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• Blog / Personal Travel

  seven scenes from Paris a simple story

  

  , all old things returning.) We walked to a boulangerie and ate the best ... flairs, slabs of pure color spread by a palette knife. I couldn’t see the ... saw were working on a new rendition of its elegant figure to stack onto

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Writing Science Fiction [by Susan Shepherd '11] Writing takes time, but fortunately MIT gives you good excuses to…

  

  [by Susan Shepherd '11] It is probably a well-worn maxim that writers ... friends will take up a large amount of your time, and it is very tempting to just put the writing off. "Just one more day…I'll get to it

  • by ARTalk
  • March 24, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  What We Did In High School pls don't be as stressed as we were

  

  students to get the best and hardest parts and a lot of unnecessary pressure ... , we went to this panel and met Lauren there, and asked her a question ... specify what you contributed to). We’ve chatted a couple times with Lauren

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 11, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  Gallivanting with Gilles or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the MIT Mailing Lists.

  

  one too. If you're a student with too much food, you get to give it away ... , How I Came To Own and Love A 'Wagon For The Little Old Lady Who Lived In ... you hundreds, perhaps thousands, on labor) to get checked out. The

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 4, 2010
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Walking the Kerry Way journal of my fourth day in Ireland

  

  decided that I wanted to get on the road. I’d forgotten the joy of pan-cooked oats. It goes way faster in a pan than a pot, too. Perhaps the thing to ... :45 and vowed to turn around by 4:30, so that I could be back by 8:00, an

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  setting things on fire and playing with flames

  

  implementing a project from this class to address energy poverty by weatherizing ... was foreign to me, and I naturally feared getting burned. But after ... increased linearly with wind speed up to a threshold, beyond which the

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 18, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Home on the range Dorm choice timeline and advice.

  

  to get party hats, but I couldn't find any at the store, alas. Dorm choice I get the feeling that a lot of people find MIT's dorm choice ... written by residents, and a CD with resident-made videos. (Last year

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To RFID or not to RFID? That's not really the question, but it's kind of a cool title, no?

  

  Consumers" where they talk about some new technology that's being developed by a company called Kovio, which apparently was founded by MIT alum Colin ... So I just happened to come across two articles this week related to

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • August 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  McCormick: Girls Wanted Minh '10 shares her love of McCormick Hall.

  

  ’s only all-female dormitory. MIT women choose to live here for a variety of ... , and triples, and the Annex is a fairly recent addition to Mc ... skyline, and thus love my room. When there’s nice weather out, I get to see

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 24, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  hihi i’m back featuring all my favorite excuses

  

  i’m gonna keep this short so i can get to posting real content again ... in writing Last semester I tried to get all my writing requirements out ... ’d have to charge it for half an hour, and by then I would have had another

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Lovin’ Had me a blast. Or, the last post I'll write from home!

  

  unlikely that any of you will get to see it unless someone starts a Pay ... Though it's a Full House tonight, I'm Blind to all but you. I get these ... half of the things on it until I get to Cambridge since most of it is

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what’s the point? on impact, art, external validation, and remembering to be kind

  

  , imagine a different world, and then find a way to get there. You may find ... me a couple of days later—up and down and up and down. I wanted to get ... 's admirable, in a way, to declare this the meaning of life. The world faces many

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 21, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fresh Food! Here at last!

  

  produce stand to campus Anne Wilson, Campus Dining March 27, 2009 A ... make the project a reality. "Ideally, we would like to see the student ... wellness at MIT," said Modi. "We would also like to see this become a

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ROTC Is Life (In a Good Way) Everything you ever wanted to know about ROTC at MIT (and then some)

  

  fortunate enough to get to ride on a KC-135 (a cool, military aerial refeuling ... . Cadets may also get the chance to ride in a fighter jet (typically an F-15 ... Hello everyone! The following was written by a couple friends of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a ranking of building 68 thesis defense posters graphic design is our passion

  

  setting up a blind date system for the microbes to get to know each other ... upcoming thesis defenses. Those posters have a kind of soul to them ... a computer moving text boxes around and sending things to front

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  i (don’t) want to be alone on loneliness

  

  one if i had to write a literary analysis on my blog posts, i'd talk ... want to get things done. i have projects i'm, in theory, excited about ... 't) want to be alone. two in a season of secondhand joy, i talked about how

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Thinking Outside of Absolutes A short thought piece on thinking about thinking

  

  For a while now, I’ve had this realization that I tend to overthink a lot. And I think this is something a lot of people can relate to. There ... , you want to make a choice that leads to the least regret. So, how else

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Slow down, fast train. Take me with you!

  

  finals. Ruth '07, Mitra '07 and I '07 tried to make that a little more ... friend Shana stopped by to visit in Boston this week. Now, that's normally ... to say, was a little wistful. Like how Tim Gunn cries at the end of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 26, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  Food? What? I may weigh approximately two pounds, but I eat as much as everyone else. All…

  

  Before I get to an actual point in my next post, let me say this: I ... 't cook to save my life. I was dead set on living in a dorm with a dining ... a dining hall when I can go to my floor kitchen - or, better yet, when

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  In which I am somehow still an MIT student 4 years later

  

  have [annotation note="A cautionary note to the freshmen reading this ... spent my time anxiously waiting to get vaccinated for COVID, doomscrolling ... , I was funded to work on data validation for TROPICS, a weather

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 26, 2025