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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything I Miss and Don’t Miss About MIT Frolicking in nostalgia

  

  Waking up to a Cinco de Mayo band playing on Memorial Drive after getting ... MIT milestones often have something to do with 3.14159... 7 years ago ... weekend baby!!! Some people may sneer at how MIT folks seem married to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Purgatory My 2023 IAP

  

  't agree with either of those sentiments. I like to think IAP is a sort of purgatory in which you are your own god. You have choices. You can make IAP as ... that Cambridge is a strange place to host a purgatory. I suppose I never

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  My brother is cooler than me The plight of the less-cool older sibling.

  

  things that you need to know about Ryan, and those things are: He loves ... personally can't stand Guy Fieri), so they (read: Dad) begged to have lunch at ... . Also, now I am really hungry.) I call this photo, Little boy retires to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 23, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You don’t know what a robot is? I dig Roger Ebert. Roger Ebert digs MIT. Thus, I dig MIT.

  

  tripods to invade Earth. Ebert concludes, at the end of his two-star review: All of this is just a way of leading up to the gut reaction I had all ... -legged robot, he returned to the subject in his biweekly "Movie Answer Man

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Needles That was anticlimactic.

  

  point came when last weekend my friend Ami ’14 decided to get a cartilage ... from the horrible bleeding, only to get an infection that would last the ... get a haircut. A lady at Walmart cut my hair boy-cut short and then my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  A Running Journey ft. running 13 miles in the middle of nowhere with petey

  

  aspired to be the sort of person who could just get up and run obscene ... to realize that I was getting better as a runner somewhere around 9 ... Four days after I returned to my home in New Hampshire after the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 19, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Picked My First Apple apples, part 1

  

  MIT sponsors an annual trip to an apple orchard in Stow, MA for ... , and now I have enough apples that it would be wasteful for me not to eat ... my childhood clicking through the virtual Pick Your Own on Neopets

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 16, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hooked on a Feeling High on believing everyone's in love with me.

  

  , and I almost forgot the best part. Today I was talking to my supervisor, Juergen, about nice places to go in Europe. Juergen said that his absolute favorite is Rome, and that one time he went to Rome and saw the Pope walking

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 6, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Photos of Freshman Spring 📸 My attempt to take a photo a day for an entire semester.

  

  interest in art in his last year of high school and resolves to get into art ... . They had little booklets at the front of the library for children to log ... be entered in a lottery for a $1000 dollar scholarship. For kids up to

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • October 31, 2024
• Blog / Personal Projects

  a novel excerpt in honor of the friendly toast

  

  few hours before I had to get up to meet Drew. I find him and his ... location closest to MIT, is closing permanently :( Like many others, I’ve forged plenty of fantastic memories of the Friendly Toast. It was my go-to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 3, 2020
• Blog / Events

  MIT wins the Putnam ...for the third year in a row!

  

  peers who are happy to get up at 9 AM on a Saturday in December to solve ... Fellows." Each participating university also selects a team of 3 students to represent the university; schools are ranked according to the sum of the ranks

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Fitting in at MIT as a Latino family weekend 2014, day 2 and what I learned

  

  students to have fun at. And it gets bigger and better with each year. 2013 ... as a Latino. And a huge part of it is thanks to the ardent strides the MIT community takes to make everyone feel welcomed. There are plenty of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 18, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break Good times all around.

  

  career. It didn't seem that way at first. I was scheduled to fly out last Friday: Boston --> New York --> Houston. I managed to get to New York ... into a dreamless sleep, and eight hours later, woke up to catch my flight

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finals Week It's the final countdown.

  

  time in four months, I'll get to see my family. I'm holding on to that ... This is going to be an interesting week. For early action applicants ... approaching. For admissions officers, there are many, many decisions to be made

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  You know, that intro stuff

  

  'm planning to go to graduate school, get my PhD, then hole myself up in a lab ... Every journal has to start off with some sort of introduction. I ... rundown of what I considered to be the essential statistics in my life: "My

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Odds ‘n Ends There's a video. And a SONG. Your lucky day.

  

  Well hey there, folks! Remember me? You know, that one weird kid blogger, the one who always makes you go "How'd she get hired?" I'M BACK ... , Spring 2010) for the feature I like to call "Obligatory Doodle": Okay

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 26, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On my way…

  

  cancelled. I will now be getting home almost 4 full hours earlier than I ... , and I have a few things to finish up here before heading home for the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 23, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  The Craziest 3 Days of Soccer Ever broken records, halloween practice, and senior day!

  

  season!! We just wrapped up our regular season, and I wanted to share the last three days that led up to that, because a lot went down. Wednesday On Wednesday, we had our second to last game of the regular season

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 4, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January Book List Oaks & Poems & Baldwin & Biss

  

  wide in the sun; oaks in forests grow tall and thin to get what they can ... The snow is quiet and deep. I hope all the people who want to read ... phone service, and no problem sets. I went to Powell's, brought my old

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A day without rain + pictures of yosemite

  

  would get to work "if it rained". "So, what if it rained?", they said ... . Therefore, I, the Sichuan native, belong to a species quite closely resembling ... 's strange to me to be considered an East-Coaster-- a city-dweller, an on

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 18, 2007