class at MIT, I can ... playing on the upper levels. The crowd exploded into cheers and applauses

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Goodnight Moon Or: The Senior Who Desperately Tries to Put Off Bedtime By Saying Goodnight to Every…

  

  as “home”, and I came to a conclusion of sorts after the discovery of ... make the bare white floor of our room more home-y and that is great for ... universe, and everything. My roommate and I finished preliminary work on our

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m more than twice as old as when I started my blog Rumors of my relevance are greatly exaggerated

  

  over, trying my best to be legible.  I was 17, and I thought this sort of thing mattered.  It was the first year of the MIT Blogs, after all, and I ... world for four whole years.  It’s still on point, and you should go read

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Let me introduce myself. Alternatively titled: Whomst'd've?

  

  a fear of heights and needles. I am smart and capable and ready for ... . In 8.01 alone I spent nearly 7-9 hours each week on psets, and even ... , there were peers who were spending more time on the psets and not finding

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 5, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Parks and Relocation a finale and a premiere

  

  away from home, meeting hundreds of new people from around the world, and ... I've spent the last five months living at home on Long Island, New York, occasionally rewatching my favorite episodes of Parks and

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  continued to hone his development skills since then, working on a plethora of ... email. On top of that, he's spent much of his spare time reading about startups and how to make them work, especially the writings of Paul Graham

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  The Marks of a Student or, let's catch up

  

  weeks ago, I flew home to California. If you've read any of my past ... worth 10% of my grade, and at this point, I was still planning on taking 6 ... spent the first half of my week home crying. Full body shakes and sobs as

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 4, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s going on inside my head It might not have been so very important.

  

  -cheddar biscuits, and "suite potatoe" pie. We had lots of fun and cultured ... Ryan Ist Ein Schrecklich Kellner," based quite loosely on the life and ... and kind of learned how to skate from Moria '06 and Joe '08. I was also

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Small-Town and Rural Students take on MIT and Boston By Vaneeza R. 25'

  

  , and the thought of doing the wrong thing or getting on the wrong train ... reminded me of how much I’ve learned and grown since being on campus, and it ... -In program this fall, we’re reflecting on the incredible success of our

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • March 20, 2025
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Becoming a better programmer and why i'm excited about software engineering

  

  the layout of a file depends on its index. That's why the new file was ... junior from a senior developer. Part of that was pride, and the other part ... 't know, and the possibility of more unknown unknowns, and I can understand

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 24, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  A waffle house is not a waffle home This is actually an entry about modern Chinese cinema.

  

  House and a Starbucks within five minutes of my home in Harrisburg, PA ... Okay, so tonight we were at Allison's house and I didn't take any ... of us there and each of us preferred a different movie. So, we each

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

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

  

  Tropical Plants in Any Home, Anywhere has become both inspiration and ... housemate Kevin brought home a Meyer lemon and put it in our sunny living room ... by volume. Earlier in the year, as part of a series of talks on things

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021
• 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 / MIT Life

  When I’m Home Did you enter the PE lottery yet?

  

  hours, 4 major cities, and over 4,000 miles of amazingly exhausting travel, there's nothing like coming home to a pot of boiling beef stew and this ... Thanksgiving. I spent most of it watching Food Network and The Jeffersons on TV

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2006
• 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