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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my year in music, volume 3 i am starting to feel very old

  

  well here we are again. those of you have been keeping up with the ... 've just been too down in the dumps because of the quarantine to actually ... the lo-fi hip hop beats to study/relax to playlist, and that is usually

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m doing this IAP i guess i need to be more specific

  

  . The way that MIT’s academic calendar works is that the Fall semester is from September to December, while the Spring semester is from February to May. In between the two semesters, during January, is Independent

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  I’m a food blogger now enjoy reading through 700 words of personal digression to get to the recipes

  

  myself a glass of water, and taking ready-to-eat baby carrots out of the fridge. Learning to cook was the one thing I hadn't crossed off all of ... ! Well, except for..." Except for the cooking. Cue shrug from me. At just

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  51 Things I Want to Say to 2022s one senior's autumn thoughts

  

  Dear Members of the Class of 2022, It's been an absolute pleasure to interact with you over the past six months, starting with all your wonderful questions and comments at the Early Action webcast. I've enjoyed getting to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Alpha Delta Phi To Be The Best of Men

  

  in the wrong direction, I saw Random Hall for the first time. As I walked into my dorm, struggling with my luggage, I barely noticed the five-story structure just across the street, with balconies jutting outwards, bearing in

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Tchau! Labs vai para a praia! And the King of the Internet returns.

  

  * This is a Goodbye Post * I've always liked the 4th of July. I ... representation of warfare.) I like fried chicken, hot dogs, the sun - and an ... day. I'll be celebrating feijoada, capirinhas and the beach. I'll be

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • June 26, 2013
• 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…

  

  I wrote to a few of my friends, but I hope you find the material ... the Y Combinator (http://www.ycombinator.com/) program, which is still ... interested in, and, now after working for one, I am convinced that it is the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Running away with the field Junot Diaz is sort of a big deal.

  

  not to share, and hope you all don't mind. Welcome to the new bloggers ... . Good call, guys. We students in the class knew he wrote a well ... -forward to two weeks ago, when I was surfing the web and reading some of New

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give the girl what she wants Ruth '07 wants pictures, she can have them.

  

  . Go!" The girl wants pictures, let's give her pictures: Ruth Miller '07, the newly-elected Undergraduate Association Vice President, gracefully has her cake and eats it too. And the rest of Conner 2 (plus

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

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

  

  my blog where I left off — the version of me typing up this blog post is so different from the version of me that last posted back in ... how they think I’ve changed over the last year and a half. I think I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  Over the years, we have occasionally published posts from students ... , who, as an applicant, was a frequent commenter on the blogs; was ... for those of you still patiently on the wait list, as she once was

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT, Medicine, and Success from Any School thirteen years in a thousand words

  

  ='With the late Suzanne Corkin as my advisor, who led the research on the famous HM case, which is what spurred my interest in neuroscience in the ... Howling the Blues"]WMBR,[/annotation] [annotation note="Scheduling Officer

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  't belong here, or like I was just in the cosmically wrong place. I didn ... about math all the time, and the only thing that made me feel more sure ... guess this is the right place." Most days, though, I just felt like

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Skill Issues (spoiler alert: i've got them)

  

  older brother didn’t have the patience to play chess with me (I had a tendency to just sort of... not follow the rules), and as a result I never actually picked it up. I didn’t even remember all of the names (much less the

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • June 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  laser-powered happiness 6.UAR showcase, part 1

  

  "][/video] This is also probably the most terrifying 3 minutes of my life to ... flop around the ice with them instead, and partially because he also ... out the SuperUROP application less than three days before it was due

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 5, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  pole dancing and punching things trying out new classes in Copenhagen

  

  I've been taking the time to explore some classes and activities in ... maga, and did art with some coworkers! pole I’ve tried out the stripper ... some new spins. Then we learned inversions on the first day! It was wild

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 16, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  insanity tldr some of my habits make no sense

  

  and they replied “probably non-stem people”. and the moment they said ... ’t even noticed that i’d been enforcing the implicit constraint of only ... ’s advice is, but regardless, it begs the question - how many other glass

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Twenty thousand paper cuts and twenty thousand leaves

  

  ordered a replacement from Amazon. I accidentally put Baker as the address ... was staying on campus and was updated on testing and all that jazz. The ... , which was weird in the sense that I had to actually get up from bed to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  Never Have I Ever…reflected on my identity "too indian" or "not indian enough"?

  

  -watched the Netflix show Never Have I Ever. The show, which happens to be the No ... for finally, finally giving South Asians the representation in media ... it. The main character, Devi, is an outgoing and brash girl whose two

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 4, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  symptoms of nostalgia emo-posting

  

  It's the time of year when the blogs get a little wistful. I attribute it to a few factors. The sun goes down at 4 pm. It's cold, so you want to spend all the time you can indoors where it's warm. This makes

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 2, 2019