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  Can You Become Back at MIT, with excitement and pictures

  

  't it, Tom?) The second I de-planed, literally, I felt very much immersed ... , I heard an airport employee reference his "Smaat Caad." (smart card, in the local accent) Okay, anyway. I'm now at MIT! The first thing I

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 26, 2005
• 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 ... , in classic MIT student tradition, I crammed a year’s worth of self

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

  Unremarkable things are you "jaded" yet?

  

  The other day I was talking to someone new, and he asked me what year I was. I said junior, and he said, “ah, yeah, that’s usually when people start to become super jaded. Have you gotten to that point yet?” I

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 25, 2016
• Blog / MISTI

  10:31 I wrote this entry on my iPhone about two minutes after boarding the 11:10 train…

  

  , maybe, if she didn't mind, so sorry about that. That's Japan for you. I ... "Ladies Dream." I don't know if it's trying to imply that this bus is the ... females have pleasant dreams on this vehicle, but I try to imagine that

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 29, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  My highest achievement at MIT.

  

  ="650"] Third to last day of the archery class I took for my final PE ... ="650"] The instructor let me take it home![/caption] I SPLIT AN ARROW ... 's the closest I'll ever get to it.

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 25, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  ambition finding direction

  

  . What I like about Boston (or rather Cambridge) is that the message there ... . but what if i don’t? i’ve been thinking about what it would be like to attain any of the most common ambitions people have. do i want to become

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  papurgatory I am demolishing my print budget and my solitary working habits

  

  I have read slightly over 200 pages’ worth of papers this week. I procrastinated 115 of them until the day before I had an assignment due on said ... .UAR[/annotation], which really just means that I was waffling on my

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  train of thought on feeling deeply

  

  A lot of my time this summer has been spent in transit. I take the subway to and from work. I spend most of my free time wandering around the streets of NYC. I’ve made two weekend trips to and from Boston via the

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

  Summer On-Campus No exams woohooooo

  

  I chose to stay on-campus this summer because I knew that if I went home, I'd just be playing Minecraft all day. So I set myself a basic ... I've actually been involved in TMG since the spring semester, but

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 8, 2022
• 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 / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT gave my pod free art supplies!! and despite being hosed, we used them

  

  In January, I heard about an Arts at MIT initiative that provides ... long as they were an MIT student. I'm a casual artist who paints once in a blue moon, but my roommate is artsy and paints pretty often, so I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 7, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  pathways where do i go from here?

  

  "it's been a year since I last saw that person." "it's been a year since I was last in that room."  "it's been a year since..." in the past few weeks, my friends and I have been talking about where we were a year

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 23, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  it’s only a matter of time a post for the deferred

  

  empty."]a rock inside an empty tin can.[/annotation] For the accepted, I ... rejected, I offer my condolences, and the best of luck as you apply to other schools. For the deferred, I offer the rest of this post. Posts like this

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wonder ecclesiastes 1:9

  

  has been taken out and replaced with routine. Of all the feelings I’ve written about, there’s one feeling that I can’t quite capture in words. I ... Arthur Highway. To get to school, I would take a jeepney up MacArthur to this

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainly i am writing a blog post about another song

  

  it’s been a while since i talked about my life. the east campus ... you when it’s safe again.” i love the ec house team. our move out day ... ) submit a request to remain in on-campus housing. i applied. i also

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 17, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updates i'm still here.

  

  It’s been a hot second since I last blogged- about ten weeks, to be precise. There are all sorts of random reasons I could give for my disappearance, drawn from the same set of valid reasons I give to my friends or

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • January 20, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  the summer before senior year you've changed...

  

  up, so I amplified the sadness by listening to more Bowling for Soup songs. I learned 3 things. The Girl described in "Girl All the Bad Guys ... song is wild. High school never ends. I cannot tell the difference

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 9, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  summer tidbits a picture and annotations

  

  [annotation note="i'm going on an alarming number of flights this ... the rest comes out of my paycheck. TT i'm going to anime expo in LA this weekend, then visiting MIT friends in SF next weekend. i'm also taking a

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 4, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  a shocking look inside a macgregor single where my loners at

  

  I have to move out of my room that I've lived in for four semesters and a summer. It stings a little, but I figured I'd introduce you to my ... the gritty details.) I know way too much about MacGregor so email me

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 23, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  ? Definitely not me - I decided to write this post right after I decided I wasn ... many classes, it’s because I accepted early sophomore standing, which ... freshmen are offered sophomore standing, but I’d estimate that the percentage

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018