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• Blog / MIT Life

  four semesters in music and food just some lists and reminisces

  

  ; when I had time alone, I listened to some of my favorite chilling-in-the-world-by ... playlists can come to define, and bring back memories of, semesters that are long gone. I was reflecting on this the other day as I happened to be

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 28, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Nerdy adventures on the West Coast Q: What changes when you transplant a few MIT students 3,000 miles? A: Not much.

  

  ordinary that I often forget all about them before I get the chance to ... . (Free admission! If you're ever looking for something to do in San Fran ... cars actually latch on to the cables and get pulled along for the ride

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024 looking backwards and looking forward

  

  's Day. New Years is in my[annotation note="only beaten by Chinese New ... 've never truly made New Years resolutions with a strong commitment to them ... it's a good way for me to try a new field. Full discloser: I am very

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 1, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  ode to grocery stores the loneliest sweet potato

  

  When I'm sad, or there's some conundrum in my life that I need to ... grocery shopping. Over IAP, with mostly nothing else to do because I ended ... note="because it's like, really close to east campus. temptingly close

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  good morning, MIT Guest post by Piper L. '17

  

  they need to be heard by more people. Here is her original post. This ... teammates. inevitably, we get to know each other (a bit), because, well, we ... about him to add anything new to everyone else’s descriptions of him

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Being Sick at the Institute the firth law of therbodydabics *sniff*

  

  smarter to sleep and get some efficiency back. I also got so inefficient ... --sometimes, it’s just getting through every week, every day, minute by minute. It ... where I am now. And, I've almost never had to do things completely by

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What a Robotics Career Looks Like What does it mean to get paid to work on robots?

  

  that much. By sophomore year of college, I had to declare my major. I ... afraid to think outside the box. Your base discipline, that which you are ... can even do a lot with just one. Where you get with your “two” might

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 14, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Packing incoherent thoughts from move-out week

  

  brewing and we had a week to get off campus. It took a late night packing party, fueled with fruit roll ups and Costco brownies, to get through that ... trouble finding it. This morning, I woke up really early to a bright New

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Students Are Cool: Brian Chan edition These are the kind of people that you will go to school with.

  

  modest person so I don't want to embarass him by saying how FREAKING ... MIT.  The honest answer?  THE PEOPLE!  So I'm going to tell you stories about some of the awesome and amazing people that I went to school with

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 15, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  classes i’m taking this spring study abroad edition

  

  your code to run, then try more things. i was able to get guidance from ... , i decided to go for it.  my class started by introducing exponential ... ), and then adjusting your views or beliefs after looking at the data to a

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 22, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Get Animated A holiday comic.

  

  A random highlight of some holidays is getting emailed the latest comic from my friend and former apartment-mate Jen '01. Here's her comic ... Jennifer's Comics. Jen is also a fantastic baker -- if you want to drool

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 16, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  From Markets to Math Class

  

  "treadmill" that MIT can be: Sometimes it's hard to take a step back. This is why I warn my freshman advisees against getting on "the treadmill." "The ... classes that everyone takes, not doing anything but your classes, doing all

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 12, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  but her emails how to assert?

  

  knows Stress can attest, not responding to emails makes Stress get heavier ... brass rat in January and haven't started the process to get it replaced ... . Postscripts to Clarify Intent I am the new desk captain at Mac

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 5, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: The College Essay part 3 of the Dear Applicants series

  

  Breathe… If you have submitted your application, go to 1. If you are planning to submit your application, go to 2. If you’re writing your college essay, go to 3.   3 How can you describe your essence in 250 words? 100

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a shoebox pc clips of summer

  

  internship on june fourth, it's already july 17th, and i move back to mit late august 25th. 41 days are behind me with 41 days to go. before i know it, this house i'm in already feels like home: i start to think for the first

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  starting over and over again

  

  finish The Secret History by Donna Tartt, which I really enjoyed, and to ... more insight. I feel like I'm getting closer to that moment, and it feels ... format for blogs, and that I would resort to them often.  The reason I like

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 11, 2022
• Blog / Hacks

  A quick plug

  

  Dome) Hacks and meta-hacks (an MIT map gets modified to include the ... . But now, I look, and I notice that while they aren't completely up to date, they've made a lot of updates to the timeline, and to the writeups

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  One year later MIT is like a surprise birthday party, but without the birthday or the party.

  

  them all to read this blog. The point is, you should always make your ... , you shouldn't lie to your friends, despite the fact that I do it every ... chessboard mounted to the wall with pieces attached by the magical properties

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What I just did You'll never believe it.

  

  , there's an official, MIT-specific definition). When you get to Campus ... it, is easily accessible by you. Feel free to explore and check out the ... 10 minutes ago I actually heard myself say "I really need to eat and

  • by Snively '11
  • October 6, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  summertime! and the livin's easy?

  

  everyone who’s already swung by and everyone else to come. If you also want ... Tick list. Oomf. I need to get on that. I know I'm on top of the things that I ... being recalibrated (projected to be by mid-July) excites me. School

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 15, 2024