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• Blog / People & Identities

  On Reconnecting spending winter break in India

  

  of being surrounded by family. Since coming to MIT, I've oscillated ... air as we take a ride on a jeep children make their way to a guava tree ... taught children to spring from the blue-colored cement roofs onto the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 13, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  This is where my decisions have taken me perspectives from grad school

  

  ; *         *        *   I used to think of decision-making as a complicated optimization ... , it's important to pursue hobbies and interests that routinely make you ... Umständen weiterläuft, an dem man sich, wenn es not tut, halten kann…” “To

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Closer Calls and rising unease

  

  make sure we were okay. We were stunned on two levels, first by the news, and second by the distance. We worked ourselves into a frenzy trying to ... judgmental about trivializing worries about what to make of your life, how to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Seeing The Dalai Lama In which I join the press (for a bit) and listen to His Holiness

  

  from MIT. Make no mistake: there's an ambition to generate ideas that can ... people. Thankfully for me, I was able to see him in the first of three events for this week, all of which were made possible by the Dalai Lama

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neurony goodness More lab, because that's what I do.

  

  discovered, I just have to cite old papers done by other members of my lab and ... this week in addition to writing the paper and making figures; mostly I ... This week has been mostly dedicated to lab and cooking, since that

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Upside-down and Reversed: Photography at MIT [by Biyeun Buczyk ‘10] I came to MIT thinking I’d put art aside for the…

  

  following week. If you’re interested, you only have to drop by ... live there), I feel obliged to give you a quick tour: The giant metal ... [by Biyeun Buczyk ‘10] Behind these gray walls, Prof. Harold

  • by ARTalk
  • March 23, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Haven’t Been Blogging I, uh, don't really have an excuse

  

  guess I feel pressure from myself to make every post some long, well ... posts:   ---- On Commencement day, I almost got grabbed by police for getting too close to the front while both my friends met Tim Cook

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 1, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking in with EA Applicants because I just saw Chris' post, and you probably did, too

  

  tell her, I'm inspired enough by the stories I read to think that the ... ;Bleary-Eyed” by Mike Yang ‘05 The tears then turned to sadness - sadness ... happened to that other person? Did he make it through committee? I hope there

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 8, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 2

  

  website to find out the latest information about my application. But every ... compared to the Red Sox first World Series win since the Wilson ... readers: you'll learn to enjoy baseball and American football, really, but

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  How I Spent IAP bonus content: one sentence statements about books and movies

  

  ’ll try to keep it relatively spoiler free, but I make no promises about run ... Turing Test, and an ending that didn’t make me want to throw my laptop out ... three weeks leading up to that date poring over a complete set of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 29, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything is different now That's ok, I have a cat now

  

  now. For better or for worse, everything about me has changed. I want to ... both get so obsessed about things and immediately have to share it with as many people as possible. Although, old Mimi tried a bit too hard to

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Personal Projects

  summer side projects a nonzero amount of them are final fantasy related

  

  wanting to make my own for a while. and so, inspired by this post, i learned ... [/caption] and finally, my [annotation note="this literally took me forever to make ... beautiful[/caption] learned how to make my own network graphs! - i really

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday A Boston institution.

  

  ’m referring to the Boston Marathon (won by Kenyan runner Geoffrey Mutai in ... , although it was quite clear they couldn’t make the food fast enough to keep ... celebratory atmosphere. I made my way from North Station to Kenmore Square

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New ZigZag and more A new episode of MIT's video podcast, and Susan Hockfield speaks out on energy research.

  

  As you know, MIT is embarking on a mission to tackle the world's energy and environment problems. Today, I've got two pieces of media to check out relating to this mission. First, there's a new episode of Zig

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist Questions The waitlist seems to be a hot topic so I'll try to answer the most…

  

  does it work? Don't I have to let other colleges know by May 1? Is it ethical? You do need to let other colleges know by May 1, and you should make sure that you have a place to enroll next year other than MIT in

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)

  

  ability to do any of these things. you have to make time for your partner, which will make it harder to figure your shit out or build friendships ... of ways, which will make frosh want to defer to them instead of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 23, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Cancer life-changing.

  

  need to make Camp Kesem happen each summer. One such event took place ... gastric cancer is unfortunately very difficult to detect early by endoscopy ... necessary. I’ve had plenty of time to think about if I am really making the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A recipe for disaster Behind the scenes of the "giant pie" video

  

  brought all the metal over to the shop and Kristen welded the pie rack by ... keeping the heat in. Next was to make the crust dough and freeze it so we ... and finished at around 5am, and by then, we needed to start rolling out

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • March 11, 2019
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer a list of verbs

  

  , so I've moved on to The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins ... broken out terribly due to an unfortunate combination of sunscreen and ... , and while the weather leaves much to be desired, there is still a lot of

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 25, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Nobel Connection 2 MIT alums have won Nobel prizes this week!

  

  instead, partially because he no longer wanted to be supported by his father ... 't allow me to make bent ethers. Wow, I'm a nerd! Okay, so I asked my ... awarded the Nobel prize, bringing the grand total to 63 faculty, researchers

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2006